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literati, and preachers famousandobscure,asteadystreamofvisitorsfromallovertohissmallhouse across the river

John Newton married young, and moved across the river to a 160-acre plantation.

, and re- turned to a war-torn county whose seat, Guntersville, had been burned to the ground in a river

He died young, drowned in the Oktahutche River (about which he had written many a poetic verse), some

name as “meeting place by the rapid water.” http://www.tourismsarnialambton.com/communities/st-clair-river

as far ahead of “the fat gentleman in striped trousers,” as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

wereneverpublishedinnewspapersormagazines;however,they appear in Specimen Days from sections “Swallows on the River

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

often–Mrs O’C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially–spent an hour down by the Delaware river

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

A young man stands at the Delaware River’s edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

burning, aching, “resistless,” emphatically physical yearning for young men (see “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Commune and “From the Genius of Liberty,” 215 Leaves of Grass (1870–71), 145–60; “From Pent- Up A ching Rivers

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

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

“I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the rivers of America . . .

Hence the poem’s great concluding benediction on time’s pro- cess: “Flow on, river!

My mighty Yangtse River in the south! Good morning! My icy Yellow River in the north!

Rivers.

As we drove across the river from Philadelphia into Camden, we were shocked by the slums that seemed

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

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of america, and along the shores of the

57.SeealsoWhitman’sdeletionofthereferenceto“theperfect girl” in “enfans” 2 (“from Pent-Up aching rivers

3/ of a pound, so there must have been the blood of 1000 men coloring the waters of our beautiful river

marked by considerable con- fusion and casualties from friendly fire in woods south of the Rapidan River

Croly and George Wakeman, Miscegenation (1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970), 18–19

Miscegenation.1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. Cushman, Stephen.

A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers.

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

wrote to Abby Price as Meade was unable to slow the Confeder at~ advance across Virginia's Rapidan River

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush ofthese great cities, the unsurpass'd situation, rivers

A young man stands at the Delaware River's edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers ofAmerica, and along the shores ofthe

JA M E S E .M IL L E R , JR . 197 Earth ofshine and dark mottling the tide ofthe river!

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

posed a problem for the plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dam the Little Tennessee River

The sense that something valuable had been lost in the Tellico Valley with its little river and fertile

Unlike a boat or even a bridge, the dam interferes with the very "riverness" of the Rhine.

Like the undammed river, the soul flows and may flood unexpectedly.

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

chapter on Philadelphia, another city with a large Irish population and located just across the Delaware River

The Irishman took the Germans to the boat and saw them safely across the river, where, with no common

asks its subject, 36 : the american 1848 Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river

are overlaid with foreign ones: “[h]ills became mountains and dales valleys, streams were called rivers

” by “men of truly proper style” like Duy- ckinck.88 For Whitman to flee the perfumed salon for the river

Cloud and traveled down the Ohio River.

Another train took them to Albany, and from there they traveled by boat down the Hudson River to New

Clair River and on the Canada-Michigan border fifty-five miles northeast of Detroit.

proceeded to Quebec, and the next day continued 134 miles to Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay River

A steamboat took them up that river to Chicoutimi and Ha Ha Bay, then back again to Quebec on the eighth

parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, and then by government steamer up the Potomac River

scalpelonseveredcarotid currentofmillionsofveins capillariessonoroustributariesofthe GREAT FUTURE RIVER

Bettertobeabeggar,avagabond.”[...]ThatsummerIspentanhour or two at the river every morning. [. . .]

WheneverIspentthenoonsweatingintheboat, then the restofthedaymybloodwouldstayfresh,invigoratedbymy plunge into the river

Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology has been extremely popular in Italy since 1943, whenthefirsttranslation

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod.

.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

Hopple and ball at ancles, and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

has many realistic and symbolic links to other early poems: the "old stagedriver" to "Occupations," river

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

that, therefore, there is a constancy to human experience that transcends time:To think that the rivers

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

process that inheres alsowithintheoriginalJacksoniantrope:“Asthebreezef’mthemountain sweeps over the river

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

The immensity of the mountains and rivers themselves match, for Whitman, the immensity of the democratic

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

far ahead of "the fat gentle man in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

I was out early taking a short walk by the river-only two squares from where I live.

H .-28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivat ing wild region, by Vermont Central R.

The river steamer Wawassett caught on fire on August 8 on the Potomac River with a frightful loss of

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

Walt loved living close to the East River, where as a child he rode the ferries back and forth to New

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

strengthen it, conjuring and multiplying "the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms" ("Pent-up Aching Rivers

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

When New England was covered with extensive systems of river-powered textile mills, and even Emerson’

Considering midcentury environmental discussions, Whitman’s con- cluding call “Flow on, river!

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

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West.

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence