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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
Work title : Beat! Beat! Drums!

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Beat! Beat! Drums!

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

Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets: Are beds prepared for sleepers at

Beat! Beat! Drums!

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

Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at

Beat! Beat! Drums!

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

Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at

Beat! Beat! Drums!

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

Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets: Are beds prepared for sleepers at

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1871)

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

CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of mar- ble marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extrava- gant extravagant city! Spring up, O city!

Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

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

the sea-bird, and look down as from a height, I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!

Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

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

the sea-bird, and look down as from a height, I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous

City of the world!

City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!

Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

fool'd 114 Native Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

American masses!

RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture

What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and

what were God?)

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

Y., South District)—renew'd (1883) 14 yrs. 2d ed'n 1856, Brooklyn—renew'd (1884) 14 yrs. 3d ed'n 1860

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture

What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 23 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

upon the angry bull, the majority of cultivated minds begin to see that Walt Whitman is the most American

of poets and one of the brightest lights of American literature.

of the West, the wind-swept "gray beach" of the Paumanok shore, or amid the eddying swarms of the city

There were plenty of criticisms to make, even after one had finished crying Oh!

Well worth quoting, before we leave the two great Americans, is what Walt says of Emerson: "Amid the

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