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" The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. "
The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge - Page 256
1920
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 4; Volume 6

England - 1866 - 908 pages
...swoops by and accuses me—lie complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." "I too, Pmimanok, I too have bubbled up, floated tho measureless float, and been washed on your shores;...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Part 1

Books and bookselling - 1875 - 804 pages
...and accuses me. He complains of my gab and my loitering. I, too, am not in the least tamed ; I, too, am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." How this could be improved by being cut into equal strips to the measurement of the heroic verse-yard,...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5; Volume 18

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...hawk swoops bv and accuses meHe complains of my gab and loitering, I too am not a bit tamed — I too am untranslatable ; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.' It is a difficult task to single one from the mass, any one passage which shall convey an adequate...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 5

1880 - 690 pages
...hawk swoops by and accuses meHe complains of my gab and loitering, I too am not a bit tamed--! too am untranslatable ; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.' It is a difficult task to single one from the mass, any one passage which shall convey an adequate...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetry

James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...utterances as the following,—and his book abounds in far worse passages: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness afier the rest and true as any on the...
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Walt Whitman

Richard Maurice Bucke - Authors' presentation copies - 1883 - 270 pages
...In fact, Caliban, and not Walt Whitman, might have written this : I too am not a bit tamed — I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. Is this man with the "barbaric yawp" to push Longfellow into the shade, and he meanwhile to stand and...
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Walt Whitman, Poet and Democrat

John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pages
...swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me ; It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on...
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Walt Whitman, Poet and Democrat

John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pages
...swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed — I too am untranslatable ; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me ; It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 5

English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...out-gallop them? Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you. I too, am not a bit tamed, I too, am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any on the...
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The Reformed Church Review

Theology - 1912 - 620 pages
...swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed — I too am untranslatable ; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." In this independent spirit he lived and wrote and would transmit to a new generation the laws of democratic...
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