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Drainage—Report of the Engineer to the Commissioners

  • Date: 6 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

permeable land drains and sewers should be provided, to discharge into the natural water courses and rivers

That as outfalls are already provided by streams and rivers for the discharge of the natural waters,

provided, to discharge without intermission into the said artificial outfalls, independently of the rivers

The Police and Fire Telegraph

  • Date: 10 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

after connecting Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, to Astoria, and thence by a submarine cable across the river

Free Bathing—Accidents

  • Date: 28 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lads, who go in the water “not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river

are not sure but the fear of such arrests often drives boys, and men too, into those places of the river

(always commendable in man, woman, or child,) of laving the whole body with the cool waters of the river

The Season of Accidents

  • Date: 27 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Boys, not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river where there are dangerous

These Splendid Nights!

  • Date: 17 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You can walk out toward the suburbs, or cross the river, or even promenade the flagged sidewalks, with

Or, if you prefer, you can take a bath in the river. Then sleep is such a pleasure, these nights!

The First Independence Days

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

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating

  • Date: 2 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What has become confessedly needed over the wild and unknown regions that lie between the Missouri river

nobody travels, far below the great lines of travel—and thence run through the dreary deserts of Red River

as this of the Overland Mail, ought to have been Independence, (latitude 40 degrees,) on the Kansas river

Bathing

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Every morning and evening the East and North Rivers ought to show not hundreds but thousands and tens

The Public Lands

  • Date: 25 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rivers.

Rivers.

Rivers.

; Pawtucket River; Patuxet River.

Rivers.

Steam on Atlantic Street

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

their iron brothers, and scarcely move a muscle at their shrillest whistle; and so the miraculous river

Brooklynites in Kansas

  • Date: 9 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from north to south, from east to west,—from Bangor to Galena, from the Penobscot to the Savannah river

"Dead Heads"

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America not only contains the biggest rivers, the amplest lakes and prairies, the most prolific mines

Henry C. Murphy

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

We would walk down “Love Lane,” and stand upon “Clover Hill,” and view the bay and river.

Hot Weather Philosophy

  • Date: 2 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

Nicaragua

  • Date: 29 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Total force of the Allies, exclusive of 1,200 Costa Ricans, if, as alleged, on the river, 18,000.

, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas on the 1st of May, and 80 surrendered or escaped down the river

Europe Laplanders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver

Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 17 December 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

craned forward and tow-colored hair, stare and stumble; perhaps there is a bustle, like an eddy in a river

Wicked Architecture

  • Date: 19 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In New York, closed in by rivers, pressing desperately toward the business center at its southern end

observations about the growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River

Fifth Avenue, Fourteenth Street, from river to river, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets and indeed

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

Wednesday Evening, June 10

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 31 May 1856; 10 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

grog, which they took in a manner peculiar to themselves—first a cup of whisky, and then a cup of river

Now and then a "specimen" of the by-gone race of river boatmen, who have mostly settled down to farming

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Kentucky

  • Date: about 1861
Text:

On one of the pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning with James E.

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

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

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

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

Letter. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

recitations, amusements, will then not be disregarded, any more than our perennial fields, mines, rivers

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

near the cot- ton-wood cotton-wood 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

Poem of Salutation.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

I see the long thick river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows, I see where the Columbia

winds, I think, you waters, I have fingered every shore with you, I think I have run through what any river

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Broad-Axe Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prai- ries prairies , Welcome the rich borders of rivers

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellowstone river

vast frame- works frameworks , girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

idler, citizen, country- man countryman , Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Poem of the Body.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body or another person's body, The circling rivers

Poem of Many in One.

  • Date: 1856
  • 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

Poem of You, Whoever You Are.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and west are tame com- pared compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable riv- ers rivers

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FLOOD-TIDE of the river, flow on! I watch you, face to face, Clouds of the west!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

Poem of Procreation.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Poem of the Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sun- set sunset , the river

Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Burial Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

No doubt the efflux

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river

How gladly we leave the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

Night of south winds

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

The sores on my shoulders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

11 He The sores on my neck shoulders are from his iron necklace I look on the off on the river with my

Topple down upon him

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

I am a curse

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

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