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Walt Whitmans Werk [1922]

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

Die Gattin des Majors und Mutter Louisas war Naomi Williams.

Sie war ein Kind des großen wallisischen Geschlechts der Williams, das seit alters der Seefahrt verschworen

Ihr Vater, Kapitän John Williams, fand seinen Tod in der See. Ebenso sein einziger Sohn.

Inbrünstiger sicherlich auch als die von alters landsässigen Whitmans hatten diese Williams sich dem

Einsamkeiten des Weltmeers zu einem um so innigeren Besitz geworden sein, wenngleich der Kapitän John Williams

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

By the time he became acquainted with Whitman's poetry through William Rossetti's British edition of

It was facilitated by Whitman's friends, probably under the aegis of William D.

The translators were an unlikely team—Thomas William Rolleston (1857–1920) was an Irish nationalist and

He is also a prominent translator of American dramatists (among them Williams, Miller, and Wilder).

And four voices under the high white hats reply: "Et c'est bon!" . . .

"Leaving it to you to prove and define": "Poets to Come" and Whitman's German Translators

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig | Vanessa Steinroetter
Text:

educator, scholar, and philologist Karl Knortz (1841–1918) and the politicized man of letters Thomas William

Gems from Walt Whitman

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

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Memoranda During the War

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

The White House by Moonlight — . 24.—A spell of fine soft weather.

—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams

There are fires in large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is reliev'd by some ornaments,

Williams, age 21, 3d Va. Cavalry.

Father, John Williams, Millensport, Ohio. 9–10.

Complete Prose Works

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

My old pilot friends, the Balsirs, Johnny Cole, Ira Smith, William White, and my young ferry friend,

—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams

One Delaware soldier, William H.

Williams, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry.

White, however, is the prevailing color.

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

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

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

Drum-Taps (1865)

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

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

Folhas de Relva

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Carlos II, emigraram em massa para os Estados Unidos, onde, em 1681, criaram, sob a liderança de William

A indignação de seus amigos se fez sentir nos meios políticos: William Douglas O’Connor publicou o combativo

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

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

SELECTED AND EDITED WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.

TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT.

with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Written by William Shakespeare, 1600.

By the late William Makepeace Thackeray.

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

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

Visiting him now in his quiet home in Camden, New Jersey, one would find a white-haired venerable man

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

The Child's Champion

  • Date: November 20, 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She who sat on the door-step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress though

The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist

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

"The old occupants of this place," continued the white-haired narrator, "were well off in the world,

His cheeks were white with excitement; ferocity gleamed in every look and limb; and the frightened Gills

"All white!"

continued the miserable, conscience-stricken creature; "all white, and with the grave-clothes around

The Tomb-Blossoms

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

I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a

White hairs, and pale blossoms, and stone tablets of Death!

The Last of the Sacred Army

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

length of years seldom vouchsafed to his kind; and his head was thinly covered with hair of a silvery whiteness

assured him I was not jesting, he began telling me of former times, and how it came to be that this white-haired

In a short time, as the white-haired ancient was out of sight, the square was cleared, and I stood in

The Angel of Tears

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

clouds about him, might not be contemned condemned , even by the Princes of the Nighest Circle to the White

Swaying above the prostrate mortal, the Spirit bends his white neck, and his face is shaded by the curls

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Learning far out of an open window, appeared a white draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

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

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

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

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The Fireman's Dream

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

I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.

They had heard of the tricks of the cunning savages to lure the whites to destruction; and were somewhat

Sometimes I think that my tribe might have been destroyed in war, either with the whites or with people

The Death of Wind-Foot

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

HREE hundred years ago—so heard I the tale, not long since, from the mouth of one educated like a white

Dumb Kate.—an Early Death

  • Date: May 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There stands a little white stone at the head, and the grass In Collect , "the grass" is replaced by

Eris; A Spirit Record

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

themselves might well be drunken to gaze thereon—with fleecy robes that but half apparel a maddening whiteness

The delicate ones bent their necks, and shook as if a chill blast had swept by—and white robes were drawn

The Little Sleighers. A Sketch of a Winter Morning on the Battery

  • Date: September 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This huge, white sheet, glancing back a kind of impudent defiance to the sun, which shone sharply the

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:

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

The Boy-Lover

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

We took our seats round the same clean, white table, and received our favorite beverage in the same bright

placid face, and the same untrembling fingers—him that seventh day saw a clay-cold corpse, shrouded in white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

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

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dame a drink of water, he, ten months afterwards, frightened the woman half to death, by wrapping a white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

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

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

He and a younger brother, named from his swiftness the Deer, frequently had intercourse with the white

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

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

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

The epigraph is stanzas xxx–xxxi from "The Ages," by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878); the lines appear

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

One of them, I noticed, had the figure of a fair female, robed in pure white.

Annotations Text:

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

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

  • Date: November 19, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

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

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

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

Death in the School-Room. A Fact.

  • Date: August 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The perspiration ran down his white forehead like rain-drops. "Speak, sir!"

His countenance turned to a leaden whiteness; the ratan dropped from his grasp; and his eyes, stretched

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

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Arrow-Tip

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

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites!" A RROW -T IP smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of these white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

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

What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The Child and the Profligate

  • Date: October 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These versions are described in William G.

She who sat on the door step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress, though

Some Fact-Romances

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

Austen, Wilmerding and Co., auctioneers, were located at 30 Exchange Street, corner of William."

turned by melo-dramas and the J ACK S HEPPARD Jack Sheppard was a popular nineteenth-century novel by William

The Love of the Four Students

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

We took our seats round the same clean white table, and received our liquor in the same bright tankards

Richard Parker's Widow

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

Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Annotations Text:

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem

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

At the word, the white vestments wherewith they had bound S HIRVAL began to move.

His limbs felt the wondrous impulse—he rose, and stood up among them, wrapped in his shroud and the white

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the northerner from the southerner, the white from

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White endpapers.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

White endpapers.

Annotations Text:

White endpapers.

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

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

sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day, And leaves for me baskets covered with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

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

sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are; The President is up there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

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

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray

and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened: The white

I see his white body . . . .

with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall

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