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Search : William White

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Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

Friday, February 1, 1889

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

["I wish it did, William," interrupted W., "but I'm afraid it does not."]

William will have to step down and out for good. ["Good-bye, William!"

["A very low hand, William, if we tell the truth: a damned low hand!"]

William handles that better than anyone else.

["I enjoy William's epithets without always agreeing with him.

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Routledge, 1998], 104–105). uniformed in brick-dusty shirts and overalls, battered hats, and shoes white

Pickering, 1835), xxx. did before the Conquerer's Whitman refers to William the Conqueror (1028—1087

Harold II was killed in the quick Norman victory and William was subsequently crowned King of England

Rollo was not completely unconnected to these events, because William I was one of his direct descendants

for example, Wace, Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou (London: William

Our Veterans Mustering Out

  • Date: 5 August 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White Sulphur Springs.

White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along the

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

Hill, Major General Henry Heth, and Major General William Mahone. loss slight. September 30.

Annotations Text:

.; White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, was the site of continuing skirmishes during August of 1862 along

The resort of White Sulphur Springs was turned into a hospital in 1862 and cared for both Union and Confederate

A major battle at White Sulphur Springs took place the following summer, but George Whitman was not involved

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

Amos T. Akerman to Richard H. Whitely, 24 February 1871

  • Date: February 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitely, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Whitely, 24 February 1871

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1889

  • Date: August 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Debbie and Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Deborah V. Browning to Walt Whitman, 18 July 1880

  • Date: July 18, 1880
  • Creator(s): Deborah V. Browning
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Debbie and Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends

  • Date: 7 September 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial

[Peace no more]

  • Date: undated
Text:

leaf16 x 19 cm; A draft beginning "Peace no more, but flag of war" written in pencil on a sheet of white

Samuel S. Frayer to Lorenzo Thomas, 21 July 1863

  • Date: July 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Samuel S. Frayer
Text:

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Annotations Text:

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Walt Whitman to Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton, [11 December 1876]

  • Date: [December 11, 1876]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

See Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1910).

Jacques Reich to Walt Whitman, 12 February 1890

  • Date: February 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Jacques Reich
Annotations Text:

pk't-b'k L of G. to Bancroft Wash'n" and noted "(rec'd)" when he got Reich's confirmation letter (William White

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 July 1880

  • Date: July 17, 1880
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 2 February 1881

  • Date: February 2, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Amos T. Akerman to D. J. Baldwin, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting has been received.

If I should learn that a suit against either White or Hodges, or both, for the recovery of the money,

Reading, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

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.

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for your love & remembrance & faith & liberality—And thanks with same to Bessie & Isabella Ford & William

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

accomplishing his aims, to portray "democratic" women, as well as men, black, brown, and red as well as white

create an expansive space for women, something very much against the grain of his times, at least for white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

New Books

  • Date: 26 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Newport, Rye, Niagara, Shirley, Long Island, Cohasset, Bergen Point, Cape May, or the Mountains called White

Leaves of Grass—456 pages, electro-typed, beautiful print, fine type, elegant binding, seemly, comely, white

Of this broad and majestic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all

day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a

Tuesday, August 25, 1891

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

That the horror of slavery was not in what it did for the nigger but in what it produced of the whites

For we quite clearly saw that the white South, if the thing continued, would go to the devil—could not

And, "We had stormy times then, but William and I always thought ours the most comprehensive—what would

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

Friday, May 10, 1889

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

"William is dead," he remarked, "you saw?" And then: "It was in the papers.

off the edges as closely as they will admit—use your own taste and judg- ment—I like a little more white

Poor William! Poor me! And yet," W. said again, "yet I can understand him.

W. said: "I never look for anything but what a lot of white paper turns up." This paper was ruled.

Harned for his drink, had defined his desires on a little card, and closed with this: "My dear friend William

Central American Affairs

  • Date: 2 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In Panama, the writer states, the ordinary relative positions of whites and blacks are reversed.

and most of the principal authorities of the place are black, and they mete out less justice to a white

Political parties in Panama and indeed in the whole State are divided into the whites and blacks, and

Free Soil Party

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

abolitionists, who opposed slavery on moral grounds, most Free-Soilers opposed slavery because they felt that white

In representing antislavery as an issue of self-interest to whites, free-soilism made antislavery for

made clear that Whitman opposed the extension of slavery because he cared about the opportunities for white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

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

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

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

Leaves of Grass, "There Was a Child Went Forth Every"

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

sunset . . . . the river between, Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of 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

Leaves of Grass 9

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

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

afar at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

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

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

at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

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

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

at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

About "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story of His Strange Companion. A Tale of Fantasie."

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

An article in The Sunday Times printed on March 30, 1851, stated that Whitman and William J.

The man describes himself as "white by education and Indian by birth."

Splendid Churches

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

With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

On the significance of Upjohn's architecture see especially William H.

Annotations Text:

With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864

  • Date: December 30, 1864
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

Reddest murder is white to an act like this and its folly is equal to its crime.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1864

Autobiographia: Starting Newspapers (Another Account)

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

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 19 May [1878]

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

Camden Sunday afternoon May 19 My dear friend I came up last night from a three days visit to White Horse

the 7th from Brooklyn—& the 16th from Northampton —please give him the enclosed postal, I found at White

Paumanok

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

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

"I took Alexander Gardner's sheet—the title page: it had quite a good deal of white paper: wrote a long

William was very furious about it: it was bandied about Washington—got into the papers: William asked

That was William: I suppose he was right: I needed only to make a simple public statement: I would be

I submit here the document prepared for William by W. and passed into my hands since by Nellie O'Connor

Dear William O'Connor:As you were interested in Mr.

Brooklyniana, No. 7

  • Date: 18 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kerosine.......... 200,000 Saleratus......... 50,000 Starch............ 30,000 Vinegar........... 12,000 White

lead........ 1,250,000 Whiting........... 68,000 Lamps, lanterns, & gas fixtures. 125,000 Stoves....

The White Lead factory gives employment to two hundred and twenty-five men.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state of

Annotations Text:

.; The Brooklyn White Lead Works, established in 1822, was the oldest white lead factory in the state

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Annotations Text:

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

Poem

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

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Walt Whitman to Katharine Hillard, 15 February 1876

  • Date: February 15, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1878

  • Date: April 4, 1878
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

An Ossianic Paragraph

  • Date: After 1846; 13 November 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

went out by night and struck the bosky shield, and called to him the spirits of the heroes and the white-armed

To me, too, came those visionary shapes; floating slowly and gracefully, their white robes would unfurl

The mountain‑ash

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

The mountain‑ash, a large shrub, 16 or 2 0 ft high—northern part of the state of New York —has white

blossoms—blooms early in the spring—has then a pleasant perfume—the hill‑sides where it grows thickly look white

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