Night of south winds | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Night of south winds
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00078
Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
Repository Title: Ms. leaf recto (Night of south winds — Night of the large few stars ..)
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, approximately 19.5 x 19 cm., handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855 as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass . Words and imagery from the manuscript appear in the first poem of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." On the reverse (nyp.00733) are lines used in a different part of the same poem.