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Poem of Kisses

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  • Title: Poem of Kisses
  • Date: Before 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00301
  • 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 name of the proposed poem, "Poem of Kisses," recalls the title format used in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. Based on the topic and the manuscript's appearance with others of an early date in Richard Maurice Bucke's Notes and Fragments (1899), Edward Grier speculates that Whitman wrote this before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1344).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Poem of Kisses." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00301.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
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 Kisses—

the kisses of love—of death—of betrayal—   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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