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  • 1891 78
Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
Year : 1891

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Assurances.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

A Boston Ballad.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

The Centenarian's Story.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute

Cluster: Calamus. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is play

- ing playing within me.

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

up here, soul, soul, Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Around the idea of thee the war revolving, With all its angry and vehement play of causes, (With vast

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!

Death of General Grant.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As one by one withdraw the lofty actors, From that great play on history's stage eterne, That lurid,

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The wooden pillow had "the feathers the wrong way up": the tapping & pounding was "playing the piano

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1891

  • Date: January 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

thousands on the Town Hall Square—the great central open space in the town—to listen to the band which plays

midnight & upon the last stroke of 12 everybody wishes everybody else a "Happy New Year," the band then playing

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The birds sang & twittered joyously in the swaying & rustling trees overhead & a gentle breeze played

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

childhood & it was with a swelling heart that I again looked upon the dear old spots where we used to play

Essay. Leaves of Grass (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: 12 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

"Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

  • Date: 5 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Annotations Text:

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 22 September [1891]

  • Date: September 22, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

  • Date: May 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Annotations Text:

The play was given its first performance on May 7, 1886, in the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, by

Horace L. Traubel to Walt Whitman, 10 June 1891

  • Date: June 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Annotations Text:

King Edward VII, Gordon-Cumming was confronted and pressured to sign a document that he would not play

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

As we approached along the avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining over head

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1891

  • Date: April 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

is referencing Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

—I liked too to get out into the "bush"—chipmunks calling & playing about me—one little fellow descending

a tree in front of me & playing about for fully 5 minutes before running off amid the rustling leaves

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

Giacosa —the Shakspear of Italy—whose Play on Wed. night at the Standard Theater Sarah Bernhard Bernhardt

Annotations Text:

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) starred in stage productions of popular French plays in

She had roles in plays by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas and played males roles, including Shakespeare's

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Margrave Kenyon to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1891

  • Date: February 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Margrave Kenyon
Text:

powers far greater than Irving's, if you can see special merit & a new great teaching in the Norse play

As publishers do not care to buy the play, I cannot get into public notice.

Annotations Text:

The full name of this play is Madansema, Slave of Love; re Tolstoi, a counter-song to anti-marriage,

Clara Jecks (1854–1951) was an English actress and singer who often played the roles of either young

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Mary A. Jordan to Walt Whitman, 8 March 1891

  • Date: March 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Mary A. Jordan
Text:

Probably you do not, nor that you used to be very good to them, playing "tag" and marbles with them—now

My Canary Bird.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books, Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays

Native Moments.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

O Me! O Life!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is play

- ing playing within me.

Old Chants.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays

Our Old Feuillage.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rest standing, they are too tired, Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play

evening, the musket-muz- zles musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play

Out From Behind This Mask.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

The Pallid Wreath.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever; For but last night I woke, and in that spectral

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
Text:

glad I could manage to brew some tea, and equally delighted to make the old, slow, quizzical smile play

Proud Music of the Storm.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and strength, all hues we know, Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play

all the rest, maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing

Raymond Blathwayt to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1891

  • Date: April 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Raymond Blathwayt
Annotations Text:

He was also a very successful dramatist; he wrote numerous plays that became West End and Broadway productions

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1891

  • Date: November 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

The Asylum band was out in front of the house and they played quite a while to welcome me home.

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