Poemet a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Susan Belasco Elizabeth Lorang Ed Folsom Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 per.00074 Poemet [That shadow, my likeness] <ref target="per.00105">New-York Saturday Press</ref> 4 February 1860 2 Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. updated TEI header converted to P5 proofread transcribed and encoded [For the Saturday Press.] Poemet.This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves of Grass (1867); and, with slight changes in the text, in Leaves of Grass (1881–82). That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek- ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But in these, and among my lovers, and carolling my songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me. WALT WHITMAN.