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Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Young and active men recoiled from the unpleasant duty of going across the river at that late hour, and

genial sympathies, a jolly host, a welcome guest, a man of his word, ranking high one side of the river

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 2

  • Date: 21 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

prefer water to land, since he derives both his income and his pleasures from the rolling deep of the river

Wicked Architecture

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

In New York, closed in by rivers, pressing desperately toward the business center at its southern end

observations about the growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River

Fifth Avenue, Fourteenth Street, from river to river, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets and indeed

What Williamsburg Wants

  • Date: 15 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and intellectual food to our young men, and save the best of them from the necessity of crossing the river

What They Want

  • Date: 12 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

that which is now disturbing the peace and endangering the safety of the great metropolis across the river

[We proceed this morning to]

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

For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing

We

  • Date: 9 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Though we do not expect to set the North river on fire, we are free to confess, without vanity, that

Washington in the Hot Season

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

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

Walt Whitman's Fiction: A Bibliography

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

A Chronicle of New York The Hudson River Chronicle Sing-Sing, NY December 19, 1843 [1] [Unsigned] The

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

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

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

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

Through Fourteenth street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

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

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

These Splendid Nights!

  • Date: 17 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You can walk out toward the suburbs, or cross the river, or even promenade the flagged sidewalks, with

Or, if you prefer, you can take a bath in the river. Then sleep is such a pleasure, these nights!

The Telegraph in Williamsburgh

  • Date: 9 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

established telegraphic communication between New York and Brooklyn by a submarine cable across the river

Swill Milk

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

the children than in any similar district in the city of New York or Brooklyn where milk from the river

exposed to heat, and a churning-jolting for twenty-four or thirty-six hours (as the milk from the river

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 9]

  • Date: 24 November 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

any doubt, when Chaos had his acquaintance cut, and the morning stars sang together, and the little rivers

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Far in the north, among mountains of snow and rivers of ice, I sought what alone could gratify me.

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 6]

  • Date: 11 August 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the contrast between the drying up of some clear and narrow brook, and the extinction of an inland river

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 1]

  • Date: 29 February 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, and to rest his limbs, allows them to float drowsily and unresistingly on the bosom of the sunny river

Steam on Atlantic Street

  • Date: 11 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their iron brothers, and scarcely move a muscle at their shrillest whistle; and so the miraculous river

A Southside View of Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

population a most moral and virtuous people; we frequently volunteer advice to our sister city across the river

Something Worth Perusal

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was a cheerful sight, that river.

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

basement—perhaps she still lives there—in one of the streets leading down from B ROADWAY to the North river

an aged black woman, a widow, occupied a basement in one of the streets leading down to the North river

Smiling

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: January 4, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the engineer was developed in the following extracts: "The Tide Canal, from Wallabout Bay, through River

The uncertainty with respect to the ultimate construction of this Canal in River street, will not affect

The grade of River street, at the intersection with Broadway or Division avenue, is 10 feet above high

It is proposed to construct this sewer 6 feet in diameter for its whole length along River street to

These, with a 4 feet brick sewer in Broadway, extending from Lynch street to River street, about 450

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: 18 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river

The Season of Accidents

  • Date: 27 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Boys, not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river where there are dangerous

Rowdyism

  • Date: 16 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to our mammoth neighbor across the river

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river

At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off, he could see a gleam of the Hudson river—and above it, a spur of those rugged cliffs

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

The Public Lands

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

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

Public Baths

  • Date: 27 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

The Police and Fire Telegraph

  • Date: 10 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

after connecting Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, to Astoria, and thence by a submarine cable across the river

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel-staves

Through Fourteenth-street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

Our New Brooklyn Arsenal, and Its Reminiscences

  • Date: 23 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

It was a fine summer walk, or drive, having fields on one side, and the river on the other.

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

The Opera in Brooklyn

  • Date: 10 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

The Ocean

  • Date: 21 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers

up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers

You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester

It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7

The water is of the purest kind of river water.

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

A Northern Pacific Railroad

  • Date: 17 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to the gold discoveries at Frazer’s River and vicinity.

The Missouri river is navigable to the Great Falls, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellow

Nicaragua

  • Date: 29 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Total force of the Allies, exclusive of 1,200 Costa Ricans, if, as alleged, on the river, 18,000.

, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas on the 1st of May, and 80 surrendered or escaped down the river

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Having gone a year or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road of existence; the river

But athwart this river is a viaduct, called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to

the valleys of "Old Age," round which the river winds, and then flows beyond without a boat or causeaway

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

nation of swimmers; although our coast of sea, bay, and inlet includes thousands of miles, and lakes, rivers

[New York Atlas, 12 December 1858]

  • Date: 12 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Not that we wish to see you take to the woods or rivers—for we think you can attain all the desired results

New Publications

  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

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