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Search : William White

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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

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

Wednesday, March 30, 1892

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

Fairchild's; Aldrich's; one marked "from Nellie and William O'Connor"; and several other sprays, from

Williams solemn, serious—Chambers merry, fine, full of life.

s friends, Talcott Williams and Morris among them. The flowers, wreaths along.

Williams, F. H.

Williams, Brinton, Ingram and daughter, Bonsall, Donaldson, Joseph Fels and wife, H. H.

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.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1877

  • Date: July 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1877

  • Date: October 29, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878

  • Date: January 20, 1878
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:79).

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1890

  • Date: September 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Walt Whitman to James Hunter, 22 June 1888

  • Date: June 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980], 72).

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
Text:

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

[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

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

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

Friday, March 22, 1889

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

"It's very shadowy: William is not improving." He paused.

He reports everything well in London: says, by the way, he called on Johnston White in New York: says

"I wrote my usual postal to William—also a postal to the Doctor."

W. said: "I am up a tree: I can't go to William: I can't shake the sorrowful thought of him out of my

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.

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

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

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

Wednesday, September 4, 1889

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

It was curious—in those times—whenever the Count went to the White House he took his hat questioned—in

a sample proof first & tell me how much price for 100 " " " " 150 " " " " 200make large envelopes White

printed on —must be pretty strong paper—Some will go in the European or California mail)" inside a white

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

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

ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence of health

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall always identify Washington with that huge and delicate towering bulge of pure white, where it

Then other varieties; there will be a procession of wagons, bright-painted and white-topped, marked "

Washington being full of great white architecture, takes through the Summer a prevailing color-effect

of white and green.

White canvas coverings arch them over, and each wagon has its six-mule team.

[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

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

HuckGutmanWilliams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) The influence of Walt

Whitman's poetic practice on William Carlos Williams was both seminal and immensely rich.

William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford UP, 1970. Tapscott, Stephen.

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia UP, 1984.

Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

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

another side: it is the other side which the partisan always leaves out of his account: I remember William

He said: "William was a whirlwind when he had his health: what has he come to now? alas!

White a going over, of which I wrote you some time ago.

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

Greenport, L. I. June 28th

  • Date: 28 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Lord, formerly member of Congress, Frederick William Lord (1800–1860) lived in Greenport and was a member

came a couple of little black fish; after which a real big one, twenty inches long, opening his great white

Whitman refers to Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905), Thomas Baldwin Thayer (1812–1886), and William Stevens

Presidents, United States

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who

Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them

New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."

Scholarship, Trends in Whitman

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

The first defender was William Douglas O'Connor, whose famous 1866 pamphlet The Good Gray Poet argued

bibliographical scholarship, the same cumulative effect has been achieved, thanks to such scholars as William

White, Arthur Golden, Scott Giantvalley, Donald Kummings, Joel Myerson, and the various editors of the

Popular Culture, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Reynolds, David S.
Text:

Whitman started out largely as a writer of gloom and skepticism, in the vein of popular poets like William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Incidents of Last Night

  • Date: 13 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

Annotations Text:

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

The English Language: Exhibiting The Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, And Definitions Of Words [White

[Hours continuing long]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm; On two pieces of white

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 22 November 1871

  • Date: November 22, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the murderer of the Indian is prosecuted by the same officer who prosecutes for the murder of the white

Amos T. Akerman to Lyman Trumbull, 3 February 1871

  • Date: February 3, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

think that this last exemption is wrong in principle, and it practically operates to the advantage of white

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Europe bounded

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

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

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