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[Oh captain! My captain!] O Captain! My Captain! Allá á lo lejos... [Far off...]

, turning sweetly towards me, You half-opened my shirt, plunging your tongue inside my chest unto my

dog and my gun by my side.

We came alongside at once, the ships' yards entangled, the cannons touched, My captain took part in the

I let forth a laugh as I hear the voice of my captain answer loudly: No! We do not lower it!

Antonio Troiano, O capitano mio capitano (Crocetti 1990), betrays the influence had on this volume ("O Captain

My Captain!"

so, Poet-Prophet Beside your song, Rising to join it, a new chant: —the chant of the anxious soul of my

He had not heard Whitman's advice in "Song of Myself" that "he most honors my style who learns under

In Lincoln Whitman incarnated his concept of the "redeemer" of the Americans, of the "captain," of the

"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a

position for the present, I will ask leave to begin these Notes with such hints of the character of my

father and mother and of my own childhood as may at least help "The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol" one of

my favorite stories WW WALT WHITMAN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. 32 Transcribed from our digital image of the

well fortified does he think himself in his cobweb Gibraltar, that he blandly imagines the force of my

passionate, well-wishing, which I felt then, and feel to this hour, the gratitude and reverence of my

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were

as a statement “of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my

On the contrary, without waiting to understand what he has read, he talks about my letter to you being

Where Whitman had written "my Mississippi" or "prairies in Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri,

All my free time was devoted to memorizing the self-tutor as if this were my sole salvation.

I had broken completely with my family.

I opened at random and read: My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, I skirt sierras

, my palms cover continents, I am afoot with my vision . . .

She has generously acceded to my request.

There is nothing in him that I shall ever let go my hold of.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.

"O the life of my senses and flesh, transcending my senses and flesh!"

"What I am, I am of my body; and what I shall be, I shall be of my body."

In this affair of the clerkship, my friend Mr. Stedman has already printed his disclaimer.

Three months later, in a pamphlet, I did my best to secure for the infamy of Mr.

But it is not my fault if the last fortnight's journals reaching Mr.

My regard for the work antedates by several years my acquaintance with the author, and no one can justly

It was morning in the world with me when I first read those mighty pages, and felt to my imnest soul

and think, 'Well, this great thing has been, and all that is now left of it is the feeble print upon my

brain, the little th rill which memory will send along my nerves, mine and my neighbours'; as we live

reading them, can be attached to their opinion at page 8 of the report R OBERT S PENCER OBINSON In my

radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me , to my

This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightest not lose

these documents his deep and abiding fascination with the place that he repeatedly called, simply, "my

"I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city," that poem begins: and behold!

there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my

For example, this manuscript is seemingly the first time that Whitman refers to New York as "my city.

my city!" And its fifth and final usage in 1860 comes in the volume's concluding poem, "So long!"

"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.

James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,

the details of an outrage so sigual in its character and so sinister in its bearings as to become, in my

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New-York to pay you

my respects.

Edition This little Treatise is extracted from a more extensive work, undertaken without consulting my

—In this research it will be my constant endeavor to ally that which the right perm its , with that which

—When a robber surprises me in a forest, I must surrender my purse to force,—but when I can regain it

—My first question returns. Chapter 4th.

railroads— The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my

through swamps warm land,—sunny land, the fiery land, the rich‑blooded land, in hot quick‑mettled land, my

Song Always the South, the Dear to me the sunny land, sweet land, the silvery land my land, wild generous

start the old cautious hucksters, The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my

son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai, In my

Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed, The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my

"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest, Allah is all, all, all—is immanent

Anonymous, "Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

For today, my work is done. It is growing dusky.

, Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to muse

"My lovers suffocate me . . . thick in the pores of my skin."

I sit, my gaze directed to my world map. I sing the ocean, the mother of the earth.

This is what my taste tastes. . . .

onward 10 years Goethe —(reading Carlyle's criticisms on Goethe.) over leaf Here is now, (January 1856) my

—THE SUN. 1 O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers!

"My own opinion is that myriads of superior works have been lost—superior to existing works in every

From Contemporary Notes by George Joseph Bell." 1878 February 1878 or later "In my reading, elocution

radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me, to my

marginal note responds to Mazzini's advice about maintaining tranqulity in adversity with "Remember my

exist") wofür ich da bin ("what I am there for") die Frage nach meiner Bestimmung ("the question of my

destiny") wer ich sei ("who I am/may be") was ich tauge ("what I am good for" | "what my worth is")

I know it is attainable because I experienced brief moments when it almost created itself under my pen

Other Polish responses to Whitman's "Poets to Come" besides translations In my research into Polish readings

letter to Viscount St Albans calling Bacon saying "the most prodigious wit that ever I knew of any my

ultimately, they all served, in various ways, the poet's ambitious agenda, by which, "with the twirl of my

As he once told Edward Carpenter: "There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!