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A.MS. draft.loc.00088xxx.00236Returning to my pages' front oncebetween 1871 and 1876poetryhandwritten1
Returning to my pages' front once
though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death" (1855, p. 74).
It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before
notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to my
correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my
A.MS. draft.loc.00248xxx.00236[(Returning to my pages front once]between 1873-1876poetryhandwritten1
[(Returning to my pages front once]
152yal.00146xxx.00866Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A draft of Walt
Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy
loc.04741xxx.00946In writing my history of Brooklynabout 1862prose1 leafhandwritten; Brief note regarding
In writing my history of Brooklyn
loc.04657xxx.00948[To-day completes my three-score-and]1889prosepoetry1 leafprintedhandwritten; Printer's
[To-day completes my three-score-and]
149uva.00009xxx.00713[My two theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm
[My two theses]
371886, Apr. 15, "Abraham Lincoln"loc.01762xxx.00531[The subject or text of my]1879–1887prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted
[The subject or text of my]
188uva.00260xxx.00264The sores on my shouldersBetween 1850 and 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm;
on the back of this leaf (uva.00565) relate to the manuscript poem Pictures.; uva.00565 The sores on my
duk.00277xxx.00084MS q 29Drops of my Bloodabout 1860poetry1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript that contains
a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and In a poem make the.; duk.00890 Drops of 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.
Richard Maurice Bucke, one of his literary executorsI have found my authority hereabout 1879prose1 leafhandwritten
I have found my authority here
pri.00035xxx.00808[Returned from my four months]1879–1882prose1 leafhandwritten; A short note in which
[Returned from my four months]
50-51uva.00023xxx.00085City of my walks and joyslate 1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to
City of my walks and joys
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
After the dazzle of Day After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark dark night shows to my eyes the
stars; After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves
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
50-51uva.00190xxx.00413xxx.00047Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2
Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate
What is nearest and commonest and nearest and cheapest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances,
myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to receive my
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
jibs appear in the offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my
Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a
position for the present, I will ask leave to begin these Notes with such hints of the character of my
father and mother and of my own childhood as may at least help "The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol" one of
my favorite stories WW WALT WHITMAN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. 32 Transcribed from our digital image of the
.— The old house in which my father's grand parents lived, (and their parents probably before them, )
—Some of them are yet represented by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large
—My father's father I never saw.— Mother's family lived only two or three miles from West Hills—on a
—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,
the lampblack and oil with which the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my
of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as My
Far back, related on my mother's side, Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died; (Had been a sailor
—these his the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead; Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my
Still Night of Sleep—my bridal Night!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds purer and clearer for my sake!
—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
by my children? Are to be they really failures? are they sterile, incompetent yieldings after all?
Are they not indeed to be as victorious shouts from my children?
lines 40 letters 1120 1120 letters in page of Skakspere Shakespeare 's poems 1600 letters in one of my
sauntering the pavement, 9 great are the myths, I wander all night 10 Come closer to me Who learns my
Counting the tally of the surf‑suggestions wordless utterance of these liquid tongues And To pass within my
utterance tale of subterranean toil and wrongs Unf For once Seems here C c onfided to me * To pass within my
Clean er shaved and more grammatical folks I call Mister, and lay the tips of my fingers inside their
headline in the morning papers, and pass the time as comfortably as the law allows.— But for the others, my
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
Then said the beautiful Queen Kriemhilde, "My husband i the most noble, and by right this kingdom, and
the queen to Hagen, and, looking upon him with hatred, "Restore," said she, "before it is too late, my
said Kriemhilde, "one useful thing, at any rate, you have restored to me, The sword, the weapon of my
.— I assume this day, the whole debt of all I take my place by right among the sudorous or sweaty men
a handsomer man with be has better finer health and cleaner shaped limbs than I, who do business in my
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
Surface 40 contains, among other notes, a cancelled line reading "yet my soul-dearest leaves—the hardest
fond thoughts my soul beguiled;— It was herself!
I've set my heart upon nothing, you see; Hurrah! And so the world goes well with me.
I set my heart at first upon wealth; And bartered away my peace and health; But, ah!
I set my heart upon sounding fame; And, lo! I'm eclipsed by some upstart's And, ah!
And then I set my heart upon war. We gained some battles with eclat.
night walkers And do no better for me— Who am a regular gentlemen or lady, With a marble broad stoop to my
And is the day here when I vote at the polls, One with the immigrant that last August strewed lime in my
though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death" (1855, p. 74).
man who claims or takes the power to own another man as his property, stabs me in that the heart of my
own The one scratches me a little on the cheek forehead , the other draws his murderous razor through my
t T hat black and huge lethargic mass, my sportsmen, dull and sleepy as it seems, has holds the lightning
eventually titled "Song of Myself": "Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai, / In my
both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as My
": "My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble, / They rise together
these lines may relate to the following line in the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself": "I take my
To the Poor— I have my place among you Is it nothing that I have preferred to be poor, rather than to
meet and drawing their love in Never losing old friends, or new ones; and finding new on every day of my
My Spirit sped back to
duk.00703xxx.01114Isaac Joseph Stephen JesseIsaac Joseph Stephen Jesse (my grandfather)...Between 1850
duk.00698xxx.01022Hannah BrushIsaac Joseph Stephen Jesse (my grandfather)...Between 1850 and 1880prosehandwritten1
group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like welcome rippling water o'er my
Do you ask me what are my own particular dangers and complaints—what is taken that belongs to me—I complain