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the suggestions which you have made on that subject are entirely reasonable, and if it shall be in my
of Judge Trigg, and have desired that I should make known to you the effect of that statement upon my
My letter of the 28th ultimo, addressed to you at Knoxville, in the case of Mr.
repeat that you seem to understand your Commission as requiring a much larger expenditure than was in my
It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated
The furnishing of professional defence went to the very verge of what I understand to be my authority
To go further, and pay costs out of any funds under my control, seems to me unauthorized.
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 5th instant, I have to say that I am daily at my office and receive
Yet such is the pressure on my time from the multitude of visitors at this season, and other causes,
I desire to add my own personal tribute to your worth and character as an officer of the United States—as
Acting Assistant Secretary of State: My dear sir: I have received and read the letter of Mr.
Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.
Upon the receipt of his reply, I will give you my views concerning the expediency of complying with the
Your application for a leave of absence has been referred to me by the Secretary of the Interior for my
Sir: My clerk sent your Commission to you on yesterday, and I requested him to say to you that I would
Upon a careful consideration of this opinion, I adhere to the position expressed in my letter to you
course by which it can be set at rest, & this is, by instituting prosecution, as I have advised in my
Layard, " was the extent of my discoveries at Koyunjik.
No matter what length of time I spent in proving my case, I generally found my eloquence was expended
I had but time to throw up my right arm, when the avalanche descended.
I await my turn. In due time it comes.
My warriors fell around me. It began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand.
Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, in New Yorke, on the Island of Manhattat, this 18th day of
clearing, ffencing and manuring their land, as well as building ffor their conveniency have requested my
Given under my hand and seal at ffort James, in New York, the ffirst day of May. in the 22nd year of
House, and the question that is now put is, whether this 53 bill should pass, I must beg leave to give my
Witness My Hand, LEFFERT LEFFERTS."
I hope to be able to announce in my next the commencement of our agricultural operations.
aim'd at me—like flash of flame Right to my very soul it came.
An infant at that dreary hour, Comes weeping to my silent bower, And wakes me with a piteous prayer,
I, starting, cry, That mak'st my blissful dreams to fly?"
I know him by his bow and dart; (I know him by my fluttering heart:) I take him in—I quickly raise The
(My bosom trembled as he smiled,) I pray thee let me try my bow, For through the rain I've wandered
—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse
) —& now 4pm Nov. 14 '89 waiting for my supper to be bro't— Transcribed from digital images of the original
the case, I examined the accounts given on this subject, by the four Evangelists, and according to my
scripture evidence for his being the son of Joseph than otherwise ; although it has not yet changed my
mighty bulwark, not easily removed, yet it has had this salutary effect, to deliver me from judging my
they were in the same belief with myself; neither would I dare to say, positively, that it would be my
how often has my poor soul been brought to this point, when temptations have arisen, 'Get thee behind
I have foreknown Clearly all things that should be; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul; and I must
Southey thus records his own birth:— "My birthday was Friday, 12th August, 1774; the time, half-past
According to my astrological friend Gilbert, it was a few minutes before the half hour, 161 pleasure.
There is an image in Kehama, drawn from my recollection of the devilish malignity which used sometimes
Meantime Madoc sleeps, and my lucre of-gain-compilation (specimens of English Poets) goes on at night
, when I am fairly obliged to lay history aside, because it perplexes me in my dreams.
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a
position for the present, I will ask leave to begin these Notes with such hints of the character of my
father and mother and of my own childhood as may at least help "The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol" one of
my favorite stories WW WALT WHITMAN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. 32 Transcribed from our digital image of the
Think, oh my soul, devoutly think, How, with affrighted eyes, Thou saw'st the wide-extended deep In all
Yet then from all my griefs, on lord!
Thy mercy set me free; Whilst in the confidence of prayer My soul took hold on thee.
My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be, And death, if death must be my doom Shall
join my soul to thee.
.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
—What seek you do you want among my haughty and jealous democracies of the north?
woman, or my flesh and blood.
—There are my officers and my courts.—At the Capitol is my Legislature.
—It is foreign to my usages, as to my eyes and ears.—Go back to the power that sent you.
free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers, or sea shore.— 19 But why do I babble
O Captain! my Captain! O Captain! my Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.
O Captain! my Captain!
This manuscript is a signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!
of the verso of this manuscript is currently unavailable.; A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain
My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.; Transcribed from digital images of the original.
thousands, each one with his entry to himself; They are always watching with their little eyes, from my
head to my feet.
lift put the girder of the earth a globe the house away if it lay between me and whatever I wanted.— My
These words are for the five or six grand poets, too; and the masters of artists: — I waste no ink, nor my
receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you, / The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my
Bibles i are divine revelations of God But I know say that any each leaf of grass and every hair of my
compiled composed is not august enough to dent endow answer tally a leaf of grass the partition of in my
. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).;
am that foolish half grown angry boy, fallen asleep, The tears of foolish passion yet undried upon my
204 My tongue must can never be content with pap harness from this after this, It c will not talk m in
My tongue can never be
harness," "traces," "the bit"—may relate to the extended metaphor developed in following lines: "Deluding my
bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me, / No consideration, no regard for my
draining strength or my anger, / Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile, / Then all
Such boundless and affluent souls. . . . . . . bend your head in reverence, my man!
