It is no miracle now | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: It is no miracle now
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00007
Repository ID: MS q 3
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript draft may have contributed to lines in the poem that eventually would be titled "Song of Myself," which first appeared in Leaves of Grass (1855). The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but the lines about touch and death also relate to ideas in sections 6 and 27-30 of the final version of the poem. In the 1856 edition it was titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American," and Whitman shortened the title to "Walt Whitman" in 1860–1861. The final title, "Song of Myself," was not introduced until the 1881–1882 edition of Leaves . The reverse side of the leaf (duk.00797 contains prose writing related to a different section of the same poem.