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The entry which begins, "I find this in my notes" (see images 35, 36, and 38) was revised and used in

leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain

My own visits and distributions

loc.04741xxx.00946In writing my history of Brooklynabout 1862prose1 leafhandwritten; Brief note regarding

In writing my history of Brooklyn

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

Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White, my

up before the fire, just like a man—was every way decided and masculine in behavior The tradition of my

giving others the same chances and rights as myself— As if it were not indis‑ indispensable pensable to my

—What seek you do you want among my haughty and jealous democracies of the north?

woman, or my flesh and blood.

—There are my officers and my courts.—At the Capitol is my Legislature.

—It is foreign to my usages, as to my eyes and ears.—Go back to the power that sent you.

free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers, or sea shore.— 19 But why do I babble

Isaac v Joseph Stephen & Jesse (my grandfather) sons of Nehemiah Whitman Phebe daughters Hannah Brush

See, for instance: "I take my place among you as much as among any," (1855, p. 48); "Nor do I understand

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

Calamus 18. p 363 City of my walks and joys!

little you h You city : what do y you repay me for my daily walks joys Not these your crowded rows of

delicious athletic love fresh as nature's air and herbage— —offering me full repa respon ds se equal of my

my own, These repay me—Lovers, continual Lovers continu only repay me.— This manuscript is a draft of

City of my walks and joys

levee in life,— After death Now when I am looked back upon, I will I hold levee, after death, I lean on my

left elbow—I take ten thousand lovers, one after another, by my right hand.— I have all lives, all effects

4 To me I subject all the teachings of the schools, and all dicta and authority, to my the tests of myself

And myself,—and I encourage you to subject the same to the tests of yourself—and to subject me and my

meet and drawing their love in Never losing old friends, or new ones; and finding new on every day of my

Hear my fife!—I am a recruiter Who Come, who will join my troop?

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

Hear my fife

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My

In a the garden, the world, I, a new Adam, again wander, Curious, here behold my resurrection after ages

is wondrous—I am myself most wondrous, The All is I have con I exist, I peer and penetrate still, By my

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My

The first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery

O my body, that gives me identity! O my organs !

Underfoot, the divine soil— Overhead, the sun.— Afford foothold to my poems, you Nourish my poems, Earth

In Poem The earth, that is my model of poems model ?

The body of a man, is my model—I do not reject what I find in my body—I am not ashamed—Why should I be

My Darling (Now I am maternal— a child bearer— bea have from my womb borne a child, and observe it For

O laugh when my eyes settle the land The imagery and phrasing of these lines bears some resemblance to

similarity to the following line in the poem eventually titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "As I see my

and dwells serenely behind it.— When out of a feast I eat bread only corn and roast potatoes fo for my

dinner, through my own voluntary choice it is very well and I much content, but if some arrogant head

inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs.

first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , later called "Song of Myself": "I do not trouble my

The first several lines of the notebook (not including this line) were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery

just granting his request, with great commiseration, when an old lady from the gallery cries out "O 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 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass

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

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

verses in this notebook were published posthumously as [I Stand and Look], Ship of Libertad, and Of My

27O Captain! My Captain! (1865).

.00218My Captainabout 1865poetryhandwritten3 leaves; Draft of the poem that would be published as O Captain

My Captain! in 1865, titled here My Captain.

My Captain

.— When my little friend Tom Thumb, travelled with the circus he stood behind the stand, in a Missouri

Also included in this manuscript is a draft of That Shadow My Likeness, first published in New-York Saturday

This poem later appeared as Calamus No. 40, Leaves of Grass (1860); as That Shadow My Likeness, Leaves

Layard, " was the extent of my discoveries at Koyunjik.

No matter what length of time I spent in proving my case, I generally found my eloquence was expended

I had but time to throw up my right arm, when the avalanche descended.

I await my turn. In due time it comes.

My warriors fell around me. It began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand.

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

50-51uva.00246xxx.00072[Was it I who walked the]Scented Herbage of My Breast1857-1859poetryhandwritten1

who walked the / earth..." were not used in Calamus, but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my

Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled Scented Herbage of my Breast in 1867.

notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to 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.

correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my

lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my

50-51uva.00023xxx.00085City of my walks and joyslate 1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to

City of my walks and joys

In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling

brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My

My Likeness! [Earth]

poem was revised to form section 32 of Calamus in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled What Think You I Take My

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

50-51uva.00190xxx.00413xxx.00047Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2

Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]

Whitman retitled the poem To My Soul when it was first published, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass

reinforce the truthfulness of Pierson's stories about the "koboo," Whitman mentions the fact that Captain

Captain Walter M.

Such boundless and affluent souls. . . . . . . bend your head in reverence, my man!

.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe

am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my

I say to my own greatness, Away!

outward" (1855, p. 51). may be related to a similar phrase in the poem eventually titled "Who Learns My

in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass : "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My

—I doubt whether who my greatest thoughts, as I had supposed them, are not shallow.

—My pride is impotent; my love gets no response.

faces of my kind something that presents the sentiment of the Druid walking in the woods " " of the Indian

The first several lines of the notebook draft were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The

swear I will am can not to evade any part of myself, Not America, nor any attribute of America, Not my

body—not friendship, hospitality, procreation, Not my soul—not the last explanation of prudence, Not