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At the marriage of a German prince with an English princess, when the bridegroom said, "With all my worldly
Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.
I sound triumphal drums for the dead—I fling thro' my embouchures the loudest and gayest music for them
their dead songs about dead Europe, and its stupid monks and priests, its chivalry, and its thing a-my-bobs
By the Roadside," "Autumn Rivulets," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Sands at Seventy," and "Good-Bye my
from Long Island to a house on Front Street, a waterfront area where, as the poet put it in Good-Bye My
included Two Rivulets, a collection of prose and poetry that Whitman hoped would "set the key-stone to my
"Well, my dear," said Mr. Calhoun, "I have noticed a change in the light since we came."
"My young friend you ask me a difficult question.
Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, in New Yorke, on the Island of Manhattat, this 18th day of
clearing, ffencing and manuring their land, as well as building ffor their conveniency have requested my
Given under my hand and seal at ffort James, in New York, the ffirst day of May. in the 22nd year of
House, and the question that is now put is, whether this 53 bill should pass, I must beg leave to give my
Witness My Hand, LEFFERT LEFFERTS."
My own opinion guess is that myriads of superior works have been lost—superior to existing works in every
waste of ignorance, and the calamities of war, our treasures rather than our losses are the object of my
luxurious and delightful moments of life; which have often enticed me to pass fourteen hours a day at my
desk, in a state of transport; this gratification, more than glory, is my reward.'
What was learned man's compliment, may serve for my confession and conclusion.
"Revenge and Requital," the narrator concludes of the redeemed main character Philip that "Some of my
where the narrator reflects on his own death: "There is many a time when I could lay down, and pass my
In one scene where Whitman describes the death of a child, in the autobiographical "My Boys and Girls
fiercely, and rack my soul with great pain."
A Fact," a reader denoted solely as "R" explained in the letter: "My feelings were very much excited
It still maintains: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over
barefooted every few minutes now and then in some neighboring black ooze, for unctuous mud- baths to my
It seem to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
caused something of a scandal; Traubel recalled that neighbors went to his mother and "protested against my
caused something of a scandal; Traubel recalled that neighbors went to his mother and "protested against my
In that work Whitman stated with disarming frankness, "I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time
R.W.FrenchReading, Whitman'sReading, Whitman's"My reading," Whitman remarked to Horace Traubel in 1888
of "Passage to India," or for the serene meditations of his old age ("Sands at Seventy"; "Good-Bye my
"I have friends: some, who think my notions of Chase do me little credit—but do what I will, evidence
He inquired just the other day, "I wonder if my Harper's poem is lost irretrievably?"
in London in 1882, albeit in a significantly edited form under the title of "The Tomb Flowers," in My
What is yours, my brother?" "Behold!" answered the Spirit.
In My Whitman (1966) Chukovsky defines Whitman's unique visionary attribute as a continual awareness
the CBS series Northern Exposure featured disc jockey Chris Stevens reading passages and discussing "my
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth" and knew that the "spirit of God is the brother of my
—They retard my book very much" (Correspondence 1:44).
rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves " ("Mannahatta [My
statement near the beginning that describes it as dialectical: "I feel the parts harmoniously blended in my
Again, "In my days the Washington monument was not yet completed—had not put its cap on.
Requital," a sentence that seemed to make an explicit statement against capital punishment: "Some of my
William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth
Whitman says "no one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or
After celebrating and singing himself, he continues: "I loafe, and invite my soul."
I know it is attainable because I experienced brief moments when it almost created itself under my pen
Other Polish responses to Whitman's "Poets to Come" besides translations In my research into Polish readings
newspapers but later gathered into Specimen Days & Collect (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My
in the two volumes are Specimen Days & Collect, November Boughs, and the prose portions of Good-Bye My
He argued vehemently that "a new Literature," and especially "a new Poetry, are to be, in my opinion,
decade of his life, he collected royalties on sales of his photographs and had a taste of celebrity: "my
reveals a darker Whitman, suspicious, uncertain, and lonely: "Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my
Leaves contains only six new poems ("Inscription" [later "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My
letter to Viscount St Albans calling Bacon saying "the most prodigious wit that ever I knew of any my
I ask for their decipherment from a learned person in my neighborhood.
might, in part, explain Whitman’s protest later in life to Horace Traubel that the pamphlet was “not my
"I resist anything better than my own diversity," says Whitman in "Song of Myself" (section 16).
. . and I split off with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and 'the party,' and I lost my
On the right side, "Youth of my country! Martyrdom prefer to Slavery."
head at nightfall, and he is fain to say, "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; I sound my
results—and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death; And I will thread a thread through my
"Song of Myself" the persona's freeing himself of "ties and ballasts" and "skirt[ing] the sierras, my
In the poem "To Thee Old Cause" he wrote, "My book and the war are one," and elsewhere he wrote that