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"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Mullins, Maire
Text:

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

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers" (1860)

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 22 January 1863

  • Date: January 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

The Army commenced to move from here early on Tuesday morning last, going somewhere up the river, but

over here and eat us all up)  my oppinion is, that it was intended to throw a heavy force accross the river

or on the flank while we occupied their attention in front, with our Batteries on this side of the river

Europe Laplanders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver

Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers

Mannahatta.

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

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

Mannahatta.

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

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

Swallows on the River

Text:

Swallows on the River

Riverby

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
Text:

naturalist, writer, and friend of Walt Whitman, built a house with a spectacular view of the Hudson River

He purchased the land in September 1873 and called the home "Riverby" (meaning "by the river" and pronounced

"river bee").

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 25 September 1868

  • Date: September 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Among other things I spend a portion of the day, with the pilots of the ferry boats, sailing on the river

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

At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often

Like Earth O river

Text:

Like Earth O river

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Text:

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Text:

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Wednesday, July 9, 1890

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

which has been blowing in my window all the day long," and he added, "Last night we went down to the river

The river was rich in boats—I have rarely seen it more so."

'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' [1856]

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

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

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1882

  • Date: August 14, 1882
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

It has the aspect then of a river, not a lake; and at this point there is no snow—the ice being heaped

up into enormous ridges & pinnacles like a river when there is a long reach of rapids, only in the glacier

The wild, tossing confusion of the ice-river contrasted strangely with the absolute stillness and immoveability

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers. FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers. FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 9 February [1871]

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 10 September [1882]

  • Date: September 10, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

& then go out & over the ferry to Philadelphia—I don't know what I should do without the ferry, & river

, & crossing, day & night—I believe my best times are nights—sometimes appear to have the river & boat

for Sparrows

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

the 22nd bookfor Sparrowsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

Sparrows—Swallows

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

kingSparrows—Swallowsabout 1880prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

New Amsterdam

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Dutch Administration was applied, (as a Province) to "all the tracts, in America adjoining the Hudson river

Kivas Tully to Walt Whitman, 4 August 1880

  • Date: August 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): Kivas Tully
Text:

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

Sunday, September 8, 1889

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

But learned he had passed a good day and got his outing,—"the good hour by the river."

Sunday, November 16, 1890

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

smoke curling lazily from high slender chimneys, the silver-rimmed moon, the one lustrous star, the river

And then, "I have had a great outing, too: down to the river; the day had such an irresistible quality

Mannahatta.

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

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

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta

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

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

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta

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

ness business —the houses of business of the ship-mer- chants ship-merchants , and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in 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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 28 September 1848

  • Date: September 28, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Banvard departed yesterday for Europe, with his panoramas of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers

We have panoramic views, now, of nearly all the principal rivers of the country.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1889

  • Date: February 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs
Text:

but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction, Julian & that bit of land up there on the river

Bright days here & sharp, with ice boating in the river.

Sept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wet

  • Date: about 1879
Text:

wind due eastSept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wetabout 1879prose2 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Swallows on the River

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers.

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers. FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1888

  • Date: December 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

sauntering home, red glare in the sky in the direction of Grosvenor Road, but on the opposite side of the river

The effect of the red glare on the water, with the black barges shooting by, & the river fire-engine's

The river is almost at the back-door, or at any rate only a short street away; so that I have the ferries

Others May Praise What They Like.

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

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

Others May Praise What They Like.

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

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

Others May Praise What They Like

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 31 October [1882]

  • Date: October 31, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

October 31 I am decidedly better—feel well as I write this—was out three hours to-day, crossing the river

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1863

  • Date: June 19, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

home twice since i roat to you i cudent stay long for the rebels pickets was in site just acrous the river

millsprings our boys are all in good sirrets and egger to fight since rot to you wee went acrous the river

Union Union!

  • Date: undated
Text:

reading Old Time Gleanings with the subtitle Reminiscences, Gossip, Traditions, &c. of the Delaware river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 February [1878]

  • Date: February 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

usual—nothing new—have been down in the country the last week—It is now noon & I am just going out & over the river

Tuesday, June 17, 1890

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

s again—found him just returned from the river—sitting in the chair, directly in front of the step, facing

"We sat by the river for a long time.

It seems to be a quiet day on the river—less movement, activity—fewer boats—and I did not regret it:

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

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

From Pent-Up Aching Rivers FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd

George Washington Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 15 May 1863

  • Date: May 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

we had such favorable news from there at first, and Hooker managed things so nicely in crossing the river

find out that we had not only not, taken Richmond, but that Hooker had been obliged to recross the river

One thing I think is plain, in crossing the river and getting in the rear of Lee's army in the manner

Europe

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

.00884xxx.00110MS 12mo 27EuropeBetween 1850 and 1856prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of European rivers

Internet, Whitman on the

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

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

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

Sunday, July 7, 1889

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

some comment on the beautiful day, we started off, and he was wheeled along in his chair towards the river

The day had "seized" him he said, "powerfully"—"this evening especially—and down by the river" but—"I

Longings for Home.

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

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

O Magnet-South.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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

O Magnet-South.

  • 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

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