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Search : William White

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Light and air

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

spring gushing out from under the roots of an old tree barn‑yard, pond, yellow g j agged bank with white

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Methinks, white‑winged angels, Floating unseen the while, Hover around this village green, And pleasantly

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

[The Atlantic Monthly for January]

  • Date: 29 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The present number, besides its numerous learned and elaborate papers, such as those on White’s Shakspere

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

butcher etc—$149.00— Hard winter: 20 below zero, two nights ago—freezing without intermission—lake a white

Walt Whitman to Horace Traubel, 2 June 1889

  • Date: June 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gilt edged—good job—bound in crepe—thick paper (like my Passage to India, robin-blue-egg color with white

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 16 December 1890

  • Date: December 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

In a letter he received from you he saw (and appropriated) a white hair attached to the mucilage of the

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

imagine, dear Walt, how peaceful and dreamy the landscape is this morning—the air is full of great, white

The Herald Editor and the President

  • Date: 14 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

writer mentions that when at the capital a few days ago, Bennett dined, by special invitation, at the White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 January 1890

  • Date: January 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

a few days but it is not likely it will do you any more harm than that It is wintry today, ground white

Brooklyniana, No. 39

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

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Whitman's Natal Day

  • Date: 1 June 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

9th av.

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

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

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

Had made his selection of card, putting with samples this memoranda: I prefer the white card (thickest

of all "samples") marked * in the little book "Of course," he said to me, "I wish the white: I am going

About Pictures, &c.

  • Date: 21 Novermber 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

satisfaction the 'Portrait of a Gentleman,' No. 19—'Portrait of a Child,' No. 31—the 'Kitchen Bail at White

Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Annotations Text:

.; Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Grand Buildings in New York City

  • Date: 5 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

avenue, Madison avenue, and tens of streets around and above Union Park, have their palatial houses of white

Such considerations as these make us laugh at the architecture of the New York Custom House, with its white

The Colored Folk’s Festival

  • Date: 3 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whatever may be the diversity of opinion among the whites, in regard to the effect of Negro Emancipation

It seems to me that the white Douglass should occasionally meet his deserts at the hands of a black one

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

Walt Whitman: A Glimpse at a Poet in His Lair

  • Date: 24 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was a small, white shell. —by modern folks Turtle-hill.

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and density, with shells, large boulders or a pure white

reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime performances circa 1840–1860, see William

We hove in sight of the steeples and white-paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Annotations Text:

It was a small, white shell.; Montauk Point Light, finished in in 1797 and not 1795, as Whitman writes

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

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

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray

and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened: The white

I see his white body . . . .

with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Sleep-Chasings

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head— he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Night Poem.

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

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunk- ards drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Gilchrist,1884 . .11^ William Blake.

I WILLIAM BLAKE.

[William] Jan.

William M.

Etty, William, R.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Sunday, August 4, 1889

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

*(print 200 copies each card)—size of this white paper this sized card— card not very thick,—you are

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old high-spired

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

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

thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

  • Date: May 10, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

attack—it still keeps its hold—my knees, & indeed whole joint & muscular power are affected—Was down at White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

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

THE "MAPLEWOOD," MAPLEWOOD, WHITE MOUNTAINS, N.H. MAGNOLIA HOTEL AND SPRINGS. MAGNOLIA, ST.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 29 July [1891]

  • Date: July 29, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

How dreadfull she looks— wan and allmost entirely help less her thin gray—allmost white hair.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

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

Sometimes it is white and reeking with foam as an injured ghost and for two weeks ago it took ago a new

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1888

  • Date: December 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

London, Ont., 2 Dec 188 8 It is a stupid, dull, dark, sulky day—ground white with snow but nothing approaching

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13–14 November 1889

  • Date: November 13–14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all-color'd chrysanthemums this season hereabout—you must have a splendid show of them—the yellow (canary) & white

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

  • Date: May 12, 1860
  • Creator(s): Henry Clapp, Jr. | Horace Traubel
Text:

fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 19–20 July 1891

  • Date: July 19–20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

: of me period f'm '60 to '70 (the war time) & was the favorite of Wm & Mrs: O'Connor —the head on white

The City Dead-House

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with magestic majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1878

  • Date: October 27, 1878
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 118, 122, 35, 152).

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 12 November 1890

  • Date: November 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Walt Whitman to George and Louisa Whitman, 15–17 June [1878]

  • Date: June 15–17 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

appeared in the New York Sun on June 15, one paragraph of which began: "The man most looked at was the white-haired

Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Williams, Sophia Wells Royce
Text:

Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887 Carolyn Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph

: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American Art Journal vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp

(1850–1928), a writer and the wife of journalist and editor of the Philadelphia Press, Talcott Williams

Talcott Williams.”

Williams took years ago—the one which counterfeits W. at parlor window.”

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?, 1888

  • Date: 1888
  • Creator(s): Williams, Francis Howard
Text:

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?

, 1888 Back of Library of Congress copy identifies this as "Family of Francis Williams, ca. 1888," taken

at the Williams' house in Germantown, Philadelphia.

Mary Williams' face has been scratched out, and the Williams children are Aubrey (in front of Whitman

Francis Howard Williams was a playwright and poet, and Whitman recalled "how splendidly the Williamses

Our Old Feuillage.

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

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

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