Sea Captains, Young or Old | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Sea Captains, Young or Old
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00006
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Box: 3
Date: about 1873
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript is a signed draft of "Sea Captains, Young or Old," which was published first in the New York Daily Graphic on April 4, 1873. The poem was later retitled, "Song for All Seas, All Ships," and appeared in Two Rivulets , the companion volume to the 1876 Author's edition of Leaves of Grass .