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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!
Open your mouth gums my pardy, that I put send blow grit in you with one a breath ; Spread your palms
. * shall uncage in my breast a thousand armed great winged broad‑ wide‑winged strengths and unknown
I want that untied tenor, clean and fresh as the Creation, whose vast pure volume floods my soul.
paces and powers, uncage in my heart a thousand new strengths, and unknown ardors and terrible —making
furious than hail hail and lightning. that leap lulling me drowsily with honeyed uncaging waking in my
likely relates to the following lines, from the poem that would be titled "Song of Myself": "I open 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.
Whitman writes about this in the passage Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and a Young Man, published
—"Step-along, my bullies!" Come, bullies, hop, now! hop now!" (9 Mixture of passengers .
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.
Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy
See in particular: "And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, / And I know that the
spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own" (1855, p. 15–16).; Transcribed from digital images of
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
Glance O'er Travel'd Roads first appeared in Lippincott's Magazine (January 1887), under the title My
Reprinted in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), My Book and I was also combined with How I Made
a Book, Philadelphia Press (11 July 1889) and A Backward Glance on My Own Road, Critic (5 January 1884
of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My
of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my
My remarks here repurpose and reaffirm (in a much broader context now of Whitman Archive work on Whitman's
annotations) my earlier treatment in Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (New Haven: Yale
When I am in a room with people, if I am free from speculating on creations of my own brain, then, not
Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My
these documents his deep and abiding fascination with the place that he repeatedly called, simply, "my
"I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city," that poem begins: and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
For example, this manuscript is seemingly the first time that Whitman refers to New York as "my city.
my city!" And its fifth and final usage in 1860 comes in the volume's concluding poem, "So long!"
ultimately, they all served, in various ways, the poet's ambitious agenda, by which, "with the twirl of my
This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my
manuscript appeared as the following, in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "All I mark as my
poem was revised to form section 32 of Calamus in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled What Think You I Take My
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!
Because I am in my place what of that? The perfect male and female are everywhere in their place.
the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled "Song of Myself": "I resist anything better than my
own diversity, / And breathe the air and leave plenty after me, / And am not stuck up, and am in 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
"My own opinion is that myriads of superior works have been lost—superior to existing works in every
From Contemporary Notes by George Joseph Bell." 1878 February 1878 or later "In my reading, elocution
radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me, to my
marginal note responds to Mazzini's advice about maintaining tranqulity in adversity with "Remember my
152yal.00146xxx.00866Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A draft of Walt
Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy
treatise on the theory behind Leaves of Grass, which includes a plug for Whitman's latest work, Good-Bye My
leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains part of an autobiographical sketch on the composition of Good-bye My
Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes, In which and
My own opinion guess is that myriads of superior works have been lost—superior to existing works in every
waste of ignorance, and the calamities of war, our treasures rather than our losses are the object of my
luxurious and delightful moments of life; which have often enticed me to pass fourteen hours a day at my
desk, in a state of transport; this gratification, more than glory, is my reward.'
What was learned man's compliment, may serve for my confession and conclusion.
Portions of this manuscript contributed to Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in the Good-By my Fancy annex
—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse
) —& now 4pm Nov. 14 '89 waiting for my supper to be bro't— Transcribed from digital images of the original
for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes
, after 10 I see the steamboat that carries away my woman.— Damn him!
how he does defile me This day, or some other, I will have him and the like of him to curse the do my
I will stop the drag them out—the sweet marches of heaven shall be stopped my maledictions.— Whitman
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
loc.04657xxx.00948[To-day completes my three-score-and]1889prosepoetry1 leafprintedhandwritten; Printer's
[To-day completes my three-score-and]
Retitled To the Pending Year, it was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye
my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92).
Retitled To the Pending Year, the poem appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. To the year 1889
Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
which was published in Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My
Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said 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
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]).
Although the poem was unpublished in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem To My Soul,
thousands, each one with his entry to himself; They are always watching with their little eyes, from my
head to my feet.
lift put the girder of the earth a globe the house away if it lay between me and whatever I wanted.— My
lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my
of an unpublished poem entitled The Soul and the Poet, which may be a draft of the poem Come, said my
which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My
50-51uva.00190xxx.00413xxx.00047Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2
Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00268xxx.00263[Thou knowest my]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of
[Thou knowest my]