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"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

scene in the woods on

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

had been battle flags Pioneers with axes on shoulders the crowds the perfect day—the clear sky—the white

from Hookers command

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

men badly burnt by explosion of caissons &c —wrote a number of letters for Ohio & Indiana m en Wm Williams

Armory May 12 William Williams co F. 27th Indiana wounded seriously in shoulder— a he lay naked to the

Williams Lafayette Tippecanoe co. Indiana Noah Laing bed 36 Ward I Mrs. Edwin Burt.

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of

gave him not one inch, but held on and night near the helpless fogged wreck, over leaf How the lank white

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

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