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the cold ground with forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd veiled in your old white

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

William Hawley Smith Our transcription is based on a photocopy of an original issue.

the sporting event to sit in admiration of a clump of green trees that outlined themselves against a white

"How the white background sets off the many shades of the green leaves!"

, and this the poet has always been, that the "Whit" may either be the Saxon "wit" or "wisdom" or "white

" in the sense of his being a "white" man, but that the essence of the whole name lies in the last syllable

William H. Garrison . Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

might have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white

The poet's hair and whiskers were fleecy, shining, white and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

The poet's hair and beard were fleecy, shining, white, and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

public reception room, a large, tall, strongly-built man, with a tanned and scarlet face, plenteous white

the suggestion of the President, and sitting near a window draught, he unhesitatingly put on his old white

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

unfortunate polar bear is always present, which is strangely in keeping with his long-flowing, silky white

cut according to his own fancy shockingly contrary to the very stiff and prim usage of the time, his white

as we faced the opposite bank of the stream, for a long distance it was broadly bordered in creamy white

and delicate, a complexion of florid and trans-parent pink,—its hue being heightened by the snowy whiteness

The floor is partly uncarpeted, and the furniture is of the simplest; his bed, covered by a white counterpane

and beloved among actors; for many of the famous figures of the American stage have known it, and William

William T.

Passing under some arc-lights in the street, on our way back from the theatre, he remarked: "This white

A most scathing letter from William Douglas O'Connor was published, consigning Mr.

Probably the most intimate and devoted of Whitman's younger friends in Boston was William Sloane Kennedy

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

against draughts, he had wrapped a shawl of an Oriental pattern around his shoulders, and with his white

The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble

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

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

blue-grey shirt, his iron-grey hair, his swart sun-burnt face and bare neck, he lay upon the brown-and-white

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist, in this way.

One day William O'Connor and I were coming along and we met Gurowski.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and beard, and he coughs 'ugh! ugh!

After leaving her I met Horace by appointment and we called on Talcott Williams at the Press office.

Frank Williams and we four." W. "And what did you do?" I said we had had dinner and talked, etc. W.

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

table Henry Clapp, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O'Brien, Ned Wilkins, George Arnold, Sheppard, Gardette, William

William Winter was its literary critic.

William Winter came from the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle in 1859.

Our transcription is based on William Shepard, ed., Pen Pictures of Modern Authors (New York: G. P.

Though venerable-looking from his white hair and beard, his paralysis and the extra lameness that has

Moncure Conway and William M.

Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M. Rossetti, W. B. Scott, C. W.

and thus it was that when James Harlan turned him out of the Interior Department, years ago, young William

cachet de pain —[the thin wafers hiding calomel]—is the fragrant red-rose and the tube-rose or the pure white

His great head seen almost in profile, with its lofty and rounded dome, his long white hair and beard

O'Connor—the widow of Whitman's brilliant friends William O'Connor—had also been spending a few days

The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

His hair is long and like his whiskers is of snowy whiteness.

His white shirt was cut in true sailor style, opening low down upon his breast, and with the collar rolled

The whole dress with the white flowing hair and whiskers were suggestive of a nature that one is afterwards

Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

I see he is above the average height, that his hair and beard are long and white as snow, and afterward

body in the style of garments which poets affect, and his expanse of shirt bosom, fastened with a white

on his way without coat, vest, or suspenders, distinguished from afar by the glimpse of a spotless white

I went to him once with William M. Salter.

He likes William Legget's formula, that "the world is governed too much."

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott Williams—Williams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

"I have sometimes felt a little vexed that the good William should have failed to see anything in the

afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

As an orator Vallandigham is the superior, having a fine complexion, large mouth and jaws, white laughing

He is feeling away for that giant steadily, walking in the White House Grounds under the tress, searching

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

The only things that stood out vividly were the white pillow, and the placid face encircled with snowy

This, with its white wolfskin, surmounted the pile like a throne.

always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg—at first sight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse", or Kirkwood, was the third of fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

Philadelphia on those warm evenings) sitting out on the doorsteps—Whitman in the midst, in an armchair, his white

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

It's like beauty; like a handsome person; I've seen 'em them : Negroes, Indians, white, yellow, men,

women, children, babies, short, tall, well, sick, long-haired, short-haired, white-haired, red-haired