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Brooklyniana, No. 14

  • Date: 8 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were, the majority of them, so near the Old Ferry, that water was relied upon to be obtained from the river

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

A Song for Occupations.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks

Enfans D'adam 3

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body, or another person's body, The circling rivers

A Song for Occupations.

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

vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks

I Sing the Body Electric.

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

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

  • 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

To Workingmen

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river-banks—men

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Poem of the Body.

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

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body or another person's body, The circling rivers

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. W. Wallace
Text:

It was a day of perfect loveliness and the long drive through the park and along the Schuykill river

The new moon was shining, and the lights on the river as we crossed it were very beautiful.

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
Text:

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

easy for him), and farther on, to the horizon, where sparsely filled squares stretched to the East River

Walt Whitman in Boston

  • Date: August 1892
  • Creator(s): Sylvester Baxter
Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

Thoreau, Henry David A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Boston James Munroe and Co. loc.03445

Leonard History of Rome Sigourney Water-Drops Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Soulie, Frederick Pastourel

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

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

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of the woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

Sunday, December 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

know him—know his name, too: he rejoices in the unique and saving name—though the best hand on the river—the

Wednesday, January 2, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

or, why does the flowing river make me happy?—why? why? making that mood the talisman for all?"

Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

Sunday, January 13, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

family has to expect things of me: we are simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers

Wednesday, May 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

Tuesday, May 27, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

the whole tied with a piece of common wrapping yarn.But "whatever all this," he had been down to the river

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

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

The young men made themselves a rude raft, and were floating down the river toward their destination—for

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as unfit for sea purposes—which hulks the invading British army brought round and anchored in our river

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

craned forward and tow-colored hair, stare and stumble; perhaps there is a bustle, like an eddy in a river

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Far in the north, among mountains of snow and rivers of ice, I sought what alone could gratify me.

Cluster: Bathed in War's Perfume. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you, These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

W. Hale White to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1880

  • Date: March 21, 1880
  • Creator(s): W. Hale White
Text:

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

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

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!

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: July 1883
  • Creator(s): Call, Wathen Mark Wilks
Text:

recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek, twelve or thirteen miles from where it enters the Delaware river

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

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

Wednesday, September 12th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills and fields of Virginia

Friday, May 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I had just crossed the river, which was aroused to fury, the dust horrible, the boat tipped clean to

Saturday, February 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

a suspicion of Carpenter's flippant impertinence: I have talked with Doctor Gross there across the river—the

Monday, November 2, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And our rivers, spirit, life."

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I had been way off in the country on the other side of the river, walking with Kemper and May.

The Last of the Sacred Army

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

"The swamps of Santee" may refer to the fighting that took place near the Santee River in South Carolina

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

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

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The situation is high, and overlooks the North River.

Cluster: Memories of President Lincoln. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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: 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

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

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

green leaves of the trees pro- lific prolific In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Chats with Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Grace Gilchrist
Text:

Walt Whitman lived in the somewhat dreary and ugly suburb of Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware river

evening (the moon and Jupiter in conjunction, and I 'speering' them all the way home especially on the river

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

Denver is phenomenal for its background—its ample background: not much of a river there, but a river

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently undulating rivers. Oh!

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

poet describes the grand and terrible dalliance of two eagles, high shift in the bright air, abovea river

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