Song of Myself. Won't you help support Day. Watch Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie`S Island Adventure Download Full more. Poems? 1. 81. 9- 1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

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I loafe and invite my soul. I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air. Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their. I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin. Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance. Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten. I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard.

Nature without check with original energy. Watch Heavy Metal 2000 Online Hollywoodreporter. Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with. I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it.

The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the. It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it. I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. I am mad for it to be in contact with me. The smoke of my own breath. Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love- root, silk- thread, crotch and vine.

My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing. The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and. The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of. A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms. The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag. The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields.

The feeling of health, the full- noon trill, the song of me rising. Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me. You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now.

Nor any more youth or age than there is now. And will never be any more perfection than there is now. Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge. Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and.

Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so. Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well. Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical. I and this mystery here we stand.

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen. Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age. Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they. I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean.

Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be. I am satisfied- -I see, dance, laugh, sing. As the hugging and loving bed- fellow sleeps at my side through the night. Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with. Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes. That they turn from gazing after and down the road.

And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent. Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?

Trippers and askers surround me. People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and.

I live in, or the nation. The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new. My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues. The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love.

The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill- doing or loss. Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news. These come to me days and nights and go from me again. But they are not the Me myself. Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am. Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary.

Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest. Looking with side- curved head curious what will come next. Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it. Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with. I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you. And you must not be abased to the other.

Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat. Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not. Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning. How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me. And parted the shirt from my bosom- bone, and plunged your tongue. And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass. And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own. And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own. And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women. And that a kelson of the creation is love. And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields.

And brown ants in the little wells beneath them. And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and. A child said What is the grass?

How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.

A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt. Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see.

Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic. And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones. Growing among black folks as among white.

Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass.

Joss Stone - Wikipedia. Joscelyn Eve Stoker[6] (born 1. April 1. 98. 7), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2. The Soul Sessions, which made the 2.

Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly multi- platinum Mind Body & Soul (2. UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2.

Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2. She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2. RIAA and yielded the second- ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 2. Stone's first top five album in the US.

She released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, on 2. October 2. 00. 9, which reached the top 1. Billboard. Stone released her fifth album, LP1, on 2. July 2. 01. 1, which reached the top 1. Billboard. Throughout her career, Stone has sold 1.

British artists of her time.[8] Her first three albums have sold over 2,7. US, while her first two albums have sold over 2 million copies in the UK.

Stone has earned numerous accolades, including two Brit Awards and one Grammy Award out of five nominations. She also made her film acting debut in 2. Eragon, and made her television debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2. Stone was the youngest woman on the 2. Sunday Times Rich List—an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people—with £6 million.[1. In 2. 01. 2, her net worth was estimated to be £1.

British musician under 3. Watch The Job Online Mic here. The Soul Sessions Vol. Billboard 2. 00. Early life[edit]Joscelyn Eve Stone was born on 1. April 1. 98. 7 at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Kent[1. Ashill, a small village near Cullompton in Devon. She is the third of four children born to Wendy (née Skillin) and Richard Stoker.[1.

Her father owns a fruit and nut import/export business; [1. Stone's manager until October 2. Stone made her first public appearance at the Uffculme Comprehensive School—which she attended[1. Uffculme, Devon, with a cover version of Jackie Wilson's 1.

Reet Petite".[1. 9] Stone has dyslexia and left school at age sixteen with only three GCSE qualifications. It wasn't that I was stupid.

I'm just a little bit dyslexic and I wasn't very academic. I'm more artistic", she says.[2. Stone grew up listening to a wide variety of music including 1. American R& B and soul music performed by such artists as Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin. As a result, she developed a soulful style of singing like her idols.

My first CD that I owned was Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits. And I saw the advert on TV and it was just like little clips of her songs.

I had no idea who she was—I was only like 1. I said, 'Oh yeah, that looks really good', so I wrote it down and I said to my mum, 'Can I have that for Christmas?' So she told my friend Dennis, who always gets me good music anyway, and he got that for me. So that was one of my first albums that I loved."[2.

She would later tell MTV News: "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little."[2. Beginnings and The Soul Sessions[edit]. Stone performing live in Milan in 2.

Mind, Body & Soul Sessions Tour. In 2. 00. 1, at the age of thirteen, Stone auditioned for the BBC Television talent show, Star for a Night in London, singing Franklin's 1. Goffin- King hit "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and Whitney Houston's 1. It's Not Right but It's Okay".[1. After passing her audition, she sang Donna Summer's "On the Radio" for the broadcast, and eventually won the contest. She also appeared on and won Steps to the Stars (a TV programme hosted by H & Claire of the group Steps).[1.

Stone then performed on a charity show, where she drew the attention of the Boilerhouse Boys, composed of London- based producers Andy Dean and Ben Wolfe, who contacted S- Curve Records founder and CEO, Steve Greenberg in December 2. In early 2. 00. 2, Greenberg flew Stone to New York for an audition, in which she sang to backing tracks of classic soul songs: Otis Redding's 1. Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", Gladys Knight & the Pips' 1. Midnight Train to Georgia", and Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"; [2.

Greenberg instantly signed her to his label.[1. After being signed by S- Curve Records, her US market album was released by the label S- Curve Records and in the international market her album was released by the label EMI Music. Stone flew to Miami and Philadelphia to start work on her debut album, The Soul Sessions, released on 1.

September 2. 00. 3. She collaborated with people with solid credentials in the Miami soul scene such as Betty Wright, Benny Latimore, Timmy Thomas and Little Beaver as well as contemporary acts Angie Stone and the Roots. The album, produced by Steve Greenberg, Mike Mangini and Betty Wright, consists of little- known soul tracks by Franklin, Laura Lee, Bettye Swann and others. Released in late 2. UK Albums Chart as well as the top forty of the US Billboard 2. The lead single, "Fell in Love with a Boy", a reworking of the White Stripes' 2. Fell in Love with a Girl", reached the top 2.

UK Singles Chart, as did the second single, a cover version of Sugar Billy's 1. Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' on Me)". The album eventually went triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry in mid- April 2. Recording Industry Association of America in late March 2. Mind Body & Soul and film debut[edit]After achieving critical acclaim with The Soul Sessions, Stone worked on new material, and recorded her second album, Mind Body & Soul, which was released on 2. September 2. 00. 4, produced by the same team as her first album. She called the album her real debut.[2.

It debuted at No. UK, breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the UK Albums Chart,[2. US Billboard 2. 00 after peaking at No. The lead single, "You Had Me", became her biggest hit to date when it rose to No. UK. Follow- up singles "Right to Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" both made the top 4. Don't Cha Wanna Ride", the top 2.

Spoiled" landed just outside the top 5. US Hot R& B/Hip- Hop Songs, peaking at No.

In early September 2.