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Search : River
Work title : Song Of Myself

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you know how

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

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

women

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

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

A Wild Poet of the Woods

  • Date: February 1861
  • Creator(s): Hollingshead, John
Text:

Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of the Alle- ghanies Alleghanies ! Ohio's land!

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

It is a land to which all the currents, and longings, and peoples of history move like rivers converging

vitreous form of the fall moon just tinged with blue: Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
Text:

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Clapp, Henry
Text:

sweeps over great oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

simplicity can give of power, pathos, and music: "Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman

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

dusk, near the cotton- wood cottonwood or pekan-trees; Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase; Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand—hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river— swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Walt Whitman.

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

dusk, near the cotton- wood cottonwood or pekan-trees; Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase; Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand—hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river— swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Walt Whitman

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

dusk, near the cotton- wood cottonwood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand—hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river —swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

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

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

Topple down upon him

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

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

Studies Among the Leaves

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

sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers

Song of Myself.

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

fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase, Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Song of Myself.

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

fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase, Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 17 December 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

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

Remembrances I plant American ground

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

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

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

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the East and North rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

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

near the cot- ton-wood cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

the trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

No doubt the efflux

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

the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river

Night of south winds

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

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

New Poetry of the Rossettis and Others

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

The most perfect wonders of

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

"His spirit responds to his country's spirit; he incarnates its geography and natural life, and rivers

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

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

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

O boating on the rivers! The voyage down the Niagara, (the St.

Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of the woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

I know a rich capitalist

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

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

I am a curse

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

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

How gladly we leave the

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

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

9th av.

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

ages, the inextricable, the river-tied and the mountain-tied.

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