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

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Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860) CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.

to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

Were those your vast and solid?

American masses!

AMERICAN mouth-songs!

Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

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

I loved well those cities, I loved well the stately and rapid river, The men and women I saw were all

They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.

ment atonement , Knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it, has done exceeding

There are Thirty-Two States sketched—the population thirty millions.

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861) Leaves of Grass (1860–1861) a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman

to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

American masses!

AMERICAN mouth-songs!

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

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 (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

Chants Democratic and Native American 15

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

Chants Democratic and Native American 15 15. WHO has gone farthest?

For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1881)

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

I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard

noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake, The mocking-bird, the American

I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!

city of spires and masts! City nested in bays! my city! ALL IS TRUTH.

all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1891)

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

I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard

noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake, The mocking-bird, the American

I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!

city of spires and masts! City nested in bays! my city! ALL IS TRUTH.

all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

Excelsior.

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

for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

Excelsior.

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

for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

Excelsior

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

For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

Poem of the Heart of the Son of Manhattan Island.

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

For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

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