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When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in

“O Captain! My Captain!”

Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!

”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark

My Captain!

poems published as the cluster "Old Age Echoes" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in Good-bye My

Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye My

Said as to my inquiries: "I am bad again, very bad—somehow start into a new siege: it is my head, my

My dear Mr.

That is my habit—they call it my procrastination—it has always been my habit.

old days, my youth, my forty years ago, any more!"

But my memory! my memory!"

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My

The first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery

send you a line—pass it on to J W W[allace] —Still poorly—have finish'd the (very brief) proofs of my

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Feb: 19 p m '91 Palpable slight turn for the better with me (or I take it so)—Suppose you have rec'd my

frequent notes & papers—convey this to J W W[allace] —my copy is to go to printers in three days for

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

noise & laughing & drinking, of a dozen young men, & I among them, I would see your face before me in my

it would be if I could leave all the fun & noise & the crowd & be with you—I don't wish to disparage my

there is something that takes down all artificial accomplishments, & that is a manly & loving soul—My

Well, it is now past midnight, pretty well on to 1 o'clock, & my sheet is most written out—so, my dear

dear loving comrade, & the blessing of God on you by night & day, my darling boy.

I do not know that I told you that both of my parents were dead but it is true and now, Walt, you will

be a second Father to me won't you. for my love for you is hardly less than my love for my natural parent

say much more of what the world calls educated & polished, & brilliant in conversation, &c, than you, my

.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.

of power in my left."

Davis to my wife.

My friends do not realize my condition.

My supper is my main meal now.

He enquired what my programme was for the rest of my jaunt.

Grass were now in the possession of Horace Wentworth, a Boston publisher, whom Thayer characterized as "My

To Walt Whitman, My dear Master, I plead no other excuse in writing to you but my great wish to thank

For you have proved to me, lovingly, as few others have done, that a poet—(my own far-off but cherished

Hoping my letter may not weary you or the reading of it try your eyes Believe me Your very grateful admirer

untitled section of the 1855 edition. of Leaves of Grass which, in the 1867 edition, became "Now List to My

It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

siege of grip viciously departing (I hope departing)—But am decidedly easier to-day—am weaker than ever—my

MAY 7 | 6 AM | 90, LONDON | AM | MY 8 | O | CANADA; N.Y. | 1890 | 1030 AM | 8.

22tex.00036xxx.00384MY 71st YEARMY 71st YEAR1889poetry1 leafproof with revisions; Corrected proof of My

MY 71st YEAR

It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital

I make my way, / I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you, / I do not hurt you more than

edition of 500," he wrote to his friend William O'Connor, adding that "I could sell that number by my

My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd."

And he found particular significance in the cover: "This is my design—I conceived it."

Body, set to them my name," followed by a blank space where Whitman added his signature in each copy

Glance O'er Travel'd Roads first appeared in Lippincott's Magazine (January 1887), under the title My

Reprinted in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), My Book and I was also combined with How I Made

a Book, Philadelphia Press (11 July 1889) and A Backward Glance on My Own Road, Critic (5 January 1884

eventually titled Song of Myself: "The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me, / I tucked my

trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time".

and wicked" may relate to the following line, which occurs later in the same poem: "Ever myself and my

leafhandwrittenprinted; Clipping, with handwritten revisions, of a passage from A Backward Glance on My

This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue

It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if

The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect

Near the end of the essay, Whitman writes: "My own opinion has long been, that for New World service

Wallace replied to Walt Whitman's card on August 1: "I have considered it one of the main privileges of my

life (since my mother's death the main privilege of my life) to be able to communicate with you personally

and to tender you my deep reverence and love" (typescript: County Borough of Bolton (England) Public

He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.

letter as follows: "I extract the following, verbatim, from a letter to me dated September 29, from my

. | 5-11-91 | 1030AM | 9; London | AM | MY 12 | 1 | Canada.

My Captain!"

My Captain!

Captain, 0 my Cap tain" surely one ofthe most tender and beautiful poems in any language.6 The misquotation

I sing the songfmy wallpaper, my ceiling, my floor, my doors, my windows, my around-rooms, under- and

My Captain!

here, but cold enough outside frozen hard— O why hast thou bleach'd these locks, old Time yet left my

1844, that is about "an aged man" who meets a young man and tells him, "I was like thee, once gay, my

son, — / Sweet pleasure filled my heart," but "conquering time / Hath bleached my locks so gray."

magazine & identity:sphere, nothing too small to be despised, all welcom'd, to be digested & formulated by my

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Jersey U S America Jan: 1 '91 Well the New Year has come & it is a dark foggy stormy glum day here—my

Pacific side Co:) acc't—but the main thing will be, if the bundle reaches you safe , wh' is one motive of my

sending now—I am putting some little licks on a little 2d annex to be called "Good bye my Fancy" wh'

I will send you when printed—& my L of G. & all will be done—I wrote to you ab't a week ago too—has

on & even increase (it is a kind of delirium)—Of course when you write tell me what has arrived of my

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

printer, but he sends me word he can only put one man on it—(dont expect the proof complete for ten days)—my

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves

leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of a note for the short poem An Ended Day, which was first published in Good-Bye My

brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My

My Likeness! [Earth]

November, 1889 issue of The Century Magazine, (one full, one partial) which included Whitman's poem My

only three pages of one of the copies are available (cover, table of contents, and the page on which My

My 71st Year

My dear Mr. Rosetti Rossetti : I suppose Mr.

weeks since, assenting to the substitution of other words, &c. as proposed by you, in your reprint of my

When I have my next edition brought out here, I shall change the title of the piece "When lilacs last

It is quite certain that I shall add to my next edition (carrying out my plan from the first,) a brief

Very likely some of my suggestions have been anticipated.

propose would of course be adopted by me with thanks & without a moment's debate, were it not that my

Rossetti agreed to this change on December 8, 1867: "I had previously given it a title of my own, 'Nocturn

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

Most of my friends were English.

It was the method my mother had followed, when I was four or five, to facilitate my reading Spanish,

since my mother tongue, that of my parents' home, was French, until I was older than fifteen.

Haunts my heart."

"I, my soul, and my body go together, a singular threesome."

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

those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00003 My

We loyal Kanucks are keeping the Queen's birthday—my fam all out fishing —3 parties of them—all off—from

my brother 60 yrs old to my youngest 9.

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

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

, after 10 I see the steamboat that carries away my woman.— Damn him!

how he does defile me This day, or some other, I will have him and the like of him to curse the do my

I will stop the drag them out—the sweet marches of heaven shall be stopped my maledictions.— Whitman

how he does defile me, / How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

/ How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman" (1855, p. 74

Hear my fife!—I am a recruiter Who Come, who will join my troop?

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

Hear my fife

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My

Louis March 26th 73 My dear Mother I received your latest letter—I was glad indeed to hear from you—yet

acknowledged on March 13 that "the principal trouble is yet in the head, & so easily getting fatigued—my

whole body feels heavy, & sometimes my hand" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York

New York, July 17 1886 Dear Sir Your postal recd received and I was glad that you had accepted my small

Well, give him my love: that is real: and if he is satisfied to be the happy owner of my love he owns