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impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on, So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.) 2

My hands, my limbs grow nerveless, My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd, Let the old timbers part, I will

not part, I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me, Thee, Thee at least I know.

thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one, I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away. 2

the female that loves unrequited, the money-maker, The actor and actress, those through with their parts

, alive—that every thing was alive, To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part

, To think that we are now here and bear our part. 2 Not a day passes, not a minute or second without

appointed days that forgive not, I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse. 2

the present only, But greater still from what is yet to come, Out of that formula for thee I sing. 2

the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces, I see them and complain not, and am content with all. 2

thy notes, Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me, Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost. 2

, Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope, From unsuspected parts

Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's

advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts

all its horrors, serves, And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death. 2

accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life, The entrance of man to sing; To compact you, ye parted

what was promis'd, When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

are not always sure you have heard aright, but somehow you feel that the very Distance is the truest part

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

Whitman (he would not like to be called Mr., but he has done what he likes himself for the most part,

That work, or rather the important part of it—for little that has appeared since makes much difference—was

We cannot, for our part, conceive any theory of poetry which shall shut out stuff such as the Death Carol

Herald Office New York Feb 2 1891 My Dear Sir May we venture to hope that you will feel moved to say

Very Sincerely Wallace Wood Wallace Wood to Walt Whitman, 2 February 1891

It is postmarked: New York | Feb 2 | 11 PM | 91; Camden, N.J. | Feb | 3 | 6 AM | 1891 | Rec'd.

Sir: May we still hope you will join the Herald's Symposium of a select number of authorities in all parts

What organs, systems or parts of the body, features of the face, or convolutions of the brain ought to

See Wood's letter to Whitman of February 2, 1891.

Whitman would later say that he came to make sure that, if Sanborn were convicted, he—Whitman—might take part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Waldron, Randall.

mother, he wrote, were "the two best and sweetest women I have ever seen or known" (Correspondence 2:

When the newly married couple moved into the Whitman household, Mattie became an integral part of the

For his part, undoubtedly with pride in Jeff's accomplishments in mind, Walt praised the great achievements

(Prose Works 2:693). BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.

Floyd Stovall. 2 Vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Whitman, Thomas Jefferson [1833–1890]

The 2 vol. Centennial Edition of your works.

It parades before us a weak despair, an insistence on the irreconcileable in nature, the parting of friends

"My hands, my limbs, grow nerveless; My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd; Let the old timbers part, I will

not part; I will cling fast to thee, O God, though the waves buffet me— Thee, thee, at least, I know

Over his lower parts a huge skin of an unfortunate polar bear is always present, which is strangely in

Back of that, in still earlier and lower forms of life, sensation or consciousness played its part in

"Some may condemn them as Godless, but for my own part, and I speak for the great advanced culture of

purchased the original negative after Taylor's death.The image itself, which Whitman described as a "2/

Grier, ed., Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1961–84), 2:

On the contrary I feel that it is a part of our life where the exercise of human freedom must come in

and think of that old man whom I met but once only for a few minutes, His books read and absorbed in part

, his life, a part of it read of asking about of men lingers about the ferry houses, looking for a glimpse

In your letter you say that your "missives are probably monotonous enough, the same old story over &

time that must elapse before I can hear from him about his visit to you as I do so long to hear his story

John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1891

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America , 2

It appears courtesy of the owner, Jeffery Kraus, and is part of the Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

dread of being mobbed is said to interfere even with the Poet Laureate's country walks, and a good story

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was a Unitarian minister and fiction writer, best-known for the short-story

She went on to be a private tutor and writer of children's stories.

I remembered the story of Miller at Lundy's Lane, of Bruce (was it?)

Memoirs. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd.

(See figure 2.)

Whitman, LG 1855, 14. 2.

Huntington, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, part 3 (Washington,

Vol. 2, part 3. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Otis Historical Archives.

Vol. 2.

"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

part true.

Phillips told the story beautifully; indeed, I think the best part of Phillips was in the asides, the

This is a part of the so much that went towards producing my English editions: the story is not to be

of the story."

Take Donnelly's cryptogram: I could read the first part but never the cipher business—I could not unravel

He for his part produced an old letter, of which he said: "This is already a letter of long ago: this

after—Whittier's general attitude towards me, with his friends, with my friends: it has been made a part

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

So the line is unbroken, so the new chapter of my story fits with the chapter just before it, as I am

Up a good part of the time.

But that is not the whole story.

I read a large part of the letter aloud, W. listening intently, several times exclaiming "bravo!"

, and the part of all your friends, is to whale them.

Then you'll have to keep up the story alone."

W. then writes Fields.Washington, Nov. 30, '68. sent Dec. 2.Dear Mr.

I could not expect to do more for my own part at this late day than collect a little of the driftwood

Now it comes back fresh to me—almost like a new thought, a new story.

I for my part refuse to connect America with such a failure—such a tragedy, for tragedy it would be."

The stories of Socrates—of his courage, invincibility, nerve, inertia—are very credible: they seem quite

So I set to and rearranged the piece: discarded some parts, changed the position of certain paragraphs

I have heard many stories about him and they were all the right kind—all on the side of love.

I do not suppose anybody pretends that the present newspaper with all its parts—and it has parts—I concede

them: great parts—stands for that something or other above money and the monitions of money which controlled

What amazing differences develope in the attempt of a dozen observers to tell the same story!"

every side—even from my blind side"—laughing—"taken in utter wretchedness of posture for the most part

It was to have been a very complete story—I had the largest hopes, designs, for it—still, as I read it

I must be satisfied now if I have succeeded in hinting at matters which it was a part of my original

of beauty: short, musical, rich in cadence, pithy, never too much, never too little: and the best part

wounded three weeks ago today at Culpeper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

and is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-daytoday I have been in the hospital, one part