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sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.) 2

resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers, While from some distant part

to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 2

destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere, And death and infidelity at every step.) 2

west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts

new States, Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts

I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America good or bad, Not to build for that which

with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me, Till the tissues that held me parted

boundless summer growths, O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb, A song to narrate thee. 2

forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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

and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him, Winter-grain sprouts and those

my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath, I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!

martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are dis- charged discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth

life a share or more or less, None born but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting. 2

pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, pre- mature premature death, all these I part

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You, We touch

and am all and believe in all, I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part

(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?

answers, I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them. 2

fish-shaped island, As I wended the shores I know, As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types. 2

utmost a little wash'd-up drift, A few sands and dead leaves to gather, Gather, and merge myself as part

My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm; Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting

the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting

flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores, The tearful parting

, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother, (Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does

Put in thy chants said he, No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

2 The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account, That of the male

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you, I believe

bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say these are not the parts

Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe, Return in peace to the ocean my love, I too am part of

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

My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm; Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting

—no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting

, any thing is but a part.

2 Souls of men and women!

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

2 Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire, Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend, Parting

, To think that we are now here and bear our part. 2 Not a day passes, not a minute or second without

is of consequence, Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part

of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands, All that is well thought or said this day on any part

The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist, No consummation exists without

What is prudence is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not the

and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing, Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe. 2

thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers, Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory. 2

launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate, To you whoe'er you are—a look. 2

ranks, They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman. 2

spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual, Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts

2 Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire, Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend, Parting

impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on, So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.) 2

My hands, my limbs grow nerveless, My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd, Let the old timbers part, I will

not part, I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me, Thee, Thee at least I know.

thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one, I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away. 2

the female that loves unrequited, the money-maker, The actor and actress, those through with their parts

, alive—that every thing was alive, To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part

, To think that we are now here and bear our part. 2 Not a day passes, not a minute or second without

appointed days that forgive not, I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse. 2

the present only, But greater still from what is yet to come, Out of that formula for thee I sing. 2

the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces, I see them and complain not, and am content with all. 2

thy notes, Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me, Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost. 2

, Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope, From unsuspected parts

Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's

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

all its horrors, serves, And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death. 2

accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life, The entrance of man to sing; To compact you, ye parted

what was promis'd, When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

The 2 vol. Centennial Edition of your works.

Around at 60, and Take Notes," was printed during the following eighteen months: January 29, 1881 (2–

quietly & plainly here, board with my brother & sister-in-law—have a nice little room up in the third story

Boston, Dec 2 d 1880.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

along all right—Sunday morning went to breakfast at Mr and Mrs Scovel's — —I am sitting up here 3d story—warm

failed, and these plates were stored away and nothing further done;—till about a year ago (latter part

Mr Eldridge, (of the Boston firm alluded to) is accessible in Washington D C—will corroborate first parts

plates—subscription to purchase" (Whitman's Commonplace Book).In a letter to the editor of The Critic on June 2,

Burroughs on November 2, 1880, informed Whitman of Stedman's difficulties in getting his article printed

Friday afternoon Nov: November 12 Dear Hank I am staying here yet—yesterday Deb came over here about 2

Mother & I) to the old place —went down to the pond & all around—I thought the pond, & creek, the big part

beautifully written as it is, rather reminds me of that proverbial representation of Hamlet, with the part

Dear Sir: Enc d Enclosed pls please find $10. 00 to cvr cover amt amount due for the 2 Vols Volumes of