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my Captain!
O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain!
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 mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
I made a call upon Captain Green, one of the vice-presidents of the Penn.
calmly: As at thy portals also, death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my
Among my earliest indiscretions was Walt Whitman.
fame and no peril to my immortal soul, not to speak of my standing in society?
Whitman was the author of the lines, and my quoting them among my earliest indiscretions.
No one can read "My Captain" or "Pioneers" without seeing that there was capacity for music in the man
Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
STARTING NEWSPAPERS (ANOTHER ACCOUNT) Reminiscences —( From the "Camden Courier." )—As I sat taking my
As I cross'd leisurely for an hour in the pleasant night-scene, my young friend's words brought up quite
How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.
My first real venture was the "Long Islander," in my own beautiful town of Huntington, in 1839.
I enjoy'd my journey and Louisiana life much.
Remember me to all my old friends in New York."
My theory has been to equip, equip, equip, from every quarter, my own power, possibility—through science
But my mind is animated by other ideas.
My parents' folks mostly farmers and sailors—on my father's side of English—on my mother (Van Velsor's
—This year lost, by death, my dear, dear mother—and, just before, my sister Martha—(the two best and
"You want to know in a word, then, the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and
as I have tried to put it in my books.
It is only the closest student who would find it in my works.
The sum total of my view of life has always been to humbly accept and thank God for whatever inspiration
The table was set for four, and I, the youngest of the party and the sole representative of my sex, had
for my vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar
I mentioned a name that had more than once come to my mind, as we talked,—Victor Hugo.
My companion assented. I added with enthusiasm, "It has been a perfectly happy day to me, Mr.
My last glimpse of him was in his house at Camden, when he was recovering from a long illness.
My first meeting with Walt Whitman occurred when I was a boy and had occasion to ask for a certain residence
I did not know who or what he was, but on his answering my question I was so struck with the quality
My first visit to him occurred some years later, in the little house on Mickle Street which has been
matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book, "Good Bye My
first met Whitman, beginning a friendship that will always form one of the pleasantest memories of my
The task in question, however, would naturally have fallen to my colleague and intimate friend, Frederic
before, I believe—he dropped in upon Guernsey at the Herald and introduced himself with the words: "My
Making known my errand, he greeted me cordially.
"In the moral, emotional, heroic, and human growths (the main of a race in my opinion), something of
The moment Garfield came over to our side of the car, I gave him my seat and I took his.