[torn away]
my ancestors , of man
Nor you, you you the
old poets
I do not forget to salute
you, you old you poets,
of all times ages and
lands,
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Do you not know that
the your soul has brothers
and sisters, just as
much as the your body
has?
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This then, is life, and
This the earth,—
How curious! How real.
Underfoot the divine soil,—
Ooverhead, the sun
Surround? these my poems, you
east and west, for
they are for you
And you north and
south, for they are
for you,
Imbue them, nights, for
they are (of you, and)
for you,
And you, days, for they
are for you.—
So
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Great ideas dominate
over all—
What has Shakespeare
done to England?
Not — — not — — —
are of any account
compared to the
few men of great
ideas
Even One great idea vitalizes
a nation
—Men of great ideas
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You
Personality!
Your Personality! You
and whoever you are?
O you coward that
dare not claim
be audacious for
your own sake!
O you liar that
falsely assume to
be modest and
deferential
O you slave
—O you ^tongueless, eyeless, earelless,
—O you [no handwritten text supplied here]that
will not receive me
for your own sake
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Personality!
You! whoever you are!
without one single
exception, in any
part of any of These
States!
I seize ? you with st
free and severe you
hand—I know well,
whoever you are, you are my equal,
and the President's
equal,—and that there
is no one on this
globe and any better
g greater than you—
and that there is
no existence in all
the universes any more
immortal than your,
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In Poem
The earth, that is my model of poems
model—I do not ? none need
discard what I
find in the theory
of the great, round diversified
earth, so beautiful, and
so rude.
The body of a man,— that
I is my model—I do
not reject what I
find in my body—I
am not ashamed—Why
should I be ashamed?
The body of a woman,—
that is my perfect
model—I believe
in all the body of
the woman—I believe
the perfect woman
shall even precede
the man
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Poem of Maternity
O my dear child! My
Darling
(Now I am maternal—
a child bearer—
I bea have from
my womb borne
a child, and
observe it
For great ideas!
The life that is not
underlaid by great
ideas is — —
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For friendship:
— — — —
For immortality:
— — — —
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Dwelling neighbor to the nigh the Ohioan
and Kentuckian, a
friendly neighbor,
W Sauntering the streets of
Boston, Portland,
long list of cities
[cut away]
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* National hymns,
The freeman's and freewoman's
songs,
The master's words, strong arrogant,
lawless, fluent, severe.—
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? For your own sake
To stand fast by me!
To stand unshaken, and
tenacious, —to
To believe in me—no
matter
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Have you any doubt of mortality?
I say there can be no more
doubt of immortality than
there is of mortality
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The observer stand some clear day on the northeast height of Washington Park, some yclear day in the year 1900, (the [no handwritten text supplied here]ofyear of These States,) will look on
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Primer of Words
and Th and
Thoughts
Ideas
Principles
(none of these suit
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American songs,—in which prose (to be spoken—with a low, or other musical accompaniment,) is interlineated
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I had rather have the good will of the butchers and boatmen of Manhattan Island than all the nominations approbation rewards of the government—literats elegant persons
Jake
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Sam Matthews
Walt Whitman stands to-day in the midst of the American people, a promise, a preface, an overture a
Will he fulfil the half-distinct half-indistinct promise?—Many do not understand him, but there are others, a few, who do understand him.[illegible] Will he justify the great prophecy of Emerson? or will he too, like thousands of others, flaunt out the one bright commencement, the result of gathered powers, only to sink back exhausted—or to give himself up to the seduction of
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"Ancient Hebrews"
by Abm. Mills
A. S. Barnes & Co.
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"Glimpses of Life and Manners
in Persia"
by Lady Sheil
with notes on Russia, Koords,
Turkomans, Nestorians,
(refers to 1849)
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Mrs Tynedale
at Mrs. Manning's
at in Clinton av.
near De Kalb
nearly opposite the church
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Dr. Draper's Physiology
(Harper
last 2 no's
Harper)
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Brownlow's Map of the Stars
184 Cherry st.
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A. Brownson Alcott
Oct. 4th '56
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Jas. Metcalf
79 Warren st. (station house)
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Mr. Held
4 Boerum
near Fulton av.
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Clerke's Rudiments
& Practice
1 vol.
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Comic Blackstone
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Prof Wines'
Commentaries on the
Hebrew Law
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Montesquieu
Spirit of the Laws
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Robert Hunt's
"Poetry of Science"
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Poetry of the East
Pub. Whittemore, Niles, & Hall
Boston
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16th Sept—b
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J.L. Metcalf
3d district station house
3d ward 79 Warren
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Organism of Language
Becker's
Translated into English
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- Grimm's work in German Language
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W. Gibson
363 Sixth av
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Middlesex House
Concord, Mass
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Dr. Ruggles
24 East Warren
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Wilson
4 Greene near Cumberlan
1 door
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