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Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

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

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

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

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

American Feuillage

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

To One Shortly to Die

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

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Our Old Feuillage.

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Song of the Exposition.

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

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

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

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

To One Shortly to Die

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

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

To One Shortly to Die.

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

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

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Chants Democratic

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

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

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

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

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Our Old Feuillage.

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Song of the Exposition.

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

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

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

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

To One Shortly to Die.

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26–27 June 1891

  • Date: June 26–27, 1891; June 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston | Unknown author
Text:

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

Patricia J.TyrerKeller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839) A professional nurse

, Keller was employed to care for Whitman (1892), along with his personal nurse, Warren Fritzinger, during

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.

Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.

Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.

“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 2)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

Sunday, July 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

Monday July 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Sunday, July 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Gilder had added underneath the headline: "By Walt Whitman, volunteer hospital nurse."

Monday July 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

Saturday, July 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

sentries at the gates and in the passages &c,—and a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women and men nurses

mosquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

He also objected to having the nurse sleep there in the room with him.

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

Wednesday, February 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

Tuesday, March 12, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Then: "I was just saying the other day that Leaves of Grass could only be thoroughly understood by nurses

Thursday, March 14, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

remedies as their disease required, to say nothing of being exposed all annoyances and want of good nursing

Wednesday, March 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

Thursday, March 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Tuesday, March 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I told W. of a French nurse whose method of dealing with children had interested me.

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I showed him a card I had from Josephine Lazarus, who had come into my nurse fund.

Thursday, December 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

your hands: yet I would have you always lean to the side of mercy—don't oppress me with doctors, nurses

W.: "Yes, a bad form: it meant death, death: I nursed many a man down with diarrhæa."

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

It had occurred while no attendants were present— "cadets, nurses, doctors, me."

ago—the devilishly obstinate, illiterate boy he was: no one could do anything with him: doctors, nurses

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

early years: teaching, loafing, working on the newspapers: traveling: then in Washington—clerking, nursing

Saturday, December 22, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

they call it The Other Side of the War: it is written by Katharine Wormeley: I think she must be a nurse

Tuesday, December 25, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

the door there unassisted—must help myself with a chair, the table, anything—sometimes calling the nurse

Wednesday, December 26, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Bucke, Osler, Wharton and Walsh, and a good nurse, Edward Wilkins, a young, strong Canadian.

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