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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

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

Following the Ohio River along the newly settled states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, still

This river, which together with its tributaries supplies half of the arable land of the United States

contradicting any Zeitgeist, just like myself, I see the skyline of the large banks in Frankfurt on the 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!

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

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Croton Dam, originally built in 1842 on the Croton River, was the first clean water system in New

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The situation is high, and overlooks the North River.

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through Fourteenth street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as unfit for sea purposes—which hulks the invading British army brought round and anchored in our river

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Hudson River is named for him. in these waters, our time does not now admit.

carrying out and extension of the wharves and piers on both the New York and Brooklyn sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 9

  • Date: 1 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

desired to attend the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergyman, on the Sabbath, had to cross the river

regular and full, and had many accessions from Flatbush, Gravesend, and from New Amsterdam, across the river

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

Brooklyniana, No. 14

  • Date: 8 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were, the majority of them, so near the Old Ferry, that water was relied upon to be obtained from the river

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was sent over in "a small Norsey-Barque of 25 tons," to begin a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river

Brooklyniana, No. 3

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These fronted toward the South, and had large gardens, sloping northward down to the river, of which

Brooklyniana, No.36

  • Date: 20 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hudson entered here and discovered the North River, Long Island, and what is now New York island.

hundred European settlers in the colony, including those on Manhattan Island, and on this side of the river

Letters from Paumanok

  • Date: 14 August 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sails of sloops bellied gracefully upon the river, with mellower light and deepened shadows.

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