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Proto-Leaf

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

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

Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of the Alleghanies! Ohio's land!

Dakotah, Nebraska, yet with me —and I yet with any of them, Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

Public Baths

  • Date: 27 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

The Public Lands

  • Date: 25 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt Whitman's domicile isa littleold-fashioned present frame house, situated about from the Delaware River

am sick.' "] April 27,'87. " " Drove down yesterday four miles to BillyThompson's on the Delaware river

I will send you (or word allI hear or get. of) I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river

These stocks original tinge and saturate the billows of humanity through generations, as great rivers

Before the slow roll of the river of the majestic DRIFT AND CUMULUS. 123 come the toss and turbulence

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Lawrence River, which eh had seen during the past summer.

present domicile is a little old-fashioned frame house, situated about gun-shot from the Delaware River

acquaintance says:— "Whitman gets out of doors regularly in fair weather, much enjoys the Delaware River

from him that 'that miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

charter in these words: "to prevent divers persons from transporting themselves and goods over the river

Now what right had a colonial governor or any body else to prevent any person from crossing the river

The East River is, and always has been a public highway, and it never was in the power of any man or

two hundred feet in width, without the least obstruction to the navigation of the river.

The East River, at the foot of Fulton street, is 2193 feet wide, being nearly half a mile.

Republican Party

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

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

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Walt loved living close to the East River, where as a child he rode the ferries back and forth to New

Respondez!

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

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Respondez!

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

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

The Return of the Heroes.

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

The Return of the Heroes.

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off, he could see a gleam of the Hudson river—and above it, a spur of those rugged cliffs

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
Text:

power would suffer from the absence of those restraints which are to genius what its banks are to a river

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 17 December 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

The "Father of Waters" is a nickname for the Mississippi River.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is a funeral piece— Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf-posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud

Review of Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 10 November 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 23 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

variety of meters suited to every slightest change of sentiment, here lilting like a smooth flowing river

chords left as by vast composers [gap] You formless, tree, religious dan[gap] Orient, You undertone of rivers

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutched faces , Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 18 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

spent portions of several seasons at a secluded haunt in New Jersey—Timber Creek, its stream (almost a river

River, a little after eight, full of ice, mostly broken, but some large cakes making our strong-timber'd

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: July 1883
  • Creator(s): Call, Wathen Mark Wilks
Text:

recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek, twelve or thirteen miles from where it enters the Delaware river

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only— a swimmer in the river

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

  • Date: February 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Kittermaster, and myself went thirty miles down the St Clair river on a steamboat taking with us a sailboat

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river

At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH

Riverby

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
Text:

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04146xxx.00335[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']about 1885handwrittenpoetry1

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

Rodney R. Worster to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1864

  • Date: March 28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Rodney R. Worster
Text:

New Orleans our Dutys are light barely enough for healthy exercise the camp right on the bank of the River

Rowdyism

  • Date: 16 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to our mammoth neighbor across the river

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

The river is running through the bottom as a smiling child.

Sailing Down the Mississippi at Midnight

  • Date: February 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Now drawn nigher the river's rim edge of the river Wierd Weird like creatures suddenly rise m This

Salut Au Monde!

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

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Columbia

flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay; I see the

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

F2 I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on

Salut Au Monde!

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

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Co- lumbia

Columbia flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on the

Salut Au Monde!

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

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and

blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river

Salut Au Monde!

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

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the.

Columbia flows, I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through, I have taken my stand on the

Salut Au Monde!

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

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

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and

blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

Saturday, April 21, 1888.

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

significant for his patriotism, Americanism, love of external nature, the woods, the sea, the skies, the rivers

Saturday, April 4, 1891

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

told it to Longaker the other day—in the phrase of the lumbermen, when the logs all clutter up the river—and

Saturday, August 25, 1888.

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

—first to Bonsall's house for the Book Maker—then across the river for conferences at different places

Saturday, August 31, 1889

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

Had just returned from trip to the river. Looked in fine condition and talked well.

Saturday, December 1, 1888.

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

envy you—or at least count you happy—in your own house, and with your farm, in sight, or close to a river

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