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Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled Scented Herbage of my Breast in 1867.

and legislatures—but presently I expect to see myself in magazines, schools, and legislatures—or that my

The Great Laws do not" also includes draft lines that appeared in the poem later titled "Who Learns My

am that foolish half grown angry boy, fallen asleep, The tears of foolish passion yet undried upon my

19 I am become the poet of babes and the little things I descend many steps—I go backward primeval My

equanimous arms feet 209 I surround retrace things steps oceanic—I pass to around not merely my own

. / My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, / On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches

The retrospective extasy ecstasy is upon me— I am now my soul —spirit burns volcanic The earth recedes

ashamed before my prophetical crisis.— Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as

similar to the following line in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The dirt receding before my

—I lend you my own mouth tongue A black I dart ed like a snake from his mouth.— I My eyes are bloodshot

, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and children.— Around my neck

am T The His i ron necklace and the red sores of my shoulders I do not feel mind , h H opples and ball

ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river, with the sight of my

bloodshot eyes, go in to the steamboat that paddles off wife woman and child A I do not stop with my

. / How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman"(1855, p.

ONE breath, O my silent soul, A perfum'd thought—no more I ask, for the sake of all dead soldiers.

Buglers off in my armies!

At present I ask not you to sound; Not at the head of my cavalry, all on their spirited horses, With

Invisible to the rest, henceforth become my compan- ions companions ; Follow me ever!

Perfume therefore my chant, O love! immortal Love!

Do you know, whether the ice is broken or not, into my bath I go every day of my life?’

Grass," the poems entitled "For You O Democracy," p. 99, "the Singer in the Prison," p. 292, and "O Captain

, My Captain," p. 262—or, in lieu of the first two, the poem called "Pioneers!

listed 89th in the table of contents along with the following four works: "Greatness in Poetry," "O Captain

My Captain!

This leads in particular to cosmic visions in which dimensions have no value: "My ties and ballasts leave

me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, / I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents . . ."

look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, / You shall not look through my

While doing garrison duty with my regiment the 2nd New York Arty on the works South of the Potomac I

I left the regiment in the trenches in front of Petersburgh, my term of Service having expired, after

I stowed it away in my knapsack but loosing that I lost your gift.

Walt Whitman, My Dear friend Your kind favor of the 11th inst came duly to hand, and was followed next

Accept of my thanks for both it was more certainly than I could expect from a comparative stranger to

last "long roll" is called in which there will be no "missing" may we be found in the ranks of the Captain

railroads— The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my

through swamps warm land,—sunny land, the fiery land, the rich‑blooded land, in hot quick‑mettled land, my

Song Always the South, the Dear to me the sunny land, sweet land, the silvery land my land, wild generous

boiling lobster, and wrote as follows to one of his daughters: "The sun-stroke is a staggerer; yet my

Were it not for others, would that my horn had been sounded—so easy, so delightful I may say, was the

glance upward out of this page, studying you, dear friend, whoever you are;) How solemn the thought of my

glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,) How solemn the thought of my

glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,) How solemn the thought of my

glance upward out of this page, studying you, dear friend, whoever you are;) How solemn the thought of my

manuscript also contains two clippings (with handwritten revisions) of the essay A Backward Glance on My

How I Made a Book, A Backward Glance on my Own Road and My Book and I (which was published in Lippincott's

eventually titled Song of Myself: "The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me, / I tucked my

trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time".

and wicked" may relate to the following line, which occurs later in the same poem: "Ever myself and my

eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me, / I tucked my

trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time."

and wicked" may relate to the following line, which occurs later in the same poem: "Ever myself and my

eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me, / I tucked my

trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time."

and wicked" may relate to the following line, which occurs later in the same poem: "Ever myself and my

trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time" (1855, p. 18).

and wicked" may relate to the following line, which occurs later in the same poem: "Ever myself and my

first edition of Leaves of Grass thirteen years later, where he famously writes, "I loaf and invite my

soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass," and later asking his

first edition of Leaves of Grass thirteen years later, where he famously writes, "I loaf and invite my

soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass," and later asking his

Lincoln and celebrating ill contain the Russell Lowell election from , state papers and lett to inclu My

Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain

My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.

