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Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1867

  • Date: February 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

If sin hath slain mine honor, straight appears, The river of his tears, Wherein I find redemption: tenderly

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 26 May 1891

  • Date: May 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
Text:

How fast they are fading away on this side of the river.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 19 February 1885

  • Date: February 19, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white country, snow enveloped , hill, valley, lake and river

Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Chants Democratic and Native American 18

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

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Chants Democratic and Native American 12

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

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Chants Democratic and Native American 11

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

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

Chants Democratic and Native American 1

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

geography, cities, beginnings, events, glories, defections, diversities, vocal in him, Making its rivers

families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air— I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Chants Democratic

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

sweet potato, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers

gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone Yellowstone river—dwellers

sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river

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

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

Chants Democratic

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay- coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

, atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

The Centenarian's Story

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

The Celebration Yesterday

  • Date: 2 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counter-celebration here; for literally every one went from both districts of this city to the other side of the river

The hegira across the East River commenced at an early hour yesterday morning, and continued all the

Every car going towards the ferries, every boat plying on the river, and every vehicle in New York plying

from the river to Broadway, was crowded.

The shipping in the river was almost universally in “full dress,” all their colors and signals flying

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

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

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

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

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

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

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

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

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

Carol of Occupations.

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine.

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

and hope continuing on the same, Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; Of you, my Land—your rivers

Canada, Whitman's Reception in

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

pedition (my brother Jeffwith me,) through allthe Middle States,and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

From across the river were also adozen figuresof young men do- ing handiwork ina rising literature,and

You of Camden can claim Walt Whitman foryour own, but you must letus of the bigger town acrossthe river

The' only time I ever saw Lincoln was hisdead face in Independence Hall over across the river.

Camden, New Jersey

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
Text:

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

Calvin H. Greene to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1891

  • Date: May 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Calvin H. Greene
Text:

I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, Stars, rivers.

You are borne on the tides of eager and Swift rivers, O boating on the rivers!

Otherways, there, atwixt the banks of the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Tombigbee, the Red River

running. hear the rush & roar of cataracts as they fall beneath the seven-hued arch, I see the Great River

Upon the plains west of the Spinal river—yet in my house of adobe.

Calamus 5

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

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

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

the mothers of families, Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

the mothers of families, Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Burial Poem.

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

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Burial

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

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, a gray

Burial

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

without eye-sight lingers a different living, and looks curiously on the corpse. 3 To think that the rivers

now President shall surely be buried. 4 Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Bucke, Richard Maurice

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

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

Brooklynites in Kansas

  • Date: 9 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from north to south, from east to west,—from Bangor to Galena, from the Penobscot to the Savannah river

Brooklyniana, No.36

  • Date: 20 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Brooklyniana, No. 9

  • Date: 1 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

desired to attend the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergyman, on the Sabbath, had to cross the river

regular and full, and had many accessions from Flatbush, Gravesend, and from New Amsterdam, across the river

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

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Hudson River is named for him. in these waters, our time does not now admit.

carrying out and extension of the wharves and piers on both the New York and Brooklyn sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was sent over in "a small Norsey-Barque of 25 tons," to begin a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 3

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These fronted toward the South, and had large gardens, sloping northward down to the river, of which

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

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In some respects, this side of the river has more claims to be considered the representative first settlement

of the Dutch in the New World, than the location of our neighbors over westward of the East River.

He was partially responsible for the expansion of Brooklyn into swamplands on the East River.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hudson entered here and discovered the North River, Long Island, and what is now New York island.

hundred European settlers in the colony, including those on Manhattan Island, and on this side of the river

Brooklyn Parks

  • Date: 17 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

it—commanding a wide view of as noble a panorama as there is in the world—we mean the bay, shores, river

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
Text:

and Fulton streets.In the early 1830s Whitman began spending more of his free time across the East River

Whitman celebrated Brooklyn's growth, especially as opposed to what he called the "Gomorra" across the river

Brooklyn Legislation at Albany

  • Date: 4 March 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Tuthill—to reduce River street to the width of 80 feet. By Mr.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

in Kings County, which gave Whitman responsibility for leadership in political communication only a river

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