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Search : William White

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"Spirit That Form'd This Scene" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Oates, David
Text:

alliteration; those between develop artful changes on the basic three-beat line.BibliographyAarnes, William

The Speech-Making Season

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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sees a slim, lank gentleman, with a suit of black, evidently made by a country tailor, and wearing a white

Specimen Days [1882]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
Text:

BibliographyAarnes, William.

Sparkles from the Wheel

  • Date: 1871
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Those who envy or calumniate great men, hate God William Blake[.]"

Spain and Spanish America, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
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Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 41–42.Nolan, James.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 9–12.

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1890

  • Date: November 24, 1890
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
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Very sincerely Sophia Wells Royce Williams Nov. 24/90 see notes Nov. 25 1890 Sophia Williams to Walt

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1888

  • Date: February 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
Text:

Very Cordially Sophia Wells Royce Williams February 16, 1888— Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 February

Songs Oversea

  • Date: 21 October 1876
  • Creator(s): McCarthy, J. H.
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Walt Whitman has been often, and with justice, compared to the painter—poet—prophet William Blake; like

"Song of the Universal" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Knapp, Ronald W.
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New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Miller, James E., Jr.

Song of the Redwood-Tree.

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

venerable and innocent joys, Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun, And the white

Song of the Redwood-Tree.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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venerable and innocent joys, Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun, And the white

"Song of the Open Road" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
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Kennedy, William Sloane. The Fight of a Book for the World. West Yarmouth, Mass.: Stonecroft, 1926. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Behold, the sea itself, And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships; See, where their white sails

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Behold, the sea itself, And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships; See, where their white sails

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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those of the grape; Welcome are lands of sugar and rice; Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Broad-Axe

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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those of the grape; Welcome are lands of sugar and rice; Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic blue-white

with hag- gard haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Broad-Axe.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white

, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

Song of the Banner at Daybreak.

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

setting in toward land, The great steady wind from west or west-by-south, Floating so buoyant with milk-white

Song of the Banner at Day-Break

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

Song of the Banner at Daybreak.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

setting in toward land, The great steady wind from west or west-by-south, Floating so buoyant with milk-white

Song of Myself.

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

the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

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

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

Song of Myself.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

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

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

A Song of Joys.

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

My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the

A Song of Joys.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the

A Song for Occupations.

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

you. 4 The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Did you think it was in the white or gray

bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for rail- roads railroads , Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

A Song for Occupations.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you. 4 The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Did you think it was in the white or gray

bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for rail- roads railroads , Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

"Song at Sunset" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
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Blodgett, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2.

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

Some Thoughts about This Matter of the Washington Monument

  • Date: 18 October 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

commemorate such a character as WASHINGTON On Whitman's connections to and fondness for Washington, see William

Some Personal Recollections and Impressions of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Thomas Proctor
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cut according to his own fancy shockingly contrary to the very stiff and prim usage of the time, his white

as we faced the opposite bank of the stream, for a long distance it was broadly bordered in creamy white

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Austen, Wilmerding and Co., auctioneers, were located at 30 Exchange Street, corner of William."

turned by melo-dramas and the J ACK S HEPPARD Jack Sheppard was a popular nineteenth-century novel by William

The Soldiers

  • Date: 6 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This city, its suburbs, the Capitol, the front of the White House, the places of amusement, the avenue

Society for the Suppression of Vice

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

By 1882 his influence and power were so pervasive that several of Whitman's friends (e.g., William Douglas

that Comstock finally "retire[d] with his tail intensely curved inwards" (Correspondence 3:338–339).William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

Smith devoted a chapter of Unforgotten Years to his remembrances of Whitman; however, William White has

version of the Smiths' arrangements for this visit differs from accounts found in sources cited by White

White, William. "Logan Pearsall Smith on Walt Whitman: A Correction and Some Unpublished Letters."

Smith, Alexander (ca. 1830–1867)

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
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in Kilmarnock, Smith mainly educated himself by reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, William

William Sinclair. Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1909. Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

"Sleepers, The" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Hatlen, Burton
Text:

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1955.Durand, Régis.

The Sleepers.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges him- self himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with 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

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

The Sleepers.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • 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

Sleep-Chasings

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

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

his arms with 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

Sleep-Chasings

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white fea- tures features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; The white

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

his arms with 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

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

That kingdom, the creation of the successive Fredericks and Frederick-Williams of the House of Hohen-Zollern

Slavery and Abolitionism

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Congress, that the introduction of slavery into new territories would discourage, if not prohibit, whites

from migrating to those areas because white labor could not economically compete with slave labor and

"Examine these limbs, red, black or white," ("I Sing," section 7) Whitman says of the auctioned slave

all without its redeeming points" (I Sit 88), and in 1858 he editorializes: "Who believes that the Whites

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

The Slave Trade

  • Date: 2 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of the miserable chattels, lamenting their savage homes, and wondering to each other whither their white

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1862

  • Date: March 12, 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Canby had only eight hundred white men and one Reg of Mexicans under the renowned Kit Carson .

Sibley had three thousand men our white men done all the fighting for the Mexicans broke and ran at the

miles farther before they slept and they did  they started off singing the Star spangled banner, Red White

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