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Search : of captain, my captain!

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Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The oppression of my heart is not fitful and has no pangs; but a torpor like that of some stagnant pool

Around me are my brother men, merry and jovial.

—Ah, if the flesh could but act what my rational mind, in its moments of clear inspiration aspires to

Autobiographia: Starting Newspapers (Another Account)

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

STARTING NEWSPAPERS (ANOTHER ACCOUNT) Reminiscences —( From the "Camden Courier." )—As I sat taking my

As I cross'd leisurely for an hour in the pleasant night-scene, my young friend's words brought up quite

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

My first real venture was the "Long Islander," in my own beautiful town of Huntington, in 1839.

I enjoy'd my journey and Louisiana life much.

Authoritative Online Editions

  • Creator(s): Thomas H. Benton [William Pannapacker]
Text:

One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24

for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my

still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my

Australia and New Zealand, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): McLeod, Alan L.
Text:

On 6 August 1889 O'Dowd commenced a letter to Whitman, addressed as "My Reverend Master," which he never

A.T Akerman to William W. Belknap, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying

Asselineau, Roger (1915–2002)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

"My Discovery and Exploration of the Whitman Continent (1941–1991)."

Asia

  • Date: About 1855 or 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my

"Ashes of Soldiers" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Rieke, Susan
Text:

the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my

Ashes of Soldiers.

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

soldiers South or North, As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought, The war resumes, again to my

Now sound no note O trumpeters, Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses, With sabres

drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride, With all the perils were yours.)

Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love, Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers

Ashes of Soldiers.

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

soldiers South or North, As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought, The war resumes, again to my

Now sound no note O trumpeters, Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses, With sabres

drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride, With all the perils were yours.)

Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love, Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers

Asenath C. Benedict to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1892

  • Date: January 4, 1892
  • Creator(s): Asenath C. Benedict
Text:

My dear old friend Mr. Whitman So many years have passed since we last saw each other.

that you remember me , and the old home on M.Street —and the dear old "Cherry Tree" " where you and my

Sevellon Brown, Sackett my son were there also.

Although many years have passed since you lived at my house and many changes have come to us, still,

hope this may reach you, it would give me a great deal of pleasure to know that you remember me and my

Ascent of Mount Popocatapetl

  • Date: After March 23, 1854; 23 March 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Gerard Noel | Anonymous
Text:

I began to feel very much numbed with the cold, and my eyes suffered a good deal from the glare of the

I was now only able to take three steps at a time without stopping, as my legs began to give way, and

I attribute my being able to reach the top to my wind; I never felt want of breath at any time, while

M., with my hands cut to bits, my nails worn to the quick with holding on, I reached the hut and there

One of my eyes is completely 'bunged up,' the other just enables me to see to write this.

Asa K. McIlhaney to Walt Whitman, 11 October 1889

  • Date: October 11, 1889
  • Creator(s): Asa K. McIllhaney | Asa K. McIlhaney
Text:

But as I did not receive an answer from you, and thinking that my letter miscarried, I concluded to write

Asa K. Butts to Walt Whitman, 29 September 1876

  • Date: September 29, 1876
  • Creator(s): Asa K. Butts
Text:

That he obtained your goods & service under false pretenses is perfectly certain to my mind .

would let me have some property which he had no earthly use for viz some books which had once been in my

private library a $150 bookcase which had been in my library 5 or 6 years before I thought of going

pay you $200.00 (just what was due Dec 1st '74) In another place he binds himself to carry out all my

I have done for 3 or 4 years, day & night & sunday, to get justice out of this fellow for myself & my

"As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mulcaire, Terry
Text:

Whitman's own experiences during this visit to the front.The soldier's epitaph—"Bold, cautious, true, and my

The latent meaning submerged within "my loving comrade" as the antithesis of "true," in other words,

"My book and the war are one," Whitman would assert in "To Thee Old Cause" (1871); in "Toilsome" that

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods.

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

AS TOILSOME I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas

this sign left, On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave, Bold, cautious, true, and my

Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering; Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of

the unknown soldier's grave—comes the inscription rude in Virginia's woods, Bold, cautious, true, and my

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods.

