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first met Whitman, beginning a friendship that will always form one of the pleasantest memories of my
The task in question, however, would naturally have fallen to my colleague and intimate friend, Frederic
before, I believe—he dropped in upon Guernsey at the Herald and introduced himself with the words: "My
Making known my errand, he greeted me cordially.
"In the moral, emotional, heroic, and human growths (the main of a race in my opinion), something of
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY.
My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace.
Indeed all my ferry friends—captain Frazee the superintendent, Lindell, Hiskey, Fred Rauch, Price, Watson
my ear.
Gilchrist—friends of my soul—stanchest friends of my other soul, my poems. ONLY A NEW FERRY BOAT.
These were my first years with Emerson, and the questions provoked by my confession of this fact would
He lifted my common experience into biblical sanctity, and impelled my whole life to expanding issues
He thoroughly respected my autonomy, never once crossing my transactions with printer or binder.
Can I have won my battle after all?...
If I go there with a magazine under my arm, or a paper in my pocket, he is quite likely to ask me to
It is my own spirit, my own feeling—to accept and try and listen, and don't be too quick to reject, and
my fig tree.
I ask myself more than a little if my best friends have not been women. My friend Mrs.
My attempt at "Leaves of Grass"—my attempt at my own expression—is after all this: to thoroughly equip
Eyre .— I want to call attention to "My Captain," a poem which has in it the element of the dramatic
benefactor, and have felt much like and New striking my tasks, visiting York to pay you my respects.
charity has no death— my wisdom diesnot,neither earlynor late, And my sweet love bequeathed here and
For my own part, I may confess that itshone upon me when lifewas when I was my broken, weak, sickly,
should be of my body.
my poems.
I tell you it's an impossibility to me; why, my whole income from my books during a recent half-year
its eight periods of growth, "hitches," he calls them, he completes them with the annex, "Good-bye my
Whispers of Heavenly Death" cannot be an irreverent person; the impassioned "prayer"— "That Thou, O God, my
For that, O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees, Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee....
When this is commented upon he laughingly says, "Oh, yes, my friends often tell me there is a book called
Conversations with Walt Whitman: My First Visit MY FIRST VISIT.
S ADAKICHI : "My father is a German, but my mother was a Japanese and I was born in Japan."
ONE of my first visits, after I had returned to Philadelphia from my first European trip, was to the
In my books, in my prose as well as my poetry are many knots to untie."
my captain' with which he generally concluded.
awaiting the action of the Executive upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my
the important and difficult questions which may arise upon the case, I think it sufficient to express my
"Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover." — Leaves of Grass .
To my reminiscences of the poet in his later years, and my description of his homes and haunts, let me
The deeply felt emotion with which "My Captain" is read invariably brings tears to the eyes of hearers
My health is reasonably good."
, My Captain," (encouraged by a gentle-kindly ejaculation of "Bravo, bravo!"
The deeplyfeltemotionwith which "My Captain" is readinvariablybringstears ttheeyes ofhearers.] 14 MEMORIES
, My Captain," a of "Bravo, " (encouraged by gentle-kindly ejaculation bravo !
he " I do then with friends as I do your says, my with my books.
My lifend my wealth,yea, allthatismine, be ransom againstTime's wrong forthose who showed true my forecast
Not that tinkling rhymes Captain my Captain this, too, isnot beautiful and pathetic ; but it jars slightly
During my em- MR.
My Captain.
MY DEAR MR.
So go in, my lad.
MY DEAR MR.
My recollections of Walt Whitman date back to three or four years prior to the civil war.
Our chambers were the meeting places for several small circles of my young men friends.
My Captain!
But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead."
my captain!" above quoted. But the little KEEPSAKE is prized not the less on that account.
For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.
Not like some of my friends, very thick at first, then falling off."
I should have my friends there, as I have here."
I am feeling pretty well so far (Yet I attribute my feeling pretty well now to my visit for the last
year and a half, to the Creek and farm, and being with my dear friends the S—'s).
one day in Boston that Joaquin Miller, whose acquaintance I had gained through a poetical trifle of my
Whitman— I have tried all my life to write for the masses.
A few days later I called upon Whitman, my pockets stuffed with verses.
At its conclusion he smiled forgivingly and asked me to tell him about my grandfather on my mother's
Such a boy, to my mind, is positively nauseating.
I am trying to cheer him up and strengthen him with my magnetism."
Come to my house on Sunday evening, and I will have him there to meet you."
It would give me great pleasure to grant this request, out of my regard to Mr.
it, as he showed when I went to give him an account of my interview with the Secretary.
" 'I cock my hat as I please, indoors and out,' " I quoted.
" thatwould Who is he become my follower?
