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The journey from Falmouth to Washington was made in two parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing,
After the war, the poet rented a room in the 3-story brick building shown directly next to the Corcoran
He died on August 2, 1863.
Press, 1981), 2.
Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 2: 625.
poet who previously had seen himself as the singer of songs for "The States" (l. 43), like Whitman in parts
The five-line fourth poem ("This moment as I sit alone") announces the poet's thought (part hope, part
(l. 46) and answers that it is the parting of two men on a pier: "The one to remain hung on the other's
of a love affair with a man, along with a story of a coming out that affects Whitman's other poetry
Nina Baym, et al., 2 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994), I, 2,097–2,101.