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Over and through the burial chant

  • Date: 12 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

When reprinted in "Good-Bye My Fancy," the poem included the note, "General Sheridan was buried at the

To the Year 1889

  • Date: 5 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is

Old-Age Echoes

  • Date: March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

poems published as the cluster "Old Age Echoes" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in Good-bye My

To the Sunset Breeze

  • Date: December 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

My Canary Bird

  • Date: 2 March 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My Canary Bird

Annotations Text:

mentions in a letter to Richard Maurice Bucke on February 16, 1888: "it is chilly here as I finish this—my

Queries to My Seventieth Year

  • Date: 2 May 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Queries to My Seventieth Year

Sea Captains, Young or Old

  • Date: 4 April 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sea Captains, Young or Old

For Queen Victoria's Birthday

  • Date: 24 May 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital

Death of the Nature-Lover

  • Date: 4 (11 March 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

A Twilight Song

  • Date: May 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of

Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's

  • Date: February 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

My 71st Year

  • Date: November 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My 71st Year

Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Bravo, Paris Exposition!

  • Date: 28 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: 12 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

My Departure

  • Date: 27 November 1839
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My Departure

Old Chants

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Transcribed from a digital image of a micfrofilm copy of an original

The Pallid Wreath

  • Date: 10 January 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Shakespere Bacon's Cipher

  • Date: October 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

O Captain! My Captain!

  • Date: 4 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O Captain! My Captain!

Poemet

  • Date: 4 February 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves

Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L. I.

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1644 Captain John Underhill led forces against a group of American Indians, killing about 120.

Annotations Text:

.”; In 1644 Captain John Underhill led forces against a group of American Indians, killing about 120.

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am under obligations to them both, for their courtesy during my visits, and for professional explanations

P. with gentle but firm hand, holding a pair of nippers, seemed to me larger than the end joint of my

yellow blue handkerchief around her head, and such an expression on her face, that I at once made up my

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

But my sketch must close for this week, or rather, be suspended, to give in another article, in the next

What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?

  • Date: 27 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To my knowledge it is understood by Col. Mulford, Major John E.

In my opinion the Secretary has taken and obstinately held a position of cold-blooded policy, (that is

Major General Butler, in my opinion, has also incorporated in the question of exchange a needless amount

In my opinion, the anguish and death of these ten to fifteen thousand American young men, with all the

The Great Washington Hospitals

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

They have taken up my principal time and labor for some months past.

I always carry some, cut up in small plugs, in my pocket.

I thought I would include in my letter a few cases of soldiers, especially interesting, out of my note-book

, but I find my story has already been spun out to sufficient length.

Nor do I find it ended by my doing some good to the sick and dying soldiers.

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From the first I found it necessary to systematize my doings, and, among other things, always kept little

note-books for impromptu jottings in pencil to refresh my memory of names and circumstances and what

But before entering on my personal memoranda of the war, I have one or two thoughts to ventilate before

ABRAHAM LINCOLN—MY FIRST SIGHT AND IMPRESSION OF HIM.

It reads: 'I cannot survive the loss of the liberties of my country.'") THE EVE OF A LONG WAR.

A Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One

  • Date: 19 January 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman, Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the

December, 1862, was commissioned as Captain; all these steps for conduct in the field.

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman, Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years, served in the New

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

give even a mere resume of the movements, service, fights, marches, sufferings of the 51st since, as my

He likes his position of Captain of Company G, in which rank he started from Palace Garden; and the men

Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded in

A letter from his Captain says: Five of our color guard had either been killed or disabled, when Byram

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is another characteristic scene of the dark and bloody year 1863, from notes of my visit to Armory

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

A GLIMPSE FROM MY NOTES.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all and slighted none.

It has given me my plainest and most fervent views of the true ensemble and extent of the States.

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

MY VISITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my rambles, I use them as landmarks.

I have already distributed quite a large amount of money, put in my hands for that purpose by benevolent

I regularly carry a haversack with me, and my coat has two of the biggest kind of pockets. [ To be Continued

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I sometimes found the man a corpse in the morning by whose side I laid my self down at night.

In spite of my efforts he would sometimes rise, and then I had to close in with him, trip up his heels

By one of these thrusts, more spiteful and violent than common, I had a narrow escape of my life.

No English physician, or any one from the city, ever to my knowledge came near us.

My constitution was less muscular and plethoric, and I escaped the fever longer than any of the thirteen

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Titus, The John Titus mentioned here is probably the same John Titus who served as a captain in

Annotations Text:

.; The John Titus mentioned here is probably the same John Titus who served as a captain in the militia

Brooklyniana, No. 14

  • Date: 8 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A Fire Company was formed, consisting of seven members, for one year; namely, Henry Stanton, captain;

number of firemen was increased to eleven, and the following were elected members: Stephen Baldwin, Captain

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Last fall, our readers may remember, Major Whitman (then Captain) was spoken of by us as at that time

Promoted to Captain. February, 1863.—Left Falmouth with regiment. April, May, etc.

We allude to Captain Daniel E.

District of our city, a brave officer, who fell mortally wounded in May, 1864, in the Wilderness; Captain

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Captain George W.

