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You may think these strong words & that I have an exaggerated estimate of my dear friend's abilities,
I confess it had quite slipped my mind. I must take it up.
the balmy coolness and the voluptuousness of the scene had led me into, being thus broken in upon, my
—This individual, my enemy, and I, had differed upon a matter of opinion; a sharp word had passed, and
and let one line of my poems contradict another! Let the people sprawl with yearning aimless hands!
Let him who is without my poems be assassinated!
5 Dec. 18 '63 1 friday Friday night My dear Walt i write to night some of the particulars of Andrews
that came to watch he told mary he was dying and he could not dye die with them there they insisted on my
dur- ing my absence.
I have lost my wits . . . .
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
roof, my doors, my hearth and home How sweet again to see the light and thee!
gab and my loitering.”
language: "As I have looked over the proof-sheets of the preceding pages, I have once or twice feared that my
here—said: "Only that while I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my
past—that I have always invoked that future, and surrounded myself with it, before or while singing my
encompass wider and wider realms of experience: "And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my
own, / And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own" (section 5).These mythic progenitors
you seem to look for something at my hands, / Say, old top-knot, what do you want?"
W. had at once on our entrance insisted on having a light—"Oh my, we must have on!
The Thoreau cairn of stones: "That was there when I paid my visit—I carried a big stone—a stone as big
as my head—and threw it on—we all did.
fruitlessly, the boy questions also only to hear the ocean's final assertion of death, and the man notes "My
five times and say blankly, " But my mate no more, no more with me!
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
My remarks here repurpose and reaffirm (in a much broader context now of Whitman Archive work on Whitman's
annotations) my earlier treatment in Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (New Haven: Yale
When I am in a room with people, if I am free from speculating on creations of my own brain, then, not
I am under obligations to them both, for their courtesy during my visits, and for professional explanations
P. with gentle but firm hand, holding a pair of nippers, seemed to me larger than the end joint of my
yellow blue handkerchief around her head, and such an expression on her face, that I at once made up my
ball for Lincoln's Second Inauguration was held in the Patent Office on March 6, 1865. ) and write my
the music will sound and the dancers' feet presently tread—what a different scene they presented to my
But I forego that reception, and finish off with something I have on my mind about no more uncommon topic
I found he wanted to go part of the road in my direction, so we walked on together.
My boy was with the former, stepping along with the rest. There were several other boys no older.
were all of pleasant, even handsome physiognomy; no refinement, nor blanched with intellect, but as my
This was my best sight yet of Prince John; and I tugged the matter through on purpose to give your good
the front steps of the City Hall, the most vitreous of moonlight bathing the whole scene, I stretched my
If I know anything of my native State and her people, (and I have lately had an opportunity of observing
The company is dissatisfied with my opinion, and asks a rehearing.
Sir: The Secretary of War has called my attention to certain suits pending in the Circuit Courts of the
panorama the skepticism of "Calamus" number 7, and thus joins "To a Certain Civilian" and "As I Lay with My
My Life. London: Victor Gollancz, 1928.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."
In a line added in 1860 Whitman speaks of the burden of speech as "the secret of my nights and days,"
Hannah Whitman appears in Whitman's story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) as a fair and delicate youth.
Andrew appears in an early Whitman prose work, "My Boys and Girls," published in The Rover (20 April
declaring that Sawyer had his love "in life and death forever" and assuring the young soldier that "my
beginning he announces, "Let me bring this to this a close," and later he mocks, "Let him who is without my
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
implicit in the lexical conversion of "leaves" of grass into knife-like "blades" in "Scented Herbage of My
experts in native languages had contested his definition of "Yonnondio," but he stood firm: "I am sure of my
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).
As luck would have it, W. rang shortly after my arrival and we went into the room together.
Something decisive will probably appear in a day or two—either a move against Walt or acquiescence in my
Meeting Stedman face to face you would realize many things—would see what my own words about him have
"We have been out to see my lot.
Thought he would have to come up and see my father's picture. Left with him Harper's Weekly.
I don't remember whether I said so to Chubb when he was here, but I know it was my feeling to say of
say, that anyone, to get hold of me,—the bottom of the big book—all I have written—would see that all my
W. was not asleep—at once accosted me on my entrance—reached forth his hand—seemed indeed bright in speech
.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
—"Step-along, my bullies!" Come, bullies, hop, now! hop now!" (9 Mixture of passengers .
, are, Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my
, are, Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
Mason, Towanda, Give my regards to Mr & Mrs O'Conner and friends that I met in Washington— I hope you
on the finger —and I have just got well of it—and a cussed bad time I had of it too—it accounts for my
My Dearest Friend: Are you never coming? I do long & long to see you.
My dear Madam Kindly send apace—address as asked for on Enclosed sheet.
Your name will be a sufficient warrant for my intruding upon his Alpine solitude and 7 months winter—in
My first taste of the country was at Alloway, Burns' birth place.
Am laid up just now with a kick from my horse—luckily nothing very bad—he struck me (accidentally in
children is extremely well mat has has very much to doo do she is going to have a girl to work give my
Han—also 2 dollars—nothing for me—I am unworthy, although I entreated but for 5 dollars, to help pay my
I felt as though it was my duty to go to him for he is one of the dearest brothers ever was given to