Henceforth After this day, A touch shall henceforth be small Little things is shall be are henceforth my
my tongue proof and argument It They shall tell s for me that people In them, the smallest least of
over all, and what we thought death is but life brought to a finer parturition.— An inch's contact My
The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but
to speed take me truly really on to deep waters Now, now to thy divinest venture (I will not call it my
Good bye My Fancy | Sail out for Good Etc | Page 7—Good Bye My Fancy This manuscript is a draft of "Sail
"; Good bye My Fancy | Sail out for Good Etc | Page 7—Good Bye My Fancy; Transcribed from digital images
"You have worked hard to-day, my son." "I've been mowing."
Feel of my hands." There were blisters on them like great lumps. Tears started in the widow's eyes.
I'd as leive lieve be in my grave as there." And the child burst into a passionate fit of weeping.
"There, my lads," he said to his companions, "there's a new recruit for you.
"I've no occasion; beside, it makes my head ache, and I have promised my mother not to drink any," was
I cannot, of course, convey to others that particular kind of influence, which is derived from my being
I must hardly expect, therefore, that to those who hear it through the medium of my pen, the narration
times which marked our American Revolution that the incidents occurred which are the foundation of my
Again I ask pardon for my rudeness. Let me now be shown to this chamber—this haunted chamber.
He came to my very bed-side; his small hand was raised, and almost touched my face.
The circumstances of my family were easy; I received a good education, was intended by my father for
The eldest was my favorite.
I kept a box of my own, and frequently attended, often giving my family permission also to be present
My blood curdled as I saw there an image of the form of my son—my cruelly treated Luke—but oh, how ghastly
I clapped my hands to my ears, to keep out the appalling sounds that seemed to freeze my very blood.
trifling suffusion spread over his face; "if you like, I'll put the saddle on Black Nell—she's here at my
I took my lamp, and went my way to my room.
I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a
; and answered, "My husband's."
She looked at me for a minute, as if in wonder at my perverseness; and then answered as before, "My husband's
my open hands and thought.
have of late frequently come to me times when I do not dread the grave—when I could lie down, and pass my
greatest and profoundest truths are often most plain to the senses of men—in the same resemblance, my
The scene of the meeting was the school house; and having no other means of employing my time, I determined
"You are whimsical, my dear," said the matron, as she took the paper; "why do you desire so needless
"My son," she cried, in uncontrollable agony; "my son! you die!"
Whitman reused this sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My son," with minor revisions, in " The
.; Whitman reused this sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My son," with minor revisions, in "
I was alone, the family of my host having gone on some visit to a neighbor.
Insensibly, my consciousness became less and less distinct; my head leaned back; my eyes closed; and
my senses relaxed from their waking vigilance.
The person to whom I spoke stared in my face surprisedly.
"Himself hung it around my neck," said the veteran.
And the gentle creature blushes at my protestations of love, and leans her cheek upon my neck.
"My brother, thus have I lived my life. Your look asks me if I have been happy.
"My brother, a maiden's tears washed my stern resolves away.
Various fortune followed my path.
But I can lay my hand upon my heart, and thank the Great Master, that the sunshine has been far oftener
What is yours, my brother?" "Behold!" answered the Spirit.
In the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman included the lines: "Who learns my lesson complete?
My Lesson Have you learned my lesson complete: It is well—it is but the gate to a larger lesson—and And
mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it; /
All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, / Now I stand on this spot with my
White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
. * shall uncage in my breast a thousand armed great winged broad‑ wide‑winged strengths and unknown
I want that untied tenor, clean and fresh as the Creation, whose vast pure volume floods my soul.
paces and powers, uncage in my heart a thousand new strengths, and unknown ardors and terrible —making
furious than hail hail and lightning. that leap lulling me drowsily with honeyed uncaging waking in my
likely relates to the following lines, from the poem that would be titled "Song of Myself": "I open my
to the President at his levee, / And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield
of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My
as two—as my soul and I; and I gu reckon it is the same with all oth men and women.— I know that my
trousers around my boots, and my cuffs back from my wrists and go among the rough drivers and boatmen
I tell you just as beautiful to die; For I take my death with the dying And my birth with the new-born
lips, to the palms of my hands, and whatever my hands hold.
hands, and my head my head mocked with a prickly I am here after I remember crucifixion and bloody coronation
See particularly the following lines (from the 1891–2 edition): "O the old manhood of me, my noblest
/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of
the long stretch of my life" (145).
His blood My gore presently oozes from trickles down from a score of thinned with the plentiful sweat
salt ooze of my skin , And See how it as trickles down the black skin I slowly fall s on the reddened
Grier notes that a portion of this notebook (beginning "How spied the captain and sailors") describes
O my body, that gives me identity! O my organs !
Underfoot, the divine soil— Overhead, the sun.— Afford foothold to my poems, you Nourish my poems, Earth
In Poem The earth, that is my model of poems model ?
The body of a man, is my model—I do not reject what I find in my body—I am not ashamed—Why should I be
My Darling (Now I am maternal— a child bearer— bea have from my womb borne a child, and observe it For
though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death" (1855, p. 74).
man who claims or takes the power to own another man as his property, stabs me in that the heart of my
own The one scratches me a little on the cheek forehead , the other draws his murderous razor through my
t T hat black and huge lethargic mass, my sportsmen, dull and sleepy as it seems, has holds the lightning
eventually titled "Song of Myself": "Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai, / In my