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shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play a part

—no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting

2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens, Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided

factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface, I see the shaded part

on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a

it is impossible for me to get rid of them, I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.) 2

evident and amicable with me. 4 The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part

remain behind you, What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting

All parts away for the progress of souls, All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that

from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. 2

the day, The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part

air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies, Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.

his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also, One part

does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.

strangely transmutes them, They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown. 2

Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs, Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts

all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part

Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part

to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably

gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me, My brood of grown and part-grown

emblem, dabs of music, Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ. 2

grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round. 2

ecstatic rose the chant, As if the heirs, the deities of the West, Joining with master-tongue bore part

indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all, In the Mendocino woods I caught. 2

2 Souls of men and women!

the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well- shaped well-shaped , natural, gay, Every part

losing, Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account, The divine ship sails the divine sea. 2

menacing might of the globe uprisen around me, Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious. 2

The Centenarian's Story. THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

Volunteer of 1861-2, (at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.)

As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man, Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we

eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends, But a battle which I took part

in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it, Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.

2 O maidens and young men I love and that love me, What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden

sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.) 2

resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers, While from some distant part

to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 2

destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere, And death and infidelity at every step.) 2

west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts

new States, Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts

I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America good or bad, Not to build for that which

with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me, Till the tissues that held me parted

boundless summer growths, O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb, A song to narrate thee. 2

forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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

and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him, Winter-grain sprouts and those

my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath, I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!

martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are dis- charged discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth

life a share or more or less, None born but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting. 2

pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, pre- mature premature death, all these I part

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You, We touch

and am all and believe in all, I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part

(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?

answers, I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them. 2

fish-shaped island, As I wended the shores I know, As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types. 2

utmost a little wash'd-up drift, A few sands and dead leaves to gather, Gather, and merge myself as part

My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm; Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting

the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting

flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores, The tearful parting

, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother, (Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does

Put in thy chants said he, No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

2 The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account, That of the male

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you, I believe

bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say these are not the parts

Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe, Return in peace to the ocean my love, I too am part of

shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play a part

My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm; Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting

—no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting

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Appleton, 1908), 2: 431–832.

This however is part of America, a part of the earth, a part of mankind, a part of the All.

Translation from New Eclectic Magazine 2 (July 1868): 325–329; translator unknown. 2.

There, in the open countryside, in unspoilt nature, he spent the larger part of his youth.

Obviously it was not a poem but rather a local news story with visions.

Bebington Cheshire 2 Sept 1887 Dear Walt Whitman, It seems fitting that, as I have been writing about

Part of what I told them is contained in the present article & part in a pamphlet which I will send you

Walter Lewin to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1887

New York, May 13 th 187 2 Walt Whitman I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am getting along

work, driving stage—We went up town in his stage, & then walked up to the Park, where we spent about 2

Grier, ed., Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1961–84], 2:

Grier, ed., Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1961–84], 2:

The general tendency of criticism has been to tell a tragic story of decline and failure, seeing the

It was a thoughtful kindness both on your and their parts which I highly appreciate.

Traubel, 2:114.

Miller, Correspondence, 2:200–201, n. 25; 2:205, n. 41; 2:206, n. 44; 2:212, n. 61; 2:215, n. 70; 2:217

April 30, 1873 , 2:217).

Miller, , 2:368).

For Miller's punctuation of extended quotations, see , 1: 308, n.16; 1:341, n.6; 2:20, n. 3, and 2:36

It parades before us a weak despair, an insistence on the irreconcileable in nature, the parting of friends

"My hands, my limbs, grow nerveless; My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd; Let the old timbers part I will

not part I will cling fast to , O God, though the waves buffet me— Thee, , at least, I know.

Cherson, also known as Chersonesus, was a Greek colony in 6th century BC, located in the southwestern part

connoisseurs of his time, may obey the laws of his time, and achieve the intense and elaborated beauty of parts

The perfect poet cannot afford any special beauty of parts, or to limit himself by any laws less than

Meanwhile a strange voice parts others aside and demands for its owner that position that is only allowed

listener or beholder, to re-appear through him or her; and it offers the best way of making them a part

qualities, tumble pell-mell exhaustless and copious, with what appear to be the same disregard of parts

us in the Saturday Press, of Dec. 24, preceding, we seize upon and give to our readers, in another part

trying his hand at the edifice, the structure he has undertaken, has lazily loafed on, letting each part

have time to set—evidently building not so much with reference to any part itself, considered alone,

reference to the ensemble,—always bearing in mind the combination of the whole, to fully justify the parts

well accomplished, grasps not, sees not, any such ideal ensemble—likely sees not the only valuable part

convening of Congress every December, the members coming up from all climates, and from the uttermost parts—the

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each part and

Doubtless in the scheme this man has built for himself the writing of poems is but a proportionate part

This catalog was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt

In 1884, Walt Whitman purchased a modest two-story frame house on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey