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sonorous voice ringing across the continent; Your masculine voice, O year, as rising amid the great cities

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05224xxx.005241st DemocracyBetween December 1867 and May 1868prose2

to form part of the same sheet of paper, and form an outline for the three essays—only two of which were

They were most kindly made over to the present collection by the compiler, and by the publishers Messrs

Pickard; Garrison, Lucy McKim, (1867) was the earliest and most significant collection of African American

William Francis Allen (1830–1889) was an American classical scholar and one of the editors of the first

book of American slave songs, Slave Songs of the United States.

Charles Pickard Ware (1849–1921) was an American educator and music transcriber.

Lucy McKim Garrison (1842–1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of Slave Songs of the United

Simpson & Company of New York, Slave Songs of the United States was the earliest collection of African American

Northern abolitionists who collected the songs—many of which were spirituals—while they worked in the

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

The attention of American authors is respectfully invited to the facilities which Messrs. A.

SIMPSON & Co. respectfully announce for early publication, the following works by Foreign and American

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

of some Hints to the Drummer and Private Soldier (1783), which satirized British conduct in the American

written under the pseudonym Richard Haywarde) and The Sparrowgrass Papers, a humorous account of a city

In view of this fact, though we are favorably impressed, as we were when we first wrote you, with the

written under the pseudonym Richard Haywarde) and The Sparrowgrass Papers, a humorous account of a city

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

original loins, perfectly sweet, I, chanter of Adamic songs, Through the new garden, the West, the great cities

American Feuillage AMERICAN FEUILLAGE. AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage!

Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact

White drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tempest dashes; On solid land, what is done in cities

sit on the gunwale, smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon, the mocking-bird, the Ameri- can American

day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side; The city

hangs heavily and yet they say time flies fleetly , Ah it may be I have seen the time when minutes were

hours & hours days but that is gone yes its it's near two years since those scenes were past And May

neck with incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities

, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whal- ing whaling , gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities

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

I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!

while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to children—saw in

the world—politics, produce, The announcements of recognized things—science, The approved growth of cities

But we too announce solid things; Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing —they

doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance malignance , are provided for; I do not doubt that cities

Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets: Are beds prepared for sleepers at

the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return; We observe that salute of American

You remember the "Dear Strange Boy and brother" as you were pleased to call me do you not?

And, were there no—what we call sin there would be no happiness.

I spent a week in New York City in June, my Wife was taken sick there while visiting her Sister and they

Nellie had two children, Lewis and Eva Morrell, from a previous marriage, and she and Benton Wilson were

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

Wilson reported that his wife had gone to New York City to stay with her sister during the latter's confinement

Hawley has been trying to get a copy of it for about a month but all that was here were taken as soon

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

Gage, Sloans & Dater was listed as a drygoods store in Trow's New York City Directory (1856/1857), with

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

My Wife started for New York City last friday night to be gone several weeks. she is to be with her Sister

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860) A BROADWAY PAGEANT.

(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)

Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?

Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?

Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?

that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that every- thing everything was alive!

To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them—and we taking

Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business?

7 It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you, It is

The threads that were spun are gathered, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.

These manuscript pages were likely revised prior to the poem's first publication.

Green the midsummer verdure, and fresh blows the dal- lying dallying breeze, O'er proud and peaceful cities

not with terror; But suddenly, pouring about me here, on every side, And below there where the boys were

Twenty thousand were brought against us, A veteran force, furnish'd with good artillery.

close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle; But O from the hills how the cannon were

day; But the night of that, mist lifting, rain ceasing, Silent as a ghost, while they thought they were

earth—touching, including God— including Saviour and Satan; Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me, what were

what were God?)

he shall labor as to what are the true principles on which a conscientious writer for the present American

What do you conceive to be the true need of the American people as regards literature and in what way

The City Dead-House THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.

BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause—for

City of Orgies CITY OF ORGIES. CITY of orgies, walks and joys!

City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious, Not the pageants

City of Ships CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!

City of the world!

city of hurried and glittering tides!

City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of mar- ble marble and iron!

Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extrava- gant extravagant city! Spring up, O city!

CITY OF ORGIES. CITY of orgies, walks and joys!

Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I

, if I could be with you, and become your loving comrade; Be it as if I were with you.

And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

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-

all—None refuse, all attend; Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings, machines, cities

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

tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

herself; Of Equality—As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete

, were not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as

lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.

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

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

Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Ah, now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities and farms, Sickly

Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were

These, and all else, were to me the same as they are to you; I project myself a moment to tell you—also

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

I had done seem'd to me blank and sus- picious suspicious ; My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were

as much of you —I laid in my stores in advance; I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were

I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles; All the channels of the city

that there were more of the same sort, our country needs them.

Go on, and may God bless you and your efforts, as a true American. Respectfully F. B.

FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How

costumes of peace with indifferent hand; How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were

Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading; Forty years as a pageant—till unawares, the Lady

The blood of the city up—arm'd! arm'd!

Old matron of the city! this proud, friendly, turbulent city!

suggest that this particular draft was written sometime between 1867 and 1871 (the numbered sections were

They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.

For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city

New York City.

Attorney, New York City.

It was immediately corrected, and duplicate originals were furnished to the Hon.

However, the thoughts it contains were echoed in an article that appeared in the St.