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Your horizon rises—I see it parting away for more august dramas; I see not America only—I see not only

advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I—it is You; We touch

and am all, and believe in all; I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true— I reject no part

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

—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

Buxton Forman's Our Living Poets (1871), 2, which also included two prefatory quotations from Walt Whitman

nothing, sleeping a good deal, eating & drinking what suits me, and going out a few hours a day, a good part

Washington, Nov. 2, 187– I offer the enclosed Poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" for the January number, 1872

Church, 2 November 187[1]

Pearson, Jr., "Story of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Edward Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:828; and Daybooks and Notebooks, ed.

as a fellow can be—eat & sleep tremendous—Shall stay here a week or so longer—shall be back first part

killed, over a hundred wounded—but you have seen all about it in papers—it was all up in a distant part

.; Horace Traubel, ed., With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 2:448).

Helen Price was here & spent part of the day—She is looking finely—they are all as usual—it was John

for not replying to it before,) I have to inform you that some time ago Dion Thomas, bookseller, 2d story

[unfilled space] | Filed June 2, 1871."

with the baby & all you women—what jolly times you must have—I wish I could just drop in and take part

in them— With me, nothing very new or special—I am well & hearty—feel first-rate the greater part of

Emily Price's baby; Whitman reported the birth in his August 2, 1870 letter to William D. O'Connor.

Gurney and Son, 1871 Horace Traubel dates this photograph as during the Civil War, but it is clearly part

the wood, and become undis- guised undisguised and naked; I am mad for it to be in contact with me. 2

If I worship one thing more than another, it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it.

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

List to the story as my grandmother's father, the sailor, told it to me.

is but a part.

balk me, The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part

going with me leaves peace and routine behind him, And stakes his life, to be lost at any moment.) 2

heroes and martyrs, And when all life, and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be dis- charged discharged from that part

fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself. 2

despite of people—Illustrates evil as well as good; How many hold despairingly yet to the models de- parted

all its horrors, serves, And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of death. 2

through the sod, and turn it up under- neath underneath ; I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick per- son person —Yet behold!

time1871-1875prose1 leafhandwritten; This prose manuscript fragment, heavily revised, appears to be part

forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, 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

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

SUGGESTIONS. 1 THAT whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person —That is finally right. 2 That the

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

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

, and passing on; Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd

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. 15 Whoever you are!

it is impossible for me to get rid of them; I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.) 2

From all that has been near you, I believe you have im- parted imparted to yourselves, and now would

evident and amicable with me. 4 The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part

; 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

emblem, dabs of music; Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ. 2

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

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

And take the young woman's hand, and the young man's hand, for the last time. 2 I announce natural persons

money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions—all, all sleep. 2

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

2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens; Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is pro

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

1888 Maybury Working Station Surrey England Nov 3 1871 My dear sir, I send by this mail the second part

globe uprisen around me; Yet there with my soul I fed—I fed content, super- cilious supercilious . 2

Leaves of Grass Washington, D.C. 1871. 2. Passage to India Washington , D.C. 1871. 3.

His critics have, for the most part, confined their attention to the personality of the man; they have

studied him, for the most part, as a phenomenon isolated from the surrounding society, the environment

If a human being is to be honoured as such, then every part of a human being is to be honoured.

His pupil must part from him as soon as possible, and go upon his own way.

2 For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

touch you, For I could not die till I once look'd on you, For I fear'd I might afterwards lose you. 2

(Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe; Return in peace to the ocean, my love; I too am part of

his brother, and for men, and I an- swer answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs. 2

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.

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

About the same time that I received your volumes I got a letter from Kate Hillard, (a brilliant girl

Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:840).

article in question—Roden Noel's "A Study of Walt Whitman: The Poet of Modern Democracy" (Dark Blue 2

I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2

is of 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 im- palpable impalpable so exist; No consummation exists

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

February 8, 1871 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

, 1871 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:362).The Graphic

to morrow he went fishing wensday Wednesday and caught lots of very large blue fish he brought home 2

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American Studies 50.1/2

brooklyn Brooklyn yesterday i had 5 ladies to tea) if you get this friday Friday i wish you would send me 2

dollars george George sent me 2 dollars i rather look for him saturday Saturday if he dont don't come

cited Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

to January 1, 1872 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977], 2:369).

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2: