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National Literature

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
Text:

It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before

[All my emprises]

  • Date: about 1874
Text:

A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00287xxx.00263[All my emprises]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of

[All my emprises]

Priests!

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).

See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one

[Here fretful]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

29Queries to My 70th Year (1888).

The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]

Songs of Parting

  • Date: about 1881
Text:

included are: As the Time Draws Nigh, Ashes of Soldiers, Years of the Modern, Thoughts, Song at Sunset, My

[Which leads me to another point]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

[Why should I be afraid]

  • Date: 1855-1892
Text:

Glance O'er Travel'd Roads first appeared in Lippincott's Magazine (January 1887), under the title My

Reprinted in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), My Book and I was also combined with How I Made

a Book, Philadelphia Press (11 July 1889) and A Backward Glance on My Own Road, Critic (5 January 1884

In his presence

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death" (1855, p. 74).

[med Cophósis]

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
Text:

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

Rule in all addresses

  • Date: Before 1856
Text:

Poem in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My

The lines "I am too great to be a mere President or Major General / I remain with my fellows—with mechanics

fool and the wise thinker" may be related to a similar phrase in the poem eventually titled Who Learns My

In writing my history of Brooklyn

  • Date: about 1862
Text:

loc.04741xxx.00946In writing my history of Brooklynabout 1862prose1 leafhandwritten; Brief note regarding

In writing my history of Brooklyn

[*current aims]

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My

[Somewhere I have found Carlyle announcing]

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

leafhandwritten; Manuscript notes, heavily revised, apparently for the preface to Whitman's 1891 volume Good-Bye My

My Own Poems

  • Date: undated
Text:

.00096xxx.00661My Own Poemsundatedpoetryhandwritten1 leaf25.5 x 12.5 cm; Rough draft of a poem entitled My

This draft was published posthumously as My Own Poems. My Own Poems

To the Soul

  • Date: about 1874
Text:

cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my

Interpolation Sounds

  • Date: ca. 1888
Text:

It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds

[June 26 '59]

  • Date: about 1859
Text:

Also included in this manuscript is a draft of That Shadow My Likeness, first published in New-York Saturday

This poem later appeared as Calamus No. 40, Leaves of Grass (1860); as That Shadow My Likeness, Leaves

What babble is this about

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1867
Text:

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

A similar line in that poem reads: "O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged!

I entertain all the aches

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
Text:

Compare these lines from that edition: "I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer

The Elder Brother of the

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
Text:

Grass, ultimately titled Song of Myself: "And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my

I have found my authority here

  • Date: about 1879
Text:

Richard Maurice Bucke, one of his literary executorsI have found my authority hereabout 1879prose1 leafhandwritten

I have found my authority here

Go, said his Soul to a Poet.

  • Date: 1870-1874
Text:

Poet.1870-1874poetry1 leafhandwritten; Annotated draft of the untitled poem that begins Come, said my

Interpolation Sounds

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried

The Pallid Wreath

  • Date: 1891
Text:

The Pallid Wreath, which was published in the Critic 18 (10 January 1891) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

[Then Another and very grave point]

  • Date: 1890–1891
Text:

before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]

My own visits and distributions

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

My own visits and distributions

Have you known that your

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

Remember how many pass their

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

born at all is equally

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in Who Learns My

airscud

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete

something that presents the sentiment

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

The first several lines of that poem were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American

Old Age Echoes

  • Date: 1889-1891
Text:

Echoes cluster, first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My

The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to Good-Bye My Fancy and to Sounds of

Have I no word for thee

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My

The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word

[The Epos of a Life]

  • Date: 1865–1871
Text:

prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
Text:

first several lines of that poem (not including the line in question) were revised and published as My

Inscription To the Reader at the entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My

Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass

Inscription at the entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My

Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass

First, to me

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

The essay was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) before finally being collected in Complete Prose

In general civilization

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy

O Captain! My Captain!

  • Date: 27 April 1890
Text:

pml.00002xxx.00218MA 1212O Captain! My Captain!27 April 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf; O Captain!

My Captain!

Mitchell's hand says, "To give Walt a little money I offered for a gentleman 100$ for an autograph copy of My

Captain—I pin it to Furness note April 1890."

O Captain! My Captain!

American Poets

  • Date: 1850–1891
Text:

Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My

[Returned from my four months]

  • Date: 1879–1882
Text:

pri.00035xxx.00808[Returned from my four months]1879–1882prose1 leafhandwritten; A short note in which

[Returned from my four months]

[In the main I]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American National Literature, first published in Good-Bye My

Shakspere's Cipher

  • Date: 1887–1891
Text:

Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

Old Chants

  • Date: ca. 1891
Text:

Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

For Queen Victoria's Birth-Day

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

leaveshandwritten; Lightly revised printer's copy of For Queen Victoria's Birthday, which was published in Good-Bye My

On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Manuscript

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

, a poem first published in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Manuscript

Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht

  • Date: 1890
Text:

bv6tex.00067xxx.00380Good-bye My Fancy: Sail out for Good, Eidólon YachtSail out for good, Eidólon yacht1890poetry1

It was reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

?To the ?sunset Breeze

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called

To the sunset breeze

  • Date: 1889
Text:

which was published in Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My

Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves

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