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Oulipo, and numerous occasional practitioners such as John Ashbery, whose catalog poem of the world’s rivers

of local news, and frequently did his own legwork on news stories in Brooklyn and across the East River

In “Sun-Down Poem” he stresses the shared material of water in the river and, more problematically, the

odditwasforareviewtocontainsuchdetailsaboutitssubjectas“six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer inthe river

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Camden is reached by a ferry crossing the Delaware River from this city, and, but for being in a different

It so happened that when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river

borrowed from Whitman's line in "Song of Myself," "Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

MaireMullins"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)This poem was initially

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, and then by government steamer up the Potomac River

Evenings were reserved for moonlit walks along the Potomac River that had Whitman reciting Shakespeare's

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers

I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).

In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with

Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose

The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the

The headline reads: "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr.

Do you remember the nice sail we had that night on the lake and river, I will never forget it, you, and

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

The first, 1848-49: To Louisiana, the “great river,” New Orleans and the “magnet south” and on the way

equated to “From Pent-up Aching Rivers.”

"I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

In the specific case of art, we have also seen how he loves to compare his songs to a plant, a river,

and Nights” (117), “Hudson River Sights,” “Departing of the Big Steamers” (p. 125), and “Only a New

.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

Hopple and ball at ancles, and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

Nacht darauf führt Washington den Rest seiner geschlagenen Truppen im Schutze des Nebels über den East River

Long Island, während der folgenden Jahre anschwellen und sich mit dem gegenüber, jenseits des East River

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

working expedition(my brotheJeffwith me) throughallthe Middle States,nd down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

Or crossing the half or half the East River, the day night in the pilot-houses of Brooklyn ferry-boats

Outside of work hours he occupied himself observing Southern life,people, the river,with itsmiles of

At all times he was keenly inquisitive m matters that belonged tothe river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain,the river was high, and the fallfiner than usual.

JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.

Kittermaster, and myself went thirty miles down the St Clair river on a steamboat taking with us a sailboat

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

New Orleans our Dutys are light barely enough for healthy exercise the camp right on the bank of the River

The river is running through the bottom as a smiling child.

excitement to get there I took the wrong ferry, which lands the passengers a few blocks higher up the river

I saw smirking, sitting near a framed Mona Lisa, in a little back room with a view on the Charles River

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

Big Rivers My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers, the wharves, the boats—I like sailors

I have never lived away from a big river.

and of achieving a view of the Delaware River below.

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently un- dulating rivers. Oh!

there, but a river that does.

Composed at his biogra- pher’s Manhattan apartment window, which looked out on the East River just southoftheBrooklynBridge

to the life before me: And, Walt, there’s no end to your life: You’d say: “Tell me about the East River

Well here I am camped on a sand bank on the Rio Grande River the weather is hot and we have seen little

built houses for themselves some of mud some of willow and some have dug houses in the bank by the River

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

Ten days later, on December 19, 1843, it appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY), and

A Chronicle of New-York," The Hudson River Chronicle , December 19, 1843, [1]; "The Love of the Four

A Chronicle of New York The Hudson River Chronicle Sing-Sing, NY December 19, 1843 [1] [Unsigned] The

Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri," Bal'mont had preferred some all-inclusive phrase, such as "rivers

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

permitted, Whitman was wont to cross the Delaware in the ferry-boats, repeating his favorite East River

place at the very end of the wharf of the Boston Terra-Cotta Company on Federal Street, bordering the river-like

it must be for him,—which may afford opportunity to change the note; and as we saunter toward the river

hour, Darkness, dreariness, pain Homesickness, leaden rain Blood, our heroe's blood poured forth in rivers

help us and We can Wipe the Cavalry if mead Will lookout for the infantry the rebs is coming over the river

Whitman on a Tuesday in August, 1882, on the boat crossing the river to Camden.

He haunted the Delaware River front about Camden foryears.

It came from a guano factory on the Philadelphia side of the Delaware River. Mr.

He accepted all,as the great river takes in streams. He was a creative man.

Kingdom established up the North River, with many disci s was fired and ples.

Bill sent me a young mocking bird—his home is at a small town on the red-river in La. but he is running

and follow it for two or three miles as it passes B—that is except at the points at the mouth of the river

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

that in the summer it is terribly offensive to those who live along the edge of the river I shall be

have a trip or two of that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river

works are going along pretty well although just at this moment we are in ill-luck consequent upon the river

having risen and overflowed our cofferdam and thereby stopped progress on the river work.

For the last three weeks the river has been just on the verge of overflowing us—the consequence was that

keep it out of the dam—the foundations are from 25 to 30 feet under the surface of the water in the river

and I felt it would make bad work to be drowned out  It would (the river) go up to within just a few