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Monday, June 3 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

It will be mostly a Camden clientele, anyhow, with, perhaps, a good palpable fringe from across the river

Monday, June 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I drove up as far as Pea Shore—right up to the river, halting there for half an hour, looking over the

Monday, March 10, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Went into warm and fine discourse of "the grandeur of river sights—sounds: the waters, skies, the big

Monday, March 31, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But the levee at New Orleans—its own type—curious among river fronts—certainly in America."

Monday, May 11, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

But he will never set the river afire."

Monday, May 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. gave me to mail in Philadelphia (I was about to go over the river) a letter he had written to O'Connor

Monday, May 19, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

Monday, May 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

Monday, May 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And the river! It was a "glory" to him—"the more suspicion of it."

Monday, November 2, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And our rivers, spirit, life."

Monday, November 25, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I suppose nothing startling is going on—yet the countless rills run on, the rivers, the seas flow and

Monday, October 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I got out yesterday—out and to the river. It was a rare treat."

Monday, October 26, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. then, "I guess Frank—often think Frank (yes, and many of the other good fellows over the river there

Monday, September 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time

More Gold

  • Date: 15 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The San Francisco papers state that the Frazer's River excitement, so far from having abated, has vastly

tending northward. 40, 000 people, it is stated by the Californian press, will have gone to Frazer's River

The most perfect wonders of

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

instance, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Whitman's images of the gulls, the waves, and the flow of the river—contrasted

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

employing their words, so that every time Americans spoke the names of the country's towns and states and rivers

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

dropped personal references to prostitutes in several other poems, including "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

as one of three "delirium" poems in "Children of Adam," the other two being "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

New Amsterdam

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

Dutch Administration was applied, (as a Province) to "all the tracts, in America adjoining the Hudson river

New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
Text:

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence

New Orleans Picayune

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
Text:

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

New Poetry of the Rossettis and Others

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

New Publications

  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

New Publications

  • Date: 7 February 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is a narrative of the exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and adjacent countries,

steamer "Water Witch" was placed under the command of the author, with instructions to explore the rivers

prosecution of his duty, Lieutenant Page made explorations which embrace an extent of 3600 miles of river

one at that and being separated even from this by the Cordilleras of the Andes, it is only be her rivers

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

[New York Atlas, 12 December 1858]

  • Date: 12 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Not that we wish to see you take to the woods or rivers—for we think you can attain all the desired results

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

nation of swimmers; although our coast of sea, bay, and inlet includes thousands of miles, and lakes, rivers

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Having gone a year or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road of existence; the river

But athwart this river is a viaduct, called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to

the valleys of "Old Age," round which the river winds, and then flows beyond without a boat or causeaway

Niagara Falls

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
Text:

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

Nicaragua

  • Date: 29 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Total force of the Allies, exclusive of 1,200 Costa Ricans, if, as alleged, on the river, 18,000.

, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas on the 1st of May, and 80 surrendered or escaped down the river

Night of south winds

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

No doubt the efflux

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

the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river

[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04150xxx.00330[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]about 1885handwrittenpoetry1 leaf3

[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]

Norman McKenzie to Walt Whitman, 29 June 1880

  • Date: June 29, 1880
  • Creator(s): Norman McKenzie
Text:

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

A Northern Pacific Railroad

  • Date: 17 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to the gold discoveries at Frazer’s River and vicinity.

The Missouri river is navigable to the Great Falls, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellow

Not the Pilot.

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

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

Not the Pilot.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers

Not the Pilot

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

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

Not the Pilot.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers

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

Notes on Whitman's Photographers

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

Venezuela and Brazil, taking photographs of cities and of many natives as he traveled up the Orinoco River

Number I

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

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers

up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers

You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester

It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7

The water is of the purest kind of river water.

O Magnet-South.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

O Magnet-South.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

The Ocean

  • Date: 21 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Old Fellows

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

(how sunny and florid fresh and good look'd the river, the people, the vehicles, and Market and Arch

One Thousand Historical Events

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dull route, 1541 27 River Mississippi discovered.

Dutch housewife, 1608 6 Hudson River discovered.

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