What I and be asregardless experi ence or shall go from my composition with portray out a shred of my
I heard low one my you,too, murmuring through ofthe wristsaround my head, Heard the pulseof you,when
"He you who spreads a wider breast than own the my proves width of my own.
"BefIrwas born out of my mother, generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid nothing
Visits from English friends are perhaps my chief diversion."
Philadelphia, 1883. is going off slowly—not much cared for by my friends—but I like it.
He asked me somewhat about my life and doings at home.
There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!
Time alone can absolutely test my poems or any one's.
There was no hurry in his manner; having found me a seat, and then only leaving hold of my hand, he sad
had thought before (and I do not know that I had) that Whitman was eccentric, unbalanced, violent, my
Putting on his grey slouch hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support
My original idea was that if I could bring men together by putting before them the heart of man, with
As to my own opinion, why", said Holmes, "I have already given you that.
He asked me somewhat about my life and doings at home.
My memories of Walt Whitman include many talks, in which I did my best to obtain light upon these and
I receive now again of my many translations,from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await
(p.66.) " Camerado, I giveyou my hand, I give you my love more precious than money."
For my enemy is dead,a man divineas myself isdead.
table, a knock at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my
O'Connor offered to go out on the search with him; but before they started my husband asked me, aside
Walt had left his "carpet bag" with my husband, on his way down, wishing to be burdened with as little
When I expressed my doubts about his coming to us on his return from camp,— my husband's answer was,
My own first impression after reading the quarto edition of Leaves of Grass, recommended by Emerson to
Do you not see, O my brothers and sisters?
During my attendance upon Mr.
'I have had my hour'; I have had my hour ; only let me rest in peace until its close."
In these days and nights it is different; my mutton-broth, my little brandy, to be 'turned' promptly
My only difficulty with Mrs. Davis and Warren was in getting them to let me do my full share.
A Visit to Walt Whitman A visit to Walt Whitman On a hot August afternoon, in 1889, my wife and I went
And Walt replied: "Well my friends who have known me longest have told me, many times, that I always
And then he added, after reflecting a moment: "I think my poems are like your West—crude, uncultured,
Walt sat in his arm-chair, and held wife with his right hand and me with his left, and said: "So long, my
Knowing this I never attempted, during my talks with him, to question him or draw him out on any subject
And of course this applies also to my own account of him, as I saw him from day to day at a period very
manner he may have shown in earlier life, or on other occasions, no defects were ever observable in my
They seemed charged with a new beauty and a new meaning addressed to my individual soul; and long did
—After a refreshing night's sleep I awoke to the singing of some sweet little songsters at my window.
I did not see him again for about forty years, when one day he came to my house and asked me,— " 'Do
I believe, too, that I once existed before I lived in my present form, and that I shall again live as
an individual after I have changed my present form."
Rome—where I received a most cordial welcome from him and his good wife, who is my wife's cousin.
Rome, like myself, is an Annan man—and much did I enjoy that talk about my dear old home, three thousand
I asked him to write his name in my book, and I found it to be John Y.
river, the ceaseless movement, and the brilliant and varied panorama of "Manhattan from the Bay." ¹ On my
In the year 1885 I lived with my father in a small house in Eagle Street, Bolton.
My father was a millwright in the employ of a large engineering firm in the town, and I—then thirty-one
My mother had died in January of that year, and certain experiences of mine in connection with that event
Soon after her death a few of my intimate friends, who often came singly to see me, began to make a special
the last five or six lines as from my living pulse."
Bucke to my left.
My friends do not realize my condition. They persist in imagining that I am like them."
: "Have you noticed my chair?
"My supper is my main meal now.
Speaking of my trip he said that he had felt uneasy in consequence of my late arrival.
"Yes," he said, "my right arm is my best, but I have a good deal of power in my left."
knee with my bag of crackers.
is the result of my sitting.
And now I'll write my name on it, and I want you to take it to Wallace with my love."
Davis to my wife.
"But my 'Good-Bye' is probably my last bit of writing.
"Some of my friends feel—Dr.
My poems do not discuss special themes and are short. And, anyhow, that is my method.
He enquired what my programme was for the rest of my jaunt.
W. read it, and then said to me: "My best friends are women. They are my best friends.
of power in my left."
Davis to my wife.
My friends do not realize my condition.
My supper is my main meal now.
He enquired what my programme was for the rest of my jaunt.
"As for poetry, my boy, listen to this."
Now, however, I put my faith in humanity.
He said simply but without petulance, and as if he rather pitied my intelligence: "Of course my poetry
And, after all, in "O Captain! my Captain!"
