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Search : William White

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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

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

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 12 November 1890

  • Date: November 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

an appendix—possibly print it spring or before God bless you & frau Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Annotations Text:

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

Literary Notices

  • Date: 10 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As full and fine scenery and properties are to the acting of Macready William Charles Macready (1793–

of which the Pictorial England is among the neatest......No. 6 opens with the drowning of Prince William

Prince William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in

the White Ship tragedy (November 25th, 1120) trying to save his half–sister. and his sister Matilda

(1103–1120), Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I and half–sister to Prince William

Annotations Text:

William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in the White

Thomas B. Freeman to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1877

  • Date: May 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Thomas B. Freeman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:32, 36, and 56.

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

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

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

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

waves—In such, Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine, Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

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

imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

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

imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 November 1890

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

ab't fizzled out—splendid show here of the brightest prettiest yellow chrysanthemums I ever saw, & white

Lippincotts has this piece I enc: y'r letters rec'd & always welcomed— I have sent the white (mole color'd

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

This journey

  • Date: about 1871–1874 and about 1891
Text:

White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey

Scantlings. White

Text:

White

Poem of the Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever

  • Date: 1856
  • 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

Whitman, Walter, Sr. [1789–1855]

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____.

"Sands at Seventy" (First Annex) (1888)

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

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

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days. Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 October 1848

  • Date: October 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Joseph White was nabbed yesterday for attacking a German, at 1 o'clock in the morning, and robbing him

Edwin Williams, of much fame in "Registers" and statistics, for the office of Register of the county.

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

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).

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

Jordan, June (1936–2002)

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

Here Jordan offers a revisionist reading of Whitman as "the one white father who shares the systematic

disadvantages of his heterogeneous offspring" (Passion x), the one "white father" who could effectively

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

Collectors and Collections, Whitman

  • Creator(s): Birney, Alice L.
Text:

Harned group in the Library of Congress.Some other early collectors of note were John Burroughs, William

Buxton Forman, William F. Gable, Alfred F.

Goldsmith, William Sloane Kennedy, Thomas Bird Mosher, John Quinn, William M. Rossetti, Edmund C.

New York, N.Y.; Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; William

William White edited the commonplace books and some notebooks in Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks

Wednesday, October 22, 1890

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

There were white beards, but none were so white as that of the author of "Leaves of Grass."

He sat calm and sedate in his easy wheeled chair, with his usual garb of gray, with his cloudy white

hair falling over his white, turned-down collar that must have been three inches wide.

Leaves of Grass, "Sauntering the Pavement or Riding the Country"

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

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 or black, all are deific, In each house

soiree, I heard what the run of poets were saying so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

Faces

  • Date: 1871
  • 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

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

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

Faces.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • 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

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

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

Leaf of Faces

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • 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

Faces.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • 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

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

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

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

Poem of Faces.

  • Date: 1856
  • 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, all are deific, In each house is the

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

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

  • Date: October 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

French cooks poke their white caps from the kitchen windows of costly villas, and French millinery adorns

Very truly William R. Thayer. P.S.

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

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

Diary of Edmund Gosse: Sat. Jan. 3

  • Date: 1966
  • Creator(s): Edmund Gosse
Text:

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 June [1871]

  • Date: June 30, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you will see them out all over up & down the bay in swarms—the yachts look beautiful enough, with white

sails & many with white hulls & their long pennants flying—it is a new thing to see them so plenty.

W. Hale White to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1882

  • Date: October 23, 1882
  • Creator(s): W. Hale White
Text:

Hale White Walt Whitman Esq: W. Hale White to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1882

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A pause, the crowd drops away, a white bandage is bound around and under the jaw, the propping pillows

limpsy head falls down, the arms are softly placed by the side, all composed, all still,—and the broad white

Slavery and Abolitionism

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Congress, that the introduction of slavery into new territories would discourage, if not prohibit, whites

from migrating to those areas because white labor could not economically compete with slave labor and

"Examine these limbs, red, black or white," ("I Sing," section 7) Whitman says of the auctioned slave

all without its redeeming points" (I Sit 88), and in 1858 he editorializes: "Who believes that the Whites

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

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