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From Montauk Point

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  • Title: From Montauk Point
  • Date: 1 March 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00112
  • Source: New York Herald 1 March 1888: 6. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "From Montauk Point." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00112.xml (TEI)
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FROM MONTAUK POINT.1

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,2 Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing 
  but sea and sky) The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the 
  distance, The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that 
  inbound urge and urge of waves, Seeking the shores forever. WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

2. Montauk Point, now part of Montauk Point State Park in New York, is on the far eastern end of Long Island. [back]

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