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

AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas

this sign left, On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave, Bold, cautious, true, and my

Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering, Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of

soldier's grave, comes the inscrip- tion inscription rude in Virginia's woods, Bold, cautious, true, and my

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods.

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

AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas

this sign left, On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave, Bold, cautious, true, and my

Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering, Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of

soldier's grave, comes the inscrip- tion inscription rude in Virginia's woods, Bold, cautious, true, and my

As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods

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

AS TOILSOME I wander'd Virginia's woods, To the music of rustling leaves, kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas

this sign left, On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave, Bold, cautious, true, and my

Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering; Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of

the unknown soldier's grave—comes the inscription rude in Virginia's woods, Bold, cautious, true, and my

[As to you]

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

leaf7 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

As They Draw to a Close.

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

AS they draw to a close, Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them, Of the seed I have

in them, Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them, (For them, for them have I lived, in them my

As They Draw to a Close.

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

AS they draw to a close, Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them, Of the seed I have

in them, Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them, (For them, for them have I lived, in them my

As the Time Draws Nigh.

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

States awhile—but I cannot tell whither or how long; Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my

As the Time Draws Nigh.

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

States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long, Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my

As the Time Draws Nigh.

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

States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long, Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my

As Nearing Departure

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

The States—but I cannot tell whither or how long; Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my

As in a Swoon

  • Date: between 1872 and 1876
Text:

included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

As in a Swoon

  • Date: Between 1872 and 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

Annotations Text:

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days.

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

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

done and gone, we remain; There is no final reliance but upon us; Democracy rests finally upon us, (I, my

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days.

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

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days.

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

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

As I Walk, Solitary, Unattended

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

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

done and gone, we remain; There is no final reliance but upon us; Democracy rests finally upon us, (I, my

As I Sit Writing Here.

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

As I sit writing here, sick and grown old, Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities

, Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, May filter in my daily songs.

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

That, O my brethren—that is the mission of Poets.

What is this you bring my America? Is it uniform with my country?

I swear I will have each quality of my race in my- self myself , (Talk as you like, he only suits These

rapt verse, my call—mock me not!

You, by my charm, I invoke!

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore

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

For that we live, my brethren—that is the mission of Poets.

Have you studied out my land, its idioms and men?

What is this you bring my America? Is it uniform with my country?

rapt song, my charm—mock me not!

You, by my charm, I invoke!

As I Ponder'd in Silence.

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

AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE. 1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering

then I answer'd, I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

As I Ponder'd in Silence.

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

AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before

then I answered, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

As I Ponder'd in Silence.

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

As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before

then I answer'd, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Gilbert, Sheree L.
Text:

Sheree L.Gilbert"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your

Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" first appeared in Whitman's separately

"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)

As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado

Text:

As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado.

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

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado. As I Lay with my Head in your Lap, Camerado.

As I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado, The confession I made I resume—what I said to you and the

open air I resume: I know I am restless, and make others so; I know my words are weapons, full of danger

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado.

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

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado. AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO.

AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado, The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the

open air I resume, I know I am restless and make others so, I know my words are weapons full of danger

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado.

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

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap Camerado. AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO.

AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado, The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the

open air I resume, I know I am restless and make others so, I know my words are weapons full of danger

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado

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

As I Lay With My Head in Your Lap, Camerado AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP, CAMERADO.

AS I lay with my head in your lap, camerado, The confession I made I resume—what I said to you and the

open air I resume: I know I am restless, and make others so; I know my words are weapons, full of danger

As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life.

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

Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows, Chaff, straw,

O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth, Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,

whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my

sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me, Because I have dared to open my

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life.

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

Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows, Chaff, straw,

O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth, Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,

whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my

sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me, Because I have dared to open my

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

As Consequent, Etc.

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

In you whoe'er you are my book perusing, In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing, All,

the West joyously sounding, Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable, Infinitesimals out of my

life, and many a life, (For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,) These waifs from the

As Consequent, Etc.

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

In you whoe'er you are my book perusing, In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing, All,

the West joyously sounding, Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable, Infinitesimals out of my

life, and many a life, (For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,) These waifs from the

As at Thy Portals Also Death.

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

AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother

As at Thy Portals Also Death.

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

AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother

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