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I took my agn?
My 146 Captain!"
my lands!
My Captain!"
My Captain!
it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were not indispensable to my
equality was also based on the teaching of Christ as he had seen it practiced by the Quakers: "I wear my
to the President at his levee" and "Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field" ("Song
In opposition to Carlyle's hero-worship he offered in 1871 a "worship new" of "captains, voyagers, explorers
This leads in particular to cosmic visions in which dimensions have no value: "My ties and ballasts leave
me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, / I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents . . ."
appreciate the natural Man and freeing me from much [sic] theological or conventional preconceptions due to my
Sin ceased to dominate my view of life..." (qtd. in Hancock 48).
"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth" and knew that the "spirit of God is the brother of my
subject of the case of the Rothschilds against The United States in the Court of Claims, brought to my
Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
Captain and all the My Captains in my book!
“I felt my life with both my hands” (Fr 357). 25.
, My Captain,” 18, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 57, 95 233n29; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Wolosky, Shira, 30
"In the year 80 of the States, My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born
"Take my leaves, America! take them South, and take them North! Surround them, East and West!
"O my comrade! O you and me at last, and us two only! O to level occupations and the sexes!
If he worships any particular thing, he says it shall be "some of the spread of my own body."
One long passage commences thus: "O my body!
"One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me, Continually preceding my
and near, (rousing, even in dreams, a devilish exultation, and all the old mad joy, in the depths of my
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892
For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman
By the Roadside," "Autumn Rivulets," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Sands at Seventy," and "Good-Bye my
several poems in the "Sands at Seventy" cluster attest, notably "As I Sit Writing Here," "Queries to My
mentions Lincoln at all till the end, when the poet refers to him as "the sweetest, wisest soul of all my
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
beginning he announces, "Let me bring this to this a close," and later he mocks, "Let him who is without my
Here it is a call for help, an invocation, a word Whitman actually uses ("as now to thee I launch my
prepares for old age and death, as his images may hint: "Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my
lengthening shadows / Prepare my starry nights."
Purport" (1891)First published in the last section of Leaves of Grass supervised by the author ("Good-Bye my
published in Lippincott's Magazine in December of 1890 and included in the second annex, "Good-Bye my
characteristically, letting go of its material attributes: "For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my
is well known, as in line 7: "So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my
In the penultimate line, he defends them strongly: "Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest
the best society of the civilized world all over, are to be only reached and spinally nourish'd (in my
newspapers but later gathered into Specimen Days & Collect (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My
fruitlessly, the boy questions also only to hear the ocean's final assertion of death, and the man notes "My
five times and say blankly, " But my mate no more, no more with me!
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
For instance, in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain
And in my own day and maturity, my eyes have seen and ears heard, Lincoln, Grant and Emerson, and my
I have put my name with pen and ink with my own hand in the present volume.
I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones: to formulate a poem whose
, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced.
Then the simile of my friend, John Burroughs, is entirely true.
Dec. 2, 1866 My dear Whitman: I find your book and cordial letter, on returning home from a lecturing
I have had the first edition of your Leaves of Grass among my books, since its first appearance, and
frankly, that there are two things in it which I find nowhere else in literature, though I find them in my
There is not one word of your large and beautiful sympathy for men, which I cannot take into my own heart
I say these things, not in the way of praise, but because I know from my own experience that correct
Nov. 12, 1866 My dear Sir: I send to you by the same mail which takes this note, a copy of my last poem
The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.
Dear Mr Whitman Please pardon my intrusion but as I am a great lover of literature especially poetry,
Miller's muse If you will be so kind as to answer my critical questions I will thank you very much.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
I beat and pound for the dead; I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags."
It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
"Between my knees my forehead was,— My lips, drawn in, said not, Alas!
My hair was over in the grass, My naked ears heard the day pass."
I could not shut my eyes to their wild, rough beauty nor close my soul to the truths they expressed.
I write simply to express my unqualified disgust with the portions I have read.
Please remember me to all the Staffords & give my especial love to Mrs. Stafford. Also to Mrs.
If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).
One of my patients has empyema following pleurisy.
Several of my patients (I have all the very sick just now) require very careful watching.
Please give my love to Mrs. Whitman & remember me to Colonel Whitman.
If it were not for records accumulating mountain high I should have time to write to my friends.
Testament Christ; he sees himself "[w]alking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my
shown, Whitman's language echoes that of biblical writing: creeds and petitions ("I believe in you my
to the Bible can best be summed up in his own expectation of the disciple he seeks: "He most honors my
trousers around my boots, and my cuffs back from my wrists, and go with drivers and boatmen and men
gab and my loitering.
to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. (15)
to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.
You my rich blood!
thanks—and if I may impose on your generosity I should be please pleased to have a lett letter for my
of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my
Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,
Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."
: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting, for my
Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain
Sir: Referring to my letter addressed to you under date of the 3d instant, relative to the case of Charles
My dispatch of yesterday was written in the Supreme Court Room while I was engaged in the argument of
acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst. and its enclosures, in response to my
the Pacific Railroad to pay interest on bonds, &c. has not been printed, and therefore it is not in my
compromise in the cases against the New York Central Railroad Company, which have been brought informally to my
Annual Report of your Department on the state of the finances for 1870, for which be pleased to accept my
Since my dispatch of last night, I have seen the President, who directs me to say to you that your immediate
Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office