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Far back, related on my mother's side, Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died: (Had been a sailor

destination"—these the last words— when Jenny came, he sat there dead, Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my

Critic (titled Shakspere for America) on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's Good-Bye My

poems published as the cluster "Old Age Echoes" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in Good-bye My

(first published in 1891), My task (published as part of L. of G.'s Purport in 1891), L. of G.'

s Purport (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), Death dogs my steps

s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task

, a poem first published in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Manuscript

The poem first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891.

My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years, Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably

twined and merged in one—combining all, My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single

soul alone, I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's) —the trial great, the victory

common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age, (My

snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter- cool'd the same;) As here in careless trill, I and my

Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds

Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion,

Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds

Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion,

.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture

What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)

(I bequeath them to you, my children, I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)

To rise thither with my inebriate Soul! To be lost, if it must be so!

What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)

(I bequeath them to you, my children, I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)

To rise thither with my inebriate Soul! To be lost, if it must be so!

What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)

(I bequeath them to you my children, I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)

To rise thither with my inebriate soul! To be lost if it must be so!

What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)

(I bequeath them to you my children, I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)

To rise thither with my inebriate soul! To be lost if it must be so!

leafhandwrittenprinted; Clipping, with handwritten revisions, of a passage from A Backward Glance on My

This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue

It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if

My life, 358 96 Birth of Alexander the Great. Small show, 356 PERIOD VIII.

You traitor to my dead father—robber of his children! I fear to think on what I think now!"

"Why are you crying, my little son?" said he.

"My brother is sick," answered the child. "I have no father. He is dead."

"What is your name, my poor boy?" he asked. "Adam Covert," said the child.

The longer version, with the new title "Small the Theme of My Chant," reappeared in the final, 1891–1892

In his manuscript notebooks he wrote of "the chanted Hymn whose tremendous sentiment shall uncage in my

or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William Tell' and 'Gazza Ladra,' were among my

Whitman commented on the singing of this "strangely overpraised woman," writing that she "never touched my

days in Specimen Days and in an essay, "The Old Bowery," collected in the prose section of Good-Bye My

than old Voltaire's, yet greater, Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America, To my

and tide, Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting, Now here their sweetness through my

reconciliation now that he grasps the truth about death: "Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my

in this office, is one in which the importance of the questions involved makes it proper to embody my

United States, in conformity to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act, it would be expedient, and in my

enclose herewith a copy of a Report which has been made to me by the Chief Clerk of this Office, in which my

Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises

of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my

B. " 25 seq p 155 my duty to pronounce any opinion upon the expediency of issuing a pardon upon such

I can only say that upon a careful examination of all the papers submitted for my consideration, it does

Solicitor of the Treasury, requesting my advice upon certain questions arising upon the claim of the

My predecessors have repeatedly declined to give opinions at the instance of other officers than those

Should you desire my opinion upon the law of the case, it will afford me pleasure to consider the questions

involved, and communicate to my views in regard to them.

Sir: After my letter of yesterday, relative to the case of United States, vs .

The circumstances which I mentioned in my former letter on this subject, however, render it practically

suspend the case of Christian Priesendantz for a few days—but enclose for your information a copy of my

Sir: I have the honor to refer you to your letter of the 25th April last, and my reply of 6th May following

My object is, to ascertain whether a resort should not be had in all cases by parties interested, to

If so, information to that effect would satisfy my present inquiry.

But at present the case does not seem to be such as to make the occasion a proper one for my interference

1267 Broadway, New York My Dear Dear Walt— Swinburne has just written to me to say as follows.

As sincerely can I say, what I shall be freshly obliged to you if you will assure him of in my name,

that I have by no manner of means relaxed my admiration of his noblest works—such parts, above all, of

Illustrated World in April of 1890 and was included in Whitman's collection of prose and poetry Good-Bye My

from that collection as an annex to the Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Good-Bye my

I am anxious to know whether you will generously consent to my using in full the poems named.

May I hope for the honor of being permitted to dedicate my little volume of essays to yourself, in sincere

Forgive my intruding upon your privacy, — believe me, with much respect, Sincerely Yours Oswald Cave

.—" He is a painter, carver and sculptor: "A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my

At the marriage of a German prince with an English princess, when the bridegroom said, "With all my worldly

Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.

give even a mere resume of the movements, service, fights, marches, sufferings of the 51st since, as my

He likes his position of Captain of Company G, in which rank he started from Palace Garden; and the men

Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded in

A letter from his Captain says: Five of our color guard had either been killed or disabled, when Byram

.; Captain George Washington Whitman was Walt Whitman's younger brother by ten years and was wounded

Give it space enough, and the vox populi my be relied upon to the fullest extent.

Lansdowne, when the debate arose in the House of Lords in 1788 on the Regency question, said— The people, my

New Orleans, San Francisco, The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan; Evening—me in my

room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies,

freedom, futurity, In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my

thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my

ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse

New Orleans, San Francisco, The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan; Evening—me in my

room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies,

freedom, futurity, In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my

thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my

ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse

Then said the beautiful Queen Kriemhilde, "My husband i the most noble, and by right this kingdom, and

the queen to Hagen, and, looking upon him with hatred, "Restore," said she, "before it is too late, my

said Kriemhilde, "one useful thing, at any rate, you have restored to me, The sword, the weapon of my

Last fall, our readers may remember, Major Whitman (then Captain) was spoken of by us as at that time

Promoted to Captain. February, 1863.—Left Falmouth with regiment. April, May, etc.

We allude to Captain Daniel E.

District of our city, a brave officer, who fell mortally wounded in May, 1864, in the Wilderness; Captain

Began my visits (Dec. 21, 1862,) among the camp hospitals in Army of the Potomac, under Gen.

, but space forbids my transcribing them.

He said: "It is my chief reliance." He talked of death, and said he did not fear it.

my life and occupation more than I can tell.

Independent Missionary, in my own style, and not as agent of any commission.