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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
A BROADWAY PAGEANT. 1 OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded
BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 BY blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd
Jany January 22 188 1 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear Sir: I take great pleasure acknowledging the receipt of
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
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
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,
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
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,
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
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
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
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
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
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
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.
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
of you & he taking dinner together in New York, but the best was that you was pretty well Your Nov 1
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
Boston, May 12 188 1. Dear W Whitman Your letter of May 8 reached here during my absence.
September 13 188 1 Dear Mr.
Boston, May 23 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 20th recd.
Boston, June 3 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 1st recd.
Boston, May 31 188 1 Dear Mr Whitman: Your copy came duly to hand, and we have considered the matter,
(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:
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!
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
(To Confront a Portrait.) 1 OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM. 1 PROUD music of the storm, Blast that careers so free, whistling across the
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
One vol. 12mo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.), 352pp. containing all his poems under the headings "Inscription,"
[London,] May 22 d [188]1 Dear Walt I was in hopes we should have seen you here before this time —our
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
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
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE. 1 A CALIFORNIA song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal