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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

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Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

own part, Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, Fond of women, . . played

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

American Feuillage.

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

rest standing—they are too tired; Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play

returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play—or

Song of the Broad-Axe.

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

These are not to be cherish'd for themselves; They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

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

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, ac- cording according as one makes it!

Carol of Occupations.

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

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

The Sleepers.

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

all the dreams of the other dream- ers dreamers , And I become the other dreamers. 3 I am a dance—Play

A Boston Ballad. (1854.)

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

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

The Centenarian's Story.

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

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

Cluster: Thoughts. (1867)

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

AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Starting From Paumanok

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

step they 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

Walt Whitman

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

loos'd to the eddies of the wind; A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms; The play

ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements; The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come—with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only—I play great marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

To the Garden, the World

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

again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

I Sing the Body Electric

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

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Native Moments

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

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

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

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

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Salut Au Monde!

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

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

Song of the Broad-Axe

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

These are not to be cherish'd for themselves; They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

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

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

To Get Betimes in Boston Town

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

I love to look on the stars and stripes—I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

head; No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flames, and the lambent lightnings playing

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Respondez!

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

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Mannahatta.

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

Trottoirs throng'd—vehicles—Broadway—the women— the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing

Song of the Banner at Day-Break.

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play

O Me! O Life!

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

That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come.

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

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Salut Au Monde!

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

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

Years of the Modern.

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

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

Song at Sunset.

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

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed; Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L. I.

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter D. Oakey was the successor of Rev. James M. McDonald, mentioned below.

An Abraham Smith is included in a list of men who petitioned Governor Peter Stuyvesant to settle in this

area of Long Island and whom Peter Ross calls “the first citizens of Jamaica” (549).

See Peter Ross, A History of Long Island: from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (New York:

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peters, surrounded by quite a swarm of surgeons and students.

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

office for a still longer period of time, and down to within a year or two since; with the presence of Peter

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

excitement and chaos, hovering on the edge at first, and then merged in its very midst, and destined to play

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some of the inmates are laughing and joking, others are playing checkers or cards, others are reading

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plenty of the skulls and other bones of these dead—and that thoughtless boys would kick them about in play

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s. made

Annotations Text:

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; John

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And then how everything changed with the dashing and merry jig played by the same bugles and drums, as

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.

Annotations Text:

The Society played an active role in New York City politics until it was disbanded in the 1960s.; Our

Brooklyniana, No. 9

  • Date: 1 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walter (alternately Wouter) Van Twiller was the second Dutch governor of New Netherland, succeeding Peter

During the administration of Governor Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch governor of New

Brooklyniana, No. 8

  • Date: 25 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It had three tiers of boxes, and was about as large and convenient as the "old Richmond Hill," the play-house

very inferior order; and consequently the more educated families of our town avoided the place on play-nights

It created as much buzz and electioneering by-play, on a small scale, as among the cardinals in Rome,

Brooklyniana, No. 6

  • Date: 11 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).

Annotations Text:

The fight over the bank played out through much of Jackson's presidency (1829–1837).; The Long Island

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin Forrest

Annotations Text:

.; This phrase comes from Robert Montgomery Ward's popular 1831 play The Gladiator, written for Edwin

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