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Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 February 1871

  • Date: February 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river

Amos T. Akerman to L. P. Poland, 29 March 1871

  • Date: March 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Anderson, the principal surveyor in the District of Ohio, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers,

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 January 1871

  • Date: January 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

has been directed to appear for the defence of the Engineer Officers having charge of the Potomac River

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 13 February 1871

  • Date: February 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Dec. 27, 1870, and is an official bond of Spear as special agent for the Sioux Indians at Cheyenne River

Amos T. Akerman to H. H. Wells, 16 December 1871

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River

Benjamin Helm Bristow to Edward N. McCook, 26 September 1871

  • Date: September 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

President, of one Dorcas Mary Lavin, setting forth that her husband Nicholas Lavin, was murdered at River

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the East and North rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1871

  • Date: June 1, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

yesterday we had a very hard thunder storm and it done a great deal of dammage damage along the North River

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1871

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

write another we have had very cold weather here this Winter and there is a great deal of Ice in the river

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 9 February [1871]

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

Saturday the pictures in the graphic is very good and very solem solemn some of them) but the hudson river

Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river

American Feuillage.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

miles; The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombig- bee Tombigbee , the Red River

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sweet potato; Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies; Welcome the rich borders of rivers

friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river—dwellers

bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches; Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river

Me Imperturbe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

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

11 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Carol of Occupations.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river-banks—men

A Broadway Pageant.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

There Was a Child Went Forth.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wharves—the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset— the river

Longings for Home.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through

Drum-Taps.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

1861.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

The Centenarian's Story.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Not the Pilot.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

The Dresser.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like a swift running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

Respondez!

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Mannahatta.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the jobbers' houses of business —the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

To Oratists.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness; After treading ground and breasting river

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

A Song.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

Salut Au Monde!

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Co- lumbia

Columbia flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on the

To You.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

Thoughts.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Cluster: Calamus. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wharves—the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset— the river

dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

like a swift running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or

Cluster: Marches Now the War Is Over. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the jobbers' houses of business —the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness; After treading ground and breasting river

Cluster: Bathed in War's Perfume. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Starting From Paumanok.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

your own shape and countenance—persons, sub- stances substances , beasts, the trees, the running rivers

Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me—and I yet with any of them; Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet

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