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The Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1870
  • Creator(s): Howitt, William
Text:

most dewy sentiments and kindly human feelings, like the cool and rapid rushing of a mountain-born river

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

Walt Whitman to Thomas Dixon, 30 June 1870

  • Date: June 30, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills & fields of Virginia,

W. A. Field to George S. Boutwell, 28 June 1870

  • Date: June 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

alias Trombley, from the Light House Reservation of the United States at the mouth of the Saginaw river

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1870

  • Date: February 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

East river.

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William T. Sherman, 13 October 1869

  • Date: October 13, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
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Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.

The Poetry of the Period

  • Date: October 1869
  • Creator(s): Austin, Alfred
Text:

your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 September 1869

  • Date: September 10, 1869
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Well, boy, I shall now take a bath, dress myself & go out, cross the river, put this letter in the p.

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 16 November [1869]

  • Date: November 16, [1869]
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

raised after the Holidays father has just received Employment In the pipe yard foot of 24th St of East River

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to John A. Rawlins, 25 May 1869

  • Date: May 25, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson River

W. A. Field to John A. Rawlins, 1 May 1869

  • Date: May 1, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
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Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 4 March [1869]

  • Date: March 4, 1869
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

a letter from Jeff it seems their concern has overflowed once on account of the great rise of the river

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1869

  • Date: January 21, 1869
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John Flood, Jr., 22 November 1868

  • Date: November 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 October 1868

  • Date: October 18, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This forenoon I have been out away down along the banks of the river & cove, & making explorations generally

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 October [1868]

  • Date: October 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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From the window of my room, I can look down across the city, the river, and off miles upon miles in the

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 October [1868]

  • Date: October 9, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I was out early taking a short walk by the river—only two squares from where I live.

Walt Whitman to Henry Hurt, 2 October [1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river

Walt Whitman to Lewis Wraymond, [2 October (?) 1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He has been up the Hudson river this summer driving hotel coach. He is the same old Duffy.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 29 September [1868]

  • Date: September 29, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall spend an hour or two on the river to-day. Your letter of 27th, Sunday, came this morning.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 25 September 1868

  • Date: September 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Among other things I spend a portion of the day, with the pilots of the ferry boats, sailing on the river

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1868

  • Date: July 12, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
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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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

John M. Binckley to Theodore Phillips, 16 June 1868

  • Date: June 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

communication of the 11th instant, relative to a tract of land remaining unappropriated upon the Mississippi River

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutched faces , Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river

John M. Binckley to Gideon Welles, 25 April 1868

  • Date: April 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

below there—and the beautiful curious liquid "In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 16 April 1868

  • Date: April 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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was so bad, I left, & went off & had a real good tramp, way up Georgetown, along the banks of the river—it

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 10 April 1868

  • Date: April 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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in office—as I look out it is dark & cloudy with a chill rain, but the grass is green & I see the river

Henry Stanbery to Ulysses S. Grant, 7 January 1868

  • Date: January 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
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Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river

adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

essence of the demonstrative human spirit, with the undemonstrative spirit of the hill and wood, the river

and by slow stages, and with many and long stoppages and detours, journeyed along and down the Ohio river

Louis; roved through that region, explored the Illinois river and the towns along its bank, and lingered

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves, mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel

following summer, the bloody holocaust of the Wilderness, and the fierce promenade down to the James river

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Brightley's Digest, 207, provides that if "any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river

be construed as equivalent to "District of Columbia," should a murder be committed on the Potomac river

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
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Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement

about five miles from the river.

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 21 September 1867

  • Date: September 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

times—they have done their work, & now they are to me as a tale that is told—Only the majestic & moving river

John M. Binckley to A. Fahnestock, 6 August 1867

  • Date: August 6, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

acquired by the United States for the purpose of establishing Range Lights near the mouth of the Maumee River

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
Text:

Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

Walt Whitman to Alfred Pratt, 25 July 1867

  • Date: July 25, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

office, seated by the same old open window, where I can look out & have a splendid view of the Potomac river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 March 1867

  • Date: March 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

my desk—the air is very clear, & I can see a great distance over the Potomac off into Virginia—the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 March 1867

  • Date: March 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

by the big window I have mentioned several times in former letters—it is very pleasant indeed—the river

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 February 1867

  • Date: February 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is pleasant here this forenoon—as I look out of my window, the river looks fine—there is a slight

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1867

  • Date: February 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

If sin hath slain mine honor, straight appears, The river of his tears, Wherein I find redemption: tenderly

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 5 February 1867

  • Date: February 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the sun is shining, & as I look out this morning on the Potomac, I see the ice is broke up, & the river

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
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power would suffer from the absence of those restraints which are to genius what its banks are to a river

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sun- set sunset —the river

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

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