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As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the Eastern records!"
"I will report all heroism from an American point of view." "America always!
I assert that all past days were what they should have been.
It is done in this fashion: "I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them;
And do you rise higher than ever yet, O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms!
American poets, and the clear reflection of national scenery to be found in their works.
We traced the rise of American poetry, and passed briefly in review the writings of Mrs.
Poe's early effusions, however, were fully of promise, and Mr.
Unitarian minister, and at one time discharged the like office with his father in Boston, his native city
American Poets Part 2
Hugo's protest against the disapprobation of those French critics whose conventional imaginations were
very much disturbed by the astonishing leaps through time and space that were made by this untrammelled
"I assert that all fast days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better
than what they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception; I assert that all past days were
what they should have been; And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
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?
the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
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?)
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
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-
Chants Democratic and Native American 7 7.
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they should have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860) CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.
to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
Were those your vast and solid?
American masses!
AMERICAN mouth-songs!
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
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
the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception; I assert that all past days were
what they should have been; And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
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?
This poem was first published in the January 14, 1860 issue of the New York Saturday Press under the
title You and Me and To-day, after which it became section 7 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves
The manuscript leaves correspond to the published verses in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Evolutions
," possibly related to With Antecedents, which was first published in the New-York Saturday Press (1860
The poem was revised as Chants Democratic. 7 in Leaves of Grass (1860–1861) and took its final title,