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Search : William White
Year : 1881

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Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 21 December 1881

  • Date: December 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

poems &c. as my Christmas offering —with affectionate remembrances— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 12 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) was an English mathematician who also wrote on philosophy.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1881

  • Date: November 27, 1881
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

He was a heart's ease growing in the shadow: the leaves are turning white from want of sun!

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) was an English author.

Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 21 November [1881]

  • Date: November 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:272.

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

New Publications

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

After the dilettante indelicacies of William H.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I gave them the same,

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Our Boston Literary Letter

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Walt Whitman's Work

  • Date: 6 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 25 October [1881]

  • Date: October 25, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good roads—one young lady I fell in with near where I was living had a team of her own, two handsome white

Standish James O'Grady to Walt Whitman, 5 October 1881

  • Date: October 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Standish James O'Grady
Text:

For myself I can safely say that except William Rolleston no reader or student of your poetry has studied

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman, 18 September 1881

  • Date: September 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bride groom—I think him a lucky man— Well I must close at once, for here comes a fine lively team of white

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [August(?) 1881]

  • Date: August 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

"The Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 24 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Walt Whitman in Huntington

  • Date: 5 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Spring; Benjamin Doty, of same place; in West Hills, Lemuel Carll, John Chichester, Miss Jane Rome, William

Franklin B. Sanborn to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1881

  • Date: July 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Franklin B. Sanborn
Text:

July and October, to be issued in September and October; and orders for these numbers may be sent to WILLIAM

Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 14 July 1881

  • Date: July 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My sister is at the White

Elisa Seaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 22 June 1881

  • Date: June 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): Elisa Seaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

I turned, and there in the doorway she stood, her tall figure, with a white turban on her head, her figure

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 June 1881

  • Date: June 17, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:244).

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company, 7 June 1881

  • Date: June 7, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

typographical show of my poems—how they shall show (negatively as well as absolutely) on the black & white

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1881

  • Date: June 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti is writing a hundred sonnets—writes one a day; one about John Brown is not bad: and

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 4 June [1881]

  • Date: June 4, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

of light, the March-wind blows upon the Wicklow hills; Blows from over the blue Channel, making the white

like a dream again— And again the same hills and rocks, again the Sky, again the blue Channel with white

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 18 April 1881

  • Date: April 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

The Rossetti's too have been to see us—we didn't think William in the best health or spirits—& his wife

Walt Whitman to Albert D. Shaw, 9 April 1881

  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:237.

Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 9 April 1881

  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William D. O'Connor of Washington, Life Saving Service Bureau to write for you?

Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881

  • Date: March 31, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:235).

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 25 February [1881]

  • Date: February 25, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 25 February [1881]

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 10 February [1881]

  • Date: February 10, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

—I am, sir, William Rolleston. thrown into a panic of such proceedings.

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 2 February 1881

  • Date: February 2, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Walt Whitman to Horace Howard Furness, 26 January 1881

  • Date: January 26, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman sent Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets on the same day; see William White, "Unrecorded Whitman

C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881

  • Date: January 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): C. B. Burr
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:220).

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

  • Date: January 20, 1881
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 6 January 1881

  • Date: January 6, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

imperious waves, 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, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

Cluster: Birds of Passage. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blowsouth, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

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

WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare

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

Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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

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

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

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