Captain Whitman, leaving the Rappahannock with his regiment in February, 1863, now went round with them

many, that a shell, whose explosion had killed two of his company and seriously hurt a third, struck Captain

Petersburg (Virginia, June 9 and June 15–18, 1864) were Confederate victories. and down the Weldon road, Captain

Annotations Text:

.; Captain George W.

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall remember that dinner to my dying day. We pulled up stakes, and put for home.

and ghost stories, and sang country ditties; but the night and the scene mellowed all, and it came to my

I made my bed in the furled sail, watching the stars as they twinkled, and falling asleep so.

right; but as for me, I fancied I felt the mercury dwindling down, down, down into the very calves of my

Brooklyniana, No. 38

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Even to my unscientific eyes there were innumerable wonders and beauties all along the shore, and edges

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

But to the account of my adventures (for it is now necessary to drop the editorial "we,") last fall,

hook again with "fiddlers," while the fish floundered at a great rate around my feet.

word, accoutred as I was, I plunged—the fish—into an old tin kettle, and gave them, with sixpence and my

the wharf with a boat-hook, and offering his shoulder for me to step on—though, as he was about half my

divided the water—to lie on my back and gaze by the half-hour at the passing clouds overhead—merely

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ball for Lincoln's Second Inauguration was held in the Patent Office on March 6, 1865. ) and write my

the music will sound and the dancers' feet presently tread—what a different scene they presented to my

But I forego that reception, and finish off with something I have on my mind about no more uncommon topic

Greenport, L. I., June 25. a machine readablewith transcription

  • Date: 27 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Having neither the funds nor disposition to pass my little term of ruralizing at the fashionable baths

That is, my lodging place is at Greenport; but, in truth, I "circulate" in all directions around.

found on the coasts of Long Island between spring and late fall. however, are the most delicious, to my

Can there be any thing of the old gossip in my composition?

Bathing in this pure, clear, salt water, twice every day, is one of my best pleasures.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth

Greenport, L. I. June 28th

  • Date: 28 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Indeed, had there been a little hurrahing, we might (my companion and I,) have fancied ourselves some

Lighting his pipe very deliberately, he proceeded to catechise me as to my name, birth-place, and lineage—where

I was from last, where I was staying, what my occupation was, and so on.

He volunteered the information that he was a Universalist in his religious belief, and asked my opinion

now pretty far advanced, Aunt Rebby wended on her way towards the east; and the old man, with I and my

Letters from Paumanok

  • Date: 14 August 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

So with wool-hat crushed in my hand behind me, for the sundown breezes felt good, there on old "Clover

I took my time, and expanded to the glory spread over heaven and earth.

It seemed as if all that the eye could bear, were unequal to the fierce voracity of my soul for intense

His feelings were not returned. with all her blandishments, never touched my heart in the least.

I write as I feel; and I feel that there are not a few who will pronounce a Yes to my own confessions

Number IV

  • Date: 4 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For my own part, I have more than once chosen the latter alternative.

In my next letter, I shall take the reader 'way to the jumping off place of the island. P AUMANOK .

Number III

  • Date: 28 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I know from the frequent bent of my own feelings, that yearning for the freshness and quiet of the country—that

published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain

Yes, Messrs. of the city: I have found no precept more strongly taught, by my rambles among this often

An old woman, the mistress of the place, bustled about, and regaled my repast with many words: her husband

nine children lived home—they had no servants—that they were rich—and that they seized ravenously on my

Annotations Text:

published as a two-volume book in the United States in 1848, entitled The History of Rinaldo Rinaldini, Captain

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am convinced of one thing, (I must say my say out,) that even cleaning and salting fish for a few hours

I've no idea of losing my dog by a darned shirk!"

On the same occasion there was the prettiest of marine exhibitions—prettier, to my eyes, than any New

in, and throwing out of those lines, and the rapid depositing of fish in the boats, which seemed, to my

My friends on sea-bass intent (they were waiting for a particular wind, or something to complete their

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains

Annotations Text:

to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains

City Photographs—No. IV

  • Date: 12 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Wishing to make my parting bow to this worthy old establishment, by bringing things up to date, I took

The ward devoted to these cases was only sparsely filled at the time of my visit of last Wednesday.

One Sunday night, in a ward in the South Building, I spent one of the most agreeable evenings of my life

I see evidences of her having been there, almost always, on my visits.

At the time of my visit on Wednesday, there were several soldiers brought in from the 105th New York

City Photographs—No. VI

  • Date: 3 May 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My first personal knowledge of the Bowery Theatre was about twenty-seven or eight years ago, when I was

All these are among my hobbledehoy dramatic reminiscences.

At first, I remember, I used to go with other boys, my pals; but I afterward preferred to go alone, I

was so absorbed in the performance, and disliked any one to distract my attention.

From what I have gleaned of old stage-frequenters, here and abroad, I have made up my mind that in a

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"My soul ascends Above the Stars."

My poor handkerchief, when I pulled it from my pocket the next morning, was what the wolverines might

I had done it in the agonies between my laughter and attempted decorum.

The captain gets his sixteenth or twentieth "lay," and one or two others share equally well; but the

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