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Saturday, December 13, 1890

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

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

Saturday, December 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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While sitting there we heard the play of the whistling buoy down the river at one of the ship-yards at

I never realized a demonstration of the sort that was as striking as on the Saguenay river, up in Canada

Saturday, December 29, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I took it with me to mail over the river.

Saturday, February 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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of it: and of Mars and Jupiter and Venus: I never used to miss them: often spend my evenings on the river

Saturday, February 23, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the wood, that there was a big wind blowing down the chimney: I've been sitting here thinking of the river—hoping

Saturday, February 28, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The cloud, sunset, river, tree—freedom, spontaneity—these are inimical to their art—are outside the demesne

Saturday, February 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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a suspicion of Carpenter's flippant impertinence: I have talked with Doctor Gross there across the river—the

Saturday, January 19, 1889.

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

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

Saturday, January 26, 1889

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

what does it look like on the river?

Saturday, July 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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again: "The attempt to unite the life out in nature—the life of the woods, of the fields, of the rivers—with

Saturday, July 25, 1891

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

"Look at the river, lying off there—flowing—and the city across—and the mist.

And by and by we turned to the left and to the river.

He remarked sails of schooners—and masts, a slight line into the mists—far up the river.

Saturday, July 5, 1890

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

Had been down to the river.

is a thing built, not a current flowing: his is a structure, grown story by story: yours a limpid river

Saturday, June 14, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. not at home—had gone to the river with Warren about an hour before.

Saturday, June 22, 1889

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

Said he had just come back from his trip—"I have been to the river again—my first love—and best!

Saturday, June 29, 1889

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

"But in a little while we are going down to the river—Ed and I."

Saturday, June 8, 1889

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

He rides less in his chair now to the river—more out in the open, where the boys play ball, the game

Saturday, June 9, 1888.

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

having supper near midnight.Today promises to be even more memorable; I expect to steam up the Hudson River

Saturday, March 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And now the walk in the night towards the river, north, and home—and the entrance there (new sensations

Saturday, May 11, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But when we got down the street, I had Ed go on, so that by going four or five blocks, we got to the river

of the experiment—"the green trees—to get out into the free air—to catch once more the sight of the river

Saturday, May 17, 1890

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

As I had not read Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers," W. thought I should.

Saturday, May 2, 1891

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

'Leaves of Grass' is a seashore, a mountain, floating cloud, sweeping river, storm, lightning, passion

Saturday, May 25, 1889

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

The vessel is down the river—English, with a crew of Hindus.

Saturday, November 9, 1889

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

My plan is to leave here on Monday next, the 11th & go by Fall River, & stop over in Phila with a friend.From

Saturday, October 17, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Indeed, could not know, till here, absorbed in, absorbing, its rivers, skies, men, for a long period.

Saturday, October 24, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I thought you were already over the river."

Saturday, September 12, 1891

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

We paused on the Pavonia road to take a glimpse of the river, shot through with beams of golden gorgeous

Sea, The

  • Creator(s): Kuebrich, David
Text:

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
Text:

Arrived at the edge of the Delaware River by the aid of this yoked and tamed lightning, a prodigious

The Season of Accidents

  • Date: 27 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Boys, not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river where there are dangerous

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
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far ahead of "the fat gentle man in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

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

H .-28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivat ing wild region, by Vermont Central R.

The river steamer Wawassett caught on fire on August 8 on the Potomac River with a frightful loss of

Sept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wet

  • Date: about 1879
Text:

wind due eastSept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wetabout 1879prose2 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Swallows on the River

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
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Immediately after the discovery of the North River by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Dutch tooks steps to

These works extended down to the river, and back, beyond Fort Green, and from the Wallabout to Gowanus

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: January 4, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the engineer was developed in the following extracts: "The Tide Canal, from Wallabout Bay, through River

The uncertainty with respect to the ultimate construction of this Canal in River street, will not affect

The grade of River street, at the intersection with Broadway or Division avenue, is 10 feet above high

It is proposed to construct this sewer 6 feet in diameter for its whole length along River street to

These, with a 4 feet brick sewer in Broadway, extending from Lynch street to River street, about 450

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: 18 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, Summer 1862

  • Date: Summer 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Well here I am camped on a sand bank on the Rio Grande River the weather is hot and we have seen little

built houses for themselves some of mud some of willow and some have dug houses in the bank by the River

[Skirting the river]

  • Date: 1880
Text:

A.MS. drafts.loc.00132xxx.00155[Skirting the river]1880poetryhandwritten1 leaf12.5 x 19 cm; These lines

[Skirting the river]

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

come no more with demands like these to my free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers

Smiling

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West

Some Fact-Romances

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

basement—perhaps she still lives there—in one of the streets leading down from B ROADWAY to the North river

an aged black woman, a widow, occupied a basement in one of the streets leading down to the North river

Something Worth Perusal

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

It was a cheerful sight, that river.

A Song

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

A Song.

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

A Song for Occupations.

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

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks

A Song for Occupations.

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

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks

A Song of Joys.

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

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

A Song of Joys.

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

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

Song of Myself.

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

fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

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

the trees of a new purchase, Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Song of Myself.

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

fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river

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

the trees of a new purchase, Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river

from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

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

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

Song of the Banner at Daybreak.

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

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours, And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

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