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Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
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Whitman Archive Title: Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
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Whitman Archive ID: wau.00001
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the George N. Meissner Collection, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University
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Date: 1880–1882
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
This is a printed proof with heavy corrections in Whitman's hand of the poem,
"Thou Mother with Thy Equal
Brood," which was first published in the
New York Herald
(26 June 1872), under the title, "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free." On that same date, Whitman delivered the poem at the Dartmouth College commencement. Whitman published it later that year as the title poem in a
small book,
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free: and Other Poems
(1872). The title was later revised to "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" when the poem was included in
Leaves of Grass
in 1881–1882.
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