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Year : 1887
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A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. II.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse

But I, with silent tread, Walk the spot my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Walt Whitman's Pension

  • Date: 21 January 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Lovering," Poet Whitman said, "wrote to me about five weeks ago, saying that my Boston friends wished

Lovering, of the Committee on Pensions, who was favorable to the project, and asking my consent.

It was whilst assisting at a surgical operation that I became poisoned throughout my system, after which

I became prostrated by hospital malaria, which finally caused my paralysis."

Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
Text:

I twice questioned my informer before I could believe it."

"He flung it down at my door, as though the fellow meant some injury: an Italian would have handled it

I remember Thoreau saying once, when walking with him in my favourite favorite Brooklyn—"What is there

My friends laugh, and say I am getting Conservative—but I am tired of mock radicalism.'

"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

picture of Wilson Barrett, the English actor, having upon it, inscribed in bold sign-manual: "I place my

"Tell them," he said, "that in my mind I feel quite vigorous; but that in body I am well used up with

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

"It used to be the delight of my life to ride on a stage coach," said he.

There was my friend Jack Finley.

Oh, yes, I was answering your question as to how I spent my time. Well, it is very monotonous.

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