One character in this poem exclaims: "O how joys, dreads, convolutions, human shapes, and all shapes, spring as from graves around me!".
Part of this poem is set "when the stars glisten'd / All night long, on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake". One character in this poem exclaims: "O how joys, dreads, convolutions, human shapes, and all shapes, spring as from graves around me!". Another character in this poem asks: "Low-hanging moon! What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?" after earlier crying: "Shine! shine! shine! / Pour down your warmth, great Sun!". Near the end of this poem, the speaker declares: "A thousand (*) warbling echoes have started to life within me, / Never to die". One character is called "the solitary guest from Alabama" in this poem, which is set on Paumanok's shore. In this first poem in the "Sea-Drift" section of a certain collection, the speaker hears the ocean lisp "the low and delicious word death". For 10 points, name this recollection of the childhood memory of hearing a mockingbird cry out for its lost mate, a poem by Walt Whitman.
Part of this poem is set "when the stars glisten'd / All night long, on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake".
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"