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Search : William White

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Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset —the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

Cluster: Thoughts. (1867)

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

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Walt Whitman

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

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

Growing among black folks as among white; Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same,

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 fast

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run- away runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and

I Sing the Body Electric

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching; Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

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

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Behold This Swarthy Face

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

BEHOLD this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon

Salut Au Monde!

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

of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano; I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-hair'd

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

Leaves of Grass 1

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset —the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Song of the Broad-Axe

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

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

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

bay to notice the arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses, The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

To Get Betimes in Boston Town

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

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

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

beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching; Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

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

Cluster: Calamus. (1867)

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

BEHOLD this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

A Leaf of Faces

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

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

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Longings for Home

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

To Workingmen

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

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

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

Leaves of Grass 2

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

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

American Feuillage

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

where men have not yet sail'd—the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes; White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar, festoon'd with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white

wind; The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites

Mannahatta

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

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Thoughts 5

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

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

Poems of Joy

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

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

I am more than eighty years of age—my hair, too, is pure white—I am the most venerable mother; How clear

Respondez!

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

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

The City Dead-House

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with magestic majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old

Leaves of Grass 4

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

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

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

Elemental Drifts

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

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Drum-Taps

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

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The 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

Rise O Days From Your Fathom-Less Deeps

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

, I was refresh'd by the storm; I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves; I mark'd the white

Come Up From the Fields Father

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

Fast as she can she hurries—something ominous— her steps trembling; She does not tarry to smooth her white

the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown

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

(he is shot in the ab- domen abdomen ;) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

Year of Meteors (1859-60)

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

signs; I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad; I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

The Veteran's Vision

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

of the rifle balls; I see the shells exploding, leaving small white clouds— I hear the great shells shrieking

Camps of Green

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

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

Old Ireland

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

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

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

World, Take Good Notice

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

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

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

3 In the door-yard fronting an old farm-house, near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac bush,

wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprising; Passing the apple-tree blows of white

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men—I saw them; I saw the debris

Reconciliation

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

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

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

I remember, as I passed the White House with him one evening, the startled feeling with which I saw a

Open this other book of his, "William Shakespeare," a book with only one grave fault, the omission of

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

Sick and wounded, officers and privates, the black soldiers as well as the white, the teamsters, the

William Douglas O'Connor's "The Good Gray Poet" first appeared as a free-standing pamphlet (New York:

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 1866

  • Date: December 1866
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Richard Grant White has but paid just sympathy to a true poet "Swinburne"; The criticism is a "Poem,"

Annotations Text:

Drum-Taps written by John Burroughs and a review of Algernon Charles Swinburne's work by Richard Grant White

Richard Grant White (1822–1885) was a prominent Shakespeare scholar and journalist from New York.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 1866

  • Date: December 1866
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Richard Grant White has but paid just sympathy to a true poet "Swinburne"; The criticism is a "Poem,"

Annotations Text:

Drum-Taps written by John Burroughs and a review of Algernon Charles Swinburne's work by Richard Grant White

Henry Stanbery to William H. Seward, 4 December 1866

  • Date: December 4, 1866
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Henry Stanbery to William

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 4 December 1866

  • Date: December 4, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Swinton is here in Washington, temporarily. He is interested in speculating in gold.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
Text:

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

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

Walt Whitman And His 'Drum Taps'

  • Date: 1 December 1866
  • Creator(s): Burroughs, John
Text:

During this period he was on familiar terms of acquaintance with William Cullen Bryant, and the two were

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 Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

Matthew F. Pleasants to William A. Dart, 25 October 1866

  • Date: October 25, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Pleasants to William A. Dart, 25 October 1866

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