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He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

"His spirit responds to his country's spirit; he incarnates its geography and natural life, and rivers

sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of the woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within; We

wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Then was the time when it was his passion to sail the East River to and fro in the ferry boats, "often

Or again (p. 132): It was a happy thought to build the Hudson river railroad right along the shore.

tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

The whole river is now spread with it—some immense cakes.

It is a funeral piece— Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf-posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight down- ward downward falling, Till o'er the river

variety of meters suited to every slightest change of sentiment, here lilting like a smooth flowing river

chords left as by vast composers [gap] You formless, tree, religious dan[gap] Orient, You undertone of rivers

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river

, manfully, and appositely expressed—and a filibuster-like daring running, like a strong, vigorous river

The text of I855 is a river of lava.

How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!

See Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," in Works (River side ed., I894), Vol. X. 107.

Insert natural things, indestructibles, idioms, charac teristics, rivers, states, persons, etc.

Rivers 22 studied Whitman's case scientifically and dispassionately.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod.

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

This quotation is taken from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

spirit responds to his country’s spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red United States and States United : 75 river, or

gone down the American river!

Rivers, Walt Whitman’s Anomaly (London: George Allen, 1913), 9.

Gere, an East River ferry captain, recalled that Whitman would regale pas- sengers with Shakespearean

scalpelonseveredcarotid currentofmillionsofveins capillariessonoroustributariesofthe GREAT FUTURE RIVER

Bettertobeabeggar,avagabond.”[...]ThatsummerIspentanhour or two at the river every morning. [. . .]

WheneverIspentthenoonsweatingintheboat, then the restofthedaymybloodwouldstayfresh,invigoratedbymy plunge into the river

Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology has been extremely popular in Italy since 1943, whenthefirsttranslation

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

3/ of a pound, so there must have been the blood of 1000 men coloring the waters of our beautiful river

marked by considerable con- fusion and casualties from friendly fire in woods south of the Rapidan River

Croly and George Wakeman, Miscegenation (1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970), 18–19

Miscegenation.1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. Cushman, Stephen.

A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers.

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, my rivers

green leaves of the trees pro- lific prolific In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers

recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek, twelve or thirteen miles from where it enters the Delaware river

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river