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Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

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

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

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

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

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

Outlines for a Tomb.

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

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Vocalism.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

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

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers

Passage to India.

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

sage-deserts, I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river

Elk mountain and wind around its base, I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river

Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up

O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!

To Think of Time.

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

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

Whispers of Heavenly Death.

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

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

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

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

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing.

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

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Walter Godey to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1874

  • Date: June 1, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Godey
Text:

I passed a very pleasant day up the River Saturday—fishing—the day proved to be warm and after several

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

Following the Ohio River along the newly settled states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, still

This river, which together with its tributaries supplies half of the arable land of the United States

contradicting any Zeitgeist, just like myself, I see the skyline of the large banks in Frankfurt on the river

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 16 November [1869]

  • Date: November 16, [1869]
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

raised after the Holidays father has just received Employment In the pipe yard foot of 24th St of East River

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1870

  • Date: February 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

East river.

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

The East River bridge does not seem to be getting on very fast I believe the piers are not quite finished

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

Vorhees, and a train disaster known as the "Hudson River Horror."

The Genius of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 20 March 1880
  • Creator(s): White, W. Hale
Text:

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

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

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

hereafter and to the latest ages, when Bull Run and Shiloh and Port Hudson, when Vicksburg and Stone River

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

poet describes the grand and terrible dalliance of two eagles, high shift in the bright air, abovea river

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

  • Date: November 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

he will get elected for he is a good union man— i am in the hospittle on davids island up the east river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours per day, haunt the Delaware River most of the time, am a good liver, not a teetotaler

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours a day, haunt the Delaware river much of the time, am a good liver and not a teetotaler

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

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

The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
Text:

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

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1889

  • Date: October 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

They call the Missouri river terraces "benches" out there she says.

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Rivers, and is published by Geo. Allen & Co., London.

He is a great river, which appears with its life blood diminished, but only be- cause itis irrigating

'(fand 76 From Pent-up Aching Rivers ...

W. describinghisSaguenay River tripwith Dr. Bucke, seesame forAug. 26, 1880.

Phelps, William Rivers, W. Lyon, loi. C, 119. Phillips, Le Roy, 16, note. Roberts, Harry, 253.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman's domicile isa littleold-fashioned present frame house, situated about from the Delaware River

am sick.' "] April 27,'87. " " Drove down yesterday four miles to BillyThompson's on the Delaware river

I will send you (or word allI hear or get. of) I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river

These stocks original tinge and saturate the billows of humanity through generations, as great rivers

Before the slow roll of the river of the majestic DRIFT AND CUMULUS. 123 come the toss and turbulence

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
Text:

was on a clear, bright, sunny day in the month of September that I crossed by the ferry the Delaware river

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

Contradiction

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Text:

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Last of ebb, and daylight waning

  • Date: 1885
Text:

The manuscript has the cancelled title At the Mouth of the River.

Like Earth O river

Text:

Like Earth O river

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Text:

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Swallows on the River

Text:

Swallows on the River

Union Union!

  • Date: undated
Text:

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

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
Text:

nyp.00106xxx.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten

relate to the poem eventually titled Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight.; nyp.00736 Like Earth O River

[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

  • Date: 1879–1882
Text:

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

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

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

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