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

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

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

vapor of our sugar-kettles, so much vaunted as a cure, is of no more benefit than the vapor of a North river

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

o'clock—had some business in New York, which I attended, then came back & spent an hour & a half on the river

done that, And Lee as you say must have been badly hurt or he would never let Hooker come across the river

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

line, for more than a mile, so that I had to keep my Eyes open,  we were posted along the bank of the river

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

Indeed even now you may be— "Beyond the rock-waste and the river— Beyond the ever and the never— Beyond

with squalid children picking them over, and dirty alleys, and courts and houses half roofless, and a river

after connecting Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, to Astoria, and thence by a submarine cable across the river

Every morning and evening the East and North Rivers ought to show not hundreds but thousands and tens

I am at present temporarily here at Camden, on the Delaware river, immediately opposite Philadelphia,

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

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

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

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

I described the trip across the river this evening: the new moon— "a thin semicircular strip of a thing

of slender cloud overhead: the water full of mobile reflections: the electric lights up along the river's

The electric lights are new since my time: there were never any along the river's front as I knew it.

To the east, looking up or down, was the winding, solemn, inevitable river, confused northward among

heavy but mists hung lightly, lacily, upon the horizon—the sun setting in cold color and the flowing river

On the river remarked the beauty of the night.

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

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

"We have come from the river again—were right down to the water's edge—lintered there a long time, breathing

suggestiveness of this beautiful evening—twilight—the trees across the way there—the clouded northern sky—the river

"By and by we shall go to the river." When I left he gave me the package to mail.

He hunted me out down by the river, where we sat a long time. The heat was intense.

great discomfort, going out in the hottest hour—prefers his chair "in the cool of the evening—by the river

"I was out a long time today—it was mild—sweet: we went to the river—saw it go past—the sky above—across

Had sat in his chair here on the river bank and noted across there great buildings new to his eye—"undoubtedly

Whitman's nurse] I have been carriaged across to Philadelphia (how sunny & fresh & good look'd the river

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

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

hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white country, snow enveloped , hill, valley, lake and river

On my way back, I went up in the pilot house & sailed across the river three times—a fine breeze blowing

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

Last night I was out late—the scene on the river was heavenly—the sky clear, & the moon shining her brightest—I

been beautiful & I have enjoyed the ride very much indeed—especially down the lovely valley of Mohawk River

As for me, my heart is already gone over to the other side of the river, so that sometimes I feel a kind

It is pretty warm here but we do not suffer any yet,  we are encamped on the bank of the Trent River,

unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to our mammoth neighbor across the river

I get out nearly every day, but not far, & cannot walk from lameness—make much of the river here, the

sky delightful— Walt nearly 5—It is near sundown, very fine, & I am going out—as I like to be on the river

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

.—28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivating wild region, by Vermont Central R.R. &

sweet potato, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers

gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone Yellowstone river—dwellers

sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prai- ries prairies , Welcome the rich borders of rivers

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river

vast frame- works frameworks , girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

idler, citizen, country- man countryman , Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

On the Potomac River Near the Villiage of Antietam Md Sunday Sept 21/62 Dear Mother I had just commenced

commanding position on a range of high hills on the opposite side of a stream called the Monochey River

morning of Sept 19th we found the enemy had left and we moved foreward about 3 miles to the Potomac River

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

like a swift running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or

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

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the river

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

in New York—they were—many of them—horrible ramshackles, almost ready to tumble pell-mell into the river

Philadelphia is not bad, either—how could it be, with such a noble river?