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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-
ture architecture , customs, and traditions; Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually
met there, who detained me for love of me; Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else
RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the
spit their salutes; When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me— when heaven-clouds canopy my city
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides—to walk in the space
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?
1872prose6 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript touches on the developing "distinctive metropolitan American
Character" of Washington, including the city's status as a literary center.
Portions of this manuscript were used in Washington as a Central Winter Residence and Authors of Washington
considered in force For the reasons given in your letter you have leave of absence for a time not exceeding
Do you think the great city endures? Or a teeming manufacturing state?
greatest city in the whole world. 5 The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretch'd
Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is beloved
city of the healthiest fathers stands; Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great
city stands. 6 How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
is reconsidered, and permission is granted you to be absent from the Territory for a period not exceeding
incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and de- merits demerits , Making its cities
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad
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 immortal children
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-
I suggest that it is possible that the papers which were in the hands of the Attorney General when he
prepared his opinion of July 8, 1860, (IX Opinions p. 455,) at the call of the President, were returned
War, and was frequently used by Whitman (see Clarence Gohdes, "Whitman and the 'Good Old Cause,'" American
Notes and Fragments (1899), Edward Grier suggests that this manuscript likely was written prior to 1860
War, and was frequently used by Whitman (see Clarence Gohdes, "Whitman and the 'Good Old Cause,'" American
Notes and Fragments (1899), Edward Grier suggests that this manuscript likely was written prior to 1860
whether, in your opinion, qualified gentlemen will engage to assist with an expectation of pay not exceeding
, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad
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 immortal children
let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say! why might they not just as well be transposed?)
I have seen enough of cities, & streets & art and pictures & museums to stand me all the rest of my days
It is certainly a very beautiful city and very clean & tasteful.
It all seems to have been built the same day & planned by the same architect & the stone were unmistakably
I find this is the impression of all Americans I have talked with who have seen them.
He springs out of that vast American continent full-charged with all that is special and national in
"Hennessy" may be a reference to the Irish-American artist William John Hennessy (1839–1917).
Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent
For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of
where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands—lover of populous
pave- ments pavements ; Dweller in Mannahatta, my city—or on southern sa- vannas savannas ; Or a soldier
in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea; And I will report all heroism from an American
ideal of manly love, indicating it in me; I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were
the Kansas, count- less countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass; See, in my poems, cities
Muir produced a certificate of naturalization from the Superior Court of the city of Chicago, and claimed
under it the privileges of an American citizen.
District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois to make the motion in the Superior Court of the city
Muir has had the benefit of American citizenship by virtue of naturalization fraudulently obtained, I
Authentic Portraits of Historic Americans For the Capitol—Interesting Anecdotes—A Letter to Congress.
To the Editor of the Chronicle: Understanding that the Gallery of American portraits, now in Washington
They were very young men, indeed—of slight build and small in stature. Mr.
He was in the City Hall surrounded by a dense crowd, and could not get out.
Suddenly, just as they were about to begin, a tremendous and unwonted sound, crash!—bang!
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-
I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute
Send the revised proofs to me by mail, directed to this city, and I will promptly return them.
I have no authority to speak for them, but I think the American Institute will want several hundred copies
American Feuillage. AMERICAN FEUILLAGE. AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage!
Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, trav- elers travelers , Kanada, the snows; Always
drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tem- pest tempest dashes; On solid land, what is done in cities
sit on the gunwale, smok- ing smoking and talking; Late in the afternoon, the mocking-bird, the American
day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side; The city
for city, and land for land.
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?
, if I could be with you, and become your comrade; Be it as if I were with you.
Walt Whitman was invited to read at the opening of the American Institute, a long-running Brooklyn fair
that displayed flowers, plants, fruits, and products of American industry and manufacture.
The fair buildings, which occupied 100,000 square feet, were located on the block enclosed by Second
Ted Genoways [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004], 7:31; and see Connecticut, Deaths and Burials
Index, 1650–1934 [Salt Lake City: FamilySearch, 2009]).
DRUM-TAPS. 1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city
costumes of peace with indifferent hand; How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were
our pre- lude prelude , songs of soldiers,) How Manhattan drum-taps led. 2 Forty years had I in my city
The blood of the city up—arm'd! arm'd!
you Mannahatta; Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city!
We were aware of this, and expected in an American poet some one who would sing for us gently, in a minor
And to explain it evident and sufficient causes were producible, and were produced.
American democracy is as yet but half-formed.
But if the American nation is his hero, let it be observed that it is the American nation as the supposed
These were the views of pious persons of the thirteenth century.
the woman of the Indian tribes, are represented in the "Songs of the Sierras" as never before in American
Y. you have seen in the papers —in five sixths of the city, it was curiously almost unfelt, every thing
new—in some respects they afford the most encouraging sign I have got—brown, bearded, worn, resolute, American-looking
men, dusty & sweaty—looked like veterans—the stock here even in these cities is in the main magnificent—the
I am weary and want rest, and I cannot rest in cities.
