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Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 1 February 1881

  • Date: February 1, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of this grim winter here, furious snow and wind howling, and I have not stirred out—the roads and rivers

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 20 June [1879]

  • Date: June 20, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

crystallized )—but discover that I need a spell of quiet and slip shod—Thought I should like the Delaware river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [2 February 1873]

  • Date: February 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have been up by the window looking out on the river & scenery—it is beautiful weather now—they have

Saturday, December 21, 1889

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

While sitting there we heard the play of the whistling buoy down the river at one of the ship-yards at

I never realized a demonstration of the sort that was as striking as on the Saguenay river, up in Canada

Wednesday Evening, June 10

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 31 May 1856; 10 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

grog, which they took in a manner peculiar to themselves—first a cup of whisky, and then a cup of river

Now and then a "specimen" of the by-gone race of river boatmen, who have mostly settled down to farming

Nicaragua

  • Date: 29 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Total force of the Allies, exclusive of 1,200 Costa Ricans, if, as alleged, on the river, 18,000.

, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas on the 1st of May, and 80 surrendered or escaped down the river

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

Philadelphia was the third most populous city in the United States when Whitman resided across the Delaware River

which lasted until 1919.A century after the first publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, the Delaware River

Authority decided to name a new bridge after the poet so closely associated with both banks of the river

West, The American

  • Creator(s): Albin, C.D.
Text:

For him the region meant far more than mighty rivers, fertile soil, and apparently limitless natural

Looking out upon the jagged, looming majesty of a mountain peak, or the raw, river-forged scoop of a

suspect it in the future" without viewing the prairies, the states of the Midwest, or the Mississippi River

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A little and verdant grass-patch, only, intervened between them and the river, which the dwelling fronted

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river where they

The child, then small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and Arrow-Tip had dashed into the foaming

The Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

  • Date: 6 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Zoology of the Mammoth Cave, together with a brief description of all the rooms, avenues, domes, rivers

Green River, with its towering cliffs, is but a few hundred yards from the hotel, and afford good fishing

The entrance to the Cave is one hundred and ninety-four feet above the Green River, and is about twenty-five

those parts of the Cave where no rocks have fallen, the floor presents the appearance of the bed of a river

Sparks), extends from the River Hall to the Mammoth Dome, a distance of three-quarters of a mile.”

W. A. Field to John A. Rawlins, 1 May 1869

  • Date: May 1, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river

Night of south winds

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Topple down upon him

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

Others may praise what they like

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

running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing.

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

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Chants Democratic and Native American 11

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

journeying hence to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing.

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

you airs that swim above lightly impalpable, And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All

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

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, O my rivers

New Publications

  • Date: 11 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and the same may be said of the Euphrates Valley route, which proposed to cross Africa by means of river

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 June 1890

  • Date: June 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

that will probably be the finish— I get out almost daily in wheel chair —was out yesterday down to river

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 19 May [1878]

  • Date: May 19, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

at Round Hill—As I close we have the prospect of a fine evening—A cannon has just boomed out on the river

Bethuel Smith to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1864

  • Date: February 28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Bethuel Smith
Text:

Culpeper again I wish you would come & see me our Camp is 4 miles up the railroad toward the rapidan river

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

  • Date: February 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

The river is running through the bottom as a smiling child.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 July 1866

  • Date: July 2, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am writing this by my window in the office—the breeze is blowing moderate, and the view down the river

Walt Whitman to Andrew Kerr, 25 August 1866

  • Date: August 25, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

country is beautiful now—I take a walk on Broadway almost every afternoon—then sometimes a sail on the river

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1879

  • Date: August 2, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

built soon after the Norman conquest, is in sight, crowning a wooded hill that rises abruptly from the river-side

You would not dignify the Weir with the name of a river in America—it is no bigger than Timber Creek—but

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 16 August 1863

  • Date: August 16, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

August 6th and marched down to the Yazoo river, where we went on board the boat, and started down the

where the citazens citizens had prepared a nice meal for us,  after getting our grub we crossed the river

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
Text:

Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

Tuesday, May 14, 1889

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

We have had quite a jaunt down along the river.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

He had observed how the Pennsylvania Railroad was extending its wharves out into the river.

J. Hubley Ashton to Watterson & Crawford, 24 October 1866

  • Date: October 24, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats & other river

Tuesday, July 8, 1890

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

Would go to the river at sundown.We spoke somewhat of the "Annex to Annex" of "Leaves of Grass," but

To Oratists.

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

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness; After treading ground and breasting river

Leaves of Grass 2

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

friendship, procreation, prudence, and naked- ness nakedness ; After treading ground and breasting river

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1873

  • Date: June 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I. to look at a place for sale, Yaphank on Carmans River. Do you know the country out there?

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 22 July [1877]

  • Date: July 22, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

evening (the moon & Jupiter in conjunction, & I speering them all the way home & especially on the river

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1871

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

write another we have had very cold weather here this Winter and there is a great deal of Ice in the river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 10 July 1890

  • Date: July 10, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitan | Walt Whitman
Text:

honey in the comb (of wh' I have a little supply) to send in a sick lady next door—was down to the river

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 20 August [1879]

  • Date: August 20, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sometimes quite long ones) in the papers hereabouts— Love to 'Sula— Walt Whitman That Del: Delaware river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman, 18 September 1881

  • Date: September 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

picture at the top is the house) —as I write (Sunday forenoon 11 o'clock) I look out on the Concord river—something

Norman McKenzie to Walt Whitman, 29 June 1880

  • Date: June 29, 1880
  • Creator(s): Norman McKenzie
Text:

Do you remember the nice sail we had that night on the lake and river, I will never forget it, you, and

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 10 October [1870]

  • Date: October 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good & quiet—& this bright mellow October weather around us—I am now off for a couple of hours on the river

Walt Whitman to Thomas Nicholson, 19 June 1881

  • Date: June 19, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

both—Things are going on pretty much the same with me as when I last wrote—that was an awful affair on the river

Walt Whitman to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 26 May 1880

  • Date: May 26, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

summer is very fine here, & I am enjoying it, even heat and all—I live on the banks of the Delaware river

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Columbia

flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay; I see the

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

F2 I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth; I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Co- lumbia

Columbia flows; I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara; I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;

I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through; I have taken my stand on the

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the.

Columbia flows, I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through, I have taken my stand on the

Saturday, June 14, 1890

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

W. not at home—had gone to the river with Warren about an hour before.

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