At the time of my acquaintance I could not lay my finger on any more definite example of this than his
Oh Captain, Weave in My Hardy Life and We Two Together have been set to music by Edgar Stillman Kelley
In stanza three the last three lines once read, "But I with silenttread Walk the spot my Captain lies
Must I pass from my song for thee, From my gaze on thee inthe west?" etc.
Answerer) 134 1856 Now Precedent Songs Farewell 403 1888 O Captain, My Captain 262 1865 Offerings 218
J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.
My observations appear as footnotes.
That is not my goal; nor is it my goal to deal with, for example, the historical issues of Whitman’s,
Also, he is overly fond of O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Vol.
My Captain!”
"My friend." Spoke of Swinburne & Tennyson. Most kind. Head from behind like Darwin. Bought a book.
My Soul !
'Ve clof'led with him .... the yards entangled ...• the cannon touched, 895 My captain lashed fast with
I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain, \Ve have not struck, he composedly cried
-I put my arms around them-touch my lips to them .
my Fancy."
I write to them more to my satisfaction, through my poems.
My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.
As to my literary situation here, my rejection by the coteries-& my poverty, (which is the least of my
Ed my nurse gets my breakfast & gets it very well.
For my love for you is hardly less than my love for my natural parent.
My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called '0 Captain
My Captain!' I want to 234 WHITMAN IN HIS OWN TIME learn it to speak at school."
my Captain!"
"Most of my readers ne glect my prose."
My Captain!
My father, my uncle, my grand-uncle and the several aunts.
In the first he's the unthreaten ing, desexualized rhymster of "0 Captain! My Captain!"
We must of course have read "0 Captain! My Captain!" in school, and I must have hated it.
Moly and My Sad Captains. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973. - - .
My Likeness!
A line like "What think you I take my pen in hand to record?"
dear friends, my lovers.
my thoughts—I do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
What is yours is mine, my father . . .
my likeness!
My Captain!"
My Captain!
Captain, 0 my Cap tain" surely one ofthe most tender and beautiful poems in any language.6 The misquotation
I sing the songfmy wallpaper, my ceiling, my floor, my doors, my windows, my around-rooms, under- and
My Captain!
Was Pete the muse for Whitman's most popular Lincoln tribute, the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"?
While "O Captain!"
Like as not I would go to sleep—lay my head on my hands on the table.
I wish it given to him with my love."
Give my love to dear Mrs. and Mr.
At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles
In my view, Primary Source Media would have been much better off to use SGML, a recognized international
Iowa cooperated because my co-director, Ed Folsom, edits the journal and controls copyright.
Yours, my dear Mr.
It was the poem Whitman was "almost sorry [he] ever wrote," "0 Captain! My Captain!"
my work.
My Captain!"
11y Captain!"
Oh my captain! called Whitman."
This is why I send you My leaping verses, my bounding verses, my spasmodic verses, My hysteria-attack
Hydraulic pump tearing out my guts and my feeling it!
My soul! .. . My ties and ballasts leave me ...
My Captain!," "Come up from the Fields, Father," and "The Singer in Prison."
On the boat I had my hands full. One poor fellow died going up."
the hospitals, Whitman dolefully observed: Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my
"There comes that odious Walt Whitman to talk evil and unbelief to my boys," she wrote in a letter to
"I think I would rather see the evil one himself—at least if he had horns and hoofs—in my ward.
"He took a fancy to my fever boy, and would watch with him sometimes half the night.
Now he announces: "I am indifferent to my own songs" (l. 44); it is enough that he is to be with the
The five-line poem VI poses the question: "What think you I have taken my pen to record?"
My summary at the outset of this article delineates a coherent, frank, confident, and even ebullient
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), p. 131.
My version of "Live Oak" differs from Parker's version in the Fourth Edition of The Norton Anthology
of American Literature (1994) , and Parker disapproves of my version, my title, and my interpretation
My essay first appeared in American Poetry Review months before The Continuing Presence came out, and
In any case, it's the later essay with my version of "Live Oak" that Parker rails against.
Parker is right in saying that I neglected to defend my choice, clearly a flaw in my essay.
caused something of a scandal; Traubel recalled that neighbors went to his mother and "protested against my
My husband, John, has been as supportive in this as in all my ventures.
It includes the metered (atypical for Whit man) "0 Captain! My Captain!"
My Captain!" appears in the Sat urdayPress. 16 NOVEMBER.
After the lecture he is presented with a bouquet of lilacs and then reads "0 Captain! My Captain!"
My Captain," 70, Mask," 109 71, 54 "Out of May's Shows Se "O d e.- By Walter Whit lected,"161 "Out of
He is my key—sometimes daily—intellectual consultant for the project.
The project has become central to my scholarly life (in that it has become the most time consuming and
important of my projects).