Content:
This is a two-page draft of "To
a Locomotive in Winter," first published in the 19 February 1876 issue of the
New York Daily Tribune
. It appears
that originally the two leaves were pasted together as one piece, but have
since come apart. On the verso of page two is a draft of an unpublished poem
entitled "The Soul and the
Poet," which may be a draft of the poem "Come, said my Soul," the
epigraph for the 1876, 1881–1882, and 1891–1892
editions of
Leaves of
Grass
.
Content:
Draft lines and notes for the poem, "To a
Locomotive in Winter," first published in the 19 February 1876 issue of the
New
York Daily Tribune
, under the heading "Extracts from Two Rivulets."
"To a Locomotive in Winter" was
reprinted in the "Two Rivulets"
section of
Two Rivulets
(1876 before being included in
Leaves
of Grass
in 1881.
