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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
Work title : From Pentup Aching Rivers

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Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

only one man—this is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns; In him the start of populous

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

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-

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1871)

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

only one man—this is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns; In him the start of populous

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

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-

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

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

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

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

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

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

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

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

Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860)

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

Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860) Enfans d'Adam. 1.

sons—and in them were the fathers of sons.

only one man—this is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns, In him the start of populous

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

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

Enfans D'adam 2

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

FROM that of myself, without which I were nothing, From what I am determined to make illustrious, even

Soul, entirely redeemed her, the faithful one, the prostitute, who detained me when I went to the city

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

, entirely redeem'd her, the faithful one, even the prostitute, who detain'd me when I went to the city

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

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

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

, entirely redeem'd her, the faithful one, even the prostitute, who detain'd me when I went to the city

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 (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

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

We were aware of this, and expected in an American poet some one who would sing for us gently, in a minor

And to explain it evident and sufficient causes were producible, and were produced.

The splendour, picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed

but such a picture only represents the worst side of the life of great cities.

Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And

Annotations Text:

the woman of the Indian tribes, are represented in the "Songs of the Sierras" as never before in American

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