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However, no lines from this manuscript can be directly linked to any part of Inscriptions.

2[1860], Boston notebookloc.04605xxx.00981Note Book1860prosepoetry34 leaveshandwritten; A notebook from

2[1860-1864], Brooklyn and Washington notebookloc.04604xxx.00980Brooklyn & Washington Notebook1860-1875prose33

The verso contains part of a cancelled letter about the steamer Georgia between Charles Francis Adams

The verso contains part of a cancelled letter about the steamer Georgia between Charles Francis Adams

Part of one scrap has been lifted to show the lines written underneath. I Saw Old General at Bay

At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

utmost, a little washed-up drift, A few sands and dead leaves to gather, Gather, and merge myself as part

Leaves of Grass 2 2.

Great is Life, real and mystical, wherever and whoever, Great is Death—sure as Life holds all parts together

, Death holds all parts together, Death has just as much purport as Life has, Do you enjoy what Life

his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also, One part

does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.

This is the compost of billions of premature corpses, Perhaps every mite has once formed part of a sick

quence consequence , Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part

of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands; All that is well thought or said this day on any part

The world does not so exist—no parts palpable or impalpable so exist, No consummation exists without

What is prudence, is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not

PERFECT sanity shows the master among philosophs, Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts

upon and received with wonder, pity, love, or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

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

The field-sprouts of Fourth Month and Fifth Month became part of him, Winter-grain sprouts, and those

this child more of themselves than that, They gave him afterward every day—they and of them became part

Here I grew up—the studs and rafters are grown parts of me.

LIFT me close to your face till I whisper, What you are holding is in reality no book, nor part of a

factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads, upon the surface, I see the shaded part

on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them, I am a real Parisian

returning in the afternoon—my brood of tough boys accom- panying accompanying me, My brood of grown and part-grown

Enfans D'adam 2 2.

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you; I believe

and the marrow in the bones, 26 The exquisite realization of health, O I say now these are not the parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons of the earth, These are contained in sex, as parts

shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done; I will play a part

IN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result

The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light, The music

behind you, What beckonings of love you receive, you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting

, The body does not travel as much as the Soul, The body has just as great a work as the Soul, and parts

All parts away for the progress of Souls, All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that

of words, In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part

Calamus 2 2.

the day, The simple, compact, well-joined scheme—myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part

, floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies, I saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts

Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laugh- ing laughing , gnawing, sleeping, Played the part

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the Soul.

pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness drunkenness , greed, premature death, all these I part

matter who they are, And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, Then shall

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

Thoughts 2 2.

and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

—No; But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, parting the

part- ing parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or intellectual, Who, having considered the body, finds all its organs and parts

I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect per- son person , that is finally right. 2.

Debris 2 ANY thing is as good as established, when that is established that will produce it and continue

that loves unrequited, the money- maker moneymaker , The actor and actress, those through with their parts

To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!

To think that we are now here, and bear our part!

He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able to take his own part, witty

faults and derelictions, 38* The light touches, on my lips, of the lips of my com- rades comrades , at parting

When America does what was promised, When each part is peopled with free people, When there is no city

inland and seaboard, When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

is but a part.

I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America, good or bad, Not my body—not friendship

Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part; Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions

What is prudence, is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not

part- ing parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

I am your poet, because I am part of you; O days by-gone! Enthusiasts! Antecedents!

I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America, good or bad, Not my body—not friendship

Riches, opinions, politics, institutions, to part obe- diently obediently from the path of one man or

Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part; Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions

Have I forgotten any part? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.

utmost, a little washed-up drift, A few sands and dead leaves to gather, Gather, and merge myself as part

, Death holds all parts together, Death has just as much purport as Life has, Do you enjoy what Life

does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.

What is prudence, is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not

Here I grew up—the studs and rafters are grown parts of me.

the past, By my side, or back of me, Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same. 2.

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you; I believe

and the marrow in the bones, 26 The exquisite realization of health, O I say now these are not the parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons of the earth, These are contained in sex, as parts

IN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result

have been, young men, To tell the secret of my nights and days, To celebrate the need of comrades. 2.

and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

—No; But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, parting the

part- ing parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness drunkenness , greed, premature death, all these I part

matter who they are, And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, Then shall

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

judge, or any juror, is equally criminal—and any reputable person is also—and the President is also. 2.

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part

and passing on, And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turned

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. Whoever you are!

2* Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and where the southwest Colorado winds!

I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag

The sentries desert every other part of me, They have left me helpless to a red marauder, They all come

Parting, tracked by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich showering rain, and recompense

I take part—I see and hear the whole, The cries, curses, roar—the plaudits for well-aimed shots, The

is but a part.

I am your poet, because I am part of you; O days by-gone! Enthusiasts! Antecedents!