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The Winding-Up" (a revision of "The End of All"), "We Shall All Rest at Last," "Fame's Vanity," and "My
A Parody," "Death of the Nature-Lover" (revision of "My Departure"), "The Play-Ground," "Ode," "The House
Sheree L.Gilbert"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your
Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" first appeared in Whitman's separately
"As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado" (1865–1866)
from Long Island to a house on Front Street, a waterfront area where, as the poet put it in Good-Bye My
My friend Mr Stedman tells me that he thinks you would allow me to call on you.
Since I left England it has been my greatest wish to have the great pleasure of seeing you that I hope
Mar 4. 1889 My dear Sir.
This, & this alone must be my excuse for adding another needless letter to your overburdened table.
of Leaves of Grass, Whitman added the supplementary annexes "Sands at Seventy" (1888) and "Good-Bye my
Two of his poems ("O Captain! My Captain!"
Finally, the newspaper Ha'arets (11 October 95) printed Whitman's poem on Lincoln's assassination, "O Captain
My Captain!," as a tribute to Yitzhak Rabin's memory after his assassination.
"What is Yours is Mine, My Father: On One Poem by Walt Whitman."
forced to remember another son of the people, Robert Burns, and one involuntarily thinks of his "O, my
Love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like a melodie That's sweetly
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was unreturned, Yet out of my love have I written these
hardly patience with a man who could offer the public lines like these, and call them poetry: "I tucked my
trowser-ends into my boots, and went and had a good time."
not live another day; I cannot can not rest, O God — eat Or drink or sleep, till I put forth myself, My
West, where "In a far-away faraway northern county, in the placid, pas- toral pastoral region, Lives my
farmer-friend farmer friend , the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of Oxen ." : This is a worthy
It is a joy and a pride to my heart to know that this feeling is truly returned" (qtd. in Evans 115).
that Walt acted as a substitute father to his brothers and sisters, as he suggests in an early story, "My
"I nourish active rebellion," Whitman challenges (section 14); "Camerado, I give you my hand!
with him I love" (1860 Leaves), but even for Whitman, the decision to publicly "tell the secret of my
Perhaps he was thinking of Vaughan when he wrote, "This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own
that he would "confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them" ("As I Lay with My
Will you let me do it as my Christmas contribution to your comfort.
My Uncle (W. D O'Connor) left us yesterday with my father, for Washington— very lame and feeble.
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my
For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.
Not like some of my friends, very thick at first, then falling off."
I should have my friends there, as I have here."
I am feeling pretty well so far (Yet I attribute my feeling pretty well now to my visit for the last
year and a half, to the Creek and farm, and being with my dear friends the S—'s).
WalterGraffinHarris, Frank (1856–1931)Harris, Frank (1856–1931) Best known for his unreliable autobiography My
In My Life and Loves, he tells of hearing Whitman's 1877 Philadelphia lecture on Paine and being greatly
My Life and Loves. 1922. Ed. John F. Gallagher. New York: Grove, 1963. Pullar, Philippa.
Do you think my getting my shirts made so cheaply, or my buying clothes at a low price, has anything
In the 1860 edition he boasts that he will "take for my love some prostitute" ("Enfans d'Adam" number
in the two volumes are Specimen Days & Collect, November Boughs, and the prose portions of Good-Bye My
volume contains the rest of Collect, all of November Boughs (1888), and the first part of Good-Bye My
Mymanuscriptwasrevisedunderverydifficultconditions,andIowea great deal to my siblings—the late Rachel
Leaves of Grass, Whitman confidently anticipated that in a "few years . . . the average annual call for my
necessitated a level of pride equal to the enormous task of an American poetry: "I know perfectly well my
own egotism," he admits, "[k]now my omnivorous lines and must not write any less."
avowedly chant 'the great pride of man in himself,' and permit it to be more or less a motif of nearly all my
Among these poems are "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman's delivery moved many members of the audience to tears, and he concluded with a reading of his "O Captain
My Captain!" Whitman also delivered the Lincoln lecture in Boston in 1881.
In "Memoranda" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman reports delivering the Lincoln lecture for the last
look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, / You shall not look through my
Yours, my dear Mr.
It was the poem Whitman was "almost sorry [he] ever wrote," "0 Captain! My Captain!"
my work.
My Captain!"
