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Search : William White
Work title : Starting From Paumanok

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9th av.

  • Date: between 1854 and 1860
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press

noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

we had conquered— The captain on the quarter-deck, coldly giving his orders through a countenance white

Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt, with long white

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

exceptions whose appreciation distinguishes the thinker from the dogmatist: intense black and glaring white

and all hearts thrill at the thought of murdered Naboth and his sons, and of Lear hanging over the white

Here goes:— "Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the grist-mills, and

Scottish poet (1777–1844), writer of the long narrative poem Gertrude of Wyoming William Morris, "The

In the 1870s, William Tweed, a New York politician, became implicated in a scandal involving the disappearance

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood- drops!

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am.

Suggestions and Advice to Mothers

  • Date: 11 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Elmina
Text:

And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Sigourney, the chief poetess of the United States, of the classical William Cullen Bryant, the Catholic

The monk endeavours to console him with the prospect of eternal rest, the white robe and the golden crown

White the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping

William Michael Rossetti was principally concerned in introducing his works into the English market;

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 12 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) was an English mathematician who also wrote on philosophy.

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I gave them the same,

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist, best known for his satirical novel Vanity

Harold Williams. Vol. III. London: Oxford UP, 1963. 102-105.

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

William Bell Scott , a name perhaps not very familiar to most of our readers, but which Mr.

William Bell Scott, British poet and artist, introduced Rossetti to the 1855 Leaves of Grass.

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