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by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and Drops of my

included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My

of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns 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

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My

cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my

, and My Picture-Gallery, are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand.

On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892).

the poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled A Song for Occupations and Who Learns My

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first several lines of that poem were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American

pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my