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.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
Myself": "Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my
A.MS. draft.loc.00248xxx.00236[(Returning to my pages front once]between 1873-1876poetryhandwritten1
[(Returning to my pages front once]
which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My
My situation is rather a pleasant one.
There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.
My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life
After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.
My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.
leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain
"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.
James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,
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
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
Think, oh my soul, devoutly think, How, with affrighted eyes, Thou saw'st the wide-extended deep In all
Yet then from all my griefs, on lord!
Thy mercy set me free; Whilst in the confidence of prayer My soul took hold on thee.
My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be, And death, if death must be my doom Shall
join my soul to thee.
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
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?
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
group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like welcome rippling water o'er my
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
On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete
Draft lines on the back of this manuscript leaf relate to the poem eventually titled "Who Learns My Lesson
Song of Myself": "Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine, / My
respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through
my lungs, / The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea- rocks, and
.; Draft lines on the back of this manuscript leaf relate to the poem eventually titled "Who Learns My
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00287xxx.00263[All my emprises]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of
[All my emprises]
first published in the New York publication Truth on 19 March 1891 and was later reprinted in Good-Bye My
Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My
aim'd at me—like flash of flame Right to my very soul it came.
An infant at that dreary hour, Comes weeping to my silent bower, And wakes me with a piteous prayer,
I, starting, cry, That mak'st my blissful dreams to fly?"
I know him by his bow and dart; (I know him by my fluttering heart:) I take him in—I quickly raise The
(My bosom trembled as he smiled,) I pray thee let me try my bow, For through the rain I've wandered
however, physical and thematic similarities with And I have discovered them by night and by, above, and My
am myself and nobody else, am the greatest traitor, I went myself first to the headland, — my own hands
I have lost my wits . . . .
I and nobody else am the greatest traitor, / I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands
has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with 'The Scout', Drops of my
sings as well as I, because although she reads no newspaper; never learned the gamut; And to shake my
The first lines of the notebook poem were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American
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
included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
leaf7 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My
I began to feel very much numbed with the cold, and my eyes suffered a good deal from the glare of the
I was now only able to take three steps at a time without stopping, as my legs began to give way, and
I attribute my being able to reach the top to my wind; I never felt want of breath at any time, while
M., with my hands cut to bits, my nails worn to the quick with holding on, I reached the hut and there
One of my eyes is completely 'bunged up,' the other just enables me to see to write this.
am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my
The oppression of my heart is not fitful and has no pangs; but a torpor like that of some stagnant pool
Around me are my brother men, merry and jovial.
—Ah, if the flesh could but act what my rational mind, in its moments of clear inspiration aspires to
and the breast that ha fed his young , and so buys a nomination to great office; i I nforme d against my
brother and sister and got t ook aking pay for their blood, hearts; l L aughed when I looked from my
iron necklace, after the steamboat that carried away my woman.— Whitman probably drafted this manuscript
how he does defile me, / How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
/ How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman" (1855, p. 74
1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in Who Learns My
three winters to be articulate child Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in "Who Learns My
Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
appeared in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in a poem that would eventually be entitled "Who Learns My
: "I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived
in my mother's womb is equally wonderful, / And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was
It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892).
reinforce the truthfulness of Pierson's stories about the "koboo," Whitman mentions the fact that Captain
Captain Walter M.
the recto are prefatory in nature and reflect the spirit of the preface to Whitman's 1891 Good-Bye My
the mullein and the bumble-bee" is on page 36 of the section entitled Gathering the Corn of Good-Bye My
in his "Second Annex," titled Good-Bye My Fancy, to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass.
The pencil note "Sail Out for good, Eidólon Yacht / Good Bye My Fancy / Page 7" appears in the lower
But when a voice in my our hearing excuses this Fugitive damned Act, because it binds no leg and breaks
smoke Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied, Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the 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
gossiping in the candle light" that resonates with the beginning of the second paragraph of the article My
bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me, / No consideration, no regard for my
draining strength or my anger" (1855, p. 33).; 22; Transcribed from digital images of the original.;
The Johns Hopkins University holds one Whitman poetry manuscript (a handwritten version of O Captain!
My Captain!)
I initiated you into Milton nearly thirty years ago, my dear Seward; and I rejoice to find that you still
Often—often—often, my dear sir. VOL.
originality is the difference between the Bible and Paradise Lost. 766 Seldom—seldom—seldom if ever, my
nations in Asia or Africa not Christian, would see any great point in his poem, if read to th It is, my
50-51uva.00023xxx.00085City of my walks and joyslate 1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to
City of my walks and joys
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
26Come, said my Soul… Proof with signature.loc.00183xxx.00596Come, Said My Soul1881poetryhandwritten1
On verso reads "Copyright 1881, By Walt Whitman, All rights reserved" Come, Said My Soul
hun.00021xxx.00596HM 6713'Come said my soul. . .'
[Come, said my Soul]about 1875poetry1 leafhandwritten; A signed draft, heavily revised, of the untitled
'Come said my soul. . .'