Title: Poverty is also added
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03412
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Poverty is ^also added to his other troubles In this cloud In this [gloomy?] manner a couple of y nearly three years pass away and the Philistines had conclusively settled that ^after a brief life "the poetry of the future" was dead and buried.—but ^indeed almost as soon as it was born,
Patient, alert, even in defeat defeated not. In all proportioned
The nascent America
no lurid greatness
Eq Equable, like the light
Calm, reticent