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A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

I drew 2 months pay to day and bought a new suit of clothes and now I feel something like a white man

And it means, Sprouting, alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

Andrew C.HigginsBryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Bryant, William Cullen.

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss. 2 vols.

The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. Ed. Parke Godwin. 2 vols.

Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)

Fairchild's; Aldrich's; one marked "from Nellie and William O'Connor"; and several other sprays, from

Williams solemn, serious—Chambers merry, fine, full of life.

s friends, Talcott Williams and Morris among them. The flowers, wreaths along.

Williams, F. H.

Williams, Brinton, Ingram and daughter, Bonsall, Donaldson, Joseph Fels and wife, H. H.

America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

William J. Stone, on Meridian Hill near 14th Street.

Whitman also befriended a Wisconsin soldier, William Hugh McFarland.

Whitman befriended Wisconsin Volunteers William Hugh McFarland (seated, center) and Stephen M.

Photograph of William Bliss.

Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

Sol has struggled to pierce—with a touch of frost at nights covering every thing with its beautiful white

a big old ship's cabin" with its literary chaos —really kosmos to you—its stove its "bed with snow white

KatherineReaganKennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929) Biographer, editor

, and critic, William Sloane Kennedy was one of Whitman's most devoted friends and admirers.

William Sloane Kennedy and the daughter of a minister, Sarah Eliza Woodruff, Kennedy attended Yale, graduating

in Lewis Bay near his home in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on 4 August 1929.Bibliography Kennedy, William

William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. Kennedy, William Sloane (1850–1929)

Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges him- self himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white fea- tures features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

and even to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

White. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Gibson, Ian. Federico García Lorca: 2.

night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned

little red-headed baby boy—So the contrast—birth & life—just here I receive a beautiful bunch of great white

Trout 30 6 Birds & Birds 16 7 A Bed of Boughs 30 8 Birds nesting 10 9 The Halcyon in Canada 44 10 A White

He was a heart's ease growing in the shadow: the leaves are turning white from want of sun!

following grippe, over 50, has had a funeral ceremony & burial to-day—I sent a little ivy woven anchor & white

The weather lately is heavenly—just pleasant temperature, pure blue sky with a white cloud floating here

It is now afternoon—perfect weather—cool, bright, white fleecy clouds on every hand, a gentle breeze

While I write, the snow is falling; so softly, so softly, come its pure white flakes!

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

Sherry and Sharron SimsSouthardSwinton, William (1833–1892)Swinton, William (1833–1892) Although William

William and his older brother, John, became intimates of Whitman in the mid-1850s.

"Whitman and William Swinton: A Cooperative Friendship." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.

"Swinton, William." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 18. New York: Scribner's, 1936. 252–253.

Swinton, William (1833–1892)

"It's very shadowy: William is not improving." He paused.

He reports everything well in London: says, by the way, he called on Johnston White in New York: says

"I wrote my usual postal to William—also a postal to the Doctor."

W. said: "I am up a tree: I can't go to William: I can't shake the sorrowful thought of him out of my

MartinBidneyBlake, William (1757–1827)Blake, William (1757–1827) Introspective psychological mythmaker

and political as well as cosmic visionary, poet-artist William Blake wrote and illustrated verse of

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman.

William Blake and the Moderns. Ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Annette S. Levitt.

Blake, William (1757–1827)

Lawrence I.BerkoveHowells, William Dean (1837–1920)Howells, William Dean (1837–1920) William Dean Howells

The Realist at War: The Mature Years, 1885–1920, of William Dean Howells.

The Road to Realism: The Early Years, 1837–1885, of William Dean Howells.

Howells, William Dean. Selected Literary Criticism, Volume 1:1859–1885. Ed.

Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)

With love believe me Yours Talcott Williams T. Williams Mrs T.

Williams Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, [22 April 1888]

Amy M.BawcomVan Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]Affectionately

known as "Amy," Naomi Williams was Whitman's maternal grandmother.

in section 35 of "Song of Myself," Whitman recounts a tale involving Amy's father, Captain John Williams

Van Velsor, Naomi [Amy] Williams [d. 1826]

have not yet sail'd—the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, be- yond beyond the floes; White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar, festoon'd with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

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

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

where men have not yet sailed— the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree-tops, Below, the red cedar, festooned with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

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

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

where men have not yet sail'd—the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar, festoon'd with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

discharge her "darkey": "she got so lazy she was worse then nobody. last thursday I got another girl (a white

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978).

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 513–514).

bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen;) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,) I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

(he is shot in the ab- domen abdomen ;) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,) I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

Give us one thing or the other, gentlemen—black, if you will, or white if you will—but not the mulatto

You will see that the spot at the left side of the hair, near the temple, is a white blur, & does not