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Work title : A Song For Occupations

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Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

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 ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

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

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

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

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

O boating on the rivers! The voyage down the Niagara, (the St.

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

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!

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

The most perfect wonders of

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

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

To Workingmen

  • Date: 1867
  • 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

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutched faces , Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

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

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

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

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

A Song for Occupations.

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

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

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

It is a land to which all the currents, and longings, and peoples of history move like rivers converging

vitreous form of the fall moon just tinged with blue: Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river

A Song for Occupations.

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

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