Hast never come to thee an hour

Whitman Archive Title: Hast never come to thee an hour
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00058
Repository ID: #3829
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Box: 1
Folder: 41
Date: late 1870s or early 1880s
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 22 cm, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript contains two drafts of the poem "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour," the first draft having been deleted with two horizontal and two diagonal pencil lines. The partly erased word "Interp[ellation?]" appears in the lower left corner. After further revision the poem appeared for the first time in the 1881 Leaves of Grass , in the cluster "By the Roadside."