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Cluster: Calamus. (1860)

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

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

Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

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

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

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

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

baffled, Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers

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

Walt Whitman

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

dusk, near the cotton- wood cottonwood or pekan-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, Scorched 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

Chants Democratic and Native American 1

  • 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

Chants Democratic

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

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

gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone Yellowstone river—dwellers

sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

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

Chants Democratic

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

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

Chants Democratic

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

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

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

, atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

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

Chants Democratic and Native American 11

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

journeying hence to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Chants Democratic and Native American 12

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

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Baths

  • Date: 16 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Weimer, in the East River, should teach those who desire to bathe, but cannot swim, the propriety of

shilling, why then, sooner than abstain from bathing, you may run the risk of being drowned in the River—there

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Young and active men recoiled from the unpleasant duty of going across the river at that late hour, and

genial sympathies, a jolly host, a welcome guest, a man of his word, ranking high one side of the river

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 2

  • Date: 21 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

prefer water to land, since he derives both his income and his pleasures from the rolling deep of the river

History of the Introduction of Water into the City

  • Date: 25 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vegetation, a clear surplus of 500,000 gallons per annum, which ordinarily would go to the supply of rivers

(Boston) surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,230 '' '' 62 feet under surface . . . 2,210 Hudson River

(at Albany) . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,320 Mohawk River (at Cohoes) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,880 Patroon's

Creek (used for Albany Water Works) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,720 Thames River (at

London . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,000 New River (supply for London) . . . . . . . . . . 19,200 Hampstead

Brooklyn Legislation at Albany

  • Date: 4 March 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tuthill—to reduce River street to the width of 80 feet. By Mr.

New Publications

  • Date: 7 February 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is a narrative of the exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and adjacent countries,

steamer "Water Witch" was placed under the command of the author, with instructions to explore the rivers

prosecution of his duty, Lieutenant Page made explorations which embrace an extent of 3600 miles of river

one at that and being separated even from this by the Cordilleras of the Andes, it is only be her rivers

[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

[New York Atlas, 12 December 1858]

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

Not that we wish to see you take to the woods or rivers—for we think you can attain all the desired results

The Opera in Brooklyn

  • Date: 10 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

The Telegraph in Williamsburgh

  • Date: 9 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

established telegraphic communication between New York and Brooklyn by a submarine cable across the river

Our New Brooklyn Arsenal, and Its Reminiscences

  • Date: 23 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

It was a fine summer walk, or drive, having fields on one side, and the river on the other.

[New York Atlas, 17 October 1858]

  • Date: 17 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

nation of swimmers; although our coast of sea, bay, and inlet includes thousands of miles, and lakes, rivers

A Southside View of Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

population a most moral and virtuous people; we frequently volunteer advice to our sister city across the river

The Celebration Yesterday

  • Date: 2 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counter-celebration here; for literally every one went from both districts of this city to the other side of the river

The hegira across the East River commenced at an early hour yesterday morning, and continued all the

Every car going towards the ferries, every boat plying on the river, and every vehicle in New York plying

from the river to Broadway, was crowded.

The shipping in the river was almost universally in “full dress,” all their colors and signals flying

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

The Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

  • Date: 6 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Zoology of the Mammoth Cave, together with a brief description of all the rooms, avenues, domes, rivers

Green River, with its towering cliffs, is but a few hundred yards from the hotel, and afford good fishing

The entrance to the Cave is one hundred and ninety-four feet above the Green River, and is about twenty-five

those parts of the Cave where no rocks have fallen, the floor presents the appearance of the bed of a river

Sparks), extends from the River Hall to the Mammoth Dome, a distance of three-quarters of a mile.”

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Frazer River Ferment The FRAZER RIVER FERMENT.

The arrival of the Moses Taylor, yesterday, put us in possession of the fact that the Frazer River excitement

which has absorbed public attention here during last fortnight may be expressed in two words—“Frazer River

adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one in ten, have already gone to Frazer River

Public Baths

  • Date: 27 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

A Northern Pacific Railroad

  • Date: 17 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to the gold discoveries at Frazer’s River and vicinity.

The Missouri river is navigable to the Great Falls, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellow

More Gold

  • Date: 15 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The San Francisco papers state that the Frazer's River excitement, so far from having abated, has vastly

tending northward. 40, 000 people, it is stated by the Californian press, will have gone to Frazer's River

“Our Best Society”

  • Date: 25 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of our great neighbor over the river

Into the Country

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

file of the people who don't live in brown stone fronts and are glad to get a couple of weeks "up the river

Common Council

  • Date: 15 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

authority certain streets have been closed, so as to cut off access on the part of the public to the river

Factories Not Unhealthy—And Short Chimneys As Good As Tall Ones

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

As the Eastern District of Brooklyn, especially the Greenpoint portion, and all along our East River

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the children than in any similar district in the city of New York or Brooklyn where milk from the river

exposed to heat, and a churning-jolting for twenty-four or thirty-six hours (as the milk from the river

Living in Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

if they wished to live in a respectable neighborhood, and they are consequently forced to cross the river

Health—Nature's Aids—Consumption

  • Date: 23 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vapor of our sugar-kettles, so much vaunted as a cure, is of no more benefit than the vapor of a North river

Brooklyn Parks

  • Date: 17 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

it—commanding a wide view of as noble a panorama as there is in the world—we mean the bay, shores, river

[As we write]

  • Date: 3 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lady trails her drooping drapery along the street which stretches like a line of light toward the River

Africa—Mungo Park—The Landers—Livingston

  • Date: 25 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Those claiming to know, formerly asserted that many a noble river, unable to reach the great natural

genial tropical clime; he fell in with the Niger, of the Joliba, as the natives called this magnificent river

the great desert, and west of the island Mozambique, which, like our own Minnesota, gives rise to rivers

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

What Williamsburg Wants

  • Date: 15 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and intellectual food to our young men, and save the best of them from the necessity of crossing the river

The Metropolitan Police Law

  • Date: 9 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Board, transferring one of the departments of the government of Brooklyn to the other side of the river

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

“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

New Publications

  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

Rowdyism

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

unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to our mammoth neighbor across the river

What They Want

  • Date: 12 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

that which is now disturbing the peace and endangering the safety of the great metropolis across the river

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