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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
Work title : When I Heard The Learnd Astronomer

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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.

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

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

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

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

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

They live in brothers again ready to defy you, They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted

The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the

OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1881)

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

They live in brothers again ready to defy you, They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted

The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the

OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not

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?)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.

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

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.

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

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • 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, architec-

American masses!

RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871)

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

kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were

results of the war glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;) How the great cities

there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold; Of mighty inland cities

of the Western Sea; As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago—whatever streets I have roam'd; Or cities

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

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

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

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?

Mocking all the textbooks and

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

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

Annotations Text:

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," first published in Drum-Taps in 1865: "When the proofs, the figures, were

Mocking all the textbooks and

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
Text:

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

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