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In Captain Church's history of Philip's war, there are innumerable incidents for the painter.

Towards the close of the war, when Philip's followers were nearly all slain, and his ruin near, the captain

Tho generous old captain, touched by the picture of the chief's distress, allowed him to seize his gun

is as untenable as our own famous saying—"A little more grape, Captain Bragg!"

nature shrinking from thy rough embrace, Than summer, with her rustling robe of green, Cool blowing in my

delight; Even the saint that stands Tending the gate of heaven, involved in beams Of rarest glory, to my

No mesh of flowers is bound about my brow; From life's fair summer I am hastening now.

And as I sink my knee, Dimpling the beauty of thy bed of snow, Dowerless, I can but say, O, cast me not

See in particular the opening line: "I WANDER all night in my vision," (1855, p. 70).; There is also

I fling out my fancies toward them;" (1855, p. 38).; 2; 3

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

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.

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.

—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

"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

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

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.

Cassius Clay Henry Shaw of St Louis Y et m M y 71st year has arrived and this arrives: the fifteen is my

and think, 'Well, this great thing has been, and all that is now left of it is the feeble print upon my

brain, the little th rill which memory will send along my nerves, mine and my neighbours'; as we live

reading them, can be attached to their opinion at page 8 of the report R OBERT S PENCER OBINSON In my

radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me , to my

This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightest not lose

the case, I examined the accounts given on this subject, by the four Evangelists, and according to my

scripture evidence for his being the son of Joseph than otherwise ; although it has not yet changed my

mighty bulwark, not easily removed, yet it has had this salutary effect, to deliver me from judging my

they were in the same belief with myself; neither would I dare to say, positively, that it would be my

how often has my poor soul been brought to this point, when temptations have arisen, 'Get thee behind

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!"

"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,

latter years, when asked how he could have done so much, he replied, "Have I not spent fifty years at my

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

Edition This little Treatise is extracted from a more extensive work, undertaken without consulting my

—In this research it will be my constant endeavor to ally that which the right perm its , with that which

—When a robber surprises me in a forest, I must surrender my purse to force,—but when I can regain it

—My first question returns. Chapter 4th.

railroads— The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my

through swamps warm land,—sunny land, the fiery land, the rich‑blooded land, in hot quick‑mettled land, my

Song Always the South, the Dear to me the sunny land, sweet land, the silvery land my land, wild generous

start the old cautious hucksters, The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my

son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai, In my

Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed, The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my

"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest, Allah is all, all, all—is immanent

Anonymous, "Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

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

Southey thus records his own birth:— "My birthday was Friday, 12th August, 1774; the time, half-past

According to my astrological friend Gilbert, it was a few minutes before the half hour, 161 pleasure.

There is an image in Kehama, drawn from my recollection of the devilish malignity which used sometimes

Meantime Madoc sleeps, and my lucre of-gain-compilation (specimens of English Poets) goes on at night

, when I am fairly obliged to lay history aside, because it perplexes me in my dreams.

to one of his mystical treatises (De Cœlo et Inferno) he says:— "I was dining very late one day at my

London (this was in seventeen hundred and forty-three)—and was eating heartily.— When I was finishing my

That night the eyes of my inner man were opened, and enabled to look into heaven, the world of spirits

, and hell; and there I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some dead long before, and others recently

Instantly there was presented before my eyes a woman exactly resembling the women in that earth.— She

Layard, " was the extent of my discoveries at Koyunjik.

No matter what length of time I spent in proving my case, I generally found my eloquence was expended

I had but time to throw up my right arm, when the avalanche descended.

I await my turn. In due time it comes.

My warriors fell around me. It began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand.

onward 10 years Goethe —(reading Carlyle's criticisms on Goethe.) over leaf Here is now, (January 1856) my

—THE SUN. 1 O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers!

"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

I hope to be able to announce in my next the commencement of our agricultural operations.

And still more strikingly Othello says: "Every puny whipster gets my sword: for why should honor outlive

I have foreknown Clearly all things that should be; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul; and I must

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.

Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, in New Yorke, on the Island of Manhattat, this 18th day of

clearing, ffencing and manuring their land, as well as building ffor their conveniency have requested my

Given under my hand and seal at ffort James, in New York, the ffirst day of May. in the 22nd year of

House, and the question that is now put is, whether this 53 bill should pass, I must beg leave to give my

Witness My Hand, LEFFERT LEFFERTS."

letter to Viscount St Albans calling Bacon saying "the most prodigious wit that ever I knew of any my

ultimately, they all served, in various ways, the poet's ambitious agenda, by which, "with the twirl of my

remembrance the love of man, I will employ myself on the means of effecting good for him, and build my

Then, turning to the Genius, I exclaimed: O Genius, despair hath settled on my soul.

My life, 358 96 Birth of Alexander the Great. Small show, 356 PERIOD VIII.

justified in the profound contempt which they have entertained for the mass of historical works. ' Give me my