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How would it do

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Connecticut large manufactures of clocks, cotton goods, and gutta‑percha, shad fishery of Connecticut river

Maryland Alleghany Mts Cattskills Catskills Valley of the Mohawk Great lakes & small lakes, Susquehannah river

Bay." the falls of Niagara,— The amplitude, ease, and perfect proportions of the scenery— the broad river

Roanoke —500 length Savannah 600 miles Altamaha 500 Alabama 500 the sluggish rivers, flowing over the

White river the Arkansas river 1200 m —the beautiful valleys of the Arkansas and the Washita —a great

[Skirting the river]

  • Date: 1880
Text:

A.MS. drafts.loc.00132xxx.00155[Skirting the river]1880poetryhandwritten1 leaf12.5 x 19 cm; These lines

[Skirting the river]

[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04150xxx.00330[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]about 1885handwrittenpoetry1 leaf3

[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]

[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]

  • Date: between 1850 and 1860
Text:

loc.00038xxx.00053[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]between 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1

[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]

[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

  • Date: 1879–1882
Text:

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04146xxx.00335[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']about 1885handwrittenpoetry1

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Red Mts Madagascar R Cape of Good Hope (8550 miles from New York Rivers—in Africa the Niger 2300 miles

Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River

Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile Senegal , 900 miles, emptying into the Atlantic through Senegambia Orange River

exhalations cities, ignorance, enti altogether unenlightened and unexplored Fellahtas, on the Niger river

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
Text:

nyp.00106xxx.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten

relate to the poem eventually titled Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight.; nyp.00736 Like Earth O River

Sailing Down the Mississippi at Midnight

  • Date: February 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Now drawn nigher the river's rim edge of the river Wierd Weird like creatures suddenly rise m This

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Like Earth O river, you offer us burial Like Existence mortal Life is your aimless hurrying on Like Time

Like Earth O River

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

I am a curse

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rivers.

Rivers.

Rivers.

; Pawtucket River; Patuxet River.

Rivers.

Europe Laplanders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver

Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers

for Sparrows

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

the 22nd bookfor Sparrowsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

Sparrows—Swallows

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

kingSparrows—Swallowsabout 1880prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

New Amsterdam

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Dutch Administration was applied, (as a Province) to "all the tracts, in America adjoining the Hudson river

Sept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wet

  • Date: about 1879
Text:

wind due eastSept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wetabout 1879prose2 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Swallows on the River

Union Union!

  • Date: undated
Text:

reading Old Time Gleanings with the subtitle Reminiscences, Gossip, Traditions, &c. of the Delaware river

Europe

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

.00884xxx.00110MS 12mo 27EuropeBetween 1850 and 1856prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of European rivers

Last of ebb, and daylight waning

  • Date: 1885
Text:

The manuscript has the cancelled title At the Mouth of the River.

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Kentucky

  • Date: about 1861
Text:

On one of the pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning with James E.

The sores on my shoulders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

11 He The sores on my neck shoulders are from his iron necklace I look on the off on the river with my

Old Fellows

  • Date: Around 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(how sunny and florid fresh and good look'd the river, the people, the vehicles, and Market and Arch

The dalliance of the eagles

  • Date: Late 1870s or 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

over and over falling, rolling turning , an pausing revolving circling, falling Over Abo Close to the river

The History of Long Island

  • Date: After 1842; 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Benjamin F. Thompson
Text:

This bay is an irregular sheet of water, into which the Peconic River discharges itself, expanding in

Long Island is bounded on the West party by the Narrows, partly by New-York Bay and the East River, and

Atlantic Ocean, including the islands called the North and South Brother, and Riker's Island in the East River

From the battery to the mouth of Harlaem River, 8 miles, the course is N. N.

At the bend, situated opposite Harlaem River, is the noted pass or strait called Hell Gate, which is

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river

Thou West that gave'st him to us

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers

Generalities

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

They exist in some numbers in the interminable forests of the Gambia river.

The most perfect wonders of

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Caspian sea, Ural river & mts (Asia) South Mediterranean Countries —Iceland, 60,000 —Norway, 1,328,000

Wednesday Evening, June 10

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 31 May 1856; 10 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

grog, which they took in a manner peculiar to themselves—first a cup of whisky, and then a cup of river

Now and then a "specimen" of the by-gone race of river boatmen, who have mostly settled down to farming

Night of south winds

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Topple down upon him

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

Others may praise what they like

  • Date: About 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river

Last of ebb

  • Date: 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward

How gladly we leave the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

charter in these words: "to prevent divers persons from transporting themselves and goods over the river

Now what right had a colonial governor or any body else to prevent any person from crossing the river

The East River is, and always has been a public highway, and it never was in the power of any man or

two hundred feet in width, without the least obstruction to the navigation of the river.

The East River, at the foot of Fulton street, is 2193 feet wide, being nearly half a mile.

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded

Eidólons

  • Date: 1875 or early 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

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

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

Immediately after the discovery of the North River by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Dutch tooks steps to

These works extended down to the river, and back, beyond Fort Green, and from the Wallabout to Gowanus

Whitman and World Cultures

  • Creator(s): Caterina Bernardini
Text:

contributions," and that such a poet must "incarnat[e] [ his country's] geography and natural life and river

Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him. ( 1856, 183–184) In the 1860 edition, his ambition

He is a precursor

  • Date: 1847 or later; May 1847; date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Hogarth | Anonymous
Text:

Marraton sees his wife, whose recent death he is lamenting, standing on the opposite bank of a river.

looks, her hands, her voice, called him over to her, and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river

He plunges, nevertheless, into the stream, and finding it to be nothing but "the phantom of a river,"

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad, every river

The mountains, rivers, forests, and the elements that gird them round about, would be only blank conditions

The former may be as fair or fairer to see; but, as "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • Date: After 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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