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Paumanok

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  • Title: Paumanok
  • Date: 29 February 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00110
  • Source: New York Herald 29 February 1888: 6. 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 Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Paumanok." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00110.xml (TEI)
per.00110.006

PAUMANOK.1

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking! One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with 
  copious commerce, steamers, sails, And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or 
  gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the 
  distance Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy 
  air and soil! Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine! WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Paumanok is the Native American name, and the name Whitman preferred, for Long Island. [back]

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