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THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
U S America Boston, Oct October 5 188 1 Trübner & Co : Dear Sirs Osgood & Co: of this city, who have
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
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
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
the good times I have had, past summers—& show this letter to them, if they wish— It is now nearly 1,
afraid for me to venture it—his nag is pretty lively, (but I should have liked that all the better)— 1½
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S A — Jan: 1 '81 Was sorry—extremely sorry—to hear of your illness—trust
you all had merry Christmas & New Year's—Cold & deep snow here— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 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
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
TO THINK OF TIME. 1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection, To think of to-day, and the ages continued
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD. 1 THOU Mother with thy equal brood, Thou varied chain of different
March 24th 1881. 1. These to embalm a day to keep fresh its memory forever. 2.
I have sent an order for £1-7-0. for the Leaves of Grass—on 'Camden Post Office.'
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK. 1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd
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
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH. 1 A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE. 1 A CALIFORNIA song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION. 1 (AH little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother's bowels drawn, Wooded flesh
SONG OF THE ANSWERER. 1 NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities
SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
[London,] May 22 d [188]1 Dear Walt I was in hopes we should have seen you here before this time —our
One vol. 12mo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.), 352pp. containing all his poems under the headings "Inscription,"
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM. 1 PROUD music of the storm, Blast that careers so free, whistling across the
PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong
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
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
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!
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984] 1:
(No. 1) before it was published in Specimen Days and finally collected in Complete Prose Works (1892)
Boston, May 31 188 1 Dear Mr Whitman: Your copy came duly to hand, and we have considered the matter,
Boston, June 3 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 1st recd.
Boston, May 23 188 1 Dear W Whitman Yours of 20th recd.