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Year of Meteors (1859-60)

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

signs; I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad; I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Year of Meteors.

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

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

World, Take Good Notice.

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

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

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

World Take Good Notice.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

World, Take Good Notice

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

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

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

A Word Out of the Sea

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! Loud! Loud I call to you my love!

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

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

Woman in the Pulpit—Sermon by Mrs. Lydia Jenkins, Last Night

  • Date: 6 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She was simply but becomingly dressed in white, relieved by black lace, and her appearance altogether

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned

Wicked Architecture

  • Date: 19 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

being, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command," Whitman quotes, albeit with some alteration, William

See George Searle Phillips, Memoirs of William Wordsworth (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852), 197–8.

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!" . . .

Whitman in the British Isles

  • Creator(s): M. Wynn Thomas
Text:

See, for instance, Swinburne's discussion of Whitman in William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: John

Hyder, "Swinburne's 'Changes of Aspect' and Short Notes," PLMA 58 (March 1943): 241; William J.

(Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884); originally published in the Round Table Series 4. 13.

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow of breath as

William Carlos Williams once praised a poem by Marianne Moore as an anthology of transit, presumably

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

William Parry reports that in Baku poems by Whitman were distributed as morale builders to oil workers

"I am both white and black, and belong to every caste—mine is every faith—I am a farmer, gentleman, mechanic

Traubel was fifteen years old when he began to chat occasionally with the white-bearded old poet on the

Whitman in France and Belgium

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976), 14.

Asselineau and White, , 19.

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

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., (Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1972).

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
Text:

that swing and bloom; in your dining room, close to the tiled stove that smells of pine resin and white

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white

class or of his own intellectual caste, of his own region or territorial area, or of his own race of white-skinned

Perhaps his long white hair made him seem paternal or maternal in the eyes of fatally wounded young men

Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: "Poets to Come" in French Translation

  • Creator(s): Éric Athenot | Blake Bronson-Bartlett
Text:

.: "one does not wear white shoes after labor day") in English.

White labor, versus Black labor

  • Date: 25 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White labor, versus Black labor White labor, versus Black labor.

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American White

indeed formed upon the wishes of the people, no doubt or shadow of doubt clouds the prospects of the White

Whipping the Devil Round the Stump

  • Date: 24 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Give us one thing or the other, gentlemen—black, if you will, or white if you will—but not the mulatto

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

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

3 In the door-yard fronting an old farm-house, near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac bush,

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprising; Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men—I saw them; I saw the debris

What's the Row?

  • Date: 28 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the election of 1840, Van Buren lost to William Henry Harrison (1774–1841), a former general during

President William Henry Harrison died from complications of pnuemonia four weeks after taking the oath

What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

[We proceed this morning to]

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

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

Annotations Text:

See: Robert Swan, "Prelude and Aftermath of the Doctors' Riot of 1788: A Religious Interpretation of White

[We have read with attention]

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

William Leete Stone (1793–1844) was described in an 1856 biographical sketch as "the editor and one of

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Annotations Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Waterworks editorials in the Brooklyn Daily Times

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

William White's 1969 bibliography of Whitman's journalism largely replicates this decision.

Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2015 33 1 21–50 White

, William Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography Detroit, MI Wayne State University Press 1969 Written

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House, all the grounds filled, and away out

As the President came out on the capitol portico, a curious little white cloud, the only one in that

Annotations Text:

.; The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

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

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

Edmund Gurney (1847-1888); Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901); Sergei Alexseevich Askol'dov (Alekseev

(Juan Rodríguez Montoya, 1920-2006). some at Modern Spain and the White Review , conserved the sacred

Walt Whitman

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

night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white

Growing among black folks as among white; Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same,

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 bulge to the sun—they do not ask who seizes fast

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run- away runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and

Walt Whitman.

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

night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

of their mothers' laps; And here you are the mothers' laps; This grass is very dark to be from the white

The young men float on their backs—their white bel- lies bellies bulge to the sun—they do not ask who

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

side through the night, and withdraws at 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 bulge to the sun—they do not ask who seizes fast

I believe in those winged purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

Walker Redivivus

  • Date: 11 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was to the effect that General William Walker , at the head of eight hundred filibusters fillibusters

filibuster in character or not—we have very little doubt that the world will yet hear more of General William

The Vth Congressional District—Shall We Re-elect Mr. Maclay?

  • Date: 14 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

State that it did to govern a Slave State, received the cordial and zealous support of the Honorable William

Visit to Plumbe's Gallery

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

Buen, a most venerable white–haired ancient, (we understand, just dead!)

The Veteran's Vision

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

of the rifle balls; I see the shells exploding, leaving small white clouds— I hear the great shells shrieking

The Truant Children Law

  • Date: 21 October 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In a word, are white children, even if born in poverty, to be grabbed by a policeman for no offence?

Tomorrow

  • Date: 11 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

referring to John Tyler, who became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when President William

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!

To Workingmen

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

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is 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

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

To Get Betimes in Boston Town

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

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

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

William "Filibuster" Walker was a doctor, lawyer, and newspaper editor whose nickname stemmed from his

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

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

I step softly over and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the First Maine Cavalry, and

Missouri, Iowa, and all the Western States, temporarily camped here in Sherman's Union Major General William

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

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

There are two or three large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is relieved by some ornaments

O'Connor, the wife of William Douglas O'Connor.

Through the rich August verdure of the trees see that white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts

Harewood Hospital, a model hospital like Judiciary Square and Lincoln, was built on the estate of William

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