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commits homicide—(the victim is Jack's father)—He is arrested the shock is too much for him—while in prison
The cover of the notebook is labeled "Note Book Walt Whitman 82" in a hand that is not Whitman's.
The cover of the notebook is labeled "Note Book Walt Whitman 82" in a hand that is not Whitman's.; Transcribed
A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth
Vernon, / What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison
On the cover of the notebook is a note in an unknown hand that reads: "Note Book Walt Whitman E85."
On the cover of the notebook is a note in an unknown hand that reads: "Note Book Walt Whitman E85."
knife in his hands,"—such was the warning sung out at night more than once below in the Old Jersey prison
—The prisoners were allowed no light at night.— No physicians were allowed provided.— Sophocles, Eschylus
of which we know—amid the never enough praised spread of common education and common newspapers and books—amid
—Since the deposition of the king, the prisons had been filled, with suspected persons; on the 2nd of
Caractacus sought to free his country, was taken prisoner and carried to Rome.—"Alas!
What stuff passes for poetry in the world What awkward and ill-bouncing riders What is printed in books
second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books
, ornamenters, makers of carpeting, marble mantels, curtains, good soft seats, morocco binding for books