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Walt Whitman

  • Date: 15 October 1866
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
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And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

blue-grey shirt, his iron-grey hair, his swart sun-burnt face and bare neck, he lay upon the brown-and-white

Letter From George Alfred Townsend

  • Date: 23 September 1868
  • Creator(s): George Alfred Townsend
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As an orator Vallandigham is the superior, having a fine complexion, large mouth and jaws, white laughing

He is feeling away for that giant steadily, walking in the White House Grounds under the tress, searching

Walt Whitman: His Life, His Poetry, Himself

  • Date: 23 July 1875
  • Creator(s): J. M. S. | J[ames] M[atlack] S[covel]
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and thus it was that when James Harlan turned him out of the Interior Department, years ago, young William

Walt Whitman in Private Life

  • Date: 6 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Olive Harper
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.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 27 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
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He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble

Walt Whitman: A Glimpse at a Poet in His Lair

  • Date: 24 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
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. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

Walt Whitman: The Athletic Bard Paralyzed and in a Rocking Chair

  • Date: 21 May 1876
  • Creator(s): J. B. S.
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Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

Walt Whitman: A Symposium in a Sick Room

  • Date: 18 November 1876
  • Creator(s): James Matlack Scovel
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cachet de pain —[the thin wafers hiding calomel]—is the fragrant red-rose and the tube-rose or the pure white

Our New York Letter: Jennie June's Weekly Jottings

  • Date: 17 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Jennie June
Text:

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 29 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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the suggestion of the President, and sitting near a window draught, he unhesitatingly put on his old white

Two Visitors

  • Date: 13 September 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows

Walt Whitman's Ipmressions of Denver and the West

  • Date: 21 September 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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public reception room, a large, tall, strongly-built man, with a tanned and scarlet face, plenteous white

Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature

  • Date: 17 October 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His long, snow-white hair flows down and mingles with his fleecy beard, giving him a venerable expression

Walt Whitman: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life

  • Date: 3 March 1880
  • Creator(s): Issac R. Pennypacker
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I see he is above the average height, that his hair and beard are long and white as snow, and afterward

body in the style of garments which poets affect, and his expanse of shirt bosom, fastened with a white

Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): J. L. Payne
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His hair is long and like his whiskers is of snowy whiteness.

His white shirt was cut in true sailor style, opening low down upon his breast, and with the collar rolled

The whole dress with the white flowing hair and whiskers were suggestive of a nature that one is afterwards

Walt Whitman in Huntington

  • Date: 5 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Spring; Benjamin Doty, of same place; in West Hills, Lemuel Carll, John Chichester, Miss Jane Rome, William

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

"The Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 24 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

Walt Whitman's Work

  • Date: 6 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

Our Boston Literary Letter

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Wilde and Whitman

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Orwitz, of Baltimore, Professor Gross's daughter, William Henry Rawle, F.

Walt Whitman: The Author of "Leaves of Grass" at Home

  • Date: 16 June 1885
  • Creator(s): James Scovel
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Though venerable-looking from his white hair and beard, his paralysis and the extra lameness that has

Moncure Conway and William M.

Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M. Rossetti, W. B. Scott, C. W.

Untitled

  • Date: 19 June 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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It illuminated a large and well rounded head sprinkled with snow white hair; eyebrows high and arching

mustache that conceals the upper lip is silvery and the beard that falls to his broad breast has the white

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
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might have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white

The poet's hair and whiskers were fleecy, shining, white and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
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The poet's hair and beard were fleecy, shining, white, and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

Whitman on Grant

  • Date: 26 July 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Reclining in his easy chair, arrayed in loose-fitting trousers of some plain gray goods and a spotless white

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

The Poet's Livery

  • Date: 15 September 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner, John Boyle O'Reilly, William J.

Elkins, Charles Emory Smith, Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia; William D.

Stuart, William W. Justice, John Harker, of Exina, Canada, and R. M. Buck, M. D., and Dr.

Men and Things

  • Date: 21 October 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 13 January 1886
  • Creator(s): H. R. Haweis | H. R. Haweis, M. A.
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afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
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back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

Talks with Noted Men

  • Date: 12 June 1886
  • Creator(s): W. H. B.
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unfortunate polar bear is always present, which is strangely in keeping with his long-flowing, silky white

Walt Whitman's Needs

  • Date: 16 December 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

Excerpt from Chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
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"I have sometimes felt a little vexed that the good William should have failed to see anything in the

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
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It's like beauty; like a handsome person; I've seen 'em them : Negroes, Indians, white, yellow, men,

women, children, babies, short, tall, well, sick, long-haired, short-haired, white-haired, red-haired

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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empty, and the frame of which has lacked the picturesque, kindly face, with its background of flowing white

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends

  • Date: 7 September 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
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the cold ground with forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd veiled in your old white

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 14 April 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Hinton
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The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

Whitman's Natal Day

  • Date: 1 June 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

He Is Ignored at Home

  • Date: 13 October 1889
  • Creator(s): J. W. K.
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The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

Walt Whitman Cheerful

  • Date: 26 January 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Whitman sadly, that William D. O'Connor of the Treasury Department is dead?

Walt Whitman on Himself

  • Date: 8 June 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

Beloved Walt Whitman: An Ambrosial Night with his Devoted Friends and Admirers

  • Date: 26 October 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
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From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
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sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

Day with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

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