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Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is a funeral piece— Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf-posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Walt Whitman. The Man and His Book—Some New Gems for His Admirers

  • Date: 2 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight down- ward downward falling, Till o'er the river

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 23 December 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

variety of meters suited to every slightest change of sentiment, here lilting like a smooth flowing river

chords left as by vast composers [gap] You formless, tree, religious dan[gap] Orient, You undertone of rivers

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1882–1883
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

New Poetry of the Rossettis and Others

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

, manfully, and appositely expressed—and a filibuster-like daring running, like a strong, vigorous river

Untitled

  • Date: 19 June 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Camden is a prosperous city of some fifty thousand souls, situated on the left bank of the Delaware river

A Poet's Western Visit

  • Date: 15 November 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Wondrous rivers, railroads everywhere, plenty of wood, interminable and fertile meadows, wheat, fruit

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

everything else rests; New York, Brooklyn, experimentation—down to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River

expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the Middle States and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

Whitman as a Consul

  • Date: 20 March 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

eyes roamed in an absent way among the stars that twinkled alike in the sky and on Philadelphia's river

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river

Walt Whitman: The Grizzled Poet Talks about Mr. Childs in His Pleasant, Quaint Way

  • Date: 5 January 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Even yesterday, when the wind whistled its way and raced madly and blew keenly up from the river, the

You people across the river should be able to talk better of him than I can.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Even the sluggish little river Colne one cannot find fault with, it nourishes such a luxuriant border

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1879

  • Date: August 2, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

built soon after the Norman conquest, is in sight, crowning a wooded hill that rises abruptly from the river-side

You would not dignify the Weir with the name of a river in America—it is no bigger than Timber Creek—but

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1879

  • Date: January 5, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Have had some beautiful glimpses of the North & East River effects of the shipping at sunset, &c.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1878

  • Date: October 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

We are rowed on the beautiful river every day that it is warm enough—a very winding river not much broader

They lead an easy-going life here—seem to spend half their time floating about on the river—or meeting

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 May 1882

  • Date: May 8, 1882
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

As for me, my heart is already gone over to the other side of the river, so that sometimes I feel a kind

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

table, against the wall, in the little apartment on Balcarce street whose two windows open onto the River

Poetry ], Ezra Pound's "Cantos"; then Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"; and around 1915 Lee Masters's Spoon River

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

de Erza Ezra Pound; luego los “Poemas de Chicago” de Sandburg; y hacia 1915 la Antología de “Spoon River

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
Text:

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

easy for him), and farther on, to the horizon, where sparsely filled squares stretched to the East River

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
Text:

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide ofthe river, flow on!

": "From pent-up aching rivers, I From that ofmyselfwithout which I were nothing" (LG, 91).

Thus he is called by the wind, the birds, and the currents ofthe great rivers ofhis people.

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

Alex H. Smith to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1887

  • Date: September 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Alex H. Smith
Text:

have you also in our assocn association The idea of a great brotherhood—a kingdom, not confined by rivers

West, The American

  • Creator(s): Albin, C.D.
Text:

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
Text:

energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
Text:

Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

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

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Europe

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

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

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04146xxx.00335[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']about 1885handwrittenpoetry1

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

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