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ihm.00002xxx.00218O Captain! My Captain!
1889-1890poetry1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript copy of O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
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).
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
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
the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My
The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word
22tex.00036xxx.00384MY 71st YEARMY 71st YEAR1889poetry1 leafproof with revisions; Corrected proof of My
MY 71st YEAR
November, 1889 issue of The Century Magazine, (one full, one partial) which included Whitman's poem My
only three pages of one of the copies are available (cover, table of contents, and the page on which My
My 71st Year
Echoes cluster, first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My
The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to Good-Bye My Fancy and to Sounds of
Whitman originally included the poem in his 1891 manuscript for the Good-Bye My Fancy annex to Leaves
loc.04657xxx.00948[To-day completes my three-score-and]1889prosepoetry1 leafprintedhandwritten; Printer's
[To-day completes my three-score-and]