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Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 October [1868]

  • Date: October 9, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I was out early taking a short walk by the river—only two squares from where I live.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1891

  • Date: July 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

across the water at the gleaming lights of Camden where I knew were; when, next morning I ferried the River

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1868

  • Date: July 12, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

have a trip or two of that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river

“Washington Letter Writers”

  • Date: 16 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To set down and write to the “Roaring River Republican” a complete exposure of the disgraceful motives

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 29 May 1863

  • Date: May 29, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

somewhere, and that the dispatches were from General Carter, and that the rebs had crossed the Cumberland River

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 April 1862

  • Date: April 12, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

We have moved our camp since my last letter and are now on the Newbern side of the Trent river,  we have

Brooklynites in Kansas

  • Date: 9 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from north to south, from east to west,—from Bangor to Galena, from the Penobscot to the Savannah river

A Gossipy August Article

  • Date: 12 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Weehawken, Greenwood Cemetery, the ships sailing down the Narrows to the South, and the boats on the East River

George Washington Whitman to Walt Whitman, 16 April 1864

  • Date: April 16, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Albany, from there to Buffalo, from there to Indianapolis, from there to Jeffersonville and crossed the River

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28–29 October 1889

  • Date: October 28–29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ab't L of G—probably the last pages are the most curious & incredible—Have had some New England (Fall River

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

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

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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 Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

Sunday, May 12, 1889

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

I tried to get a position somewhere down there on Second Street that would put us right on the river,

"Did you know that O'Connor lived over the river in Philadelphia?

you know how

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

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

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

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

City Photographs—No. V

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

THE FOUR CROSSING RIVERS.

all come together, and, as it were, fall in and deliver and transfer to each other, like four big rivers

Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Mitchell, Edward P.
Text:

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

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

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

The Boy-Lover

  • Date: May 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

clients was an elderly widow, a foreigner." who kept a little ale-house, on the banks of the North River

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long low piazza looking out upon the river

They would not bury him in the city, but away—by the solitary banks of the Hudson; The Hudson River flows

[New York Atlas, 19 December 1858]

  • Date: 19 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Having gone a year or two past sixty, he arrives at a critical period in the road of existence; the river

But athwart this river is a viaduct, called "The Turn of Life," which, if crossed in safety, leads to

the valleys of "Old Age," round which the river winds, and then flows beyond without a boat or causeaway

Proto-Leaf

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

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

Poem of Salutation.

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

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

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

sweet potato, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers

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

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 17 December 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 19 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison, W.
Text:

Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and

Fuller, Margaret (1810–1850)

  • Creator(s): Mason, Julian
Text:

" "frankness and expansion," and "abundant opportunity to develope a genius, wide and full as our rivers

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

Monday, June 3 1889

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

It will be mostly a Camden clientele, anyhow, with, perhaps, a good palpable fringe from across the river

Saturday, July 13, 1889

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

again: "The attempt to unite the life out in nature—the life of the woods, of the fields, of the rivers—with

New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
Text:

Located in the hollow of a three-sided bend of the Mississippi River as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico—hence

Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Evenings were reserved for moonlit walks along the Potomac River that had Whitman reciting Shakespeare's

Thursday, November 19, 1891

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

His dinner that day was generous and he ate it all.Progress in removal of the islands in the river slow

Monday, August 10, 1891

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

And when I said, "I think it is rather hotter over the river," he allowed, "Likely, likely—but it seems

Tuesday, February 10, 1891

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

on the sunny side of one of the Camden ferry boats, taking his daily two or three trips across the river

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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

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

Something Worth Perusal

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was a cheerful sight, that river.

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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

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

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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

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

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Even the sluggish little river Colne one cannot find fault with, it nourishes such a luxuriant border

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 October [1868]

  • Date: October 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From the window of my room, I can look down across the city, the river, and off miles upon miles in the

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 11 August 1863

  • Date: August 11, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

corps had returned to Vicksburgh, & some acc'ts say that part of the corps had started to come up the river

ElizaSeaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1880

  • Date: October 9, 1880
  • Creator(s): ElizaSeaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

They must run down to the river before they can get a drink.

George Washington Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 22 September 1863

  • Date: September 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

changed our camp since I last wrote,  we are now about 8 miles from Nicholasville, near the Kentucky River

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 5 September 1862

  • Date: September 5, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

to Culpepper  from there we went to Cedar Mountains  from there to Kellys Ford on the Rappahannock river

Theresa B. H. Brown to Walt Whitman, 8 May 1891

  • Date: May 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Theresa B. H. Brown | Theresa B.H. Brown
Text:

hour, Darkness, dreariness, pain Homesickness, leaden rain Blood, our heroe's blood poured forth in rivers

Elisa Seaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 22 June 1881

  • Date: June 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): Elisa Seaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

There was a "Kingdom of Heaven" established up the North River, with many disciples.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 20 December 1848

  • Date: December 20, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hundreds of sloops, steamboats, and barges, are busily engaged now, bringing produce down the river,

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

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

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

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

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