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His very aches are exstasy

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  • Title: His very aches are exstasy
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00602
  • 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: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The fragmentary lines may relate to a section on touch included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Related Item(s):
    • Poetic lines on the back of this manuscript leaf relate to lines in the poem eventually titled "The Sleepers." See uva.00256.
    • See wwa.00579.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "His very aches are exstasy." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00602.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] His very aches are exstasy He is He He has Food Softly and he pushinges Harmlessly softly pushing through Yet all   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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