Poem of Pictures | Whitman Archive

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Title: Poem of Pictures
Date: Before 1856
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00289
Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: The poem proposed here is likely related to both "Pictures," a lengthy manuscript poem held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University that was probably written in the mid- to late-1850s, and "Poem of Salutation," first published in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass and later retitled "Salut au Monde!" Therefore, the date of this manuscript is probably before 1856.
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Poem of Pictures." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: uva.00289.xml (TEI)

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Overwritten	brown with strikethrough
Added inline	purple with double underline
Uncertain	gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source	turquoise with brackets
Metamark	green with triple underline
Long deletion	gray background with top and bottom border

[begin leaf 1 recto]

^Poem
of Pictures

Picture of one of the Greek games—wrestling, or the chariot-race, or running. Each verse presenting a picture of some characteristic scene, event, group, or personage—old or new, other countries or our own country.— Spanish bull fight [begin leaf 1 verso]