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City Lunch N.Y.
Express, Oct. 21, 1856 "But for the American party, the Northern, sectional, geographical party of Wm
poem of the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass.
To you endless an To you, these, to report nature, man, politics, from an American point of view.
Lo, interminable intersecting streets in cities, full of living people, coming and going!
(See Bowers, Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] A Parallel Text [Chicago: The University of
It is of course possible, however, that parts of the notebook were inscribed before and/or after the
Much of the notebook is devoted to draft material for the 1860 poem eventually titled "Starting from
brief passage (on the verso of leaf 25) seems clearly to have contributed to "Song at Sunset," another 1860
It is unclear which pages were inscribed first; furthermore, several of the leaves have become detached
I know a rich capitalist who, out of his wealth, built a marble church, the most splendid in the city
intended to scare away unrest The genuine m M an is not, as would have him, like one of a block of city
" in The American in October 1880.
–1861 , later called "Our Old Feuillage": "Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul
See Holloway, "A Whitman Manuscript," American Mercury 3 (December 1924), 475–480.
See Holloway, "A Whitman Manuscript," American Mercury 3 (December 1924), 475–480.
One passage seems to have contributed to the 1860–1861 poem that Whitman later titled "Our Old Feuillage
Tattler in summer of '42 Statesman in Spring of '43 Democrat in Summer of 44 Wrote for Dem Review, American
Subjects for articles Rapid and temporary mann of American changes of popula for eminent statesmen.
—They would be days for all live all Americans to get on their killing clothes I should advise all living
—Romans left, after being masters for 400 years.— After Romans abdicated, the British were so annoyed
400 years after the arrival of Saxons, they having founded different kingdoms, and, quarrelled—all were
Black Presence in Whitman's Manuscripts," in Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (Iowa City
The original notebook is one of several that were lost during World War II, and its current whereabouts
with other text supplied from Emory Holloway, Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City
loosely to ideas expressed in the poem "A Song of Joys," first published as "Poem of Joys" in the 1860
the Crossing the Fulton ferry to-day, I met an old acquaintance, to-day whom I had missed from the city
took hold of some scheme or claim before upon the legislature, and lobbied for it;—he helped men who were
: "If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfacees, and all the palpable life, were
What w W hat can may you conceive of or propound name to me in the future, that were a greater miracle
Lines from the notebook were used in "Song of Myself," a version of which was published in the 1855 Leaves
the fourth poem in the 1855 Leaves; and "A Song of Joys," which appeared as "Poem of Joys" in the 1860
leave to live, as of no not as of right of its own, but by special favor; snufflin snivelling how it were
—I should be assured certain enough that those attributes were not in me.— Although it may balk and tremble
—Nature is not a young fellow * In the city when the streets have been long neglected, they heap up banks
—Do you suppose because the American government has been formed, and public schools established, we have
—The prisoners were allowed no light at night.— No physicians were allowed provided.— Sophocles, Eschylus
—Great as their remains are, they were transcended by other works that have not come down to us.
Virtue and about Vice These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.
The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same
These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.
The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same
.— ☞ At a late fire in Cambridge, Mass., while the flames were consuming the lower part of a dwelling
The Goldsboro' Patriot states the case as follows: "They were the children of a free negro by the name
They were consequently his slaves, and, he having become involved, they were sold for his debts."