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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The bugles play—presently you hear them afar off, deaden'd, mix'd with other noises.

The vital play and significance moves one more than books.

Some of the inmates are laughing and joking, others are playing checkers or cards, others are reading

The President came betimes, and, with his wife, witness'd the play, from the large stage-boxes of the

Well, there isn't a band playing—and there isn't a flag but clings ashamed and lank to its staff.....

Complete Prose Works

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

What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?

Austin as Ariel, and Peter Richings as Caliban.

The vocal play and significance moves one more than books.

All work seem'd play to him.

Not for nothing does evil play its part among us.

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with us, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

races; I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces played

Answer That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with us, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

races; I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces played

Folhas de Relva

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tanto George, seu irmão, quanto Peter Doyle, que foi seu amigo entre os 45 e os 50 anos de idade, afirmam

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old rôle, the rôle that is great or small, according as one makes it!

—S , 6 th May "The passion of Althæa is much the finest part of the play.

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!

To go to battle-to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

William M. Evarts to Orville Hickman Browning, 26 February 1869

  • Date: February 26, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

matter of the suspended entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Under the name of Peter Parley he is very favorably known to the masses of society, and his writings

Peters whom we have reason to suspect is the same astronomer who is mixed up with the difficulty of the

Peters for his service and investigations in this branch of astronomical science.

Peter's, Kennebec, Monongahela, Rock, Kaskaskia, Green, Licking, Neuse, Big Black, St.

Peter's; Des Moines; Missouri; St. Francis; Arkansas; Red. 5.

Neibelungen-leid

  • Date: After 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

warrior, king, full of courage—the usual type‑hero, as seen, duly followed, in all modern novels and plays

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Here, at least if nowhere else if anywhere over the whole world, shall be fair play.

225 775 6000 1000 400 32-5-32 3 5 the same right to come that we have, and on the same terms.— Fair play

alarmed about the union of these states; , like all good and noble feelings, it is susceptible of being played

unerringly signified which is the their knowledge of a bogus article from solid gold : The men who played

the great parts in these plays dramas have all, without one single exception, been set aside, without

Bervance: Or, Father and Son

  • Date: December 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

so fully upon it, that I really fear, sir, your refusal would excite him more than the sight of the play

deliberately rose—raised his hand to his head—lifted his hat, and bowed low and long—a cool sarcastic smile playing

Reuben's Last Wish

  • Date: May 21, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

enjoying the delight of the scene—not such delight as children are generally fond of, romping, and playing

The Angel of Tears

  • Date: September 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He remembered him of his brother as a boy—how they played together of the summer afternoons—and how,

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Work of some sort Play?

weapons or helmets—all emblematic of peace—shadowy—rapidly approaches and pauses sweeping by— if in a play—let

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Great latitude must be allowed to others Bring Play your muscle, and it will be lithe as willow and gutta

Whitman and His Poems," first published in the United States Review : "Every move of him has the free play

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

appearance, which had been uttered several days previous, when Master Caleb gave his flock a holiday, for Peter

just as gleesome, commemorated the bestowal, that morning, of another holiday, for the hanging of Peter

of the stream, to see, reclining there in the sunshine, the shape of the now wan and pallid-faced Peter

with wild and ghastly visage, and with the phrenzied contortions of a madman in his worst paroxysm, Peter

Peter Brown, although he has quite a family of little children, finds time, now and then, to utter eloquent

Oliver Goldsmith

  • Date: Around 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

known & better off —then prosperous received sums of £200, £300, £600 &c for his poems, histories & plays

Our own account of this poem, "the German Iliad"

  • Date: 1854 or later
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter and St. Michael and the Virgin Mary.— 2 Before the vesper hour, lo!

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

C., assignor to himself and Peter Hannay. Gas generators. James A.

One Thousand Historical Events

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dizzy shock, 1067 16 David played on his harp to drive away Saul's melancholy.

Peter crucified, and St. Paul beheaded. Judge, 66 51 Destruction of Jerusalem.

Time rough, 1348 35 Peter the Cruel came to the throne.

Dutch book, 1697 100 Peter the Great engaged in ship-building.

Dutch pipe, 1699 5 Battle of Narva—Peter the Great defeated.

