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The first several lines of draft were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American in
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
The first several lines of that poem were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American
188uva.00565xxx.00259Hear my fifeBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm; Whitman probably
first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as My
(uva.00260) appeared, in revised form, in the poem eventually titled The Sleepers.; uva.00260 Hear my
both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as My