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Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:128
See Grier, 1:141.
See Grier, (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:144.
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
LEAVES OF GRASS. 1.
THOUGHTS. 1.
LEAVES OF GRASS. 1.
LEAVES OF GRASS. 1.
THOUGHTS. 1.
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
1 BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
FACES 1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by- road by-road —lo! such faces!
TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE. 1 COURAGE yet! my brother or my sister! Keep on!
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
1.
Enfans d'Adam. 1.
CALAMUS. 1.
THOUGHTS. 1.
SAYS. 1.
1.
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, the rapid stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
Whitman also numbered each leaf in the lower-left corner in pencil: the leaves follow the order 1-9,
9 1/2 (a full page despite its number), and 10-15.
Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:128
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1: