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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1585 results

Our Old Feuillage.

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

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

evening, the musket-muz- zles musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play

A Song of Joys.

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

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

these are not to be cherish'd for themselves, They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

Song of the Exposition.

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

Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts, Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues

A Song for Occupations.

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

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

Song of the Banner at Daybreak.

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

up here, soul, soul, Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

The Centenarian's Story.

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

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

By Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

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

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.

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

leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play

The World Below the Brine.

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

tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play

A Boston Ballad.

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

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

O Me! O Life!

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

That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

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

Around the idea of thee the war revolving, With all its angry and vehement play of causes, (With vast

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

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

again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays

hair rumpled over and blind- ing blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

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

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

- ing playing within me.

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

- ing playing within me.

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Out From Behind This Mask.

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

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

and strength, all hues we know, Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play

all the rest, maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing

The Sleepers.

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

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

Assurances.

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

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

Thought.

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

AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes

Years of the Modern.

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

force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played

Song at Sunset.

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

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

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

The poem by Wellbrock (born in 1949), a Berlin-based writer of poems, short stories, and radio plays,

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

There played the famous Booth, whom the 15-year-old Whitman had a first chance to see as Richard III.

Gedichte der Nachgeborenen (Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1971), 154–155.

Hermann Peter Piwit and Peter Rühmkorf, eds., Literaturmagazin 5. Das Vergehen von Hören und Sehen.

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
Text:

Between the two ends of the spectrum, however, Whitman displays great artistry in the play of stanza

Section 11 of "Song of Myself," for instance, owes much of its dreamlike tone to the delicate play of

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

companions who were nursing Walt after his paralytic stroke: "give my love to mrs oconor and remember me to peter

of the family in which Edward boarded after his mother's death, Edward sat silently the entire day playing

his family (again, though May 1873) far exceed in number those to any family member: forty-five to Peter

October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

William Michael Rossetti's expurgated London edition, Poems by Walt Whitman (Hotten, 1868), may have played

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

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

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot, Down from the showered halo and the moonbeams, Up from the mystic play

Picaninies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with a little round button at the top; and they all fell to playing

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Printing Office—Old Brooklyn…Lafayette…Broadway Sights…My Passion for Ferries…Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers…Plays

The play of imagination, with the sensuous objects of nature for symbols, and faith—with love and pride

He says "there is another shape of personality dearer far to the artist sense (which likes the play of

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 31 October 1868

  • Date: October 31, 1868
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Thompson (1839 or 1840–1911), commonly known as "Snacks" after an amateur role he had once acted in a play

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1882

  • Date: May 29, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1882

  • Date: August 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

I have been much played out this summer, especially the last month.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1882

  • Date: August 19, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

have not again written him, being quite satisfied with letting him know what I thought of his fair-play

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

  • Date: August 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1888

  • Date: July 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

  • Date: July 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

He is certainly the winter of my discontent mentioned by Lord Bacon in his play of Richard III.

Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1888

  • Date: January 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 October 1884

  • Date: October 2, 1884
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 May 1886

  • Date: May 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

Elegancies, was the text that was often cited by Baconians as evidence that Bacon was the author of the plays

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

The Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

"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 Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

I play Alphonso neither to genius nor to God.

Here in my knowledge is an estimable family which, when the baby playing on the floor kicked up its skirts

This is one of the central ideas which rule the myriad teeming play of his volume, and interpret it as

a law of Nature interprets the complex play of facts which proceeds from it.

William Douglas O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1886

  • Date: August 17, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Walt Whitman: Is He Persecuted?

  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

periodical pretends to cater to; but only, instead, put in to do the poet harm, the dull insults of Peter

Bayne—Peter Bayne, the purblind devotee of weak superstition, whose essays in criticism, marked by such

in his age, his poverty, his infirmity, no friend of his could desire a worthier tribute than fair play

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

blackened corpse of Glanas swung beside the carcass of the regicide for having translated Plato, and where Peter

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

day I went into the country and naked, bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

A canary sang with all his might, and a kitten played to and fro.

country, found a secluded Creek, and naked bathed in sunshine, lived with the birds and squirrels and played

William H. McFarland to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1863

  • Date: November 11, 1863
  • Creator(s): William H. McFarland
Text:

it is estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1909
  • Creator(s): William Hawley Smith
Text:

He made no grand-stand play, nor did we. We just "visited", like "lovers and friends".

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