This man was a wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person. 1Something startles me where I thought I was safest,I withdraw from the still woods I loved,I will not go now on the pastures to walk,I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?How can you be alive you growths of spring?How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you?Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?Where have you disposed of their carcasses?Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.2Behold this compost! Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight? I Sing the Body Electric, an Album by Weather Report. I Sing the Body Electric is the title of a 1855 poem by Walt Whitman, which is where Pitchford found the inspiration. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. (All is a procession,The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.). Undulating into the willing and yielding day. While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences. See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see. The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees. The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair. Poem of the week: from I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman. For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll’d. Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above. The female contains all qualities and tempers them. She is all things duly veil’d, she is both passive and active. I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it. It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists. The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out. These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also. To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place, He too is all qualities, he is action and … You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side. And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers’ gang? You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other. It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction. Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest. All things please the soul, but these please the soul well. Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight? Arthur decides to investigate what the workers are up to in the alley, as Mrs. Oliphant had sent Gemma to investigate on them, but Arthur believes there's something wrong going on. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account. And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face. Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails. Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel; All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female. When I become one with the sun. It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him. Within there runs blood,The same old blood! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you, I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,). I Sing the Body Electric, a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury gets less ink than the more popular collections The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles but perhaps better demonstrates his great range of literary ability and imagination. I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul. Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed. Man’s, woman’s, child, youth’s, wife’s, husband’s, mother’s, father’s, young man’s, young woman’s poems. Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve. Just as various organs and features come together in the greater structure of the human body, so too do the various bits and pieces of Whitman’s poetry come together in a greater whole. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of I Sing The Body Electric on Discogs. The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones. There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,All things please the soul, but these please the soul well. The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him. O my body! The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account, That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect. The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings. Commentary. The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body. The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees. Just as various organs and features come together in the greater structure of the human body, so too do the various bits and pieces of Whitman’s poetry come together in a greater whole. And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons. I sing the body electric I celebrate the me yet to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun. Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count. Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition. Label: CBS - S64943 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Repress • Country: Netherlands • Genre: Jazz • Style: Fusion Each has his or her place in the procession. The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd. Each has his or her place in the procession. He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail’d his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him. He too is all qualities, he is action and power. Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,They shall be stript that you may see them.Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,And wonders within there yet. Print and Download I Sing The Body Electric sheet music. Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn. The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes. It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists. The man’s body is sacred and the woman’s body is sacred,No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers’ gang?Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,Each has his or her place in the procession. I Sing the Body Electric is certainly underrated when it comes to The Martian Chronicles, Golden Apples of the Sun, and The Illustrated Man. "I Sing The Body Electric" is the 2nd full-length studio album by US Jazz rock/fusion act Weather Report. Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest. And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted. In it and below it the makings of heroes. They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love. The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards. (H0.482651-SC000002927). I SINGthe Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul. (H0.482651-SC000002927). 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