11y Captain!"
his introduction to the first German edition of Leaves in 1889, he claimed that "I did not only have my
own country in mind when composing my work.
dare I beg that you will do me the great pleasure to transcribe your poem, The Pallid Wreath , for my
Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye My
labeled it "Walt Whitman in his 70th year," and claimed "the picture is in the nature of a surprise: my
Whitman inscribed this photograph: "My 71st year arrives: the fifteen past months nearly all illness
work—smoothing out the irregularities, wrinkles, and what they consider defects in a person's face—but, at my
"Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all, / Faces, varieties, postures
" sequence: "Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, / But soon my
fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, / To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or
"Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, / Straight and swift to my wounded I go."
Those three years I consider the greatest privilege and satisfaction . . . the most profound lesson of my
pressing home . . . of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my
ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put—and then I felt down in my
soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281).
give up the ship although "the prize is won" Thanking you for the book and with hearty love from both my
sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my
Bush is echoing the second line of "O Captain! My Captain!"
Can you kindly aid me in increasing my collection of autographs by sending yours on the enclosed cards
But a few moments ago in an unknown country paper a paragraph with a "fling" at your poetry attracted my
undefined purpose of assuring you of the love and reverence in which you are held by thousands, I took up my
"What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition.
You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me."
"I am the teacher of Athletes; He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own, proves the width of
my own; He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher; The boy I love, the same
Jan 26/92 For Mr Walt Whitman My father thanks you cordially for yr new edition of 'Leaves of Grass'—
With my greetings for the New Year.
My father has been yachting in the Sunbeam. He thanks you for your letter: he is not up to writing.
The mere reading from some of your pages serving to open the eyes of my hearers.
I am perfectly certain that this will be my spring message as long as you stay here with us.— As for
Please give my regards to Traubel and other friends.
I speak in Philadelphia in the evening but that will not interfere with my attendance at the dinner.
Whitman: I talked last night to my Waltham class (of forty ladies) about your work and read to them.
I always advise my pupils so.
Who said when I invited him to hear my lecture upon your work—"I shall come by all means.
I gave two evenings to your work before my class at New England Conservatory.
My class is composed of about fifty bright young girls studying music.
I shall have "Specimen Days" in my class during Spring term.
April 19/88 Walt Whitman: Dear Sir: It is probable that my friend Kennedy has told you something of me
, saying that he finds a "solid line of enemies" (I think those were his words) This is not true of my
In my teaching and lecturing I find no difficulty in getting Converts to the new doctrine and find your
and lecturing to bring your work before the people and it would give me pleasure to know you consider my
My regard for you is so great that I am very sorry, not to be able to buy more copies of your books and
I am, everywhere in my teaching and writing, making your claims felt and shall continue to do so.
I do not think a single pupil held out against my arguments supplemented by readings from your work.
than in the American mind ," I have also used in company with Spencer's great law of progress upon my
I hope to be able to please you with my treatment of your great work.
Dear friend: I sent my article on you to Walsh some weeks ago—have not heard from him but assume he will
I am now bargaining with Roberts bros. thereto. — I am also writing dramas—my fourth and last is praised
I shall try to bring that out next spring— I send you my photo—it may be of interest to you—I had just
been lecturing upon your prose and the book in my hand is "Specimen Days."
description of the Banquet and so on—The rest of the letter is a free report of what we talked about in my
In talking with Thomas Sergeant Perry last night we fell to discussing your work, and to my delight I
Howells and he were two of my most honored friends. Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1890
It forms the staple for a number of my lectures on the literature of Democracy.
My sister, Mrs Charles P.
I inclose you to-day $30, the result of an application to my friends, the Misses Wigglesworth.
My dearest Brother How very good you are to send me so much,—It was a great surprise, I dont don't know
know you feel so much interest in me, but Walt dear I shall mind fearfully your spending more money on my
—I have always thought if I was dangerously sick, my greatest wish would be to see you.
I am alone, my being sick has been bad for him I know '84 Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 20 October
Please accept my sincere thanks for your favor. Very gratefully yours Hannah L.
1892 Burlington Vt Jan 24 Only a word my darling to say how precious precious your letter is & how much
I feel your thinking of me now, but But my dearest you will be better & then I may write to you you
have my constant prayers & thoughts always. my dear dear brother only get better. there There is are
for you Want to send you so much love and do feel so thankful that you are better The $5 came s afe my
disagreeable , if he has written & you will mind it, you would understand why if you had Dear Brother in my
hurry I made a mistake, thought this was written on I hope with my whole heart that I have not said
I think a great deal of my home with all my troubles I have only spoke of myself & could not help it
today Good bye Han Give my love to all Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 January [1879]
Saturday afternoon 14 July '83 My dearest Brother I rec'd received your card and Book, some little time
I took a notion all at once to send my pictures, I have not been very prompt have I Walt about the pictures