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/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of
gave him not one inch, but held on and night near the helpless fogged wreck, over leaf How the lank white
. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and
"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green
William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New
White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,
William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New
White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,
Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and
Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William
, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William
William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.
William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.
disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William
White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.
the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White