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Out of May's Shows Selected

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  • Title: Out of May's Shows Selected
  • Date: 10 May 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00120
  • Source: New York Herald 10 May 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 April Lambert Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Out of May's Shows Selected." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00120.xml (TEI)
per.00120.006per.00120.006_cropped [WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]

Out of May's Shows Selected.1

Apple orchards, the trees all covered with blos- 
 soms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital 
  emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early 
  morning; The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the 
  warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or 
  white flowers. WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

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