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Search : William White

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Leaves of Grass 16

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

The World Below the Brine.

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

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 25 September [1877]

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hear about Al and May—& I want to hear about the baby—Please do a little thing for me—there was a white

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 18 March [1878]

  • Date: March 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden March 18 5 p m Dear Herby I have just come up this afternoon from White Horse —Friday & Saturday

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 April [1877]

  • Date: April 10, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White Horse N J New Jersey April 10 Dearest friend, I am having comfortable times down here for me—spend

Brooklyniana, No. 5.---Continued.

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.

The monument to Major General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American

Annotations Text:

In 1908 this was replaced by a 149-foot tall column designed by Stanford White.; All three of these monuments

Walt Whitman in Private Life

  • Date: 6 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Olive Harper
Text:

.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

airscud

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

deliciously aching, / Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white

Anna M. Wilkinson to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1884

  • Date: July 21, 1884
  • Creator(s): Anna M. Wilkinson
Annotations Text:

William White, 2:337).

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 February 1891

  • Date: February 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

In "The Colonel, at Home, in Sonoma County," (Overland, 17 [February, 1891], 200–208), Laura Lyon White

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whitman's close allies in his final years, wrote a barbed

Surprisingly, the restriction also emboldened Kennedy to attack Whitman's "dearest friends"—William Douglas

Since it was precisely the mailing of that was later banned, at least one of Whitman's friends, William

William White (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978), 2, 289 n. 1515; and Correspondence , ed.

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

Walt Whitman

  • Date: August 1900
  • Creator(s): Leon Mead
Text:

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

Heroes and Heroines

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 November 1863

  • Date: November 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I send my love to William.

In the parlor is hung up a large blue placard "Headquarters of the Pantarchy" in white letters.

Whitman, Jesse W. (grandfather) (1749–1803)

  • Creator(s): Miller, David G.
Text:

Jesse Whitman was the son of Nehemiah and Phoebe (Sarah White) Whitman; he inherited the family farm

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

but all through the land The names of the flowers. lilacs roses early lilies the colors, purple & white

I cross'd the Nevadas

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

fresh'd refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors.

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

WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors.

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

WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 July [1878]

  • Date: July 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

have rec'd received a letter from Rossetti, a scrap from which I enclose —I think of going down to White

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

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

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

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

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

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

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Beloved Walt Whitman: An Ambrosial Night with his Devoted Friends and Admirers

  • Date: 26 October 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

Biography of Horace Traubel

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Walling, William English. Whitman and Traubel . 1916. New York: Haskell House, 1969.

Traubel, Horace L. [1858–1919]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Walling, William English. Whitman and Traubel. 1916. New York: Haskell House, 1969. 

[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white

Men and Things

  • Date: 21 October 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors.

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

(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 27 August [1872]

  • Date: August 27, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

young Hungarian gentleman, quite agreeable, talks English well, quite a traveler—went over to the White

Richard Parker's Widow

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

Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Annotations Text:

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Saturday, September 8th, 1888.

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

The American white and the Southern black will mix but not ally.

Now, the Southern white does not encourage such intermixtures: there are psychological, physiological

They are a study, too—the poor whites South: lank, sallow coughing, spitting, with no bellies (and bellies

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake, poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Thursday, May 14, 1891

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

Frank Williams in to see me about birthday—anxious lest it might be passed over, but agreeable in face

Talcott Williams on easels. Eakins talks of Miss Cook as "lively" and of Mrs. Williams as "sickly."

"I should say, my work, I, stand for, solidarity—not only of what are called the White or European peoples

Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 41–42.Nolan, James.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 9–12.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1887

  • Date: December 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 439).

Whitman, Hannah Brush (1753–1834)

  • Creator(s): Kohn, Denise
Text:

She told Walt about his unconventional great-grandmother, Sarah White Whitman, who chewed tobacco and

Of this broad and majestic

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

woods and all the orchards—the corn, with its ear and stalk s and tassel —the buckwheat with its sweet white

Annotations Text:

western persimmon. . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax; / Over the white

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim.

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

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

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

(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim.

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

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 15 October [1872]

  • Date: October 15, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

overcoat—You see, mother, I am likely to prove a true prophet about Greeley —He is not expected here at the White

Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1885

  • Date: December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
Text:

White, Ex-President of Cornell University wrote: "I have long believed that such schools are among the

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 June 1891

  • Date: June 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Shall leave here two weeks today and sail by White Star S. Britannic 7 a.m. wednesday 8 July.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke and Horace Traubel, 23 October 1890

  • Date: October 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

away both of you)—W has gone over to Phila. to give word to Dr Thomas, the oculist & to take my aged white

Thomas W. Aston to Walt Whitman, 28 October 1889

  • Date: October 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. Aston | Walt Whitman
Text:

White Hall Hotel. S. M. Crall, Proprietor. No. 217 Market Street. Open Day and Night.

Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 6 March [1887]

  • Date: March 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

way—locomotor ataxia—he is now in Los Angeles County California— It looks like winter out as I write, all white

Tuesday, October 15, 1889

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

"No—it is not very rare—but it is beautiful, a pure whitewhite as alum.

[Long I thought that knowledge]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm; On three pieces of white

A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim.

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

Election Day, November, 1884.

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

spasmic geyser- loops geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white

A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

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