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Search : William White

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The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dame a drink of water, he, ten months afterwards, frightened the woman half to death, by wrapping a white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

He and a younger brother, named from his swiftness the Deer, frequently had intercourse with the white

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

The epigraph is stanzas xxx–xxxi from "The Ages," by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878); the lines appear

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

One of them, I noticed, had the figure of a fair female, robed in pure white.

Annotations Text:

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 19, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 16, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

Death in the School-Room. A Fact.

  • Date: August 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The perspiration ran down his white forehead like rain-drops. "Speak, sir!"

His countenance turned to a leaden whiteness; the ratan dropped from his grasp; and his eyes, stretched

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 24, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites!" A RROW -T IP smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of these white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The Child and the Profligate

  • Date: October 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These versions are described in William G.

She who sat on the door step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress, though

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Austen, Wilmerding and Co., auctioneers, were located at 30 Exchange Street, corner of William."

turned by melo-dramas and the J ACK S HEPPARD Jack Sheppard was a popular nineteenth-century novel by William

The Love of the Four Students

  • Date: December 9, 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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We took our seats round the same clean white table, and received our liquor in the same bright tankards

Richard Parker's Widow

  • Date: April 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Annotations Text:

toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white

Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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At the word, the white vestments wherewith they had bound S HIRVAL began to move.

His limbs felt the wondrous impulse—he rose, and stood up among them, wrapped in his shroud and the white

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

from Hookers command

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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men badly burnt by explosion of caissons &c —wrote a number of letters for Ohio & Indiana m en Wm Williams

Armory May 12 William Williams co F. 27th Indiana wounded seriously in shoulder— a he lay naked to the

Williams Lafayette Tippecanoe co. Indiana Noah Laing bed 36 Ward I Mrs. Edwin Burt.

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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had been battle flags Pioneers with axes on shoulders the crowds the perfect day—the clear sky—the white

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the northerner from the southerner, the white from

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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White endpapers.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

White endpapers.

Annotations Text:

White endpapers.

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—he was called "Doctor"; wore a white cravat; was deaf, tall, apparently rheumatic, and slept most of

Light and air

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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spring gushing out from under the roots of an old tree barn‑yard, pond, yellow g j agged bank with white

[Fa]bles, traditions

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Progenitors

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

the "tooth of delight" and "tooth prong") may relate to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

Out from Behind this Mask

  • Date: About 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The poem was written in response to an engraving by William J.

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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.— Methinks, white‑winged angels, Floating unseen the while, Hover around this village green, And pleasantly

In the course of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Are you not from the white blanched heads of the old mothers of mothers?

September 11, 12, 13—1850

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—Her father was Major Van Velsor, and her mother's name Naomi Williams.— Capt.

Williams had his wife, her parents, fine old couple, exceedingly generous— I remember them both (my mother's

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

If I should need to name, O Western World!

  • Date: October 25, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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spasmic geyser‑loops ascending to the skies, ap— pearing appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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but all through the land The names of the flowers. lilacs roses early lilies the colors, purple & white

Priests

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

After the dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman sent to pub. in Herald early in Feb. '88 For Francis Howard Williams | May 1896 | Traubel

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: About 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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On the back of this manuscript is an undated letter to Whitman from Talcott Williams.

of these poems

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Whitman transcribed part of William Collins's "Ode on the Passions" on the back of this leaf. of these

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

Of this broad and majestic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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woods and all the orchards—the corn, with its ear and stalk s and tassel —the buckwheat with its sweet white

Annotations Text:

western persimmon. . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax; / Over the white

airscud

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

deliciously aching, / Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

Do I not prove myself

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Where the little musk ox

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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life car is drawn on its slip‑noose At dinner on a dish of huckleberries, or rye bread and a round white

The horizon's edge

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "There Was a Child Went Forth": "And grass, and white

and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, / ... / And the appletrees

With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned

cottonwood

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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cottonwood—mulberry— chickadee—large brown water-dog— —black-snake—garter snake— —vinegar-plums—persimmon— — wh white-blossom

place with a pistol and killed himself, and I came that way and stumbled upon him locust, birch with white

reckon think mind less you very are a good manure —but that I do not smell— —I smell the your beautiful white

Annotations Text:

and "And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, / I smell the white

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

I cross'd the Nevadas

  • Date: About 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

fresh'd refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

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