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Search : William White
Work title : Preface 1855 To First Issue Of Leaves Of Grass

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women

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

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

Walt Whitman

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

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

And it means, Sprouting, alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

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

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

Poem incarnating the mind

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

/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of

gave him not one inch, but held on and night near the helpless fogged wreck, over leaf How the lank white

[med Cophósis]

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

cottonwood

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cottonwood—mulberry— chickadee—large brown water-dog— —black-snake—garter snake— —vinegar-plums—persimmon— — wh white-blossom

place with a pistol and killed himself, and I came that way and stumbled upon him locust, birch with white

reckon think mind less you very are a good manure —but that I do not smell— —I smell the your beautiful white

Annotations Text:

and "And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, / I smell the white

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Sigourney, the chief poetess of the United States, of the classical William Cullen Bryant, the Catholic

The monk endeavours to console him with the prospect of eternal rest, the white robe and the golden crown

White the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping

William Michael Rossetti was principally concerned in introducing his works into the English market;

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