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It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

Although the poem was unpublished in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem To My Soul,

This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness

Whitman included this preface in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) as Preface to a volume of essays and tales

before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05458xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancy1891poetryprintedhandwritten14

leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

.; TThis manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became "Who Learns My Lesson Complete

11 He The sores on my neck shoulders are from his iron necklace I look on the off on the river with my

bloodshot eyes He stops the steamboat and till she will paddle off with away take my woman, and paddle

The sores on my shoulders

titled "The Sleepers": "How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my

treatise on the theory behind Leaves of Grass, which includes a plug for Whitman's latest work, Good-Bye My

to my Notes" is written along the top of the page.

Some lines in this manuscript can also be found in [I just spin out my notes], another prose manuscript

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

Whitman used lines from Pictures for the poem My Picture-Gallery, first published in Leaves of Grass

and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My

My Book and I

hun.00011xxx.00320HM 11207Queries To My Seventieth YearTo my seventieth year1888poetry1 leafhandwritten

; Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May

Queries To My Seventieth Year

Poet.1870-1874poetry1 leafhandwritten; Annotated draft of the untitled poem that begins Come, said my

1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in Who Learns My

Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890) and in Good-Bye My

27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).

A.MS. draft.loc.00225xxx.00099[O Earth, my likeness]1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft

of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860 (Earth, My Likeness in the final version of Leaves

[O Earth, my likeness]

General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My

Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My

of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my

Henceforth After this day, A touch shall henceforth be small Little things is shall be are henceforth my

my tongue proof and argument It They shall tell s for me that people In them, the smallest least of

over all, and what we thought death is but life brought to a finer parturition.— An inch's contact My

The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but

I entertain all the aches of the human heart Outside the asteroids I reconnoitre at my ease.

Compare these lines from that edition: "I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer

which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My

prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My

leaveshandwritten; Lightly revised printer's copy of For Queen Victoria's Birthday, which was published in Good-Bye My

26Death Dogs My Steps (1890).

A.MS. draft.loc.00120xxx.00406Death Dogs My Stepsabout March 3, 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 19 cm

; Draft of Death Dogs My Steps written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed

Death Dogs My Steps

Grass (1891–92), lines from this manuscript appear in both One's-Self I Sing and Small the Theme of My

the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my

name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11.

the breath is leaving my throat; ! Open your floodgates!

I am faintish I can contain resist you no longer think I shall drop sink , Take drops the tears of my

¶Little as your mouth yo lips are am faintish I am faintish; and it has drained me dry of my strength

. . . . my breath is tight in its throat; / Unclench your floodgates!

original "Inscription" to the 1867 edition, ultimately appearing under the title "Small the Theme of My

In the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman included the lines: "Who learns my lesson complete?

My Lesson Have you learned my lesson complete: It is well—it is but the gate to a larger lesson—and And

mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it; /

All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, / Now I stand on this spot with my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

The essay was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) before finally being collected in Complete Prose

revision, appeared in the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled Who Learns My

by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and Drops of my

included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My

of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My

of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My

Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass

Have I hasten to inform you it is just as good to die, and I know it; I know it For I take my death with

the dying, And my birth with the new-washed babe Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early

pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my

manuscript appeared as the following, in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "All I mark as my

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My

cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my

, and My Picture-Gallery, are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand.

series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities of the north, to supply myself with funds for my

series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities of the north, to supply myself with funds for my

On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892).

the poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled A Song for Occupations and Who Learns My

Until you can explain a paving stone, to every ones my perfect satisfaction O Priests , do not try to

. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).;

See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one