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THE FIREMAN'S DREAM: While completing research for the two volumes of journalism that were published
went the great bell of the City Hall.
Ladders were quickly placed in such positions as were necessary to enable them to pull down certain portions
They were startled, and instinctively pushed out into the stream.
Violet and her people were very kind to me.
.]; While completing research for the two volumes of journalism that were published as part of The Collected
The poem was published in the third volume of Samuel Kettell, ed., Specimens of American Poetry with
See "Dream of the Sea," Specimens of American Poetry, 314–316; see also Rufus Wilmot Griswold, "Grenville
Amy Greenberg argues that early volunteer fire squads were built on close male friendships and constituted
Greenberg, Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth Century City (Princeton,
The house was in a straggling village some fifty miles from New York city.
Love, agony, and grief, and tears, and convulsive wrestlings were there.
The individuals in the middle of the room were dancing; that is, they were going through certain contortions
His countenance was intelligent and had the air of city life and society.
that they were all together.
Michael Winship has written in response to an email query that the extra sheets were likely issued at
Cheever's The Commonplace Book of American Poetry (1831, but often reprinted), where they are attributed
The Washington societies, part of the Washingtonian temperance movement, were popular in New York in
Masculinity in 1840s Temperance Narratives," in Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American
reader is omitted in Collect.; Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American
teeming regions of the air swarm with bodiless ghosts—bodiless to human sight, because of their exceeding
The delicate ones bent their necks, and shook as if a chill blast had swept by—and white robes were drawn
gazed they saw a new companion of wondrous loveliness among them—a strange and timid creature, who, were
unbearable even to the deathless, must be tempered for the sight of any created thing, however lofty,) were
Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.
"; Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.
J UST before noon, one day last winter, when the pavements were crusted plentifully with ice-patches,
Out in the bay the waves were rolling and rising, and over the thick rails which line the shore-walk
Many dozens of boys were there, with skates and small sleds—very busy.
What a miniature, too, were they of the chase of life!
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similar speedy modes of conveyance—the travellers from Amboy village to the metropolis of our republic were
These two sentences were omitted in both the Eagle and Collect .
The previous two paragraphs were omitted in Collect .
As they dropped they were wafted to the bottom of the grave.
Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.
.; These two sentences were omitted in both the Eagle and Collect.; In the Eagle, this reads "the son
"; The previous two paragraphs were omitted in Collect.; In Collect, this sentence reads: "The villain
"; Transcribed from digital images of an original issue held at the American Antiquarian Society.
It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were