Down, down, proud gorge | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Down, down, proud gorge
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00192
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: 26
Folder: Down, Down, Proud Gorge. A.MS. draft.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of a poem titled "Down, down, proud gorge." At the bottom of the same leaf is another draft of a poem entitled "Are they last words?" These drafts were later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the title "To the Year 1889," later re-titled "To the Pending Year."