Content:
This manuscript is a draft of the poem, "You Tides With Ceaseless
Swell."
Writing on the verso (which is made up
of fragments of several letters, dated between 1871–1884) indicates that the manuscript was
probably created sometime in or after 1884. "You Tides With Ceaseless Swell" is one of
eight poems in the "Fancies at
Navesink" sequence, which first appeared in print in the
August 1885 issue of
Nineteenth Century
.
Content:
Draft lines of "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," first published along with seven other poems in
The Nineteenth Century
(August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."
Whitman Archive Title: [What spells do distant stars]
Content:
Drafts lines of "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," first published along with seven other poems in
The Nineteenth Century
(August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink." On the verso is correspondence on the letterhead of Bim M. Jordan, Dry Paints, Pine Wood Products.
Whitman Archive Title: [Swelling and ebbing the tides]
Content:
Draft titles for "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," first published along with seven other poems in
The Nineteenth Century
(August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."
Content:
A draft line for "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," first published along with seven other poems in
The Nineteenth Century
(August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."
Whitman Archive Title: You tides with ceaseless swell
Content:
One leaf in ink on lined paper with pencil revisions. This poem "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell"
was first published as part of the "Fancies at Navesink" group in
Nineteenth Century
, August 1885.
