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excitement to get there I took the wrong ferry, which lands the passengers a few blocks higher up the river

I saw smirking, sitting near a framed Mona Lisa, in a little back room with a view on the Charles River

Lawrence River, which eh had seen during the past summer.

present domicile is a little old-fashioned frame house, situated about gun-shot from the Delaware River

acquaintance says:— "Whitman gets out of doors regularly in fair weather, much enjoys the Delaware River

from him that 'that miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

Walt Whitman's domicile isa littleold-fashioned present frame house, situated about from the Delaware River

am sick.' "] April 27,'87. " " Drove down yesterday four miles to BillyThompson's on the Delaware river

I will send you (or word allI hear or get. of) I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river

These stocks original tinge and saturate the billows of humanity through generations, as great rivers

Before the slow roll of the river of the majestic DRIFT AND CUMULUS. 123 come the toss and turbulence

Whitman on a Tuesday in August, 1882, on the boat crossing the river to Camden.

He haunted the Delaware River front about Camden foryears.

It came from a guano factory on the Philadelphia side of the Delaware River. Mr.

He accepted all,as the great river takes in streams. He was a creative man.

Kingdom established up the North River, with many disci s was fired and ples.

Walt Whitman lived in the somewhat dreary and ugly suburb of Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware river

evening (the moon and Jupiter in conjunction, and I 'speering' them all the way home especially on the river

essay, I am at a rustic house I have built at awild making place a mile or more from my home upon the river

;&qm jihjD\hihest point of rocks I can overlook a long stretch ofthe river and ofthe farm I can hear

In the door-yard, toward the are fresh of their river, graves, mostly officers, names on pieces of barrel-staves

,towards dusk, near the cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red River

We have body come upon a great river, a great lake, an immense plain, a rugged mountain.

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

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

New York, he had had a fancy to visit Sing-sing prison,the great penal establish- ment up the Hudson river

He cele- brates in his poems the fluid, all-solvent disposition,but often was himself lessthe river than

As the great rivers,when falling into the main, lose their name and are thenceforth reckoned as the great

(p.66.) 99 — Days with Walt Whitman "Tao as it exists in the world is like the great rivers and seas

wheelhouse, chatting to him, looking at the stream of passengers, and enjoying the breeze from the river

It was a day of perfect loveliness and the long drive through the park and along the Schuykill river

The new moon was shining, and the lights on the river as we crossed it were very beautiful.

was wheeled by Warry right past my hotel, according to his custom, down to the wharf, close to the river

behind him. the hope of meeting him, when he accosted me, and invited me to accompany them down to the river's

from him that— "That miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

The sun had set beyond the river, and in its afterglow Venus was outshining mildly and unattended.

15 TH TO 24 TH O N Thursday morning, October 15th, Andrew Rome and I left Brooklyn and crossed the river

"Oh yes," he replied, "I saw a good deal of it about Quebec, and about the Saguenay river."

We left early and Harned, Buckwalter, Traubel and I crossed the river to Camden to visit W.

was wheeled by Warry right past my hotel, according to his custom, down to the wharf, close to the river

It was a day of perfect loveliness and the long drive through the park and along the Schuykill River

steam-tugs and ferry-boats, and a little later the lights on the river and ashore, with the distant

Fels drove us Fairmount through Park, returning along the Schuykill river to the city.

Niagara River. By JULIA CRUIKSHANK. 4$.6d.net.

Rivers, and is published by Geo. Allen & Co., London.

He is a great river, which appears with its life blood diminished, but only be- cause itis irrigating

'(fand 76 From Pent-up Aching Rivers ...

W. describinghisSaguenay River tripwith Dr. Bucke, seesame forAug. 26, 1880.

Phelps, William Rivers, W. Lyon, loi. C, 119. Phillips, Le Roy, 16, note. Roberts, Harry, 253.

The first, 1848-49: To Louisiana, the “great river,” New Orleans and the “magnet south” and on the way

equated to “From Pent-up Aching Rivers.”

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

In the specific case of art, we have also seen how he loves to compare his songs to a plant, a river,

and Nights” (117), “Hudson River Sights,” “Departing of the Big Steamers” (p. 125), and “Only a New

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

far ahead of "the fat gentle man in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

I was out early taking a short walk by the river-only two squares from where I live.

H .-28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivat ing wild region, by Vermont Central R.

