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You tides with ceaseless swell and ebb.

  • Whitman Archive Title: You tides with ceaseless swell and ebb.
  • Whitman Archive ID: wwh.00001
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript at The Walt Whitman House in Camden
  • Date: about 1884
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript is a draft of the poem, "You Tides With Ceaseless Swell." Writing on the verso (which is made up of fragments of several letters, dated between 1871–1884) indicates that the manuscript was probably created sometime in or after 1884. "You Tides With Ceaseless Swell" is one of eight poems in the "Fancies at Navesink" sequence, which first appeared in print in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century .

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