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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
Work title : To One Shortly To Die

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Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

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

Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860) MESSENGER LEAVES. To You, Whoever You Are.

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning

obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan, Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were

what were God?)

burial-places to find him, And I found that every place was a burial-place; The houses full of life were

streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were

now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

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

touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan, Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were

what were God?)

burial-places to find him, And I found that every place was a burial-place; The houses full of life were

streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were

now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were

I must not deceive you

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 14.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines were used in the poem To One Shortly to Die, first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves

I must not deceive you

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

The lines were used in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves

Annotations Text:

This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

The lines were used in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves

of Grass.; Lines from this manuscript were used in the poem "To One Shortly to Die," first published

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass: "You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, I cannot

prevaricate, / I am exact and merciless, but I love you—There is no escape for you" (1860, p. 398).;

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 (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

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Walt (Walter) Whitman, except the occasional brilliant scraps which English papers copy from their American

Rossetti insists that it must be taken as an altogether new poetry: as something as distinctively American

Remember if you are dying

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

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

Remember if you are dying

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

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 were used in the poem eventually titled

Annotations Text:

This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

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

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

for instance, the line: "You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate" (1860

from digital images of the original.; Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf were

To One Shortly To Die

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

This poem was published under the title To One Shortly to Die, with only minor revisions, in the 1860

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

of West Hills, Long Island, in the state of New York, somewhere about thirty miles from the great American

To the very dregs and scum and squalor of the evil streets of a bad city he cries out—by a subtle violation

At the City Dead House in his "Leaves of Grass," we see him standing—gazing—yearning, in tenderest pity

And, as it has been with those, so it is now and henceforth with this true American Poet Walt Whitman

the manly poet himself going his sickening rounds in the ghastly hospitals, all through the great American

Annotations Text:

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

reference to holly alludes to Burns's poem, "The Vision" (1786): "Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs/Were

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