The river steamer Wawassett caught on fire on August 8 on the Potomac River with a frightful loss of

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow. (27-29) The endless procession across the East River

The loss of Whitman's dream of America "may be read . . . all the way from river to river and from the

": I've known rivers ancient as the world and old as the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

By granting the river, clouds, and foundries permission, as it were, to be what they are, he is also

wrote to Abby Price as Meade was unable to slow the Confeder at~ advance across Virginia's Rapidan River

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush ofthese great cities, the unsurpass'd situation, rivers

A young man stands at the Delaware River's edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers ofAmerica, and along the shores ofthe

JA M E S E .M IL L E R , JR . 197 Earth ofshine and dark mottling the tide ofthe river!

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

Rivers, the author of a pamphlet en- HOMOSEXUALITY 193 titledWalt Whitman's Anomaly, 22Bertz wrote in

Rivers,Walt Whitman's Anomaly (London: GeorgeAllen, 1913), pp. 4f.

Rivers mentions Bertz's works favorably.

Like Bertz, Rivers attempted to provide "scientific" evidence. 23.

Bertz to Rivers, 12March 1913, 4:16. 24. Bertz to Rivers, 29 March 1913, 4:20. 25.

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, and then by government steamer up the Potomac River

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

The text of I855 is a river of lava.

How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!

See Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," in Works (River side ed., I894), Vol. X. 107.

Insert natural things, indestructibles, idioms, charac teristics, rivers, states, persons, etc.

Rivers 22 studied Whitman's case scientifically and dispassionately.

chapter on Philadelphia, another city with a large Irish population and located just across the Delaware River

The Irishman took the Germans to the boat and saw them safely across the river, where, with no common

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

I have never lived away from a big river.

and of achieving a view of the Delaware River below.

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently un- dulating rivers. Oh!

there, but a river that does.

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

“I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the rivers of America . . .

Hence the poem’s great concluding benediction on time’s pro- cess: “Flow on, river!

My mighty Yangtse River in the south! Good morning! My icy Yellow River in the north!

Rivers.

As we drove across the river from Philadelphia into Camden, we were shocked by the slums that seemed

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

as far ahead of “the fat gentleman in striped trousers,” as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

wereneverpublishedinnewspapersormagazines;however,they appear in Specimen Days from sections “Swallows on the River

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

often–Mrs O’C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially–spent an hour down by the Delaware river

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

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

posed a problem for the plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dam the Little Tennessee River

The sense that something valuable had been lost in the Tellico Valley with its little river and fertile

Unlike a boat or even a bridge, the dam interferes with the very "riverness" of the Rhine.

Like the undammed river, the soul flows and may flood unexpectedly.

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

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

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

Walt loved living close to the East River, where as a child he rode the ferries back and forth to New

asks its subject, 36 : the american 1848 Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river

are overlaid with foreign ones: “[h]ills became mountains and dales valleys, streams were called rivers

” by “men of truly proper style” like Duy- ckinck.88 For Whitman to flee the perfumed salon for the river

Composed at his biogra- pher’s Manhattan apartment window, which looked out on the East River just southoftheBrooklynBridge

to the life before me: And, Walt, there’s no end to your life: You’d say: “Tell me about the East River

Rivers) not included under "Disciples" (see below).

spirit responds to his country’s spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red United States and States United : 75 river, or

gone down the American river!

Rivers, Walt Whitman’s Anomaly (London: George Allen, 1913), 9.

Gere, an East River ferry captain, recalled that Whitman would regale pas- sengers with Shakespearean

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

Oulipo, and numerous occasional practitioners such as John Ashbery, whose catalog poem of the world’s rivers

of local news, and frequently did his own legwork on news stories in Brooklyn and across the East River

In “Sun-Down Poem” he stresses the shared material of water in the river and, more problematically, the

odditwasforareviewtocontainsuchdetailsaboutitssubjectas“six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer inthe river

3/ of a pound, so there must have been the blood of 1000 men coloring the waters of our beautiful river

marked by considerable con- fusion and casualties from friendly fire in woods south of the Rapidan River

Croly and George Wakeman, Miscegenation (1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970), 18–19

Miscegenation.1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. Cushman, Stephen.

A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers.

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

57.SeealsoWhitman’sdeletionofthereferenceto“theperfect girl” in “enfans” 2 (“from Pent-Up aching rivers

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

A Chronicle of New York The Hudson River Chronicle Sing-Sing, NY December 19, 1843 [1] [Unsigned] The

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

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

When New England was covered with extensive systems of river-powered textile mills, and even Emerson’

Considering midcentury environmental discussions, Whitman’s con- cluding call “Flow on, river!

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

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West.

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a