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Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 1]

  • Date: 29 February 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, and to rest his limbs, allows them to float drowsily and unresistingly on the bosom of the sunny river

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 6]

  • Date: 11 August 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the contrast between the drying up of some clear and narrow brook, and the extinction of an inland river

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Far in the north, among mountains of snow and rivers of ice, I sought what alone could gratify me.

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 9]

  • Date: 24 November 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

any doubt, when Chaos had his acquaintance cut, and the morning stars sang together, and the little rivers

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

[We proceed this morning to]

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing

Smiling

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West

Something Worth Perusal

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was a cheerful sight, that river.

The Latest and Grandest Humbug

  • Date: 8 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gradual reduction of duties until the year 1842, when they were to be 20 percent, or under" (Blair and River

We

  • Date: 9 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Though we do not expect to set the North river on fire, we are free to confess, without vanity, that

About Children

  • Date: 16 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One is the drying up of a clear transparent brooklet; and one the quenching of a river, more extensive

Life and Love

  • Date: 20 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

kindness and philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers

The Ocean

  • Date: 21 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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

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

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 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 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

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 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 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

Literary Notices

  • Date: 26 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Paul's from the River,' and the 'Royal Exchange,' are unusually elegant specimens of steel engraving.

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 Literary World

  • Date: 12 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers

Holy Bible—illuminated: Harpers' edition

  • Date: 21 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

On a gentle elevation by the banks of the river flowing through the garden, stands the Human Father,

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

[Among the embellished periodicals]

  • Date: 17 March 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

proprietors of the Pictorial World, to the best artist picturing 'the baptism of Christ, by immersion in the river

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American River

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers

up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers

You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester

It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7

The water is of the purest kind of river water.

Letter X

  • Date: 23 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

STREETS—ARCHITECTURE OF THE LANDING—HOLT'S HOTEL, AND THE BUILDER—THE CLERKS—THE BOAT—VIEW FROM THE RIVER—CROSSING

Fulton Street, stretching from Brooklyn Heights into lower Manhattan separated by the East River, is

Who has crossed the East River and not looked with admiration on the beautiful view afforded from the

She too, has her high banks, and they show admirably from the river.

Soon, now, will come the time for big cakes of ice in 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.

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

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

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

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

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

Letter. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

recitations, amusements, will then not be disregarded, any more than our perennial fields, mines, rivers

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

near the cot- ton-wood cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

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

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

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Poem of Salutation.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

I see the long thick river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows, I see where the Columbia

winds, I think, you waters, I have fingered every shore with you, I think I have run through what any river

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Broad-Axe Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prai- ries prairies , Welcome the rich borders of rivers

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

vast frame- works frameworks , girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

idler, citizen, country- man countryman , Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Poem of the Body.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body or another person's body, The circling rivers

Poem of Many in One.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

geography, cities, beginnings, events, glories, defections, diversities, vocal in him, Making its rivers

families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air, I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

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