The grandest, and truest American I know, accept the love of your son.
a hundred wounded—but you have seen all about it in papers—it was all up in a distant part of the city
, 3 miles from Wall street—five-sixths of the city went on with its business just the same as any other
police looked & behaved splendidly—no fuss, few words, but action —great, brown, bearded, able, American
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ages, that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course, and pass'd on; What vast-built cities—what
and phrenology; What of liberty and slavery among them—what they thought of death and the soul; Who were
O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing; I know that
Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us? Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?
Lewis, Boisé City, Idaho Terr. Sir: I have promised your friend, Gen.
There was no complaint of you, and I had no reason to suppose that you were not serving well in your
A letter was received here in due course of mail, postmarked "Boisé City," tendering your resignation
O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing; I know that
Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us? Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!
The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
neat form, Walt Whitman's ridiculous rigmarole, by an extreme stretch of critical courtesy called " American
If it were only decent prose we might stand it; but it does not rise to the dignity of a dessertation
While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of
Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute
While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of
Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute
CITY OF SHIPS. CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships!
City of the world!
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!
(Washington City, 1865.)
Salt Lake City, Utah Terr.
transmit a copy of your official oath, and furnish me with the name of the state or county in which you were
the earth and the sea never gave us; Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities
What, to pavements and homesteads here—what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
And do you rise higher than ever yet, O days, O cities! Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms!
prepared in the mountains, absorbs your im- mortal immortal strong nutriment; —Long had I walk'd my cities
ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; —The cities
relative to the reïnstatement of the records of the Courts of the United States in your District, which were
destroyed by the recent conflagration in your city.
jogging along about the same, on your car, with an occasional let up—Often in my jaunts around the city
, or on the bay, I wish you were with me, as you would enjoy it much—I have seen Mr.
sea-bird, and look down as from a height; I do not deny the precious results of peace—I see pop- ulous populous
cities, with wealth incalculable; I see numberless farms—I see the farmers working in their fields or
spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten;) Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city
Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left Denmark in 1860
The city directory in 1870 listed him as a draughtsman and in 1872 as a patent agent.
It happens that I have lately been compiling a of selections from American Poets, & I had had to use
—I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, & the rest depends
Octr., & is to dine with us tomorrow: I like his frank manly aspect & tone, & need not say that you were
It is postmarked: LONDON-W | 7 | OC 9 | 71; NEW YORK CITY | OCT | 22 | PAID; CARRIER | OCT | 23 | 8AM
The volume of American poems to which he refers was to be the seventeenth volume in the series and was
Gary Schmidgall, The Iowa Whitman Series (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2001), 29.
the scaffold;) —I would sing in my copious song your census returns of The States, The tables of population
let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say! why might they not just as well be transposed?)
Let the Asiatic, the African, the European, the Ameri- can American , and the Australian, go armed against
Let there be wealthy and immense cities—but still through any of them, not a single poet, savior, knower
American masses!
Were all educations, practical and ornamental, well dis- play'd display'd out of me, what would it amount
Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
Because you are greasy or pimpled, or that you were once drunk, or a thief, Or diseas'd, or rheumatic
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
and pause, listen, and count. 3 I knew a man, a common farmer—the father of five sons; And in them were
the fathers of sons—and in them were the fathers of sons.
and visit him to see—he was wise also; He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old—his sons were
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor—all falls aside but myself and it
The sentence was, to imprisonment for one year in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, and to
is a good reason why the execution of the sentence should have been temporarily suspended, if there were
you that you must bring her one of those books by the authoress of 'Consuelo'" (see Jeff's April 16, 1860
of American industry and manufacture.
The fair buildings, which occupied 100,000 square feet, were located on the block enclosed by Second
Walt Whitman opened the American Institute on September 7, 1871, with a recitation of "After All, Not
Index, 1650–1934 [Salt Lake City: FamilySearch, 2009]).
You are aware that last spring very grave charges were made against you—and having some reason to distrust
Smith Tenn. city.
was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860
Edward Thompson Taylor was an American Methodist clergyman who was well regarded for his oratory skills
Johnston, including the 1854 Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype and the 1860 painting by Charles W.
Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were lately buzzing?)
soon be better. 4 Ah, now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities
.00244Sparkles from the Wheel1871poetryhandwritten2 leaves25.5 x 20 cm; First published not in the 1860
You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries!
I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all great poems also; I think I could stop
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. 6 Now if a thousand perfect men were
to which you were destin'd— you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call'd by an
countries, habitus of far- distant far-distant dwellings, Trusters of men and women, observers of cities