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Search : William White
Work title : When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomd

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Leaves of Grass

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

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

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

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1881)

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

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

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

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

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

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

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

3 In the door-yard fronting an old farm-house, near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac bush,

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprising; Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men—I saw them; I saw the debris

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am.

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1891)

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

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
Text:

manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical, that "William

William O'Connor and Dr.

We have no concern with William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke. If we have concern with Mr.

wants something newer and better than the old poetry, and that his poetry is not an achievement (William

All this is granted by us, or rather spontaneously asserted, and if William O'Connor and Dr.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist, best known for his satirical novel Vanity

Harold Williams. Vol. III. London: Oxford UP, 1963. 102-105.

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
Text:

ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen now lean and tattered tatter'd , seated on the ground, Her old white

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

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead a man divine as myself is dead I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near I bend Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Poems by Walt Whitman

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

William Michael Rossetti has been for some time what may be called a disciple of Whitman.

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti —J.C. Hotten.

The Poetry of the Future

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

In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing

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

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

over six months ago we came across an edition of the Works of Walt Whitman, selected and edited by William

grey shirt, his iron grey hands, his swart sun-browned face and bare neck, he laid upon the brown and white

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