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Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

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

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

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 18 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
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spent portions of several seasons at a secluded haunt in New Jersey—Timber Creek, its stream (almost a river

River, a little after eight, full of ice, mostly broken, but some large cakes making our strong-timber'd

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 23 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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variety of meters suited to every slightest change of sentiment, here lilting like a smooth flowing river

chords left as by vast composers [gap] You formless, tree, religious dan[gap] Orient, You undertone of rivers

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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through, so small was it—and gazed forth upon the land, and the trees, and a small strip of the bright river

gestures of wonder—and then both hurried away toward a path which led from the village along the river's

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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about the same from the principal steamboat landings—Peck Slip and Piers No. 4, and thereabouts, North River

; about three quarters of a mile to the Hudson River Railroad station at Chambers Street, corner College

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
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energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
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full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
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The "Father of Waters" is a nickname for the Mississippi River.

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
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He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

Saturday, June 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Said he had just come back from his trip—"I have been to the river again—my first love—and best!

Tuesday, April 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Tuesday, July 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

Saturday, May 17, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As I had not read Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers," W. thought I should.

A Broadway Pageant.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 3

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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These fronted toward the South, and had large gardens, sloping northward down to the river, of which

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 1]

  • Date: 29 February 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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, and to rest his limbs, allows them to float drowsily and unresistingly on the bosom of the sunny river

[We proceed this morning to]

  • Date: 5 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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For more on Sing Sing prison, see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing

We

  • Date: 9 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Though we do not expect to set the North river on fire, we are free to confess, without vanity, that

The Literary World

  • Date: 12 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers

A Broadway Pageant.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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from the Altay moun- tains mountains , From Thibet Tibet , from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

A Broadway Pageant.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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from the Altay moun- tains mountains , From Thibet Tibet , from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

Steam on Atlantic Street

  • Date: 11 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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their iron brothers, and scarcely move a muscle at their shrillest whistle; and so the miraculous river

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 14–15 April 1891

  • Date: April 14–15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
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to the wharf to participate with you in the pleasures of the delicious air, the sunshine upon the River

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 29 December 1862

  • Date: December 29, 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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George—when he heard he was wounded, on the day of the battle, he left every thing, got across the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 August 1863

  • Date: August 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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must be now back again in Kentucky, or that way, as I see a letter from Cairo, (up the Mississippi river

Sunday, February 3, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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If I could bring the Delaware River into this room I'd be wholly satisfied.

W. wanted to know whether the river was frozen across.

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; 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 embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Review of Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: January 1867
  • Creator(s): Hill, A. S.
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power would suffer from the absence of those restraints which are to genius what its banks are to a river

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: Visit to Brooklyn

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
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wheelhouse, chatting to him, looking at the stream of passengers, and enjoying the breeze from the river

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river

Saturday, June 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He rides less in his chair now to the river—more out in the open, where the boys play ball, the game

Thursday, August 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. now just back from his trip to the river. Evening beautiful. Was out of doors in chair.

Saturday, April 21, 1888.

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

significant for his patriotism, Americanism, love of external nature, the woods, the sea, the skies, the rivers

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

The Latest and Grandest Humbug

  • Date: 8 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gradual reduction of duties until the year 1842, when they were to be 20 percent, or under" (Blair and River

Song of the Redwood-Tree.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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para- dises paradises of the Pacific, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers

Song of the Redwood-Tree.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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para- dises paradises of the Pacific, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers

Respondez!

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

The First Independence Days

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–4 January 1863

  • Date: January 2–4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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high house, corner of 15th and F. street—there is a splendid view, away down south, of the Potomac river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1888

  • Date: January 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep

George Washington Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 8 January 1863

  • Date: January 8, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

The rebels still hold the other side of the river and apear to be in considerable force, but they keep

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

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

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