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I have written one to Mr Brown and William Devoe and (as Walter said in his last letter) I shall write

Flowers of every description were on some of the tombs, large white roses and red ones too were all along

Among the late improvements of New York, may be particularly mentioned the long-talked-of widening of William

valuable structures, Clinton Hall among the rest; so they thought to draw off some of the travel into William

the houses (in the verg middle of the Jew clothing quarter) in Chatham street, to make the exit of William

was among those who helped save the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the burning White

Ex-Commissioner overleaps the mark in his fury, and charges too much on his extensively abused Excellency of the White

At the clothing stores along Maiden Lane, Park Row, and William and Fulton streets, (nor forgetting our

William street it building up from Chatham street where it now opens, inward; the rubbish is not yet

The widening and repaving of William street, has led, (how, I do not know,) to raising the grade of Frankfort

and earth (particular earth) for a revocation of the sentence on the amorous Bishop, and a general white-washing

come before these potent, grave and reverend signors, is that of the admission, on equal terms with whites

Just beyond, glimpses of it appearing through the trees, shows the dirty white of the City Hall; Justice

White, T.

White, who were members of the Irish Directory in New York.

Joseph White was nabbed yesterday for attacking a German, at 1 o'clock in the morning, and robbing him

Edwin Williams, of much fame in "Registers" and statistics, for the office of Register of the county.

While I write, the snow is falling; so softly, so softly, come its pure white flakes!

According to Sir William Jones, "Vyasa, the son of Parasara, has decided 4 that the Veda, with its Angas

With their superb white horses—the rims of the dash-boards arching over like the necks of serpents—and

The firm fine-grained meat, white as snow, and of indescribable sweetness, of a good-sized blue-fish,

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

Compositor; a typesetter. the flashing of the white bones in the sunlight, and the ornamental flourishes

very voracious creature; so voracious that, instead of a bait, we fasten a piece of bone, or even a white

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

See Peter Ross and William Smith Pelletreau, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to

As you travel along the roads you see the white tomb-stones, group after group, some far, and some near

Actor and manager William ("Billy") Mitchell (1798-1856) popularized the burlesque theater (also known

are tenacious of the place, and the places, from the brown sand of Napeague Beach, far east, to the white

East New York, spread out as flat as a pancake—Cypress Hills Cemetery, with its white-painted tower,

Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter, from Its Foundation to the Present Time [London: William

The Croton Reservoir was demolished in 1899 and replaced by the New York Public Library in 1911 (William

The tall white spire, the prolific tracery and ornament, and fret-work, make one wonder and ask how much

It was a small, white shell. —by modern folks Turtle-hill.

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and density, with shells, large boulders or a pure white

reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime performances circa 1840–1860, see William

We hove in sight of the steeples and white-paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

It was a small, white shell.; Montauk Point Light, finished in in 1797 and not 1795, as Whitman writes

—And many 2 a time again approached he to the coffin, and held up the white linen, and gazed and gazed

theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm; On a small composite leaf of white

]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 14.5 cm; These lines, appearing on a very small section of white

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

islands, contains about four hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom only about thirty-seven thousand are white

less populous, the full amount being in each case divided in the same proportions between blacks and whites

Lord, formerly member of Congress, Frederick William Lord (1800–1860) lived in Greenport and was a member

came a couple of little black fish; after which a real big one, twenty inches long, opening his great white

Whitman refers to Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905), Thomas Baldwin Thayer (1812–1886), and William Stevens

Muchmore, Member Board of Supervisors for Kings County Walt Whitman to William M.

hundred in all) came over to Massachusetts, in the Mayflower, under the spiritual guidance of Elder William

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

from the empty bosom of the grove I hear a sob, as one forlorn might pine— The white-limbed beauty of

Where round their fingers winding the white slips That crown his forehead, on the grandsire's knees,

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press

noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's

.00048Autobiographical DataBetween 1848 and 1856prosepoetry10 leaveshandwritten; Photostats, made for William

Mexico, and looking down on the twin volcano (I forget the Mexican name, but in English it means the White

Grass, then again in the 1876 and 1881–1882 (and following) editions, as well as—in a cropped version—William

Some of Whitman's friends did not share his enthusiasm for the image; William Sloane Kennedy, for example

William O'Connor liked it, Whitman said, "because of its portrayal of the proletarian—the carpenter,

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

12tex.00011xxx.00705The Ballroom was swept and the floor white…[The ball-room was swept]about 1860poetry1

leafhandwritten; Three lines of a poem beginning "The ball-room was swept, and the floor white."

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day, And leaves for me baskets covered with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who

I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are; The President is up there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray

and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened: The white

I see his white body . . . .

with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall

unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific, In each house

soiree, I heard what the run of poets were saying so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

sunset . . . . the river between, Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white