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Silas Ludlan
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F. Bellew
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Charles Drummond
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Germantown
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Phebe Ann
Wood
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City Lunch
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N.Y. Express, Oct. 21, 1856
"But for the American party, the Northern, sectional, geographical party of Wm H. Seward & Co. would, under Fremont, have swept the whole Northern country."
(editorial.)
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Proem.—
Proem of all
These are the candid
open-shown thoughts
of me, and of all
my body & soul
Lo, the amp free open amplitude
over and over
Lo the round globe, tumbling
Lo, friendly persons advancing,
tall, muscular, ^friendly with
sufficient hands and feet,
Lo—the great women of
upon of the world
the New World—and the lo
how they precede the beard-faced masters
of upon the world,
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Lo
Shall [illegible]speak in the Presidents
Message from the porch
of the ^Federal Capitol, and in
the Governors' Messages
from the State Capitols,
and in the rulings of
the Judges of the
Supreme Court,
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Commencement of Discourse
"Spiritualism"
Life is very great but theere f is something greater than life, absorbing life, namely Death.—When as we are in the midst of affairs, going to dinner, &c, we receive the news of the sudden death of — —over
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Proem
^Preface of Endless Announcements
Toward the perfect woman
of The America
Toward the perfect man
of America
Toward the President
of These States, and
the members of
the Congress of These
States
Proem Preface of Endless
Announcements
After all is said, it remains to be said, This too is great in its reference to death
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Poem of Remorse
I now look back to the
times when I thought
others—slaves? —the ignorant?
—so much inferior to my self
To have so much less right
than myself
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O you round Earth,
I
Savage and strong,
Free, luxuriant, im ,
I, from Mannahatta
speak up for The States.
O my body, that gives
me identity!
O my organs!all and each, ^every one O that
which makes manhood!
O
A Savage and luxuriant strong
Primal
Am Free, luxuriant, f
in I, come,
an Amer
from Mannahatta
stand in the midst
of The States
speak up for you and
for These States.—
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(Simply
Endless Announcements
nothing more
☝
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Words of America
Free and severe words,
the master's words
The mother's, father's,
husband's, wife's,
son's daughter's, words,
☞The Proem must have throughout a strong saturation of America, The West, the Geography, the representative American man.
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All that you do g gain
dissipates away
But all that you
do to your body,
mind, morals, lasts
in this sphere and
in other spheres
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Shall grow in the manly
muscle of men and
in the greatness of
perfect women
I do not say that life
is not beautiful,
But I say that whatever
it is, it all tends to
dr[cut away] the beauty of death.
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To you, endless endless announcements
To You whoever you are, I
kiss you with lips of
^real love ^personal
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Premonition
(last verse
? To you, endless announcements!
? To America
Whoever you are, For your sake, these
*
Free, ^fresh and savage, strong,
Cheerful Fluent, luxuriant,
fluent, self-composed—
[cut away] [cut away]persons
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I was born fond
of the sea-beach,
In ^In the streets of Mannahatta's I streets walk,ing
and sound thence
^I sound the strong ^I make poems
of ^for The States.
In Mannahatta's streets walking
I make poems for The States.
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* Free, savage, strong,
Cheerful, luxuriant, fluent,
self-sufficient composed— fond of
my friends, fond of women and children
☜
Fond of fish-shaped Paumanok
Paumanok, where I
was born—fond of
the sea-beach,
From Mannahatta I send
the poems of The States.
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O intersecttwined lands!
O land of athe future!
This
Ahold of hands
These I interhanded Washington's land copious land
The interhanded sStates
O my the lands!
The O ^copious the embracing, interhanded, ^the many-armed, the
knit together, the
passionate lovers, the
fused ones and clasped, the equal
womb-offspring, the
old and young brothers,
the equal world side by side, the
experienced sisters
and the inexperienced
sisters, the equal ones,
the womb-offspring, the
well-attached the
beloved of ages! and of ages! ages!
ages,— the inextricable,
the river-tied and the
mountain-tied.
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[torn away]
breezed, the Arc[cut away]
braced, the sea-bosomed,
the Mississippi-drained,
the fresh-breezed, the
ample-land, the wonderful,
the welcome, the inseparable
brothers!
O dear lands! O death!
O I will not desert
you by death be
death be divested discharged severed
from you by death
O I do not care! cannot be severed! I
will yet visit you still
yet with irrepressible love,
O I will visi come
silently and invisibly
Again the
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This then is life,
This This Here is what has been come arrived upon the earth, out of then is the earth,
and what has arrived
after so many throes
and convulsions.—
How curious! How real!
