Sail forth O mystic yacht of me

Whitman Archive Title: Sail forth O mystic yacht of me
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00040
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 29
Folder: Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! (1888). A.MS. drafts and notes.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Trial lines for "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. On part of the page is prose that appears to be a journal entry. The rest, though, is dedicated to a draft of the poem, with the title written half way down the page: "Sail forth O mystic yacht of me." On the verso is written "Walt Whitman, July 30 1890" twice.