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Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City. ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd
me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City. ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd
me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City. ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
ture architecture , customs, and traditions; Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually
met there, who detained me for love of me; Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
ture architecture , customs, and traditions; Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually
met there, who detain'd me for love of me; Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else
A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860) A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the
spit their salutes; When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me— when heaven-clouds canopy my city
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides—to walk in the space
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
ONCE I passed through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
ture architecture , customs, and traditions; Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually
met there, who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together,— All else
Box 884100 Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 The text encoding and text of this introduction were created and/or
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005. Gailey, Amanda.
Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862.
Whitt, Jan, "Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, edited by J. R.
have set for myself to do, to meet people and The States face to face, to confront them with an American
Their shadows are projected in employments, in books, in the cities, in trade; their feet are on the
The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.
First-rate American persons are to be supplied.
There are Thirty-Two States sketched—the population thirty millions.
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the
from your Western golden shores, The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the
from your Western golden shores, The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
or magazines exactly as they were printed here.
Poet," which was published in American Phrenological Journal in October 1855.
For the review, see " An English and American Poet 22 (October 1855): 90–91.
Leaves of Grass Imprints: American and European Criticisms on "Leaves of Grass" .
Boston, Massachusetts: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. ---. "Leaves Droppings." .
Another 196 were bound in paper or boards.
One reason the copies of these books were distinct was because the printed gatherings were not bound
Two stages of what were probably B bindings were noted in December 1855 and January 1856; one of the
Several of the copies were offered for sale at stores in New York and Brooklyn after they were printed
Several of the reviews also were included in the 1860 pamphlet Imprints , produced and promoted by Thayer
the greatest city in the whole world.
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the greatest
city stands.
Were those your vast and solid?
the greatest city in the whole world.
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the greatest
city stands.
Were those your vast and solid?
The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.
The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity
—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records!
The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races.
For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new.
Chants Democratic and Native American 1 1.
incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its geography, cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemmed cities, railroad
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its geography, cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Canada, Arkansas?
Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me! I will confront these shows of the day and night!
Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860) CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
city stands.
American masses!
AMERICAN mouth-songs!
greatest city in the whole world. 5 The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands; Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great
city stands. 6 How beggarly appear arguments, before a defiant deed!
Were those your vast and solid?
greatest city in the whole world. 5 The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is belov'd
city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great
city stands. 6 How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!
greatest city in the whole world. 5 The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards, Where the city stands that is belov'd
city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great
city stands. 6 How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!
ALL day I have walked the city, and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, Of time, space,
deputed atonement, Knows that the young man who composedly perilled his life and lost it, has done exceeding
ALL day I have walked the city and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, Of time, space, reality—of
ment atonement , Knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it, has done exceeding
neck with incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities
The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-dig- ging gold-digging , Wharf-hemm'd cities
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
Underneath all, individuals, I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals, The American
by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me, I will make cities
neck with incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities
The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-dig- ging gold-digging , Wharf-hemm'd cities
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
Underneath all, individuals, I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals, The American
by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me, I will make cities
Do you think the great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state?
greatest city in the whole world. 5 The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands; Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great
city stands. 6 How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
An American bard at last!
Where is the vehement growth of our cities?
Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city
From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET. .
"Were the dark ages poetical?" it will be asked.
Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860) Enfans d'Adam. 1.
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
sons—and in them were the fathers of sons.
A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,
ONCE I passed through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and de- merits demerits , Making its cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children
neck with incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whal- ing whaling , gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to children—saw in
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,
WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting those at that time populous
Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,
WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,
WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,
WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
consisted of the Poems alone—some months afterwards the extracts &c. prefacing the text, as here, were
the manuscripts, and these, along with other clues, suggested to Grier a range of dates during the 1860s
None of the manuscripts were published in Whitman's lifetime, though they share similarities with some
"Introductions Intended or American Editions of 'Leaves of Grass,'" Walt Whitman's Workshop (Cambridge
Cluster: Debris. (1860) DEBRIS.
HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for
to have their chance, In it physique, intellect, faith—in it just as much as to manage an army or a city
where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous
pave- ments pavements ; Dweller in Mannahatta, city of ships, my city—or on southern savannas; Or a
put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And I will report all heroism from an American
ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
the Kanzas, count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children
let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say! why might they not just as well be transposed?)
where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous
pave- ments pavements ; Dweller in Mannahatta, my city—or on southern sa- vannas savannas ; Or a soldier
in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea; And I will report all heroism from an American
ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
the Kansas, count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, cities
where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous
pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my
poems that with you is hero- ism heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American
love, indi- cating indicating it in me, I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American
where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous
pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my
poems that with you is hero- ism heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American
love, indi- cating indicating it in me, I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American
city stands.
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Canada, Arkansas?
I loved well those cities, I loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all
They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.
From the American Phrenological Journal. AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET. LEAVES OF GRASS.
Cluster: Calamus. (1860) CALAMUS. 1.
Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers? By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Away!
CITY of my walks and joys!
Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?
, if I could be with you, and become your lover; Be it as if I were with you.
Chants Democratic and Native American 21 21.
the world—politics, produce, The announcements of recognized things—science, The approved growth of cities
But we too announce solid things, Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not noth- ing nothing
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
ONCE I passed through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
I loved well those cities, I loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all
The beautiful city! the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!