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We paused on the Pavonia road to take a glimpse of the river, shot through with beams of golden gorgeous

If a fellow wants the fresh air, river, sea, sky—he has it there, too, for the asking.

on the sunny side of one of the Camden ferry boats, taking his daily two or three trips across the river

That is a beautiful country, both sides—Port Huron, Sarnia—the river between. The noble river!

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

It has the aspect then of a river, not a lake; and at this point there is no snow—the ice being heaped

up into enormous ridges & pinnacles like a river when there is a long reach of rapids, only in the glacier

The wild, tossing confusion of the ice-river contrasted strangely with the absolute stillness and immoveability

Bill sent me a young mocking bird—his home is at a small town on the red-river in La. but he is running

and follow it for two or three miles as it passes B—that is except at the points at the mouth of the river

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

that in the summer it is terribly offensive to those who live along the edge of the river I shall be

have a trip or two of that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river

works are going along pretty well although just at this moment we are in ill-luck consequent upon the river

having risen and overflowed our cofferdam and thereby stopped progress on the river work.

For the last three weeks the river has been just on the verge of overflowing us—the consequence was that

keep it out of the dam—the foundations are from 25 to 30 feet under the surface of the water in the river

and I felt it would make bad work to be drowned out  It would (the river) go up to within just a few

done that, And Lee as you say must have been badly hurt or he would never let Hooker come across the river

Mother, you have no idea of the splendor and the comfort of these western river steam-boats.

We expect to get as far as Cairo to night on the Mississipi river.

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.

They must run down to the river before they can get a drink.

There was a "Kingdom of Heaven" established up the North River, with many disciples.

help us and We can Wipe the Cavalry if mead Will lookout for the infantry the rebs is coming over the river

hour, Darkness, dreariness, pain Homesickness, leaden rain Blood, our heroe's blood poured forth in rivers

it must be for him,—which may afford opportunity to change the note; and as we saunter toward the river

permitted, Whitman was wont to cross the Delaware in the ferry-boats, repeating his favorite East River

place at the very end of the wharf of the Boston Terra-Cotta Company on Federal Street, bordering the river-like

Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri," Bal'mont had preferred some all-inclusive phrase, such as "rivers

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

Daily Times in 1848, a local newspaper for residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River

Ten days later, on December 19, 1843, it appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY), and

A Chronicle of New-York," The Hudson River Chronicle , December 19, 1843, [1]; "The Love of the Four

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

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

Evok- ing the chaotic scene of the night battle on the river as the “shock of ships”colliding amid the

,The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, and contrasted with his youthful journey back up the Ohio River

“Our rival Roses warred for Sway— / For Sway, but named the name of Right” in “The Battle of Stone River

Soldiers become an “Abrahamic river” in “The Muster,” the flashes of bayonets are northern lights in

Arrived at the edge of the Delaware River by the aid of this yoked and tamed lightning, a prodigious

homage to Whitman in novels of artistic development such as The Custom of the Country (1912), Hudson River

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

Well here I am camped on a sand bank on the Rio Grande River the weather is hot and we have seen little

built houses for themselves some of mud some of willow and some have dug houses in the bank by the River

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.

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

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

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

The river is running through the bottom as a smiling child.

New Orleans our Dutys are light barely enough for healthy exercise the camp right on the bank of the River

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),

In addition to Walden (1854), Thoreau's major works include A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

working expedition(my brotheJeffwith me) throughallthe Middle States,nd down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

Or crossing the half or half the East River, the day night in the pilot-houses of Brooklyn ferry-boats

Outside of work hours he occupied himself observing Southern life,people, the river,with itsmiles of

At all times he was keenly inquisitive m matters that belonged tothe river or boat.

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

JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.

Kittermaster, and myself went thirty miles down the St Clair river on a steamboat taking with us a sailboat

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

StephenRachmanNiagara FallsNiagara FallsWalt Whitman twice visited the famous falls on the Niagara River

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) reigned in River Plate literature

" (from "Salut Au Monde"), and again, later in the same poem, "I see the Amazon and the Paraguay [rivers

]" to "I see the Amazon, the Paraguay, the River Plate" ( , 359).

Twenty-eight youths bathe in the river.

Land of rays and shadows, peppering Literally, snowing upon. the river waves!

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) had reigned in River Plate literature

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

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

.—— 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

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

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river