This design features an inspirational quote by American poet Walt Whitman and is offered as a pendant necklace (2 styles), key ring, bracelet, brooch, bookmark, money clip, or wine/bottle stopper. Available with optional COMPASS charm in either bronze or silver to match your item (see 2nd photo). OVERVIEW: These beautiful items are crafted by me, one at a time, in my California home studio and are composed of a quality printed image covered with a pure, crystal clear, domed glass cabochon that protects, and magnifies, the printed art underneath. The glass cabochons measure approximately 1 inch (2.54 cm) in diameter. The pendants, chains, bracelets, brooches, bookmarks, and key rings are composed of a nickel-free plated alloy and are available in either silver or antiqued bronze finish. PENDANT NECKLACES: Classic-style pendants have a plain edge with a seamless, attached bail. Vintage-style pendants have a decorated edge with a free-swinging decorated bail. Vintage-style pendants are slightly larger in diameter (1.25" or 3.18 cm) than the classic-style (1" or 2.5 cm) - see listing photo for comparison. Each pendant includes a matching 24" (61 cm) necklace with a lobster-style clasp. To travel to new lands, to see new things.Longer/shorter necklaces are also available - please inquire.īRACELETS: Chain bracelets measure approximately 7" (18 cm) long (including the cabochon) and can be easily shortened by removing links. In the end, he pleads all to go further and further, far beyond they have ever been. O daring joy, but safe! Are they not all the seas of God? Like him many others found new lands, including America. Thou, rondure of the world, at last accomplish’d.Īllusions to famous explorers and specifically Vasco Da Gama, who sailed round Africa to find India. Lands found, and nations born-thou born, America, (a hemisphere unborn,)įor purpose vast, man’s long probation fill’d, The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream!)Ī reference to the famous Genoese, Christopher Columbus, whose dream is now fulfilled in America, the country he discovered.Īgain the knowledge gain’d, the mariner’s compass, The passage to India is now open, so he calls upon all to sail forth.Ĭenturies after thou art laid in thy grave, The metaphorical allusion to a bridge between modernity (New World) and tradition (Old World) is being made here.Įclaircise the myths Asiatic-the primitive fables. I sound, to commence, the cry, with thee, O soul, Farther, farther sail From The Passage to India by Walt Whitman. self, sail a boat, hunt, rebel,just as much as a man.'9 In his insistence upon womans equality Whitman reaches the. Sail forth-steer for the deep waters only. The seas inlaid with eloquent, gentle wires, Walt Whitmans relations with his reader were both personal and didactic : he wished to invite comradeship and. In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Singing the great achievements of the present, I will quote selections from the poem “ Passage To India“, a poem written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. And the singer so shy to the rest receivd me, The gray-brown bird I know receivd us comrades three, And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love. The entire collection is right here at Bartelby. I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. I had promised to keep Walt Whitman for today so as to give full justice to great poet. Yesterday, the post was on Emily Dickinson though the name of Walt Whitman was mentioned.
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