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Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

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

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

Immediately after the discovery of the North River by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Dutch tooks steps to

These works extended down to the river, and back, beyond Fort Green, and from the Wallabout to Gowanus

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1881)

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1891)

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

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

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

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

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

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

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1881)

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

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

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

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1891)

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

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

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?

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

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

"Leaves of Grass"

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

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 10 November 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

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

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours a day, haunt the Delaware river much of the time, am a good liver and not a teetotaler

Introduction to Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas

  • Creator(s): Rachel Price | Matt Cohen
Text:

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) had reigned in River Plate literature

Space

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

Technology

  • Creator(s): Mulcaire, Terry
Text:

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

Time

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

that, therefore, there is a constancy to human experience that transcends time:To think that the rivers

Friday, November 15, 1889

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

I envy you fellows who can go about, who have something to do—who cross the river, work, see the sunsets—free

Wednesday, December 9, 1891

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

that only one man in all the world, in all history, and he our neighbor, grey-bearded, across the river

Thursday, April 9, 1891

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

, "It is beautiful, masterful—yes, as you say, has an Indian flavor, almost—fresh odors of woods, rivers

Saturday, December 13, 1890

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

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs

Respondez!

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

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

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

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

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 July 1864

  • Date: July 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

He has had chills & fever, caught in the James River.

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1867

  • Date: February 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

If sin hath slain mine honor, straight appears, The river of his tears, Wherein I find redemption: tenderly

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5–7 [July] 1889

  • Date: [July] 5–7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

guess June 6 —Fine weather—sun shining—bad spell resumed—got out in the wheel chair last sunset to river

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Thursday, May 9, 1889

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

Then Ed can go right across the river and have it sent."

His thirst to see the river is great—spoke of it again.

Wednesday, August 1, 1888.

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

My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers, the wharves, the boats—I like sailors, stevedores

I have never lived away from a big river." Took up Brinton's suggestion that W.'

Whitman and World Cultures

  • Creator(s): Caterina Bernardini
Text:

contributions," and that such a poet must "incarnat[e] [ his country's] geography and natural life and river

Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him. ( 1856, 183–184) In the 1860 edition, his ambition

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river

At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

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

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

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

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

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

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

everything else rests; New York, Brooklyn, experimentation—down to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River

expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the Middle States and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

Days with Walt Whitman: A Visit to Walt Whitman In 1877

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

His "Brooklyn Ferry" and the section entitled "Delaware River—Days and Nights" in "Specimen Days", sufficiently

Presently a cheery shout from the top of a dray; and before we had gone many yards farther the river

York, he had had a "fancy" to visit Sing-sing prison, the great penal establishment up the Hudson river

He is a precursor

  • Date: 1847 or later; May 1847; date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Hogarth | Anonymous
Text:

Marraton sees his wife, whose recent death he is lamenting, standing on the opposite bank of a river.

looks, her hands, her voice, called him over to her, and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river

He plunges, nevertheless, into the stream, and finding it to be nothing but "the phantom of a river,"

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1871)

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

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

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, November 28, 1888.

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

Who could share with me the thought of that evening's ride across the river?

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

Sunday, December 15, 1889

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

Is a strip of sky to be seen or penetrated as you go along, or the river, or a boat, or the men on the

Wednesday, September 4, 1889

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

"I got to the river tonight," he said, "and how gloriously everything appeared.

Saturday, April 4, 1891

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

told it to Longaker the other day—in the phrase of the lumbermen, when the logs all clutter up the river—and

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 9]

  • Date: 24 November 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

any doubt, when Chaos had his acquaintance cut, and the morning stars sang together, and the little rivers

The Return of the Heroes.

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

The Return of the Heroes.

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

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

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