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Search : William White

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With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Edward Wilkins, 20 March 1890

  • Date: March 20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1879

  • Date: January 13, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1881

  • Date: November 27, 1881
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 February–1 March 1890

  • Date: February 28–March 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1890

  • Date: June 19, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 August 1890

  • Date: August 24, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The The Daily Crescent, 29 December 1848

  • Date: December 29, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 August 1868

  • Date: August 23, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1877

  • Date: November 7, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Frank G. Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1890

  • Date: April 17, 1890
  • Creator(s): Frank G. Carpenter
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 15 August 1888

  • Date: August 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

[Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth] to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth
Annotations Text:

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

Blake, William (1757–1827)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
Text:

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)

Howells, William Dean (1837–1920)

  • Creator(s): Berkove, Lawrence I.
Text:

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)

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Settlers and Indian Battles

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 22 March 1856; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

How beautiful its clusters of pink and white blossoms are, and how delightfully fragrant!

The squirrel cups vary in color, some being white, others pink, and others still bluish or lilac-colored

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1871)

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

waves—In such, Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine, Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

Cluster: Bathed in War's Perfume. (1871)

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

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight

The Sleepers.

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

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

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

meas- ureless 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 Sleepers.

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

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

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

meas- ureless 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

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

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
Text:

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]

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, [22 April 1888]

  • Date: [April 22, 1888]
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

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

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

Saturday, May 26, 1888.

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

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

Frank Williams did not get in The American this week after all.

Friday, August 14, 1891

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

Added, "When Anne came in Frank Williams was here.

Spielmann's Black and White of March 16th addressed curiously to W. as "poet" at "Boston USA."

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.

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

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

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.

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

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

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.

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

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

Whipping the Devil Round the Stump

  • Date: 24 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John Camden Hotten, 24 April 1868

  • Date: April 24, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [16 January 1874]

  • Date: January 16, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

put yourself out to get it )—As I write the sun is shining bright & clear as can be—the ground is white

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1863

  • Date: May 7, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Text:

a fine house across the way from Hospt No 3, where the Surgn Steward and women stop it has a large white

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16 November 1889

  • Date: November 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Suspicion of more strength in me—splendid effect f'm electric light shining in on big bunch of snowy white

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 13 October [1873]

  • Date: October 13, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White's, & unlock the big trunk, (the one that is strapped) and take out My gray suit , coat, vest, &

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

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

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

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

  • Creator(s): Donlon, David Breckenridge
Text:

David BreckenridgeDonlonThayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

Eldridge [1837–1903]Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

The firm also published Echoes of Harper's Ferry (1860), by James Redpath, and William Douglas O'Connor's

Thayer, William Wilde. "Autobiography of William Wilde Thayer." Unpublished manuscript, 1892.

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1907
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Calder
Text:

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
Text:

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
Text:

SherwoodSmithRossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]One of Whitman's

most important European editors, critics, and supporters, William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante

Rossetti, William Michael. The Diary of W.M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Ed. Odette Bornand.

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie.

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

Wednesday, December 12, 1888.

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

Talcott Williams over. Did not see W. Gilchrist came later: was in bedroom a few minutes.

But then, where is there anybody like William?

William made short work of the hair splitters.

Chadwick got on the wrong field when he called William a liar and crossed blades with him: William gave

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

to life, enters the zone of elegy—thepoetworkingthroughtheimagery(“Thisgrassisverydarktobefrom the white

However, when these same editors joined forces with Arthur Golden and William White to produce the VariorumofLeavesofGrass

the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

father of American poetry, the white-bearded, white-haired, whitepoetwithanamethatisdefinedinRamblesamongWords

William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3: 669.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

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

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot- houses pilot-houses , The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

A Word Out of the Sea

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

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 I call to you my love!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot- houses pilot-houses , The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

An Hour Among the Porcelain Manufactories in Greenpoint

  • Date: 3 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, glittering with mica and newly arrived from Connecticut, and here lay small hillocks of the snow white

Then came the door plates with their dark grounds and white letters, and very familiar looked the interesting

We fear that there were more than sufficient “numbers” for church-pews, done in nice white and gold letters

A Word Out of the Sea

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

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!

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