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One vol. 12mo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.), 352pp. containing all his poems under the headings "Inscription,"
of you & he taking dinner together in New York, but the best was that you was pretty well Your Nov 1
One of these recently published is History; Ireland Vol 1 Critical & Philosophical.
My other works are History of Ireland Heroic Period Vols 1 & 2, an epical representation chiefly of Cuculain's
U S America Boston, Oct October 5 188 1 Trübner & Co : Dear Sirs Osgood & Co: of this city, who have
September 13 188 1 Dear Mr.
the good times I have had, past summers—& show this letter to them, if they wish— It is now nearly 1,
All students should be registered on or before July 1, 1881, at the office of the Secretary, in Concord
Concord, July 1, 1881. LECTURERS AND SUBJECTS, 1881. Mr. A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Dean of the Faculty.
HARRIS'S FIRST COURSE,—PHILOSOPHICAL DISTINCTIONS. 1.
Two Lectures: 1. Philosophy in Europe and America . 2. The Results of Kant Miss ELIZABETH P.
Three Lectures on Literature and National Life : 1.
Broadway nr near Sheffield 1. July.
Your friend Edward Carpenter good letter from Edward Carpenter July 1 '81 Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman
, 1 July 1881
March 24th 1881. 1. These to embalm a day to keep fresh its memory forever. 2.
Boston, June 3 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 1st recd.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey June 1 '81 My dear Mr Osgood Yours of May 31 just rec'd received
Osgood, 1 June 1881
Boston, May 31 188 1 Dear Mr Whitman: Your copy came duly to hand, and we have considered the matter,
Boston, May 23 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 20th recd.
[London,] May 22 d [188]1 Dear Walt I was in hopes we should have seen you here before this time —our
Boston, May 12 188 1. Dear W Whitman Your letter of May 8 reached here during my absence.
turned out far ahead of what I had any idea of—it was not a very large room, but it was packed full (at $1
I have sent an order for £1-7-0. for the Leaves of Grass—on 'Camden Post Office.'
February 1, 1881 Yours rec'd received and very opportunely —all today has been the dismalest of this
Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 1 February 1881
Jany January 22 188 1 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear Sir: I take great pleasure acknowledging the receipt of
afraid for me to venture it—his nag is pretty lively, (but I should have liked that all the better)— 1½
(No. 1) before it was published in Specimen Days and finally collected in Complete Prose Works (1892)
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984] 1:
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE. 1 AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK. 1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd
SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
SONG OF THE ANSWERER. 1 NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother's bowels drawn, Wooded flesh
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION. 1 (AH little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
(To Confront a Portrait.) 1 OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this