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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 January [1873]

  • Date: January 31, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been—he says I am doing very well— John Burroughs is here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 29 January [1873]

  • Date: January 29, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

whatever I wish—& two or three good friends here—So I want you to not feel at all uneasy—as I write, Peter

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

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

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the crash of artillery!

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

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

eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

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

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

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

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

own part, Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, Fond of women, . . played

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

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

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

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

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

underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Carol of Occupations.

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

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

The Sleepers.

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

all the dreams of the other dream- ers dreamers , And I become the other dreamers. 3 I am a dance—Play

A Boston Ballad. (1854.)

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

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

The Centenarian's Story.

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

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

head; No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames, and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Respondez!

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

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Mannahatta.

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

Trottoirs throng'd—vehicles—Broadway—the women— the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

O Me! O Life!

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

That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

Years of the Modern.

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

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

Song at Sunset.

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

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Cluster: Thoughts. (1867)

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

AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

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

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 August 1887

  • Date: August 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Davidson's review of Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

, which argued that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7–8 November 1891

  • Date: November 7–8, 1891; November 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

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

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

The band played a complimentary tune, and the folks stared at the old hero; but there was no hurrahing

Macready still "goes it s'rong" at the Astor Place; to-night he plays Hamlet—his best performance.

Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 4 October 1848

  • Date: October 4, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 October 1848

  • Date: October 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 December 1848

  • Date: December 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The play and performances generally were well sustained.....Exhibitions of various kinds—pictures and

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 25 November 1848

  • Date: November 25, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I should not be much surprised if a dash of Lynch law were to come in play, then, unless the police muster

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 28 October 1848

  • Date: October 28, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty of the latter place, this fine autumn weather, is the fountain, which they are now allowing to play

the place, who used to count upon walking there during the intermissions, as much as on seeing the play

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 15 September [1867]

  • Date: September 15, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ada Clare is an actress—has lately been playing at Memphis, Tenn—is now about playing at Albany—Clapp

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor (for Moncure D. Conway), [10 November 1867]

  • Date: November 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Instead of that, the Book is the product of the largest universal law & play of things, & of that sense

Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

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

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Letter. Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

inheritance of the English language—all the rich repertoire of traditions, poems, historics, metaphysics, plays

Review. Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

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

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

colored lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1871)

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

again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

Cluster: Calamus. (1871)

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

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1871)

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

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

Cluster: Marches Now the War Is Over. (1871)

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

head; No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames, and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

Trottoirs throng'd—vehicles—Broadway—the women— the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing

Cluster: Bathed in War's Perfume. (1871)

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871)

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

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

To Thee, Old Cause!

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

Around the idea of thee the strange sad war revolv- ing revolving , With all its angry and vehement play

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