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Eidólons.

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

The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities

Eighteen Sixty-One.

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

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

Eighteen Sixty-One.

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

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

Elisa Seaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 22 June 1881

  • Date: June 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): Elisa Seaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

There was a "Kingdom of Heaven" established up the North River, with many disciples.

ElizaSeaman Leggett to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1880

  • Date: October 9, 1880
  • Creator(s): ElizaSeaman Leggett | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

They must run down to the river before they can get a drink.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 July 1864

  • Date: July 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

He has had chills & fever, caught in the James River.

Enfans D'adam 2

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

From the pent up rivers of myself, From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day, From native moments—from

Enfans D'adam 3

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

when feeling with the hand the naked meat of his own body, or another person's body, The circling rivers

Enfans D'adam 4

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

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1888

  • Date: December 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

sauntering home, red glare in the sky in the direction of Grosvenor Road, but on the opposite side of the river

The effect of the red glare on the water, with the black barges shooting by, & the river fire-engine's

The river is almost at the back-door, or at any rate only a short street away; so that I have the ferries

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

  • Date: March 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Westminster to Waterloo Bridges this afternoon with the tide—higher than usual—just at the full; the river

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

To-day promises to be even more memorable, I expect to start up the Hudson River by the Mary Powell (

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

Europe

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

.00884xxx.00110MS 12mo 27EuropeBetween 1850 and 1856prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of European rivers

Europe bounded

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

—Caspian sea, Ural river & mts (Asia) South Mediterranean Countries —Iceland, 60,000 —Norway, 1,328,000

Europe Laplanders

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver

Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

The text of I855 is a river of lava.

How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!

See Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," in Works (River side ed., I894), Vol. X. 107.

Insert natural things, indestructibles, idioms, charac teristics, rivers, states, persons, etc.

Rivers 22 studied Whitman's case scientifically and dispassionately.

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Text:

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Factories Not Unhealthy—And Short Chimneys As Good As Tall Ones

  • Date: 12 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As the Eastern District of Brooklyn, especially the Greenpoint portion, and all along our East River

Ferries and Omnibuses

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
Text:

Scheduled ferries traveled from Manhattan to the west bank of the Hudson and to the cities across the East River

Fifty-first New-York City Veterans

  • Date: 29 October 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thus they promenaded, by rapid marches, amid heat, dust, rain or snow, crossing mountains, fording rivers

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Rivers, and is published by Geo. Allen & Co., London.

He is a great river, which appears with its life blood diminished, but only be- cause itis irrigating

'(fand 76 From Pent-up Aching Rivers ...

W. describinghisSaguenay River tripwith Dr. Bucke, seesame forAug. 26, 1880.

Phelps, William Rivers, W. Lyon, loi. C, 119. Phillips, Le Roy, 16, note. Roberts, Harry, 253.

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through the trees he occasionally caught glimpses of a majestic river; on the opposite bank of which

The gentle Violet and her son would frequently recreate themselves with a sail upon the river which passed

Thus it was: Evening had began to sprinkle her hue of gloom on the trees and the river.

Violet and her son were floating idly along the current of the river, in their boat, toward home.

The First Independence Days

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Over the river, in New York city, among the people, the “Liberty Boys” were not content with the ringing

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

First O Songs for a Prelude.

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

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves, (How good they look as they tramp down to the river

for Sparrows

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

the 22nd bookfor Sparrowsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

For You O Democracy.

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

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

For You O Democracy.

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

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 17, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

Frank Cowan to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1892

  • Date: February 17, 1892
  • Creator(s): Frank Cowan
Text:

, "I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb," —on this or the other side of the river

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

I lay upon the ground, on a pier jutting out into the river.

I raised myself on my hands and knees, and my first thought was to throw myself over into the river,

Starting at one of the eastern wharves, is a street running up from the river—a narrow, dirty street,

My walk skirted the banks of the river.

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Frazer River Ferment The FRAZER RIVER FERMENT.

The arrival of the Moses Taylor, yesterday, put us in possession of the fact that the Frazer River excitement

which has absorbed public attention here during last fortnight may be expressed in two words—“Frazer River

adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one in ten, have already gone to Frazer River

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, [1872]

  • Date: [1872]
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Text:

He has now gone below I Suppose to his dinner— On the opposite side of the river WmsBgh.

Free Bathing—Accidents

  • Date: 28 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lads, who go in the water “not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river

are not sure but the fear of such arrests often drives boys, and men too, into those places of the river

(always commendable in man, woman, or child,) of laving the whole body with the cool waters of the river

Friday, April 5, 1889

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

I was down by the river, loafing some. Then went across on the boat. "Ah!"

Friday, August 3, 1888.

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

south window I can see a far-stretching and noble view, many, many miles of open ground, the Potomac river

Friday, December 11, 1891

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

We tried to get some fruit on this side of the river but couldn't get anything nice enough to satisfy

Friday, December 5, 1890

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

At once across the river—up to Bush's in 6th Avenue elevated—to 18th.

Friday, December 7, 1888.

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

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

Friday, February 14, 1890

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

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

Friday, February 19, 1892

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

well again & that you open the check draughts of your hurrying life now & then.I sit here facing the river

Friday, July 11, 1890

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

"By and by we shall go to the river." When I left he gave me the package to mail.

Friday, July 17, 1891

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

Trees, farms, cities, the clouds, rivers, sunset, workingmen, factories, dogs—oh!

Friday, July 5, 1889

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

He dwelt with eloquent voice upon the aspect of the river.

"The mere air this evening is a blessed thing to breathe in—but the river seemed rarely fine—I watched

Friday, June 13, 1890

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

I urged him to go out and to the river, by all means—and he assenting—"as soon as it is a little cooler

He had been down to the river. I told him of Talcott Williams' note, saying he had a report of W.'

Friday, June 21, 1889

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

"We have come from the river again—were right down to the water's edge—lintered there a long time, breathing

suggestiveness of this beautiful evening—twilight—the trees across the way there—the clouded northern sky—the river

Friday, June 27, 1890

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

Just the other day he was complaining of the restrictions against bathing along the river front, and

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