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

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

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

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

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

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

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

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

piercing 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

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

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

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

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

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

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

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

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

Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while, Scarlet and blue and snowy white

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

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

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

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

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

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

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

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

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

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

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

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

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

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

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

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

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

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

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!

bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,) I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

meas- ureless measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

of the rifle-balls, I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking

bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot- houses pilot-houses , The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

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

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

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

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