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Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

table, against the wall, in the little apartment on Balcarce street whose two windows open onto the River

Poetry ], Ezra Pound's "Cantos"; then Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"; and around 1915 Lee Masters's Spoon River

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

de Erza Ezra Pound; luego los “Poemas de Chicago” de Sandburg; y hacia 1915 la Antología de “Spoon River

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

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

About the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

Daily Times in 1848, a local newspaper for residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River

Whitman in the British Isles

  • Creator(s): M. Wynn Thomas
Text:

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

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

"Flood-tide of the river, flow on!

the ideal, of the same order as Blake's Albion and Jerusalem; and Whitman is rhapsodizing over the rivers

ghosts of Whitman's ferry: their images Crowding the enfilade of steel and stone Have the whole East River

Leviathan, Yggdrasil, Earth Titan, Eagle: Balʹmont's Reimagining of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Martin Bidney
Text:

is to see Whitman as Behemoth, wallowing in primeval jungles, bathing at fountain-heads, of mighty rivers

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) reigned in River Plate literature

" (from "Salut Au Monde"), and again, later in the same poem, "I see the Amazon and the Paraguay [rivers

]" to "I see the Amazon, the Paraguay, the River Plate" ( , 359).

Twenty-eight youths bathe in the river.

Land of rays and shadows, peppering Literally, snowing upon. the river waves!

Introduction to Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas

  • Creator(s): Rachel Price | Matt Cohen
Text:

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) had reigned in River Plate literature

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

The headline reads: "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr.

Walt Whitmans Werk [1922]

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Reisiger, Hans, 1884–1968
Text:

Nacht darauf führt Washington den Rest seiner geschlagenen Truppen im Schutze des Nebels über den East River

Long Island, während der folgenden Jahre anschwellen und sich mit dem gegenüber, jenseits des East River

About "The Love of the Four Students: A Chronicle of New York"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

Ten days later, on December 19, 1843, it appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY), and

A Chronicle of New-York," The Hudson River Chronicle , December 19, 1843, [1]; "The Love of the Four

Walt Whitman's Fiction: A Bibliography

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

A Chronicle of New York The Hudson River Chronicle Sing-Sing, NY December 19, 1843 [1] [Unsigned] The

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri," Bal'mont had preferred some all-inclusive phrase, such as "rivers

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

Memoranda During the War

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

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

And how full of breadth is the scenery, everywhere with distant mountains, everywhere convenient rivers

There were nearly 200 of them, come up yesterday by boat from James River.

Complete Prose Works

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Delaware River—Days and Nights.....Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights, . . .

DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS. April 5, 1879.

HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS.

SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER. Sept. 3 .

UNFULFILL'D WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Drum-Taps (1865)

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

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The river and bay scenery, all about New York island, any time of a fine day—the hurrying, splashing

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

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

The Last of the Sacred Army

  • Date: March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The swamps of Santee" may refer to the fighting that took place near the Santee River in South Carolina

A Legend of Life and Love

  • Date: July 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Upon the banks of a pleasant river stood a cottage, the residence of an ancient man whose limbs were

up from opposite directions, and stood together at a tomb built on a hill by the borders of a fair river

A boy again, and in the confiding heart of a boy, I walk with Eva by the river's banks.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

through, so small was it—and gazed forth upon the land, and the trees, and a small strip of the bright river

gestures of wonder—and then both hurried away toward a path which led from the village along the river's

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through the trees he occasionally caught glimpses of a majestic river; on the opposite bank of which

The gentle Violet and her son would frequently recreate themselves with a sail upon the river which passed

Thus it was: Evening had began to sprinkle her hue of gloom on the trees and the river.

Violet and her son were floating idly along the current of the river, in their boat, toward home.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

The Boy-Lover

  • Date: May 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

clients was an elderly widow, a foreigner." who kept a little ale-house, on the banks of the North River

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long low piazza looking out upon the river

They would not bury him in the city, but away—by the solitary banks of the Hudson; The Hudson River flows

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 5, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The young men made themselves a rude raft, and were floating down the river toward their destination—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 3, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens on the river, and

He pushed open, a small, swinging door, and stood a few minutes gazing over the river, in the direction

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A little and verdant grass-patch, only, intervened between them and the river, which the dwelling fronted

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river where they

The child, then small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and Arrow-Tip had dashed into the foaming

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

I lay upon the ground, on a pier jutting out into the river.

I raised myself on my hands and knees, and my first thought was to throw myself over into the river,

Starting at one of the eastern wharves, is a street running up from the river—a narrow, dirty street,

My walk skirted the banks of the river.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 17, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The house of P ETER B ROWN was situated at one end of the village, near the river, in a pleasant place

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river, where they

The child, then quite small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and A RROW -T IP had dashed into

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens toward the river,

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off, he could see a gleam of the Hudson river—and above it, a spur of those rugged cliffs

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

basement—perhaps she still lives there—in one of the streets leading down from B ROADWAY to the North river

an aged black woman, a widow, occupied a basement in one of the streets leading down to the North river

The Love of the Four Students

  • Date: December 9, 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

found that she was a Swiss immigrant, a widow, and kept a little ale-house on the banks of the North river

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long, low piazza looking out upon the river

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river

At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

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

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

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

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

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

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

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

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

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

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

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

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

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

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

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Leaves of Grass, "There Was a Child Went Forth Every"

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

the huge crossing at the ferries; The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river

American Feuillage.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombig- bee Tombigbee , the Red River

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sweet potato; Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies; Welcome the rich borders of rivers

friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river—dwellers

bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches; Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river

Me Imperturbe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

11 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Carol of Occupations.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river-banks—men

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