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I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

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

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded

Europe Laplanders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver

Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers

How gladly we leave the

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

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river

Thou West that gave'st him to us

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

rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Like Earth O river, you offer us burial Like Existence mortal Life is your aimless hurrying on Like Time

Like Earth O River

The most perfect wonders of

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

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

Night of south winds

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

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Sailing Down the Mississippi at Midnight

  • Date: February 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Now drawn nigher the river's rim edge of the river Wierd Weird like creatures suddenly rise m This

The dalliance of the eagles

  • Date: Late 1870s or 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

over and over falling, rolling turning , an pausing revolving circling, falling Over Abo Close to the river

The sores on my shoulders

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

11 He The sores on my neck shoulders are from his iron necklace I look on the off on the river with my

Topple down upon him

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

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

I am a curse

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

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

Others may praise what they like

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

running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

Last of ebb

  • Date: 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Croton Dam, originally built in 1842 on the Croton River, was the first clean water system in New

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The situation is high, and overlooks the North River.

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

Our Brooklyn Boys in the War

  • Date: 05 January 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Since our repulse from the Fredericksburg batteries and return this side of the river, the men take things

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through Fourteenth street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as unfit for sea purposes—which hulks the invading British army brought round and anchored in our river

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Hudson River is named for him. in these waters, our time does not now admit.

carrying out and extension of the wharves and piers on both the New York and Brooklyn sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 9

  • Date: 1 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

desired to attend the ministrations of a regularly ordained clergyman, on the Sabbath, had to cross the river

regular and full, and had many accessions from Flatbush, Gravesend, and from New Amsterdam, across the river

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was feared that the British fleet might make an attempt to land, and cross the river in the same way

Brooklyniana, No. 14

  • Date: 8 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were, the majority of them, so near the Old Ferry, that water was relied upon to be obtained from the river

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the Rappahannock River

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Return of a Brooklyn Veteran

  • Date: 16 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The exchange of prisoners of war now going on at points on James River and elsewhere is sending home

Virginia and Western Maryland—up and down, across and back again, amid heat, dust, rain, snow, wading rivers

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

were some of the peculiarities of domestic life in the Dutch settlement here on both sides of the river

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was sent over in "a small Norsey-Barque of 25 tons," to begin a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river

Brooklyniana, No. 3

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These fronted toward the South, and had large gardens, sloping northward down to the river, of which

Brooklyniana, No.36

  • Date: 20 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

Brooklyniana, No.18

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hudson entered here and discovered the North River, Long Island, and what is now New York island.

hundred European settlers in the colony, including those on Manhattan Island, and on this side of the river

Letters from Paumanok

  • Date: 14 August 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sails of sloops bellied gracefully upon the river, with mellower light and deepened shadows.

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

around—much like the sparkles of moonlight that you can see sometimes of a summer night dancing in the East River—or

any other river, I suppose when the water is smooth, and the moon bright.

Wicked Architecture

  • Date: 19 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In New York, closed in by rivers, pressing desperately toward the business center at its southern end

observations about the growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River

Fifth Avenue, Fourteenth Street, from river to river, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets and indeed

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

craned forward and tow-colored hair, stare and stumble; perhaps there is a bustle, like an eddy in a river

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In some respects, this side of the river has more claims to be considered the representative first settlement

of the Dutch in the New World, than the location of our neighbors over westward of the East River.

He was partially responsible for the expansion of Brooklyn into swamplands on the East River.

City Photographs—No. IV

  • Date: 12 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

far, on farms, or occasionally away in the lumber woods, or perhaps taking a trip down or up the rivers

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

about the same from the principal steamboat landings—Peck Slip and Piers No. 4, and thereabouts, North River

; about three quarters of a mile to the Hudson River Railroad station at Chambers Street, corner College

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman alludes to the California Gold Rush of 1849, where the discovery of gold in the American River

City Photographs—No. V

  • Date: 19 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

THE FOUR CROSSING RIVERS.

all come together, and, as it were, fall in and deliver and transfer to each other, like four big rivers

Letter X

  • Date: 23 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

STREETS—ARCHITECTURE OF THE LANDING—HOLT'S HOTEL, AND THE BUILDER—THE CLERKS—THE BOAT—VIEW FROM THE RIVER—CROSSING

Fulton Street, stretching from Brooklyn Heights into lower Manhattan separated by the East River, is

Who has crossed the East River and not looked with admiration on the beautiful view afforded from the

She too, has her high banks, and they show admirably from the river.

Soon, now, will come the time for big cakes of ice in the river.

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