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pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

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

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

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

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

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

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, A gray

sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

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

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

The Delaware River, which must be crossed to get there, is invariably covered with oil which diffuses

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

As the medical historian Howard Markel observes, “the river of human pathology at Bellevue had no end

their tiny leaves . . . without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

in the woods or by the road-side (hundreds, thousands, obliterated)— the corpses floated down the rivers

the diaspora of “the strayed dead” whose unburied bodies littered battlefields and became lost to rivers

I have never lived away from a big river." Took up Brinton's suggestion that W.'

a river, the sky the sky.

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

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

Denver is phenomenal for its background—its ample background: not much of a river there, but a river

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently undulating rivers. Oh!

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Parkhurst across the river, has studied Millet some and lectures about him, illustrating the talks.

magazines—that of porcelain, fine china, dainty curtains, exquisite rugs—never a look of flowing rivers

"I drove up as far as Pea Shore—right up to the river, halting there for half an hour, looking over the

Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction—Julian and that bit of land up there on the river

It was a tablet placed on the First Unitarian Church, across the river. There were speeches by C.C.

country through which the Continental Road passes in the States, (then names,) the fauna, mountains, rivers

I said: "Across the river for a long walk." He cried: "I quite envigesenvy you!"

said: "If I get out as the weather grows milder I'll want to see these wonders: I'll get across the river

I was down by the river, loafing some. Then went across on the boat. "Ah!"

He still lives in Mickle Street, Camden, in his little old wooden house, not far from the Delaware river

Who could share with me the thought of that evening's ride across the river?

Went over the river with Donaldson, who had brought W. fruit and wine and taken away with him the ten

I spoke of the driver of a wagon on the Chestnut Street hill by the river: "his horse fell down—could

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

I described the trip across the river this evening: the new moon— "a thin semicircular strip of a thing

of slender cloud overhead: the water full of mobile reflections: the electric lights up along the river's

The electric lights are new since my time: there were never any along the river's front as I knew it.

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

know him—know his name, too: he rejoices in the unique and saving name—though the best hand on the river—the

I took it with me to mail over the river.

on one of the long piers, or take the ferry boat, and watch her as she swept around into the East River

or, why does the flowing river make me happy?—why? why? making that mood the talisman for all?"

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills and fields of Virginia

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

family has to expect things of me: we are simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers

came crushed, low spirited, despondent—thinking to go into the War—like a fellow jumping into the river

We talked of the river: how the river is on days like this: W. interrogating.

"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

Had only limited time for getting across the river to the train. Sunday, May 5, 1889

And the river! It was a "glory" to him—"the more suspicion of it."