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About "The Love of the Four Students: A Chronicle of New York"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

Ten days later, on December 19, 1843, it appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY), and

A Chronicle of New-York," The Hudson River Chronicle , December 19, 1843, [1]; "The Love of the Four

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 3, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens on the river, and

He pushed open, a small, swinging door, and stood a few minutes gazing over the river, in the direction

Thoreau, Henry David [1817–1862]

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

"To Think of Time" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Kahn, Sholom J.
Text:

has many realistic and symbolic links to other early poems: the "old stagedriver" to "Occupations," river

Thursday, June 20, 1889

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

W. said: "We have been down to the river again—and it was so fine!—so full!

Wednesday, July 24, 1889

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

himself, saying like a child, bound to comfort himself with something—"It was very fine down at the river

Monday, May 11, 1891

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

But he will never set the river afire."

Literary Notices

  • Date: 26 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Paul's from the River,' and the 'Royal Exchange,' are unusually elegant specimens of steel engraving.

Factories Not Unhealthy—And Short Chimneys As Good As Tall Ones

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

As the Eastern District of Brooklyn, especially the Greenpoint portion, and all along our East River

About the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

Daily Times in 1848, a local newspaper for residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River

Into the Country

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

file of the people who don't live in brown stone fronts and are glad to get a couple of weeks "up the river

Living in Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

if they wished to live in a respectable neighborhood, and they are consequently forced to cross the river

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

I propose to leave here on Tuesday morning for New York via Kingston, Albany, & the Hudson River.

The Metropolitan Police Law

  • Date: 9 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Board, transferring one of the departments of the government of Brooklyn to the other side of the river

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

The East River bridge does not seem to be getting on very fast I believe the piers are not quite finished

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 5 May 1876

  • Date: May 5, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pretty comfortable as I write—have been out a little nearly every day for a week—some days across the river

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 12 October 1848

  • Date: October 12, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A large portion of voters are like the bubbles on a river; they run just which way the current runs.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 14 October 1848

  • Date: October 14, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It looks somewhat ticklish, running close along the river, and often touching it, with the great mountains

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Then was the time when it was his passion to sail the East River to and fro in the ferry boats, "often

Or again (p. 132): It was a happy thought to build the Hudson river railroad right along the shore.

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

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

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Hudson River is named for him. in these waters, our time does not now admit.

carrying out and extension of the wharves and piers on both the New York and Brooklyn sides of the river

Burial

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

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Burial

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

without eye-sight lingers a different living, and looks curiously on the corpse. 3 To think that the rivers

now President shall surely be buried. 4 Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Burial Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Clapp, Henry
Text:

sweeps over great oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers

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

simplicity can give of power, pathos, and music: "Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Republican Party

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

growing industrialization and expansion, promoting the building of roads, railroads, and canal and river

Tuesday, June 4, 1889

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

W. said: "We did not go to the river today, but out towards the hospital—and had a good time."

Monday, June 24, 1889

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

W. wore his bright blue gown, and said: "I have just been out to my favorite companion—the river!

Wednesday, September 11, 1889

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

I described the river to him, and he remarked: "I should like to see it—I must try to find a way to get

Wednesday, December 3, 1890

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

Asked me about the intense fog on the river: "How the pilots dread the fog!

Monday, August 25, 1890

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

Had just returned from river. Said, "I think I have had—have—a return of the grip."

Wednesday, April 23, 1890

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

Besides, suppose he takes you out to see a sunset—the gorgeous panorama—the waters of a flowing river—the

Eidólons

  • Date: 1875 or early 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Drum-Taps.

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

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

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

friendship, procreation, prudence, and naked- ness nakedness ; After treading ground and breasting river

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

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

Drum-Taps

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

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

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

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

"Dead Heads"

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America not only contains the biggest rivers, the amplest lakes and prairies, the most prolific mines

What Williamsburg Wants

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

and intellectual food to our young men, and save the best of them from the necessity of crossing the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7–10 August [1870]

  • Date: August 7–10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a great deal of the time— Tuesday afternoon 9th I was out yesterday a great part of the day on the 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 the Tertio-millenial Anniversary Association at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 20 July 1883

  • Date: July 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1879

  • Date: January 5, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Have had some beautiful glimpses of the North & East River effects of the shipping at sunset, &c.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [19 February] 1875

  • Date: [February 19], 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

However, if now, or about to be a fruit farmer "on the banks of one of the noblest and most fruitful rivers

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through the trees he occasionally caught glimpses of a majestic river; on the opposite bank of which

The gentle Violet and her son would frequently recreate themselves with a sail upon the river which passed

Thus it was: Evening had began to sprinkle her hue of gloom on the trees and the river.

Violet and her son were floating idly along the current of the river, in their boat, toward home.

Walt Whitman's Poems

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

primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

A Talk with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): J. Alfred Stoddart
Text:

paralysis and lately from catarrh in the head; perhaps, when the weather settles and I can get down to the river

Monday, July 22, 1889

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

W. out on my arrival—had gone to the river between 6 and 7.

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