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Thursday, March 14, 1889

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

It was a tablet placed on the First Unitarian Church, across the river. There were speeches by C.C.

Sunday, April 7, 1889

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

He still lives in Mickle Street, Camden, in his little old wooden house, not far from the Delaware river

Friday, November 30, 1888.

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

I spoke of the driver of a wagon on the Chestnut Street hill by the river: "his horse fell down—could

Tuesday, January 1, 1889.

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

on one of the long piers, or take the ferry boat, and watch her as she swept around into the East River

Saturday, January 19, 1889.

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

came crushed, low spirited, despondent—thinking to go into the War—like a fellow jumping into the river

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

City Photographs—No. IV

  • Date: 12 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

far, on farms, or occasionally away in the lumber woods, or perhaps taking a trip down or up the rivers

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871)

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

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

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

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

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

Hopple and ball at ancles, and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

Walt Whitman's Prose Works

  • Date: 21 July 1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
Text:

Rivers) not included under "Disciples" (see below).

Sunday, March 3, 1889

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

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

Monday, May 6, 1889

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

And the river! It was a "glory" to him—"the more suspicion of it."

Thursday, April 18, 1889

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

Of one of these, the America, I asked W., but he did not know it: "It must have been a North River boat—the

Saturday, February 2, 1889

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

of it: and of Mars and Jupiter and Venus: I never used to miss them: often spend my evenings on the river

Wednesday, February 6, 1889

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

something about calling on you: I told him he wouldn't find you at home—that you had gone over the 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

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
Text:

was wheeled by Warry right past my hotel, according to his custom, down to the wharf, close to the river

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

steam-tugs and ferry-boats, and a little later the lights on the river and ashore, with the distant

Fels drove us Fairmount through Park, returning along the Schuykill river to the city.

Niagara River. By JULIA CRUIKSHANK. 4$.6d.net.

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

Thursday, March 21, 1889

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

country through which the Continental Road passes in the States, (then names,) the fauna, mountains, rivers

Saturday, December 1, 1888.

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

envy you—or at least count you happy—in your own house, and with your farm, in sight, or close to a river

Friday, December 7, 1888.

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

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

Saturday, January 26, 1889

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

what does it look like on the river?

Thursday, January 31, 1889

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

Washington is a broad, magnificent place naturally—avenues, spaces, vistas, environing hills, rivers,

Tuesday, June 12, 1888.

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

was very great—very great: my nag stood in the water for fifteen minutes while I looked across the river—saw

Friday, November 23, 1888.

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

I may be able to send you a book—The Book of Browney Valley, (Browney being the name of the little river

Monday, September 21, 1891

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

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time

No doubt the efflux

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

[New York Atlas, 12 December 1858]

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

Not that we wish to see you take to the woods or rivers—for we think you can attain all the desired results

Chants Democratic

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

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

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

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

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

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

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

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

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

The first, 1848-49: To Louisiana, the “great river,” New Orleans and the “magnet south” and on the way

equated to “From Pent-up Aching Rivers.”

"I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

In the specific case of art, we have also seen how he loves to compare his songs to a plant, a river,

and Nights” (117), “Hudson River Sights,” “Departing of the Big Steamers” (p. 125), and “Only a New

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

A Day with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1895
  • Creator(s): Theodore F. Wolfe
Text:

it must be for him,—which may afford opportunity to change the note; and as we saunter toward the river

Saturday, December 29, 1888

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

I took it with me to mail over the river.

Tuesday, November 20, 1888.

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

directness of observation and purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we would row up the river

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 6)

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

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of 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

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

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

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

present domicile is a little old-fashioned frame house, situated about gun-shot from the Delaware River

acquaintance says:— "Whitman gets out of doors regularly in fair weather, much enjoys the Delaware River

from him that 'that miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

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