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Friday, December 11, 1891

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

We tried to get some fruit on this side of the river but couldn't get anything nice enough to satisfy

Friday, March 28, 1890

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

Warren, pushing him, was dubious, but W. said, "Let's push on to the river."

Tuesday, January 27, 1891

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

If a fellow wants the fresh air, river, sea, sky—he has it there, too, for the asking.

Leaves of Grass 4

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

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

To You.

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

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

Life and Love

  • Date: 20 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

kindness and philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers

The Ocean

  • Date: 21 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

few days ago we were quietly treading our way among the bales, boxes and crates upon one of the East river

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

To You.

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

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

Enfans D'adam 2

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

From the pent up rivers of myself, From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day, From native moments—from

To You.

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

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

The Telegraph in Williamsburgh

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

established telegraphic communication between New York and Brooklyn by a submarine cable across the river

Walt Whitman to Abraham Paul Leech, 26 August [1840]

  • Date: August 26, [1840]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as far ahead of "the fat gentleman in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1870
  • Creator(s): Howitt, William
Text:

most dewy sentiments and kindly human feelings, like the cool and rapid rushing of a mountain-born river

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 July 1886
  • Creator(s): F. B. S.
Text:

the unprepossessing city of Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river

attractive appearance used to catch the attention of crowds afternoons on Chestnut street across the river

Whitman became acquainted with most all of the younger generation of literary men across the river in

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • 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

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Saturday, May 11, 1889

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

But when we got down the street, I had Ed go on, so that by going four or five blocks, we got to the river

of the experiment—"the green trees—to get out into the free air—to catch once more the sight of the river

Wednesday, August 15, 1888.

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

that the thing is because it is, being what it is because it must be just that—as a tree is a tree, a river

a river, the sky the sky.

Monday, June 1, 1891

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

occasion, and tell him we think of him at Concord as often as we look out over the meadow across the river

now as they did then, and they are an emblem to all believers and poets of the landscape beyond the river

Brooklyniana, No. 9

  • Date: 1 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

desired to attend the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergyman, on the Sabbath, had to cross the river

regular and full, and had many accessions from Flatbush, Gravesend, and from New Amsterdam, across the river

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hudson entered here and discovered the North River, Long Island, and what is now New York island.

hundred European settlers in the colony, including those on Manhattan Island, and on this side of the river

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Young and active men recoiled from the unpleasant duty of going across the river at that late hour, and

genial sympathies, a jolly host, a welcome guest, a man of his word, ranking high one side of the river

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps

  • Date: March 1866
  • Creator(s): B.
Text:

This quotation is taken from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Timber Creek

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

Sunday, January 3, 1892

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

Harned had been in and talked with W. while I was across the river. W.'

Monday, January 13, 1890

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

I talked of the great sunset, and he was all ears: "I think I see—yes, I do see it—the river there—the

Wednesday, April 16, 1890

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

un-elegant—a strain from other altitudes—from open-airs, I hope—the light and shade of woods, our river

The Dresser.

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

like a swift running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or

The Wound-Dresser.

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

loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

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

baffled, Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers

To You, Whoever You Are

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

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you, These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

The Wound-Dresser.

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

loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river

The Dresser

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

like a swift- running swift-running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers

Poem of You, Whoever You Are.

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

and west are tame com- pared compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable riv- ers rivers

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 23 February 1885

  • Date: February 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Bill sent me a young mocking bird—his home is at a small town on the red-river in La. but he is running

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

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

As the river continues navigable, and the canals ditto, produce of all kinds remains low in price and

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 March 1867

  • Date: March 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

by the big window I have mentioned several times in former letters—it is very pleasant indeed—the river

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

sweet potato; Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies; Welcome the rich borders of rivers

friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river—dwellers

bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches; Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river

Song of the Broad-Axe

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

sweet potato; Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies; Welcome the rich borders of rivers

gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone Yellowstone river—dwellers

sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches; Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Thursday, May 16, 1889

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

We did not go to the river today—we went out—not towards the country—about the City Hall—in that direction

Thursday, September 26, 1889

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

I envy the man out-of-doors—the boatman in the river, the carter with his team, the farmer at his plough—the

Monday, July 8, 1889

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

Was very cordial tonight—had a good color—and said that he felt rather better—had been to the river,

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

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

I asked him if he thought he would go to the river this night—the first absolutely clear afternoon for

Wednesday, August 7, 1889

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

of his weariness, had gone out a while yesterday—towards the City Hall, the outskirts, not to the river

Monday, October 26, 1891

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

W. then, "I guess Frank—often think Frank (yes, and many of the other good fellows over the river there

Monday, February 10, 1890

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

And the stomach is in direct communication with the sun, the air, the rivers—" &c.

Saturday, February 28, 1891

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

The cloud, sunset, river, tree—freedom, spontaneity—these are inimical to their art—are outside the demesne

Monday, December 29, 1890

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

Neither have the clouds distinction—or the haughty rivers."

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