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across the water at the gleaming lights of Camden where I knew were; when, next morning I ferried the River

He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

accordance with this view, James Russell Lowell has declined from the higher walks of poetry—from rivers

of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson River

Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

Venezuela and Brazil, taking photographs of cities and of many natives as he traveled up the Orinoco River

His " Brooklyn Ferry section entitled" Delaware River and the — Days and Nights" in " Specimen Days,"

New York, he had had a fancy to visit Sing-sing prison,the great penal establish- ment up the Hudson river

He cele- brates in his poems the fluid, all-solvent disposition,but often was himself lessthe river than

As the great rivers,when falling into the main, lose their name and are thenceforth reckoned as the great

(p.66.) 99 — Days with Walt Whitman "Tao as it exists in the world is like the great rivers and seas

His "Brooklyn Ferry" and the section entitled "Delaware River—Days and Nights" in "Specimen Days", sufficiently

Presently a cheery shout from the top of a dray; and before we had gone many yards farther the river

York, he had had a "fancy" to visit Sing-sing prison, the great penal establishment up the Hudson river

with squalid children picking them over, and dirty alleys, and courts and houses half roofless, and a river

Arrived at the edge of the Delaware River by the aid of this yoked and tamed lightning, a prodigious

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

There was a "Kingdom of Heaven" established up the North River, with many disciples.

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

They must run down to the river before they can get a drink.

He has had chills & fever, caught in the James River.

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

57.SeealsoWhitman’sdeletionofthereferenceto“theperfect girl” in “enfans” 2 (“from Pent-Up aching rivers

A young man stands at the Delaware River’s edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

burning, aching, “resistless,” emphatically physical yearning for young men (see “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

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

Commune and “From the Genius of Liberty,” 215 Leaves of Grass (1870–71), 145–60; “From Pent- Up A ching Rivers

—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep

sauntering home, red glare in the sky in the direction of Grosvenor Road, but on the opposite side of the river

The effect of the red glare on the water, with the black barges shooting by, & the river fire-engine's

The river is almost at the back-door, or at any rate only a short street away; so that I have the ferries

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

To-day promises to be even more memorable, I expect to start up the Hudson River by the Mary Powell (

Westminster to Waterloo Bridges this afternoon with the tide—higher than usual—just at the full; the river

the unprepossessing city of Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river

attractive appearance used to catch the attention of crowds afternoons on Chestnut street across the river

Whitman became acquainted with most all of the younger generation of literary men across the river in

Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

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

In Specimen Days he calls the river "the most important stream on the globe" (Complete 865).In 1848,

During their stay, from 25 February until 27 May, Whitman made daily visits to the river to observe the

While there he visited the river as frequently as his health would allow, "every night lately" (Complete

Mississippi River

Cloud and traveled down the Ohio River.

Another train took them to Albany, and from there they traveled by boat down the Hudson River to New

Clair River and on the Canada-Michigan border fifty-five miles northeast of Detroit.

proceeded to Quebec, and the next day continued 134 miles to Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay River

A steamboat took them up that river to Chicoutimi and Ha Ha Bay, then back again to Quebec on the eighth

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

“I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the rivers of America . . .

Hence the poem’s great concluding benediction on time’s pro- cess: “Flow on, river!

My mighty Yangtse River in the south! Good morning! My icy Yellow River in the north!

Rivers.

wrote to Abby Price as Meade was unable to slow the Confeder at~ advance across Virginia's Rapidan River

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush ofthese great cities, the unsurpass'd situation, rivers

A young man stands at the Delaware River's edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers ofAmerica, and along the shores ofthe

JA M E S E .M IL L E R , JR . 197 Earth ofshine and dark mottling the tide ofthe river!

employing their words, so that every time Americans spoke the names of the country's towns and states and rivers

As we drove across the river from Philadelphia into Camden, we were shocked by the slums that seemed

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

Walt loved living close to the East River, where as a child he rode the ferries back and forth to New

, "I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb," —on this or the other side of the river

He has now gone below I Suppose to his dinner— On the opposite side of the river WmsBgh.

: "His spirit responds to his country's spirit … he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

It is a land to which all the currents, and longings, and peoples of history move like rivers converging

vitreous form of the fall moon just tinged with blue: Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river

Whitman rushed to the front, searching the hospitals in Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahannock River

as far ahead of “the fat gentleman in striped trousers,” as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

wereneverpublishedinnewspapersormagazines;however,they appear in Specimen Days from sections “Swallows on the River

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

often–Mrs O’C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially–spent an hour down by the Delaware river

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

Early next morning we were under weigh again, and at night, we came to anchor in the Nuese river about

, the rest of the Brigade mooving somewhere further up the river.

Sailed up the Yazoo river about 14 miles and landed at Snyders Bluff, Miss.  

crossed the river weather very hot.

stopped a few minutes and then went on up the river reached Memphis Tenn about 3 P.M.

shore we pushed on as fast as possible towards Newbern which is a nice little Citty lying up the Neuse river

and had a good nights sleep,   the next morning we came to this camp, which is on the bank of the river

They had a chain of breastworks leading from the river, away back in the woods I dont know how far  

The fleet after setting us on shore sailed up the river and walked into the rebels shore batteries in

fine style  the rebels had sunk vessels all across the river but our boats got through somehow and drove

somewhere, and that the dispatches were from General Carter, and that the rebs had crossed the Cumberland River

August 6th and marched down to the Yazoo river, where we went on board the boat, and started down the

where the citazens citizens had prepared a nice meal for us,  after getting our grub we crossed the river

Johnson, if he had attempted to come to the relief of Pemberton,  We are between the Yazoo and Black rivers

, our advance came up to the enemys pickets, who were posted on the opposite side of the Big Black river

at Jackson,  this City you know is the Capitol of the state and is built on the bank of the Pearl river

the river again just below the city, makeing a line of about 3 miles in length.

, while someone crossed the river, and made an attack on the rear, which of course would have cutt off

On the Potomac River Near the Villiage of Antietam Md Sunday Sept 21/62 Dear Mother I had just commenced

commanding position on a range of high hills on the opposite side of a stream called the Monochey River

morning of Sept 19th we found the enemy had left and we moved foreward about 3 miles to the Potomac River

changed our camp since I last wrote,  we are now about 8 miles from Nicholasville, near the Kentucky River

It is pretty warm here but we do not suffer any yet,  we are encamped on the bank of the Trent River,

We have moved our camp since my last letter and are now on the Newbern side of the Trent river,  we have

to Culpepper  from there we went to Cedar Mountains  from there to Kellys Ford on the Rappahannock river