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'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
Text:

Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
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was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed

surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

  • Date: August 31, 1862
  • Creator(s): W. W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
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We have a "youngest" a year old who is a nobleman and beauty who must have a good nurse in order that

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
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I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, " Warry, shift,''he pain in hisside

Wilkins days ETC. 01 MEMORIES, LETTERS, has my young Kanuck, my nurse and helper Dr.

Horace [Traubel] and my nurse Ed. have gone prospecting to Phila :for a suitableout-door chairfor me

My ypung nurse isdown stairslearning his fiddle lesson. Sun shining out to-day. '90.

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt said that Lowell, on his sick-bed, was bothered with nurses and doctors, and had said,"Can't you

Elizabeth Leavitt Keller was Whitman's last nurse, and is a writer about him.

words that he was led to disbelieve in Walt's kind-heartedness (think of that in the case of a war nurse

I giveto Warren Fritzinger (my nurse) $200. I order and direct that Mary O.

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (nurse), Longfellow and Whitman, false articlein Putnam's by, 99. story about

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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referring to his nurse, "Warry," as his sailor boy, he said that he had been of great service to him

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, "Warry, shift," the pain in his side

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888

  • Date: December 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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you & your hospital work, & realized for the first time the awful strain it must have been on you nurses

And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

The child must have had a memory to remember her firstlesso— that of toddling from mother to nurse !

Babington, head the nurse, and we have also of Lying-in Hospital, so I feel sure all isbeing done for

That nurse, from allmy girlssay of her,seems tobe a most anxious painstaking woman.

— The nurse thinks that by next week Anne willbe quite up to her work. ...

Pray ask your 'nurse' and your 'sunshine' toaccept my love.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
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Nature supplied the place of bride with suffering to be nursed and scenes to be poetically clothed.

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
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which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
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He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

The Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
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"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 April 1863

  • Date: April 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
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I have five young ladies who act in the capacity of nurses—i e, one of them is French , young and beautiful

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Other notebooks contain notes Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals in Washington

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
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Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
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(December 1862) precipitated Walt's departure to the Washington, D.C., area and ultimately to his nursing

The former depicts a setting with one soldier nursing his dying companion that could almost accompany

description of the possible house—she expressed her appreciation for the two devoted companions who were nursing

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
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Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

Walter M. Rew to Walt Whitman, [1890–1892]

  • Date: 1890–1892; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walter M. Rew | Unknown author
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These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

He became a bookseller, worked as a nurse's assistant, then studied medicine in Leipzig, where he specialized

From the spring of 1863 onward, this nursing in the field, and in the hospitals at Washington, was his

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

In the 60s, just after the had appeared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and took part in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and,

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
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personal presence and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism" that he was able to help, than by "medical nursing

He gives fine praise to the surgeons, nurses and soldiers—"not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have

and many a mother's son amid strangers passing away untended there, for the crowd was too much for nurse

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The woman nurse in this Ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady nurses of other Wards.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.

Wright, of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

Complete Prose Works

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some of the nurses are excellent. The woman-nurse in this ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady-nurses of other wards.

Each has its ward surgeon and corps of nurses.

FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Drum-Taps (1865)

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

determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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attached him inseparably though not rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing

From the spring of 1863, this nursing, both in the field and more especially in hospital at Washington

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

argue—I bend my head close, and half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a heroic opportunity indeed, and he used it like a hero, serving with passionate devotedness as a nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

The Poet Laureate as Philosopher and Peer

  • Date: After February 1, 1884; 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Stevens Salt | Ernest Radford
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surgery-schools of France, and addicted to the worst practices of vivisection, who roughly informs the hospital nurse

residence; or Leoline, in "Aylmer's Field," committing suicide on the news of Edith's death; or the nurse

The Tragedies of Euripedes

  • Date: November 14, 1889; 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Euripedes | Theodore Alois Buckley
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—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

Long Island

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. — silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.— Transcribed

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Arrived there, the kindness of Violet did not pause at any attentions or motherly nursings.

The Reformed

  • Date: November 17, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She had employment from a number of families, who hired her at intervals to cook, nurse, and wash for

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

The true friends of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

American Feuillage.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Drum-Taps.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

City Photographs

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

THE NURSES. Some of the nurses are real characters, and favorable specimens, at that.

Jackson, who has been a nurse here for thirty years.

I saw another nurse among the soldiers in the North Building, Mrs.

sketch of that establishment could be fair unless it put in a word about Aunty Robinson, a colored nurse

creature has all the appearance of one of the most favorable samples of the Southern mammy , or house nurse

The Great Washington Hospitals

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

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

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