Underfoot, the divine soil—
Overhead, the sun.—
Afford foothold to my poems,
you
Nourish my poems, Earth, and give
them roots, you earth,
for they are your
offspring,
Bedew them, dews, you
spring and summer^dews——shelter
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Philip Holmes
Adirondacks
—to Troy—then in the
cars to Moreau—then
by stage to Glen's Falls—
then by stage to Lake George
—then to Scroon lake—
I will visit the Texan
in
The wal jaunt over the
prairies as welcome as
ever
The banks of the long sail voyage the
Missouri up the
Mississipp
Shine upon them, sun, for they
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them; winter snows, for
they are would make you
Help
Favor them, to yo all you
laws of materials, and
all ponderable things
all of vulgar and rejected
things, for they would
make you illustrious
You mothers
You young women, for
they p ^would announce you
as just ^forever as capable
and eminent as
the young men
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The ^p man or woman of Texans, the Lousianian
the Flori[illegible]dian, the Georgian
the Carolinian, the Mississippian
the Arkansian, the Californian
as much my friend as
ever, and I his friend
^or her friend as much as ever,
Oregon as much mine as
ever,
^you Mannahatta! Mannahatta!
Mannahatta! still close,
as ever! O close! close to me!
O The man of Ohioan and woman of Ohio as close real
to me as ever
The Kentuckian my for me and I for him as much as ever
Wisconsin, Iowa
Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Utah,
^Minnesota! for me a as much as ever the same and I
for them as much the same as
ever!
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You old man and old woman;
for they know see would show that
you are no less
admirable, than any
You sexual organs and
acts, for they behold are determined to tell
you with glad
courageous loud
voice, to make
you illustrious,
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The Tennessee-man and
the Tennessee-woman
—the same as ever to me no less to me than ever )
Pennsylvania, New-Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, yet travelled
by me,
The Maine, New-Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, yet dwelt
in by me,
Huron, Erie Mic
Ontario, Erie, Huron,
Michigan, Superior,
yet sailed upon
by me
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To you endless an
To you, these, to
report nature, man,
politics, from
an American
point of view.
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These are the words of the
master
These
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These shall live abide,
Shall grow in
Shall walk in the streets
Manhnahatta
Shall climb the Alleghenie[cut away]
and
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As long as the earth
is brown and
solid
Free, savage, strong
Cheerful, luxuriant, fluent, self-sufficient,
Out from Y fond of the sea-beach, from fond
of slender Paumanok where I was
born,
From Manhattan ^fond of the sea-beach Island I
send the poems of the States.
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Listen to me,
Out from Paumanok, where
I was born, and I recite
All is in yourself,
The All things, all thoughts,
Things, thoughts, the stately
shows of the world,
the suns and moons,
the landscape, summer
and winter, the
poems, endearments,
All
Free, Savage, and strong,
Primal, ^arrogant coarse luxuriant, coarse, and
combative, fluent self-sufficient,
A O From Out of from Manhattan Island
I makesend the poems
of The States,
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Fille'd fill'd with such wonders
Over-head, how the splendid the sun!
Under-foot, how the
O divine soil,
Under-foot, O divine soil!
Overhead, O
* How curious!—How real!
Under-foot, the divine soil!
Overhead, the sun!
How curious
How curious I myself!
Me,
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I understand you, you
bards of other ages and lands
I understand you,bear you in mind, you
ancestors of men.—
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How curious is the brown
wo real earth!
How curious, how
spiritual is the water
Politics
On the one side pledged
to — — —
On the other side to
— — —
—On the one side— — —
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Lo! the ships sailing!
Lo, the the interminable intersecting
streets in cities, full
of living people, coming
and going!
Lo, where iron and steam
so grand, so welcome!
Lo, th
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Forever and Thy soul!
To cons
Forever and forever, as long longer
as the than soilground is brown and solid, as longer
as than water ebbs and
flows
They gi shall duly give place, ^in a few ^their order of millions of years— but
you O my soul shall never
give place!
*Life,—how curious! how real
Space, ^and time, filled with such
easy wonders!
To walk, to breathe, how delicious
The daylig day; these the
curious; divine,
animals, identity,
eyesight!
Underfoot, the divine
soil,
Overhead, the sun.
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to ^shall ought to deserves receive more than
you, and never can deserve
I do not forget fail to
salute you with my hand and neck, you
poets of all ages
and lands,
I do not forget to bless
any one of you, you fallen
nations, to bless you— —nor any
one of you, you
ancestors of men
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How real is the ground!
Come let us p set
our feet upon the
ground;
How perfect and beautiful
are the animals!
How vas
How much room, and
splendor! How inevitable
How vast and spacious!
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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 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
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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 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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