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

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

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

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen now lean and tattered tatter'd , seated on the ground, Her old white

neck open, shirt-collar flat and broad, countenance tawny transparent red, beard well-mottled with white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

light-green sheath, Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns, Oats to their bins, the white

light-green sheath, Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns, Oats to their bins, the white

Shepard, Colonel Shepherd, the son-in-law of William H.

the Revolution to the Age of Jackson [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010], 481; William

Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

opportunity to get a foothold in Brooklyn, and in this year they entered into negotiations with one William

The deed of conveyance is dated the 12th day of October, 1694, and is from William Morris to the Corporation

This patent was to Sarah Rapelje, daughter of George Jansen De Rapelje, the first white settler on Long

Sarah twenty morgen (forty acres) of land at the Waale-Boght, in consideration of her being the first white

William Smith appear for them.

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

.^ BY WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY " WholoveaMan seehis here." may imagJ.R.LOWELL.

William Wesselhoeft. The result of of two months' generous work by Mr.

Channing gives himself almost entirely up to William's care and treatment.

William's blood boiled at the covert malignancy dis- in his Bazar played by [T.W.]

Don't know of [my grandmother Amy] Williams having any blood never heard ab't that.

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

Likely a reference to Whig William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign in which he was labeled

Transcript 1, No. 78 (Baltimore, July 15, 1840): 2; Richard Brookhiser, "We've Been Here Before: William

Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

closest personal friend who was a streetcar conductor and former Confederate soldier, as well as William

Burroughs published the second Whitman biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867), and William

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin —I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Paul Zweig notes, for both Whitman and later realists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser (and William

Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York."

what he called his "daily food" (4:67).Of other British writers, three were particularly important: William

for whom Whitman had high regard, despite his differences from them in style and substance, were William

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

New York City at 31 years old, making him the youngest individual to ever receive the appointment (William

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

DrewsHutchinsonRacial AttitudesRacial AttitudesWhitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few white

truth is that Whitman in person largely, though confusedly and idiosyncratically, internalized typical white

nationalist terms, opposing "the great cause of American White Work and Working people" to "the Black

Elsewhere he refers to slave labor as a "black tide" threatening white workingmen.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

soil's May-utterance here (Smelling of countless blessings, prayers, and old-time thanks)— A bunch of white

enjoyed free-ranging conversations with local Quaker acquaintances.His maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

(Van Velsor), brought Quaker culture from the Williams home when she married Cornelius Van Velsor.

culture whose chief contribution to democracy lay in the past.In 1889 one of Whitman's supporters, William

Unpublished manuscript, 1995.Kennedy, William Sloane. "Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman."

William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and

In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.

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

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

Whiting, in favor of excluding from the list of studies Astronomy, Zoology, Algebra, Geometry and Physiology

Whiting, or any of them, should be dispensed with.

Whiting's resolution, and now after reflection we see many reasons for sympathising with his feelings

New Haven: Yale UP, 1955.Finkel, William L.

Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who wished to acknowledge divine assistance in his forced relocation

& smart, but too constrained & bookish for a free old hawk like me" (61).BibliographyMcLoughlin, William

New York: New York, 1961.Woodward, William, and Edward F. Sanderson.

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William

John Tyler (1790–1862) became president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

latter have been and are ready to exchange man for man as far as prisoners go, (certainly all the whites

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who

Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them

New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."

1842 issue of The New World.Whitman's earliest poetry was sentimental in nature and imitative of William