The Nibelungen

  • Date: 1850 or later; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos

Comparison between Homer's Iliad

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

Comparison between Homer's Iliad Shakespeare's plays & Leaves of Grass Transcribed from digital images

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

." — Old Play . The source of this epigraph is unknown. "What shall I do with myself to-day?"

which he once saw a group of deer-skin huts, and nigh at hand the forms of some dusky children, at play

Gamboled I with the wild squirrels, or played with the young cubs?

The Death of Wind-Foot

  • Date: June 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The brave is in play," was the response, "Wind-Foot is a little boy."

The Little Sleighers. A Sketch of a Winter Morning on the Battery

  • Date: September 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principal and choicest of the play tracks was in that avenue, the third from the water, known to

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curtain drew up and the play began.

When the play was over, we went out.

"But it is a dangerous game, and should be played cautiously."

"We have made up a fine party for the play to-night, and you must promise to be one of us."

Whether any suspicions of foul play were as yet aroused in the breasts of other persons, is more than

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled " The Play-Ground " and signed "W.," appears

the master has given us a holiday, next Thursday, because he is going to Peter Brown's wedding!

Peter bid me go and seek him out, and deliver to him a message, written on paper.

"And now you have all of my story—and I must go, for it is time Peter Brown received his answer."

What were Peter's thoughts about? Nothing more or less than love .

Annotations Text:

'"; A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled "The Play-Ground" and signed "W.," appears

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 5, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Arrow-Tip, suppose you and Peter Brown take the Bend at Oak Creek for your station?"

"I am as weak as a baby," said Peter.

—"They tell me in the village that Peter Brown is murdered by Arrow-Tip!"

"Well, then," continued the other, "the plain truth is, that the Indian would have killed Peter, and

But Peter, having a very thick skull, his life was saved. I saw it myself.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 4, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Who could be more happy than Peter Brown's bride?

On the day of the hunting-party, he came there, and though Peter himself was absent, he was invited by

he cried, "Peter Brown is murdered, in the forest, by the Indian, Arrow-Tip!"

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter Brown was indeed much injured.

sure that the course of 'justice'—were the people allowed to remain with the unquestionable belief of Peter

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

at this unfortunate juncture that Arrow-Tip was heedless enough to attempt seizing the weapon at Peter's

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 3, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the course of the afternoon, Peter Brown, the lately married blacksmith, came over to Thorne's to

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It happened on the Thursday, when Peter Brown's wedding took place, that Master Caleb and Quincy stole

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The brave stranger is in play," said the other, "Wind-Foot is a little boy."

The curtain drew up and the play began.

When the play was over, we went out.

"But it is a dangerous game, and should be played cautiously."

"We have made up a fine party for the play to-night, and you must promise to be one of us."

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 19, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curtain drew up and the play began.

When the play was over, we went out.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 20, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"But it is a dangerous game, and should be played cautiously."

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 21, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"We have made up a fine party for the play to-night, and you must promise to be one of us."

finished my meal before my companions came, according to arrangement, to take me with them to the play

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Like an actor who plays a part, I became warmed in the delineation, and the very passion I feigned, came

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whether any suspicions of foul play were as yet aroused in the breasts of other persons, is more than

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

installments were sometimes preceded by poems on the front pages of the Eagle ; a poem titled " The Play-Ground

Impatiently breaking the seal, and opening it, the hunchback read as follows: " In answer to Peter Brown

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

Annotations Text:

installments were sometimes preceded by poems on the front pages of the Eagle; a poem titled "The Play-Ground

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

They bathed in the surf, danced, told stories, ate and drank, amused themselves with music, plays, games

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

Annotations Text:

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the poem later titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

edition of The bugle calls in the ballroom—the dancers gentlemen lead out go for their partners—the playing

The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly over the keys. illustration a man placing his

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Review— fifes like a tho the thousand whistles of the fifes, (playing Lannigan's ball) so ro with inexpressible

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

What play of Shakespeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

1991), 28-103; Jay Grossman, " Manuprint " ( Walt Whitman Quarterly Review , 37.1 [2019], 46–65); and Peter

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

The Play-Ground

  • Date: 1 June 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Play-Ground

Annotations Text:

The early poem "The Play-Ground" appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1, 1846 (during Whitman's

identical with the

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

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