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O Captain! My Captain!

  • Date: 4 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O Captain! My Captain!

The Police Imbroglio

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

Yesterday forenoon Deputy Superintendent Folk requested each of the Captains under his command to report

At the hour appointed, however, each of the Captains were presented with a copy of Mr.

It was understood that if Captain Powers did not call the roll of the 11th ward, the Assistant Captain

Captain Powers however called the names as usual, and everything passed off smoothly.

The 14th ward men still hold out against the new regime, but obey the Captain's orders.

The Police Difficulty—The Returns Again Converted into Waste Paper

  • Date: 1 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The returns of the Captains who have submitted to the new law were first sent in, and as they were addressed

I will make my returns in this manner as long as the Mayor says so.

Deputy —The Mayor is not my boss, nor yours. Capt. P. —Well, the Mayor's my boss.

—I'm going to put my returns there as usual, if you throw me out as well as them.

Captains Powers and King afterwards went to the Mayor as on Saturday, and detailed to him the result

The Yellow Fever At Quarantine

  • Date: 7 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The ship Greenland also arrived yesterday from Havana, the former Captain (Bates of Augusta, Me) having

Captain Varnum, formerly first mate of the bark Ocean Home, brought the ship to New York, and was yesterday

Surrender of King Fernando and All His Men

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mayor Wood, of New York, this forenoon issued an order to his various Police Captains, the "Municipals

The Station Houses are to remain under charge of the Captains, till further action of the Common Council

Yellow Fever

  • Date: 8 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

The facts seem to be that, on last Wednesday it was reported to Health officer Boyd, that the captain

Sea Captains, Young or Old

  • Date: 4 April 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sea Captains, Young or Old

Untitled

  • Date: 19 January 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman, Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the

December, 1862, was commissioned as Captain; all these steps for conduct in the field.

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the New

Thackeray’s New Novel

  • Date: 22 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

far, he succeeds in presenting very much such a picture of the grave and courteous young Provincial Captain

The Slave Trade

  • Date: 2 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

India or South American port—as far as possible with foreign hands and only American officers—the captain

One of the principals goes as supercargo, unless the captain be a principal.

of this account of the illegal slave trade is strengthened by first-hand accounts such as that of Captain

Captain Delano stated in the "Maryland Colonization Journal" that he "was to take these things to Gardiner's

successful, having landed her cargo somewhere on the coast of Cuba, she is usually burned or sunk, and captain

Annotations Text:

of this account of the illegal slave trade is strengthened by first-hand accounts such as that of Captain

Captain Delano stated in the "Maryland Colonization Journal" that he "was to take these things to Gardiner's

The Demonstration Yesterday

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

name forever hence immortal, and has welcomed with becoming honor and rejoicing her own gallant son, CAPTAIN

Untitled

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

Captain George W.

Captain Whitman, leaving the Rappahannock with his regiment in February, 1863, now went round with them

many, that a shell, whose explosion had killed two of his company and seriously hurt a third, struck Captain

Petersburg (Virginia, June 9 and June 15–18, 1864) were Confederate victories. and down the Weldon road, Captain

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George W.

What It Will Effect

  • Date: 24 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the safe prosecution of their task up to the evening of the 10th; and the still later news from the Captain

Untitled

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

Last fall, our readers may remember, Major Whitman (then Captain) was spoken of by us as at that time

Promoted to Captain. February, 1863.—Left Falmouth with regiment. April, May, etc.

We allude to Captain Daniel E.

District of our city, a brave officer, who fell mortally wounded in May, 1864, in the Wilderness; Captain

The First of June

  • Date: 30 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

expected to comprise a thousand or fifteen hundred individuals, and will be under the command of Captain

Free Bathing—Accidents

  • Date: 28 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Policemen should be directed by the Mayor, Deputy Superintendent, Captains, or whoever it is that they

Untitled

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

give even a mere resume of the movements, service, fights, marches, sufferings of the 51st since, as my

He likes his position of Captain of Company G, in which rank he started from Palace Garden; and the men

Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded in

A letter from his Captain says: Five of our color guard had either been killed or disabled, when Byram

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded

[Adventures and Achievements of Americans]

  • Date: 25 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It would be impardonable not to notice the very beautiful mezzotint of Captain Nathan Hale, the Hero

Rowdyism Rampant

  • Date: 26 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principals were stripped and eager for the fray, when the unstrategic approach of Captain Shaurman

Number V

  • Date: 11 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Many old sportsmen, who used to put up at Captain Dodd's, there, will feel surprised to see the familiar

In my former notes on the grave yards of east Long Island, I find it omitted the following inscription

aged 80 years Here sleeps te Body tombed in its Dust Till Christ shall Come & raise it with the Just My

Soul ascended to te Trone of God Where with sweet Jesus now I make Aboad Then hasten after Me my dearest

Also, at his feet Lie the remains of his youngest son JONATHAN HORTON The first captain of Cavalry in

Literary Notices

  • Date: 15 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

journal of James Brooke, Esq., of Sarawack, (now agent for the British government in Borneo.) by Captain

Thanksgiving Day

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

They hail from Bushwick, and consist of 62 muskets, Walter Jimmerson, Captain.

