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Search : William White

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Patroling Barnegat.

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

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

After the Sea-Ship.

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

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

A Boston Ballad.

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

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Behold This Swarthy Face.

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

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

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

imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

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

man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person, The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1881)

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

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

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

The Ox-Tamer.

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

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

Proud Music of the Storm.

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

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

The Sleepers.

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

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

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

meas- ureless 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

Thought.

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

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Faces.

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

the 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, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing 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

O Magnet-South.

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

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

Mannahatta.

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

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Camps of Green.

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

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 6 January 1881

  • Date: January 6, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

  • Date: January 20, 1881
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881

  • Date: January 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): C. B. Burr
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:220).

Walt Whitman to Horace Howard Furness, 26 January 1881

  • Date: January 26, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman sent Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets on the same day; see William White, "Unrecorded Whitman

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 2 February 1881

  • Date: February 2, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 10 February [1881]

  • Date: February 10, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

—I am, sir, William Rolleston. thrown into a panic of such proceedings.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 25 February [1881]

  • Date: February 25, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 25 February [1881]

Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881

  • Date: March 31, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:235).

Walt Whitman to Albert D. Shaw, 9 April 1881

  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:237.

Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 9 April 1881

  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William D. O'Connor of Washington, Life Saving Service Bureau to write for you?

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 18 April 1881

  • Date: April 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

The Rossetti's too have been to see us—we didn't think William in the best health or spirits—& his wife

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 4 June [1881]

  • Date: June 4, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

of light, the March-wind blows upon the Wicklow hills; Blows from over the blue Channel, making the white

like a dream again— And again the same hills and rocks, again the Sky, again the blue Channel with white

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1881

  • Date: June 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti is writing a hundred sonnets—writes one a day; one about John Brown is not bad: and

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company, 7 June 1881

  • Date: June 7, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

typographical show of my poems—how they shall show (negatively as well as absolutely) on the black & white

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 June 1881

  • Date: June 17, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:244).

Elisa Seaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 22 June 1881

  • Date: June 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): Elisa Seaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

I turned, and there in the doorway she stood, her tall figure, with a white turban on her head, her figure

Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 14 July 1881

  • Date: July 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My sister is at the White

Franklin B. Sanborn to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1881

  • Date: July 21, 1881
  • Creator(s): Franklin B. Sanborn
Text:

July and October, to be issued in September and October; and orders for these numbers may be sent to WILLIAM

Walt Whitman in Huntington

  • Date: 5 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Spring; Benjamin Doty, of same place; in West Hills, Lemuel Carll, John Chichester, Miss Jane Rome, William

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

"The Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 24 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [August(?) 1881]

  • Date: August 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman, 18 September 1881

  • Date: September 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bride groom—I think him a lucky man— Well I must close at once, for here comes a fine lively team of white

Standish James O'Grady to Walt Whitman, 5 October 1881

  • Date: October 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Standish James O'Grady
Text:

For myself I can safely say that except William Rolleston no reader or student of your poetry has studied

Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 25 October [1881]

  • Date: October 25, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good roads—one young lady I fell in with near where I was living had a team of her own, two handsome white

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Walt Whitman's Work

  • Date: 6 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 9 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Our Boston Literary Letter

  • Date: 10 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I gave them the same,

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