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How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Let priests still play at immortality! Let Death be inaugurated!

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

These are not to be cherished for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

13* The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

garden or as vacant lots would be—for they might raise potatoes in the first, and their children might play

Whitman had earlier called this poem "Washington's First Battle," referring to the part played by the

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing

march'd forth to inter- cept intercept the enemy, They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays

A number of the idle boys were playing around the basin and climbing up the marble jet, and it was generally

democracy.Some critical interest (e.g., Howard Waskow, John Schwiebert) has focused on the roles readers play

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter

The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

"When the children come, you'll have a good time playing with them.

"Old uncle Peter always said he was alive, and going round doing good.

"That's a sample lot of old Peter Dyzer," he resumed. "Lord, sir!

'That's him,—that's Christ,' says old Peter. 'But, Mr.

"I mentioned that old Peter Dyzer left me this place.

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

In spite of the vital role the landscape plays in Canadian literature and the need for a cosmic vision

Whitman gone, the fruitless. meeting had gone with him, as though a more than Hamelinic pipe had been played

In him 24 ADDRESSES. nature has ample play.

But the gentleman willnot slapthe pick-pocket on the back and play the political harlotto gain his favor

Then willcome into play, for the firsttime, the marvellous genius of the poet who sang the "Song of Myself

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

We cannot avoid thinking that the same game has been played with the Cable as is said to be carried on

We would not readily believe that Peter Cooper, "De Santy," C.W.

silent") and the abiding quality of his commitment to that struggle in spite of setback ("the powerful play

The poem serves as a summation of Whitman's career and poses a tableau wherein the light and dark playing

1860), "Waves" receives little critical attention, but it chronicles a moment in the poet's life and plays

head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

head, No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

his own part, witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, played

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter

Peters. Mr.

Walter (alternately Wouter) Van Twiller was the second Dutch governor of New Netherland, succeeding Peter

During the administration of Governor Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch governor of New

It had three tiers of boxes, and was about as large and convenient as the "old Richmond Hill," the play-house

very inferior order; and consequently the more educated families of our town avoided the place on play-nights

It created as much buzz and electioneering by-play, on a small scale, as among the cardinals in Rome,

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).; The Long Island

plenty of the skulls and other bones of these dead—and that thoughtless boys would kick them about in play

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s. made

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; John

For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed

This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin Forrest

.; This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin

See Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York: New York Review of Books,

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet : "I am but mad north-north-west

Whitman is playing here on Hamlet's line in Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet: "I am but mad north-north-west:

Holloway's note] ) the bricks were imported from Holland; in the administration of Stuyvesant, Governor Peter

Plays and equestrian performances of a second-rate character were given there at intervals for about

And then how everything changed with the dashing and merry jig played by the same bugles and drums, as

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; Our

events and persons departed from the stage, now in the midst of the turmoil and excitement of the great play

the same period, two other worthy men, immigrants also from Holland, named Frederick Lubertse and Peter

When Sarah's father, George Jansen De Rapelje, was settled on his farm in the Wallabout, Peter Minnet

It was Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) who, on May 6, 1626, purchased Manhattan from the Lenape Indians

It was also in Brooklyn that the youthful Whitman saw two more figures who would later play an important

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Young gentlemen will not play ball, or pitch quoits, or wrestle and tumble, or any other similar thing

cherished for them- selves themselves , They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musi- cians musicians play

.: Peter Smith, 1972. British Romantic Poets

I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.