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shorter poems in the "Sea-Drift" section of Leaves of Grass, the sea is personified as an old mother or nurse

Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and his favorite nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

voyage did me much good, and when I arrived at Rugby, I was well enough to help for a month or two in nursing

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

would have stayed longer with you only for some of the Camden fellows that was keeping up the nurce nurse

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

I said 'Let it go', but doctors and nurses made a strong pull for it; fought for it like royal tigers

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yesterday introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

most intimate friends, afterward his biographer, and one of his literary executors, met me at the Nurses

This was Warren Fritzinger,* **Died in October 1899. his nurse, and my constant associate in taking care

And that strange feeling which comes over patient and nurse when they are learning to know each other

personal presence and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism" that he was able to help, than by "medical nursing

He gives fine praise to the surgeons, nurses and soldiers—"not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have

and many a mother's son amid strangers passing away untended there, for the crowd was too much for nurse

I am his sole & only nurse, & help to dress, undress & bathe him, & he is under no restraint to say how

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse?

you, but the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse

If things get worse I shall have to have a man to help me lift & nurse William.

I am sure he could advise me how to nurse & care for William in the best hospital manner,—as yet he has

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

surgery-schools of France, and addicted to the worst practices of vivisection, who roughly informs the hospital nurse

residence; or Leoline, in "Aylmer's Field," committing suicide on the news of Edith's death; or the nurse

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

where for the next ten years (punctuated by trips back to Brooklyn) he lived and worked as volunteer nurse

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfullywelcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

identity, from the young New York reporter/flâneur to the working class rough to the careworn Civil War nurse

in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing

the years after the war, many successful reminiscences of Civil War hospitals, written mostly by nurses

aware that there was a market for such books, but his, of course, would be something different from a nursing

Alcott had since visited him, perhaps in Washington, where Miss Alcott, like Whitman, was a hospital nurse

Whitman discovers a way to give eternal meaning to that slaughter of young men, many of whom he had nursed

forlorn Whitman, one reduced to a few short lines written at brief intervals as he continues his labors nursing

Claiming that he is "more than nurse," "more than parent or neighbor," Whitman approaches the reader,

nature of physical existence, a theme he was about to experience in all of its loathsome reality as he nursed

You were a "Nurse" in 1861. You are the biggist of humbug Poets of this or precedent generation! G.

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

He boasted to one of his younger correspondents, a soldier he had nursed during the war years, that he

In the conservatives’ most extreme warnings, the benighted citizen nurses his parochial and selfish hatreds

He then goes on to show-and emphasize-how Whitman entered the Civil War as a volunteerand a nurse.

The image of Whitman as nurse and wound-dresser who, through his mere presence, helped wounded soldiers

The nursing myth has been carried to its greatest extreme: at sundown Whitman was crying(!)

essence pacifist war W HITM AN ON THE RIGHT poetry (supported biographicallythrough his work as a nurse

Whitman's much-praised efforts in nursing wounded soldiers were denounced as the lecherous pursuits ofa

Camden teacher and Whitman's friend, who insisted on the photos] and Ed: W [Ed Wilkins, Whitman's nurse

The biographer Paul Zweig sees in Whitman's ability to touch and comfort soldiers—Whitman nursed and

perceptively points out that prior to the cataclysm of the Civil War and Whitman's active involvement in nursing

for the poet the dominating metaphor for the war is a hospital, filled with injured men who must be nursed

Its narrator takes on the role of nurse, attendant to the sufferings of injured soldiers.

refused so many things I did not like to tell mother but first Charlie was very ugly He would not get a nurse

was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing

writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing

together up-stairsby two capable policemen, were wheeled into the hall.Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse

His best yearshad been devoted to the sacred duty of nursing thesick and wounded soldiers in the army

within a few months paid him a visit, made a series of photographs of dwelling, street, room, and nurse

men need to know of him is his wonderful simplicity and capaciousness—that manuscript, house, room, nurse

Plato gives in the first pages of the Republic—enjoying the abiding presence of sweet hope, that 'kind nurse

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Gilder had added underneath the headline: "By Walt Whitman, volunteer hospital nurse."