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The Great Laws do not" also includes draft lines that appeared in the poem later titled "Who Learns My

—I lend you my own mouth tongue A black I dart ed like a snake from his mouth.— I My eyes are bloodshot

, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and children.— Around my neck

am T The His i ron necklace and the red sores of my shoulders I do not feel mind , h H opples and ball

ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river, with the sight of my

bloodshot eyes, go in to the steamboat that paddles off wife woman and child A I do not stop with my

. / How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman"(1855, p.

Grass, ultimately titled Song of Myself: "And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my

Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

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

leafhandwritten; Manuscript notes, heavily revised, apparently for the preface to Whitman's 1891 volume Good-Bye My

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried

This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy

Critic (titled Shakspere for America) on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's Good-Bye My

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

South"—which was first published in theMay, 1890 Century and then included in the second annex Good-Bye 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

The retrospective extasy ecstasy is upon me— I am now my soul —spirit burns volcanic The earth recedes

ashamed before my prophetical crisis.— Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as

similar to the following line in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The dirt receding before my

of an unpublished poem entitled The Soul and the Poet, which may be a draft of the poem Come, said my

has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with 'The Scout', Drops of my

reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my

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

leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains part of an autobiographical sketch on the composition of Good-bye My

In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as Small the Theme of my Chant

manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My

The first several lines of the poem were published in 1880 as "My Picture-Gallery.

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

a makes raises but bubble of the sea-ooze in comparison with against that unspeakable Something in my

—I look back upon that time in my own days.— I have no gibes nor mocks mockings or laughter;—I have only

the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was ultimately titled "Song of Myself": "Backward I see in my

leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

A single line from this manuscript, "Only the undulations of my Thought beneath under the Night and Stars—or

s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task

revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under the title My

My picture gallery

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

These words are for the five or six grand poets, too; and the masters of artists: — I waste no ink, nor my

receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you, / The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my

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

drink, / But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my

Part of "Pictures" was published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American in October 1880 and later incorporated

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

first published in the New York publication Truth on 19 March 1891 and was later reprinted in Good-Bye My

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

this manuscript may connect to the stanza of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself" that begins "My

senses all men is truth; Logic and sermons never convince ; me; The dew of the night drives deep er into my

/ Logic and sermons never convince, / The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. / Only what proves

19 I am become the poet of babes and the little things I descend many steps—I go backward primeval My

equanimous arms feet 209 I surround retrace things steps oceanic—I pass to around not merely my own

. / My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, / On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches

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

A similar line in that poem reads: "O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged!

Shakspere for America was later reprinted in The Critic on 27 September 1890, as well as in Good-Bye My

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

leaf7 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

reprinted as Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in the February 28, 1891 issue of The Critic, in Good-Bye My

for a set of Whitmans's books: "Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my

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

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

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

Myself": "Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my

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