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The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

Text:

Pasted on p. 19, newspaper article titled "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr. Ball's Mill."

1861.

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

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

1861

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

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

American Feuillage.

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

miles; The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombig- bee Tombigbee , the Red River

American Feuillage

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

eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay- coast bay-coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

, atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Broad-Axe Poem.

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

, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prai- ries prairies , Welcome the rich borders of rivers

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river

vast frame- works frameworks , girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

idler, citizen, country- man countryman , Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

A Broadway Pageant.

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

crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

A Broadway Pageant.

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

from the Altay moun- tains mountains , From Thibet Tibet , from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

A Broadway Pageant.

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

from the Altay moun- tains mountains , From Thibet Tibet , from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)

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

crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

Burial

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

without eye-sight lingers a different living, and looks curiously on the corpse. 3 To think that the rivers

now President shall surely be buried. 4 Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Burial

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

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Burial Poem.

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

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

the mothers of families, Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

the mothers of families, Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Calamus 5

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

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

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine.

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

and hope continuing on the same, Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; Of you, my Land—your rivers

Carol of Occupations.

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

native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river-banks—men

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

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

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

The Centenarian's Story

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

Chants Democratic

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

sweet potato, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers

gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone Yellowstone river—dwellers

sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Chants Democratic

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

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by river

Chants Democratic

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay- coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

, atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Chants Democratic and Native American 1

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

geography, cities, beginnings, events, glories, defections, diversities, vocal in him, Making its rivers

families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air— I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Chants Democratic and Native American 11

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

journeying hence to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Chants Democratic and Native American 12

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

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Chants Democratic and Native American 18

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

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1881)

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1891)

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

Cluster: Bathed in War's Perfume. (1871)

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

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

Cluster: Birds of Passage. (1881)

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

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

Cluster: Birds of Passage. (1891)

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

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1881)

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: Calamus. (1860)

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

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

Cluster: Calamus. (1871)

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

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

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1891)

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

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

geography, cities, beginnings, events, glories, defections, diversities, vocal in him, Making its rivers

families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air— I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

sweet potato, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay- coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

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