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Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

Cluster: By the Roadside. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Cluster: Autumn Rivulets. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of clover and timothy, Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine, And many a stately river

wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers

Cluster: From Noon to Starry Night. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Eidólons.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

Fifty-first New-York City Veterans

  • Date: 29 October 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thus they promenaded, by rapid marches, amid heat, dust, rain or snow, crossing mountains, fording rivers

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Through Fourteenth-street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The city of the wide Potomac, the queenly river, lined with softest, greenest hills and uplands.

There is no place in the city, or for miles and miles off, or down or up the river, but what you see

Sometimes from the river, coming up through Seventh-street, you see a long, long string of them, slowly

But this city, even in the crude state it is to-day, with its buildings of to-day, with its ample river

the California, Idaho and Colorado regions (two-thirds of our territory lies west of the Mississippi River

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: January 4, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the engineer was developed in the following extracts: "The Tide Canal, from Wallabout Bay, through River

The uncertainty with respect to the ultimate construction of this Canal in River street, will not affect

The grade of River street, at the intersection with Broadway or Division avenue, is 10 feet above high

It is proposed to construct this sewer 6 feet in diameter for its whole length along River street to

These, with a 4 feet brick sewer in Broadway, extending from Lynch street to River street, about 450

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: 18 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river

Brooklyn Legislation at Albany

  • Date: 4 March 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tuthill—to reduce River street to the width of 80 feet. By Mr.

Drainage—Report of the Engineer to the Commissioners

  • Date: 6 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

permeable land drains and sewers should be provided, to discharge into the natural water courses and rivers

That as outfalls are already provided by streams and rivers for the discharge of the natural waters,

provided, to discharge without intermission into the said artificial outfalls, independently of the rivers

Common Council

  • Date: 15 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

authority certain streets have been closed, so as to cut off access on the part of the public to the river

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the children than in any similar district in the city of New York or Brooklyn where milk from the river

exposed to heat, and a churning-jolting for twenty-four or thirty-six hours (as the milk from the river

Factories Not Unhealthy—And Short Chimneys As Good As Tall Ones

  • Date: 12 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As the Eastern District of Brooklyn, especially the Greenpoint portion, and all along our East River

Health—Nature's Aids—Consumption

  • Date: 23 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vapor of our sugar-kettles, so much vaunted as a cure, is of no more benefit than the vapor of a North river

Hot Weather Philosophy

  • Date: 2 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

Public Baths

  • Date: 27 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

"Dead Heads"

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America not only contains the biggest rivers, the amplest lakes and prairies, the most prolific mines

Henry C. Murphy

  • Date: 3 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We would walk down “Love Lane,” and stand upon “Clover Hill,” and view the bay and river.

Steam on Atlantic Street

  • Date: 11 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their iron brothers, and scarcely move a muscle at their shrillest whistle; and so the miraculous river

The First Independence Days

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

These Splendid Nights!

  • Date: 17 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You can walk out toward the suburbs, or cross the river, or even promenade the flagged sidewalks, with

Or, if you prefer, you can take a bath in the river. Then sleep is such a pleasure, these nights!

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating

  • Date: 2 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What has become confessedly needed over the wild and unknown regions that lie between the Missouri river

nobody travels, far below the great lines of travel—and thence run through the dreary deserts of Red River

as this of the Overland Mail, ought to have been Independence, (latitude 40 degrees,) on the Kansas river

New Publications

  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

Brooklyn Parks

  • Date: 17 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

it—commanding a wide view of as noble a panorama as there is in the world—we mean the bay, shores, river

Africa—Mungo Park—The Landers—Livingston

  • Date: 25 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Those claiming to know, formerly asserted that many a noble river, unable to reach the great natural

genial tropical clime; he fell in with the Niger, of the Joliba, as the natives called this magnificent river

the great desert, and west of the island Mozambique, which, like our own Minnesota, gives rise to rivers

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Frazer River Ferment The FRAZER RIVER FERMENT.

The arrival of the Moses Taylor, yesterday, put us in possession of the fact that the Frazer River excitement

which has absorbed public attention here during last fortnight may be expressed in two words—“Frazer River

adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one in ten, have already gone to Frazer River

[As we write]

  • Date: 3 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lady trails her drooping drapery along the street which stretches like a line of light toward the River

What Williamsburg Wants

  • Date: 15 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and intellectual food to our young men, and save the best of them from the necessity of crossing the river

The Opera in Brooklyn

  • Date: 10 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

The Telegraph in Williamsburgh

  • Date: 9 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

established telegraphic communication between New York and Brooklyn by a submarine cable across the river

A Southside View of Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

population a most moral and virtuous people; we frequently volunteer advice to our sister city across the river

Our New Brooklyn Arsenal, and Its Reminiscences

  • Date: 23 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

It was a fine summer walk, or drive, having fields on one side, and the river on the other.

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Young and active men recoiled from the unpleasant duty of going across the river at that late hour, and

genial sympathies, a jolly host, a welcome guest, a man of his word, ranking high one side of the river

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 2

  • Date: 21 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

prefer water to land, since he derives both his income and his pleasures from the rolling deep of the river

Free Bathing—Accidents

  • Date: 28 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lads, who go in the water “not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river

are not sure but the fear of such arrests often drives boys, and men too, into those places of the river

(always commendable in man, woman, or child,) of laving the whole body with the cool waters of the river

Baths

  • Date: 16 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Weimer, in the East River, should teach those who desire to bathe, but cannot swim, the propriety of

shilling, why then, sooner than abstain from bathing, you may run the risk of being drowned in the River—there

“Our Best Society”

  • Date: 25 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of our great neighbor over the river

Into the Country

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

file of the people who don't live in brown stone fronts and are glad to get a couple of weeks "up the river

The Season of Accidents

  • Date: 27 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Boys, not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river where there are dangerous

Living in Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

if they wished to live in a respectable neighborhood, and they are consequently forced to cross the river

A Northern Pacific Railroad

  • Date: 17 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to the gold discoveries at Frazer’s River and vicinity.

The Missouri river is navigable to the Great Falls, seven hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellow

More Gold

  • Date: 15 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The San Francisco papers state that the Frazer's River excitement, so far from having abated, has vastly

tending northward. 40, 000 people, it is stated by the Californian press, will have gone to Frazer's River

Walt Whitman to Tilghman Hiskey, 27 July [1880]

  • Date: July 27, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

mouth of St Lawrence—shall spend a week there—then to Montreal—then on to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—am

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