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Ship Ahoy!

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  • Title: Ship Ahoy!
  • Date: 12 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00037
  • Source: Youth's Companion (12 March 1891): 152. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Leslie Ianno Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Ship Ahoy!." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00037.xml (TEI)
per.00037.001per.00037.001_cropped For the Companion.

SHIP AHOY!1

In dreams I was a ship, and sail'd the boundless seas, Sailing and ever sailing—all seas, and into every port, 
  or out upon the offing, Saluting, cheerily hailing each mate I met, little or big, "Ship ahoy!" thro' trumpet or by voice—from me some 
  friendly merry word at least, For companionship and good-will to all and each. WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). [back]

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