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Others, like "Scenes on Ferry and River," celebrate the heavens.

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Do you remember the nice sail we had that night on the lake and river, I will never forget it, you, and

The headline reads: "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr.

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

HowardNelsonTimber CreekTimber CreekTimber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs through southern

in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers

I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).

In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with

Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose

The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

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

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

Evenings were reserved for moonlit walks along the Potomac River that had Whitman reciting Shakespeare's

MaireMullins"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)This poem was initially

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

masterpiece, in this regard, is "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856), where a ride on the ferry across the East River

borrowed from Whitman's line in "Song of Myself," "Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river

Camden is reached by a ferry crossing the Delaware River from this city, and, but for being in a different

It so happened that when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river

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

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

Oulipo, and numerous occasional practitioners such as John Ashbery, whose catalog poem of the world’s rivers

of local news, and frequently did his own legwork on news stories in Brooklyn and across the East River

In “Sun-Down Poem” he stresses the shared material of water in the river and, more problematically, the

odditwasforareviewtocontainsuchdetailsaboutitssubjectas“six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer inthe river

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

The rhythmic urgency of the poem, beginning with the "pent-up aching rivers" seemingly at flood-tide,

In brief, Whitman's poem portrays the sex drive as a "pent-up aching river" or a "hungry gnaw" present

It dominates the "Children of Adam" cluster by its sheer length and, like "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

As the poet drains his "pent-up rivers" into the "woman who waits" for him, "warm-blooded and sufficient

far ahead of "the fat gentle man in striped trousers," as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

I was out early taking a short walk by the river-only two squares from where I live.

H .-28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivat ing wild region, by Vermont Central R.

The river steamer Wawassett caught on fire on August 8 on the Potomac River with a frightful loss of

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades, 'I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the east and north rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

, is found evidence of the writer's strong love and feeling for the sea and for its children, the rivers

that, therefore, there is a constancy to human experience that transcends time:To think that the rivers

" "frankness and expansion," and "abundant opportunity to develope a genius, wide and full as our rivers

Indeed even now you may be— "Beyond the rock-waste and the river— Beyond the ever and the never— Beyond

of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow. (27-29) The endless procession across the East River

The loss of Whitman's dream of America "may be read . . . all the way from river to river and from the

": I've known rivers ancient as the world and old as the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

By granting the river, clouds, and foundries permission, as it were, to be what they are, he is also

is to see Whitman as Behemoth, wallowing in primeval jungles, bathing at fountain-heads, of mighty rivers

native thoughts looking through smutched faces , Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river

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

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide of the river, flow on!

the ideal, of the same order as Blake's Albion and Jerusalem; and Whitman is rhapsodizing over the rivers

ghosts of Whitman's ferry: their images Crowding the enfilade of steel and stone Have the whole East River

before Asselineau and Allen were written by a renowned man of American letters and the author of Spoon River

soon i hear from Jeff and mat once in a while Jeff has or has had great anxiety about the works the river

Saturday the pictures in the graphic is very good and very solem solemn some of them) but the hudson river

Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of

a letter from Jeff it seems their concern has overflowed once on account of the great rise of the river

streets fill up with students, the professors begin lecturing, the games & sports all begin, and the river

I row on the river every afternoon, all the men in the college who do not know how to row in the right

instance, in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Whitman's images of the gulls, the waves, and the flow of the river—contrasted

asks its subject, 36 : the american 1848 Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river

are overlaid with foreign ones: “[h]ills became mountains and dales valleys, streams were called rivers

” by “men of truly proper style” like Duy- ckinck.88 For Whitman to flee the perfumed salon for the river

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.Fineberg, Gail.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Internet, Whitman on the

thematic center of a larger pattern of aquatic symbolism in Leaves which includes the rain, sea-breezes, rivers

unknown, the spiritual, the only permanently real, which as the ocean waits for and receives the rivers

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

chapter on Philadelphia, another city with a large Irish population and located just across the Delaware River

The Irishman took the Germans to the boat and saw them safely across the river, where, with no common

dropped personal references to prostitutes in several other poems, including "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

as one of three "delirium" poems in "Children of Adam," the other two being "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

flowing into the Atlantic, to the south-west of the colony; this river the natives called Mechasepe,

Lawrence and Mohawk rivers, boats ascending the Mohawk to Rome by a canal connecting Wood creek then

down through Oneida Lake and Seneca river to Oswego.

According to the Dominion Public Works Act, 1876, the navigation of the River St.

Peter immediately west of Three Rivers, so that vessels drawing 20 feet of water can ascend the river

man writing for a party paper, defending the Democrats against the powerful Whig papers across the river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

posed a problem for the plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dam the Little Tennessee River

The sense that something valuable had been lost in the Tellico Valley with its little river and fertile

Unlike a boat or even a bridge, the dam interferes with the very "riverness" of the Rhine.

Like the undammed river, the soul flows and may flood unexpectedly.

The pages contain notes about each of the states, with particular attention paid to mountains, rivers

begins to make note of the state's mountains—the Mohegans and the Katskills—as well as the major rivers—the

below there—and the beautiful curious liquid "In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river