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"Give my regards to all the boys in New York city, and don't forget it."
The door was opened in response to my ring by a gentle faced, wistful eyed, elderly woman.
I told him of passages in his writings which I admired and referred particularly to "My Captain," that
bells; But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck; my captain lies Fallen, cold and dead.
I had outstayed the moments to which I was pledged to limit my visit.
Whitman said: "I am jogging along in the old pathway and my old manner, able to be wheeled about some
days and in rainy weather content to stay shut up in my den, where I have society enough in my books
I see a good many actors, who seem to have a fondness for my society. The death of George H.
"Tennyson still writes to me, as do Buchanan and my German friends.
"John Burroughs is my oldest literary friend now living.
almost human tenderness in the atmosphere, to get up and go out, and as I was being wheeled about by my
But I staid just a little too long in my unaccustomed wanderings, because I had not been out before during
It was after sunset when I got back to my home, and I enjoyed my supper better than I had for many a
I can read the magazines, and my friends from abroad keep me advised as to what is going on in the world
"I found this in my coat," he said. "I don't often put on this coat.
My names are Song, Love, Art. My poet, now unbar the door."
"Art's dead, Song cannot touch my hear, My once love's name I chant no more."
It puts me in mind of my visit to a church when I was a boy.
It was a Presbyterian church and the preacher was in a high box above my head.
"Every fine day I have my stalwart attendant wheel me out, often to the Federal street ferry, where,
As Carlyle says in his life of John Sterling, many of my seances with O'Reilly are written in star-fire
meeting at Young's was a most memorable one, and Emerson was kind enough to select the passages from my
England are imperative and I must soon sail for merrie England, and after a short stay I will keep my
promise to visit you and to renew my pleasant memories of the Pacific slope.'
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.
The six sentences may be a key to those who like me, but say they don't understand my book.