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 18 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This naval Captain has not been identified.

Annotations Text:

.; This naval Captain has not been identified.; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 6 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The following officers were then unanimously elected for the ensuing year: Captain —WILLIAM H.

Untitled

  • Date: 8 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A Fire Company was formed, consisting of seven members, for one year; namely, Henry Stanton, captain;

number of firemen was increased to eleven, and the following were elected members: Stephen Baldwin, Captain

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 10]

  • Date: 20 July 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

an enormous basket, containing a towel, fishing tackle, and incalculable quantities of provisions; Captain

But my limits will not allow me to expatiate upon the events of this interesting voyage.

An Extraordinary Document

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

A bit of pathos:—"Many a tear of remembrance will have been shed in this city to Captain Hudson, who

Literary Notices

  • Date: 19 May 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Captain's Daughter.

Untitled

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We are soon to see a thing accomplished here which I have often exercised my mind about, namely, the

Not at all, to my eye.

many respects of our constructive nation and age, and even so poetical, that I have even balanced in my

When a train comes to a bad spot in the road this Captain reins in his horse and stands there till they

I find this everywhere, and very pleasing to my sight.

Scenes of Last Night

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Wisdom mentioned by Whitman is Captain William A.

Annotations Text:

Wisdom mentioned by Whitman is Captain William A.

Untitled

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"My soul ascends Above the Stars."

My poor handkerchief, when I pulled it from my pocket the next morning, was what the wolverines might

I had done it in the agonies between my laughter and attempted decorum.

The captain gets his sixteenth or twentieth "lay," and one or two others share equally well; but the

Walt Whitman's Poetry in Periodicals

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]," New-York Saturday Press 4 February 1860, 2.

"Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves of Grass (1867); slight changes

O Captain! My Captain!" New-York Saturday Press, 4 November 1865, 218.

Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem

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

of the stranger was not deficient in dignity, but it seemed far unlike the dignity of princes and captains

Literary Notices

  • Date: 10 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Burke, Chatham, Adam Clarke, Lord Clive, Captain Cook, Fox, Franklin, Warren Hastings, Bishop Heber,

Number III

  • Date: 28 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I know from the frequent bent of my own feelings, that yearning for the freshness and quiet of the country—that

published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain

Yes, Messrs. of the city: I have found no precept more strongly taught, by my rambles among this often

An old woman, the mistress of the place, bustled about, and regaled my repast with many words: her husband

nine children lived home—they had no servants—that they were rich—and that they seized ravenously on my

Annotations Text:

published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains

Annotations Text:

to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains

Untitled

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1644 Captain John Underhill led forces against a group of American Indians, killing about 120.

Annotations Text:

.”; In 1644 Captain John Underhill led forces against a group of American Indians, killing about 120.

Untitled

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Titus, The John Titus mentioned here is probably the same John Titus who served as a captain in

Annotations Text:

.; The John Titus mentioned here is probably the same John Titus who served as a captain in the militia

Lippincott's Magazine

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; "Old Age Echoes" was the title given to a collection of four

poems first published in Lippincott's Magazine: Sounds of the WinterReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (

The Unexpress'dReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

Sail Out for Good, Eidólon YachtReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

After the ArgumentReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

Munyon's Illustrated World and Munyon's Magazine

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.

Whitman Archive has not yet verified publication information for this poem.; Reprinted in Good-bye My

The Critic

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-Bye

My Fancy (1891).

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Published with the subtitle "For unknown buried soldiers,

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Introduction to Franklin Evans and "Fortunes of a Country-Boy"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock | Nicole Gray
Text:

the stories he had written approximately fifty years earlier, when, according to the poet, "I tried my

Wisdom" as Captain William A.

upon them without any of the bitterness and mortification which they might be supposed to arouse in my

The formal narration of them, to be sure, is far from agreeable to me—but in my own self-communion upon

Michael Winship has written in response to an email inquiry that: My working hypothesis is that there

Over and through the burial chant

  • Date: 12 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

When reprinted in "Good-Bye My Fancy," the poem included the note, "General Sheridan was buried at the

About "My Boys and Girls"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

About "My Boys and Girls" Whitman's " My Boys and Girls " is a brief sketch that first appeared in The

Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My

See Whitman's " My Boys and Girls ."

For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, " My Boys and Girls (

"My Boys and Girls" Walter Whitman My Boys and Girls The Rover March or April 1844 3 75 per.00333 Written

Annotations Text:

Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My

suggests March or April 1844—between March 27 and April 20, 1844—as the likely date of publication of "My

Boys and Girls" in The Rover.; See Whitman's "My Boys and Girls

"; For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, "My Boys and Girls

Untitled

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

Began my visits (Dec. 21, 1862,) among the camp hospitals in Army of the Potomac, under Gen.

, but space forbids my transcribing them.

He said: "It is my chief reliance." He talked of death, and said he did not fear it.

my life and occupation more than I can tell.

Independent Missionary, in my own style, and not as agent of any commission.

Bravo, Paris Exposition!

  • Date: 28 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

To the Sunset Breeze

  • Date: December 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

Old Chants

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Transcribed from a digital image of a micfrofilm copy of an original

Youth's Companion

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

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