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Longings for Home

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Longings for Home

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1891

  • Date: October 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

beautiful & luxuriously fitted steamboat was itself extremely interesting to begin with—Then the noble river

with cirrus clouds glowing warm golden on the underside, delicate pearl above—the reflections in the river

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith, 20 July 1885

  • Date: July 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ecstatic life-pourings as it were of precious wine or rose - water on vast desert sands or great polluted river—taking

Philadelphia)—I keep pretty well, considering—dont go out at all till toward sundown, but get on the river

Walt Whitman to Thomas Nicholson, 17 December [1880]

  • Date: December 17, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I get out on the river, (the Delaware) or over in Philadelphia most every day—lately I go down to the

The river is full of ice & the boats have a pretty tough time—but the nights are light, the full moon

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1878

  • Date: February 28, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The unsafe condition of the ice in the River will prevent me going to N.Y.

Last of ebb, and daylight waning

  • Date: 1885
Text:

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

Not the Pilot.

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

baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers

Not the Pilot.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers

George Washington Whitman to Mary Elizabeth Whitman, 19 March 1862

  • Date: March 19, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

fight a front of our force started in pursuit, but the rebels had set fire to a bridge which crosses a river

Our regiment marched slowly up to the river and as our boys were about lived out we spread our blankets

We are now encamped on the banks of the river about 2 miles from the city and we have things very comfortable

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

Not the Pilot.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

Debris 16

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled, Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers

Not the Pilot

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 24 July [1880]

  • Date: July 24, [1880]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

London Ontario Canada July 24 pm Dear Sister, I am much better—& expect to start on a long St Lawrence river

Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 20 November 1888

  • Date: November 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

nearly altogether physically wreck'd (paralysis &c)—am living here in my little shanty by the Delaware river—Best

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 July 1889

  • Date: July 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to-day (for the first since you sent)—am sitting here after my supper, & shall go out in wheel chair to river

Walt Whitman to Harry Buxton Forman, 16 June 1890

  • Date: June 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Celebrities" pamphlet rec'd safely with thanks— I am keeping on fairly—have been out in wheel chair to the river

Wednesday, December 11,1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And proceeded to tell him of the river as I came across tonight: the cold and early moon—the full-sailed

sloop—the cutter swinging in the tide—the tug puffing its way up the river—multiplied beauties that

I cannot think of a rarer experience than one I met on the river Saguenay, up there in Canada.

The river's water is an inky black—a curious study, I believe, to this day to the scientific men: take

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

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

take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 June 1889

  • Date: June 23, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Have heard nothing f'm Mrs: O'C at Wash'n—go down by the river most every day in the wheel chair & sit

Walt Whitman to William Torrey Harris, 27 October 1879

  • Date: October 27, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

great part—(the "School of Athens" in the magazine, & the thoughts, & statistics about the Mississippi River

The Celebration Yesterday

  • Date: 2 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counter-celebration here; for literally every one went from both districts of this city to the other side of the river

The hegira across the East River commenced at an early hour yesterday morning, and continued all the

Every car going towards the ferries, every boat plying on the river, and every vehicle in New York plying

from the river to Broadway, was crowded.

The shipping in the river was almost universally in “full dress,” all their colors and signals flying

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [18 July] 1875

  • Date: [July 18], 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

The ridge runs parallel with the big river and ally divides our valley into a sandstone sub valley nex

broad but low Sand mountain; and a sub valley lime land next the river.

mostly stopped erge d a er growth young hickories are no vi suggestion of the presence of the great river

A mountain range north of the river coming right in front of me for two or three miles close to the river

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

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

'Children of Adam' [1860]

  • Creator(s): Miller, James E., Jr.
Text:

"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I

The rhythmic urgency of the poem, beginning with the "pent-up aching rivers" seemingly at flood-tide,

In brief, Whitman's poem portrays the sex drive as a "pent-up aching river" or a "hungry gnaw" present

It dominates the "Children of Adam" cluster by its sheer length and, like "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

As the poet drains his "pent-up rivers" into the "woman who waits" for him, "warm-blooded and sufficient

More Gold

  • Date: 15 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The San Francisco papers state that the Frazer's River excitement, so far from having abated, has vastly

tending northward. 40, 000 people, it is stated by the Californian press, will have gone to Frazer's River

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 31 July 1875

  • Date: July 31, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America, (if convenient,) give him my address here in Camden —(Philadelphia is on one side of the river

Delaware, & Camden immediately opposite on the other—ferries constantly running—I live near the river

Walt Whitman to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 28 September [1880]

  • Date: September 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

: September 28 — I have been spendin the whole summer in Canada, mostly on the Lakes & St Lawrence river—have

Walt Whitman to Thomas W. H. Rolleston, 22 January 1884

  • Date: January 22, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

well as usual—A severe winter here—have had fine sleigh-rides, & enjoyed them—or some days on the river

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.

Kentucky

  • Date: about 1861
Text:

On one of the pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning with James E.

Walt Whitman to Tilghman Hiskey, 27 July [1880]

  • Date: July 27, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

mouth of St Lawrence—shall spend a week there—then to Montreal—then on to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—am

Walt Whitman to Tilghman Hiskey, 20 June [1880]

  • Date: June 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Weather fine, country ditto—these noble waters, the lake, & the St Clair river, dotted with steamers

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 8 August 1889

  • Date: August 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Phila: to Gutekunsts' to sit for big picture (at vehement request)—went in large easy cab—every thing river

Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 22 June [1882]

  • Date: June 22, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

this time but I will be down soon & tell you all the news —After I write this I am going out on 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

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 28 September 1880

  • Date: September 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have been spending the summer in Canada, especially on the Lakes, & the Thousand Islands, & the river

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 8 March 1889

  • Date: March 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all day & in the room—one of the watermen came to see me yesterday afternoon & told me all ab't the river

Walt Whitman to William Torrey Harris, 28 September 1880

  • Date: September 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—have jaunted over 3000 miles mostly river & Lakes—(I believe I sent you a couple of my current letters

The Centenarian's Story.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

The Centenarian's Story

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 January 1871

  • Date: January 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

has been directed to appear for the defence of the Engineer Officers having charge of the Potomac River

Me Imperturbe.

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

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

For You O Democracy.

  • 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

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

Whispers of Heavenly Death.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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