The entry which begins, "I find this in my notes" (see images 35, 36, and 38) was revised and used in

Grass were now in the possession of Horace Wentworth, a Boston publisher, whom Thayer characterized as "My

I do not know what they cost, but my impression is, that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $800

Traubel Camden, July 3, '79 To W.W My dear friend, I'll write you a few words again—for this warm weather

My curiosity has not abated by one jot and I would esteem it a favor if you would let me know at least

My bias is for Dickens. I like a good aim of pathos in a novel—nothing maudlin but all natural.

I think I referred to it in one of my last letters. Write soon! Yours hastily, H. L. T.

My regards to —— those : Emerson, Whitman, Major Stearns , , and the rest of the good fellows!

Still I wish to say how much I have enjoyed all things here & how much I regret to have to make my stay

I read Doctor my essay ( N.E. Mag. ) Sunday night.

He set me on my feet with certain improvements in phraseology, on the point of your Washington sickness

He thinks your & my terminology when we get off on that field lamentable if not laughable.

I am busy as a bee today over my reprint.

My Dear Mr.

Jeff has been a very great blow to me personally, as for a good many years I looked upon him as one of my

and I have learned to lean upon him in so many ways that I feel as though a prop were taken out of my

I am sorry to have to write you a machine letter now, but my crippled arm makes this a necessity.

I did not received my reporter's notes till this morn: They are quite well, & afford me ample basis on

which to build my account.

—Morris is sweet, sane, quiet—one of the best fellows so far swept into my arcana.

patients this time, & have picked up a vast lot of odds & ends of alienist information which I missed in my

I will tell you about this on my return. Longaker writes Doctor a letter—very favorable.

This business established by my old and valued friend Mr.

merely a little preamble to prepare your mind for a request Miss Langley desired me, when at Reading—(my

in 1882: "But first I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my

heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

letter to Viscount St Albans calling Bacon saying "the most prodigious wit that ever I knew of any my

take great pleasure in writing to you again, and in giving you some of the particular in regard to my

health, limb situation, &c My health at present is very good—better than at any time since I left the

troubled me of any account have worn my artificial nearly all the time since the winter of –'64.

dist) threw me out of my position as doortender.

my not writing let them lay it to my inabilities instead of my inclination Waiting to hear from you

much with a "Compound Fracture" of the leg and after laying months and months had it amputated at last My

My Dear Walt— I got your pleasant letter, and thank you for the attention you paid my note through Mr

I feared over aggressiveness (perhaps my mulishness) on the 20 percent and other mooted questions had

My Dear Walt: You have, I believe, in your hands certain charges against Judge Kelly of Idaho.

His friends are my friends, and while I do not know much of him personally, I nevertheless know his accuser

I congratulate you, my dear fellow, on the great appreciation which reaches across the greatwater to

My dear Mr. Whitman: Allow me to introduce to your acquaintance, my young friend, Mr. E. H.

I remember with great pleasure my visit to you last March, when I was on my way home from Johns Hopkins

I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours.

My dear Sir: I recd received your favor of April 13th and the book, which I'm delighted to have.

Pardon my delay in acknowledging, due to illness.

Whitman— I have taken so much pleasure of late in re-reading your work that I would not render my spiritual

I have read "Pioneers, O Pioneers" over and over again to my many friends, who study not books but life

I have your picture in my room, and I never see it or take up your book without feeling what a glorious

I send you a few poems of my own. I shall be glad if they please you.

I am not a person that makes literary visits, but I wish that I could meet you this summer, on my return

mentions Lincoln at all till the end, when the poet refers to him as "the sweetest, wisest soul of all my

to learn he has never been to school as the school is about 2 miles off but he can read right smart. my

would be very happy to see you, we all send our best respects to you and all your friends. you will see my

When it was first published, it began with the line "Here my last words, and the most baffling."

They are his "frailest . . . and yet my strongest lasting."

have survived as positive examples of homosexual desire.Whitman admits in this poem, "I shade and hide my

In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling

HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest- lasting strongest-lasting : Here I shade down and

hide my thoughts—I do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest- lasting strongest-lasting : Here I shade and hide

my thoughts—I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

HERE the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself

do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.