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O'Connor will delight the readers of the Galaxy with some charming stories.

Those who remember "The Ghost Story" in Putnam, "What Cheer" in Harpers', and his rich and affluent romance

settled upon; and amid the jeers and ridicule of the crowd has gone on adding stroke after stroke, part

after part, as serenely and good-naturedly as if the rest of mankind were clapping their hands in applause

The poet attempts to do justice to every part of a strong, healthy, unconventional man.

an equal proportionate justice to the moral and aesthetic qualities, and has not unduly exalted any part

The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.

His letter of December 2, 1866, was even more unreserved in its praise.

His letter of December 2, 1866 was even more unreserved in its praise.

the magazine publish Burroughs's "Walt Whitman and His 'Drum-Taps,'" which appeared in The Galaxy, 2

build—his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing no high part

On his trip to and from that city he made it a point to penetrate various parts of the West and Southwest

cedars; and with these the evening star, which, as many may remember, night after night in the early part

poetry, no equal celebration of the human being in his completeness-in his organic character-every part

express the cosmical character of the individual-yourself; the absolute miracle you are in all your parts

The thorough Americanism of the poem, permeating every part of it, appears as well in its literary form

It must remain an enduring part of the glory of our poet, that, as in such superb and powerful lines

Dec. 2, 1866 My dear Whitman: I find your book and cordial letter, on returning home from a lecturing

or tell me where to find you, and oblige Your friend, Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor to Walt Whitman, 2

Mother, I send you the part of the N. Y. Times, containing a good long piece about me. It is the N.

Daily Times, of Sunday, Dec 2—but perhaps George or Jeff brought it to you last Sunday.

Raymond, on December 2, 1866, granted O'Connor four columns for a review of the new Leaves of Grass;

Thereafter he compiled extremely successful textbooks, and established the magazine Story-Teller, in

Eldridge, 20 October 1868" (Miller, Correspondence, 2:64–65).

in the ranks of the Captain of our Salvation, ready to enter upon an eternity of bliss and where parting

See also Whitman's letter of February 2, 1864.

McNamee, Brower, Story, Bergen, Ward, Lewis, Clapp and Van Buren (all young men employed in our office

) each $2.

Story, a surveyor.

see him—& he told O'Connor he had received a number of letters about that piece in the Times of Dec. 2,

had a present of a beautiful knife, a real Rogers' steel, to-day from the Attorney General—Mother, $2

Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs, 35), and he published O'Connor's review of Leaves of Grass on December 2,

Wood, I write to solicit from you $2, for helping my soldier boys to some festivities these holiday &

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

C. , Sept. 2, 1865 .

brawl in New York, in which, as he supposed, he had killed some one; and having heard his hurried story

The freest use of language, the plainest terms, frank mention of forbidden subjects; the story of Onan

Evil is part of the economy of genius, as it is part of the economy of Deity.

How can I tell the story of his labors?

W ALT W HITMAN 's Drum-Taps New York. 1865. 12mo. pp. 72. 2.

The leaf consists of two clipped scraps pasted together, and the upper part of the leaf is pasted to

Our images show the front of the leaf, that part of the back visible by lifting the lower part of the

A.MS. drafts.loc.02901xxx.00594for part in L of Gbetween 1867-1876poetryprose9 leaveshandwritten; One

There are also notes about other poems and the arrangement of Leaves of Grass. for part in L of G

write]about 1867prose1 leafhandwritten; This prose fragment, heavily revised, is almost certainly part

Leaves one and three used to form part of the same sheet of paper, and on the verso is another, unrelated

Leaves four and five also used to form part of the same sheet of paper (loc.05224), and on the verso

.; It is postmarked: CARRIER | JAN| 2 |1867 | 2 DEL.

His letter of December 2, 1866 was even more unreserved in its praise of Whitman.

is but a part.

2. TEARS! tears! tears!

2.

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

SONGS BEFORE PARTING. CONTENTS.

2 The love of the Body of man or woman balks ac- count account —the body itself balks account; That of

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

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

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

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

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

part- ing parting of dear friends; The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he be- came 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

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

of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. 2.

2. TEARS! tears! tears!

judge, or any juror, is equally criminal—and any reputable person is also—and the President is also. 2.

2.

spans them, and always has spann'd, and shall forever span them, and com- pactly compactly hold them. 2.

exception ; And henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am, And sing and laugh, and deny nothing. 2.

despite of people —Illustrates evil as well as good; How many hold despairingly yet to the models de- parted

how every fact serves, And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of Death. 2.

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions; One generation playing its part

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

let others ignore what they may; I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also; I am myself

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. 15 Whoever you are!

the wood, and become undis- guised undisguised and naked; I am mad for it to be in contact with me. 2

mer summer morning; How you settled your head athwart my hips, and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted

If I worship one thing more than another, it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it.

List to the story as my grandmother's father, the sailor, told it to me.

is but a part.

2 The love of the Body of man or woman balks ac- count account —the body itself balks account; That of

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

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

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

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens; Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is pro

palaces, hovels, huts of barba- rians barbarians , tents of nomads, upon the surface; I see the shaded part

on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them; I am a real Parisian; I am a

day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he be- came 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

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

, They gave this child more of themselves than that; They gave him afterward every day—they became part

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balk me, The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part

emblem, dabs of music; Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ. 2

Riches, opinions, politics, institutions, to part obedi- ently obediently from the path of one man or

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? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.

simple, compact, well-join'd scheme—myself dis- integrated disintegrated , every one disintegrated, yet part

, floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies, I saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts

Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laugh- ing laughing , gnawing, sleeping, Play'd the part

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

toward eternity; Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.

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

of the earth, Then only shall liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, And the infidel and

here and hereafter, Taking all hints to use them—but swiftly leaping beyond them, A reminiscence sing. 2

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