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Search : River
Year : 1891

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A Broadway Pageant.

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

from the Altay moun- tains mountains , From Thibet Tibet , from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

the mothers of families, Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Calvin H. Greene to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1891

  • Date: May 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Calvin H. Greene
Text:

I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, Stars, rivers.

You are borne on the tides of eager and Swift rivers, O boating on the rivers!

Otherways, there, atwixt the banks of the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Tombigbee, the Red River

running. hear the rush & roar of cataracts as they fall beneath the seven-hued arch, I see the Great River

Upon the plains west of the Spinal river—yet in my house of adobe.

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine.

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

and hope continuing on the same, Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; Of you, my Land—your rivers

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 26 May 1891

  • Date: May 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
Text:

How fast they are fading away on this side of the river.

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1891)

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

Cluster: Birds of Passage. (1891)

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

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: Calamus. (1891)

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

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

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

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1891)

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

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1891)

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1891)

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

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

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

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

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1891)

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

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

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

sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river

and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river

I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old, Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

9 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb- tide ebbtide !

The Dalliance of the Eagles.

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1891

  • Date: July 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

across the water at the gleaming lights of Camden where I knew were; when, next morning I ferried the River

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

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

first swallows of this spring, darting high overhead or skimming the sunlit waters of the beautiful River

all the fun of the fair" I strolled along the banks of my beloved "Annan Water"—a really beauitiful river

This little river is associated with the happy days of my childhood & it was with a swelling heart that

Eidólons.

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

Eighteen Sixty-One.

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

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

For You O Democracy.

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

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers. FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

I Sing the Body Electric.

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

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

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

I propose to leave here on Tuesday morning for New York via Kingston, Albany, & the Hudson River.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1891

  • Date: October 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

been beautiful & I have enjoyed the ride very much indeed—especially down the lovely valley of Mohawk River

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1891

  • Date: October 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

beautiful & luxuriously fitted steamboat was itself extremely interesting to begin with—Then the noble river

with cirrus clouds glowing warm golden on the underside, delicate pearl above—the reflections in the river

Jennie Wren to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1891

  • Date: March 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): Jennie Wren
Text:

trust you have enjoyed these three days of sunshine and that you have been able to go down to the river

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Mannahatta.

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

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Me Imperturbe.

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

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Not the Pilot.

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

baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers

O Magnet-South.

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

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

Others May Praise What They Like.

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

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

Our Old Feuillage.

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

unno- ticed unnoticed , Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers

returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse, On rivers

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

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

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

Outlines for a Tomb.

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

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Passage to India.

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

sage-deserts, I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river

Elk mountain and wind around its base, I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river

Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up

O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing.

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

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

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

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

easy for him), and farther on, to the horizon, where sparsely filled squares stretched to the East River

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers

The Return of the Heroes.

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and

blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
Text:

Arrived at the edge of the Delaware River by the aid of this yoked and tamed lightning, a prodigious

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