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Both poems were first published in Drum-Taps in 1865.

Lines from the notebook were used in Song of Myself and A Song of the Rolling Earth, which appeared in

appeared as the fourth poem in the 1855 Leaves; and A Song of Joys, which appeared as Poem of Joys in the 1860

early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This draft fragment includes phrases and poetic lines that were

nyp.00511xxx.00048[I can tell of the long besieged city]I can tell of the long besieged city1845–1855prosepoetry1

leafhandwritten; A scrap of paper with poetic lines that were used in revised form in the 1855 edition

The lines contained in this manuscript were eventually used in the poem ultimately titled Song of Myself

[I can tell of the long besieged city]

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of Starting from Paumanok, first published in 1860

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

and structure, the manuscript most closely resembles lines 39–43 in Debris, a poem published in the 1860

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook Talbot Wilson

The notes were revised and incorporated into the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf (uva.00561) were used in the poem eventually

(uva.00278) are similar in idea to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

The lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of Myself.

.; yal.00452 were paid for with steamships

manuscripts, this manuscript may also relate to lines 39-43 in Debris, a cluster published in the 1860

and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach" (1860

and limitless floods," was used, slightly revised, in A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860

Several phrases of the prose on the verso were probably later used, in somewhat revised form, in the

: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

in The American in October 1880.

This manuscript may relate to the poem titled A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves

(1860, p. 259).

On the reverse are lines that were possibly also written as part of the process for the creation of that

the source of Bucke's transcription have not been found and there is no evidence that the sentences were

Gibson, an American adventurer (Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, 1855–1892, ed.

Martin's Griffin, 1999], 488; Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

Vaults, a poem that is recorded in a New York notebook (loc.00348) that probably dates to the early 1860s

leafhandwritten; Several words from this manuscript ("loveroot," "silkthread," "crotch," and "vine") were

similar manuscripts that are numbered sequentially and probably date from around or before 1855: see "American

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860

On the back of this leaf (tul.00002) are draft lines that were used in the third poem in the first (1855

In the 1856 edition it was titled Poem of Walt Whitman, an American, and Whitman shortened the title

to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

ultimately titled A Song for Occupations, and part of a cluster titled Debris that appeared in the 1860

manuscript also resemble lines 39–43 in the untitled fourteenth poem of the Debris cluster of the 1860

combination of "Love" and "Dilation or Pride" is also articulated in Chants Democratic (No. 4) in the 1860

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

Both poems were first published in the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00883 To be at all

The poem was first titled Poem of Walt Whitman, an American in the 1856 edition, and Whitman shortened

the title to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

and by, above, and My tongue can never be content with harness, below, make a connection with the 1860

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860

duk.00029xxx.00048xxx.00121MS q 27Remembrances I plant American groundBetween 1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Salutation in the 1856 edition of Leaves.; duk.00884 Remembrances I plant American ground

duk.00162xxx.00048MS q 203It were unworthy a live man to prayBefore or early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten

These lines were present in the first version of the poem in 1855, suggesting a date of before or early

It were unworthy a live man to pray

" (tex.00200) two sets of manuscript notes about Egypt that Edward Grier dates to between 1855 and 1860

Both manuscripts were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the backing

These lines were removed from the final versioen of the poem.

.00113xxx.00226xxx.00526xxx.00048[med Cophósis]Between 1852 and 1854poetry2 leaveshandwritten; These pages were

Drakeloc.00158xxx.00048"Summer Duck"Between 1852 and 1855poetryprosehandwritten2 leaves; These pages were

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

Versions of these cancelled and fragmentary lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

The first several lines of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American

between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's edition) and the 1860

On surface 54 is a passage that seems to have contributed to the 1860 poem that became Song at Sunset

See Holloway, A Whitman Manuscript, American Mercury 3 (December 1924), 475–480. See also Andrew C.

One passage seems to have contributed to the 1860–1861 poem that Whitman later titled Our Old Feuillage

The first several lines of that poem (not including the line in question) were revised and published

as My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880 and then in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn

Black Presence in Whitman's Manuscripts, in Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (Iowa City

Grass, in addition to a few images and phrasings that Whitman used in the second (1856) and third (1860

A brief passage on surface 12 possibly contributed to the poem first published in 1860 as the fourth

Two passages on surface 21 were used in the tenth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled There

Two of the draft lines of poetry on surface 31 were used in the untitled third poem of the Debris cluster

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

.— All that there is in what The enti What men think enviable, if it were could be collected together

princely youth of Athens—cross-questioning—his big paunch—his bare feet—his subtle tongue— These pages were

These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The notes on American character relate to ideas expressed in "Song of Myself," most directly to the line

True noble expanded American character is raised on a far more lasting and universal basis than that

Every American young man should carry himself with the finished and haughty bearing of the greatest ruler

Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land." (1855, pp. 51-2). whose sides are crowded with the rich cities

till I point the road along which leads to all the learning knowledge and truth and pleasure are the cities

leaves, together with several other leaves, constitute a draft essay that perhaps contributed to the 1860

perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the

peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous

deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding

and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.

one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns, In him the start of populous

Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating

If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.

 . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?