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Ingram to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1880
Lakes of the Thousand Islands St Lawrence River Aug 1 I am here in a handsome little steam yacht (owned
Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—back in London Aug 14— W W Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Tuesday, January 1, 1878 CHICAGO IN 1877.
Propellers 15 4,912 Steam canal-boats 27 2,491 Tugs 62 1,863 Barks 13 4,486 Brigs 3 1,016 Sloop-yacht 1
not far from 6 per cent higher, as measured against gold; so that we have an actual increase of above 1
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov 1 '80 According to your letter just rec'd received I forward
Williams & Company, 1 November 1880
is blowing a south west gale around here—I suppose it is pretty cold at Atlantic —It is now ¼ after 1—
Camden Wednesday Evn'g Evening Dec: December 1— 1880 Dear Hank Nothing very new with me the last two
Love to your father & mother, not forgetting your share dear son— Walt Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 1
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
(No. 1) before it was published in Specimen Days and finally collected in Complete Prose Works (1892)
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984] 1:
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
Ironically, on March 1, 1882, the District Attorney of Boston declared the book “obscene” and ordered
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal
WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
AS I EBB'D WITH THE OCEAN OF LIFE. 1 AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. 1 HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates
THOUGHTS. 1 OF these years I sing, How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK. 1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd
SONG OF MYSELF. 1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC. 1 I SING the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
FACES. 1 SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
1 O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. 1 AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY. 1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
SONG OF THE ANSWERER. 1 NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities
SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE. 1 WEAPON shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother's bowels drawn, Wooded flesh
SONG OF THE EXPOSITION. 1 (AH little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The
THE RETURN OF THE HEROES. 1 FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Now I awhile
THIS COMPOST. 1 SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I
THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.
P., Buried 1870.) 1 WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
(To Confront a Portrait.) 1 OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this
VOCALISM. 1 VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are
PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM. 1 PROUD music of the storm, Blast that careers so free, whistling across the
PASSAGE TO INDIA. 1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong
THE SLEEPERS. 1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping
TO THINK OF TIME. 1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection, To think of to-day, and the ages continued
CHANTING THE SQUARE DEIFIC. 1 CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer
THE WOUND-DRESSER. 1 AN old man bending I come among new faces, Years looking backward resuming in answer
GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN. 1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. 1 WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star
BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE. 1 BY blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd
SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE. 1 A CALIFORNIA song, A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe
A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS. 1 A SONG for occupations!