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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: 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

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nature's medicines are simple food, nursing, air, rest, cheerful encouragement, and the like.

[New York Atlas, 19 September 1858]

  • Date: 19 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grow where they first sprouted out of the ground, intended untended by the gardener, left to the nursing

Which “Pathy” Will You Have?

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

common simples of domestic practice; and the third class he left to the common-sense management of the nurses

The Eagle’s Idea of “Friendly Joke”

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

or, in other words, that his sore head would be good Black Republican capital, and as such he would nurse

Unhealthy Children in New York and Brooklyn

  • Date: 22 May 22 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

stand a great deal, without damage—including panegoric, close muffling of the face, candies, over-nursing

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counties is supplied by the New York venders; and I doubt if a physician would any sooner recommend a nurse

Utility of Perfumes

  • Date: 10 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are cases, however, where "the doctor" and "the nurse" positively prohibit this fresh air; for

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
Text:

Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

The true friends of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plain condition and probabilities, I told him by all means to get himself home to his old mother's nursing

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 August 1848

  • Date: August 2, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to see her in Miss Lucretia MacTub MacTab , and in the Old Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and in Mrs.

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

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

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

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

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

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Notices of New Books

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

Sleeps the soft south nursing its delicate breath To fan the first buds of the early Spring: The Summer

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She had employment from a number of families, who hired her at intervals to cook, nurse, and wash for

The Fireman's Dream

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

Arrived there, the kindness of Violet did not pause at any attentions or motherly nursings.

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

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

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

The Reformed

  • Date: November 17, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played many roles in Whitman's life—from nurse

Biography of John Burroughs

  • Creator(s): Carmine Sarracino
Text:

Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The woman nurse in this Ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady nurses of other Wards.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.

Wright, of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

Walt Whitman practiced as a volunteer nurse during the War of Secession.

Nietzsche was also a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

He became a bookseller, worked as a nurse's assistant, then studied medicine in Leipzig, where he specialized

From the spring of 1863 onward, this nursing in the field, and in the hospitals at Washington, was his

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

In the 60s, just after the had appeared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and took part in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and,

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

This spark of the creatively progressive was one that he fanned and nursed; and if his system the result

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
Text:

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white nurse's

conscious of his basic virtues not only through the eyes of a poet but also through the clinical eyes of a nurse

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

The memorandum on "The Schools for Nurses" in London (1908).

To allow Hispanic communities to be invaded like this, nursed as they are "on the difficult facility

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

El Memorándum acerca de “Las Escuelas de Nurses” en Londres (1908).

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

attached him inseparably though not rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing

From the spring of 1863, this nursing, both in the field and more especially in hospital at Washington

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

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

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a heroic opportunity indeed, and he used it like a hero, serving with passionate devotedness as a 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

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

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