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Search : William White
Year : 1871

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Year of Meteors.

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

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

World, Take Good Notice.

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

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1871

  • Date: July 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Rossetti Rossetti July 9 '71 see notes May 10 1888 William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1871

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1871

  • Date: October 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Rossetti Oct. 8 see notes Dec 24 1888 William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1871

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 28 July 1871

  • Date: July 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 28 July 1871

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 July [1871]

  • Date: July 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dear William O'Connor, I take it by the enclosed from Rossetti that he has sent me the Westminster by

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 July [1871]

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 July [1871]

Walt Whitman to William C. Church and Francis P. Church, 2 November 187[1]

  • Date: November 2, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Walt Whitman to William C. Church and Francis P.

Walt Whitman to William C. and Francis P. Church, 19 May 1871

  • Date: May 19, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Yours truly Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William C. and Francis P. Church, 19 May 1871

Walt Whitman to Stephen J. W. Tabor, 31 October 1871

  • Date: October 31, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:61).

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 June [1871]

  • Date: June 30, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you will see them out all over up & down the bay in swarms—the yachts look beautiful enough, with white

sails & many with white hulls & their long pennants flying—it is a new thing to see them so plenty.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 27 December 1871

  • Date: December 27, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams has been in once or twice—he is a tallish, western sort of man, wears a stove-pipe hat—is rather

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 8 June 1871

  • Date: June 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Understand that, like the new year's Bible, the Photo is a gift, with my best love, to you & William—to

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 29 June [1871]

  • Date: June 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mother is well as usual, & sends love to you & William, & to Jeannie. My sister Martha at St.

Howells, & then I will tell you further—Beulah asked much about you & William, and Jeannie— Nothing special

small—they are literally in scores—I never tire of looking on them—All the young fellows yacht here— Dear William

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
Text:

William thought it "a trifle weak", but I don't think so. I can't always be a roaring lion!'"

Walt Whitman.

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

night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

of their mothers' laps; And here you are the mothers' laps; This grass is very dark to be from the white

The young men float on their backs—their white bel- lies bellies bulge to the sun—they do not ask who

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

[Unidentified Sender] to A. S. H. White, 16 January 1871

  • Date: January 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Unidentified | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, Esq. Acting Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior. ☞ See Ins. B'k B. p. 23...

White, 16 January 1871

This journey

  • Date: about 1871–1874 and about 1891
Text:

White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey

There Was a Child Went Forth.

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

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

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

Sparkles from the Wheel

  • Date: 1871
Text:

Those who envy or calumniate great men, hate God William Blake[.]"

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

those of the grape; Welcome are lands of sugar and rice; Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

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

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

The Sleepers.

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges him- self himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim.

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

Salut Au Monde!

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

of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano; I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-hair'd

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

Rise, O Days, From Your Fathomless Deeps.

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

, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white

Respondez!

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

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Reconciliation.

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

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin —I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

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

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

Old Ireland.

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe sum- mer summer , bears lightly along white

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.

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

bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen;) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

Mannahatta.

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

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Longings for Home.

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

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

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 30 October 1871

  • Date: October 30, 1871
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I hope you & William will be among them.

I wrote quite a long letter to William which I hope he received.

James Speed to William N. Grover, 24 August 1871

  • Date: August 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): James Speed | Walt Whitman
Text:

file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger James Speed to William

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

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

waves—In such, Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine, Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

I Sing the Body Electric.

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

man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person; The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white

deliciously aching; Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quiver- ing quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

Faces

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

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors.

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

(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white

Drum-Taps.

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

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The white

Delicate Cluster.

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

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

bay to notice the arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses, The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

Come Up From the Fields, Father.

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

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

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

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

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

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

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

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