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

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

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.

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

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

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

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

after connecting Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, to Astoria, and thence by a submarine cable across the river

Wondrous rivers, railroads everywhere, plenty of wood, interminable and fertile meadows, wheat, fruit

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

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

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the East and North rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

strengthen it, conjuring and multiplying "the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms" ("Pent-up Aching Rivers

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

sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions. 7 O boating on the rivers

His spirit responds to his country's spirit: he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

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

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

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

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

near the cot- ton-wood cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

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

the trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

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

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks

huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sun- set sunset , the river

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body or another person's body, The circling rivers

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

I see the long thick river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows, I see where the Columbia

winds, I think, you waters, I have fingered every shore with you, I think I have run through what any river

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

geography, cities, beginnings, events, glories, defections, diversities, vocal in him, Making its rivers

families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air, I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

O boating on the rivers! The voyage down the Niagara, (the St.

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

When New England was covered with extensive systems of river-powered textile mills, and even Emerson’

Considering midcentury environmental discussions, Whitman’s con- cluding call “Flow on, river!

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

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West.

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within, We

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

easy for him), and farther on, to the horizon, where sparsely filled squares stretched to the East River

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, O my rivers

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

sage-deserts, I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river

Elk mountain and wind around its base, I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river

Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up

O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!

sage-deserts, I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river

Elk mountain and wind around its base, I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river

Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up

O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Winds blowsouth, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel-staves

Through Fourteenth-street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

unno- ticed unnoticed , Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers

returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse, On rivers

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

unno- ticed unnoticed , Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers

returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse, On rivers

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

It was a fine summer walk, or drive, having fields on one side, and the river on the other.

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things