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William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

I feel lonely in October since William Cullen Bryant died.

You may have come across the poems of another Trinity man, and also a lover of yours—William Wilkins.

Rossetti Finished 22 June William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1877

critical essay which rehearses much of the information—and defensive adulation—that had characterized William

It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

Whitman sadly, that William D. O'Connor of the Treasury Department is dead?

man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person; The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white

deliciously aching; Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quiver- ing quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

The full are lips partly hidden by the thick,white moustache.

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist,in thisway.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and and he ' ! !

Talcott Press Williams, Newspaper Office,Philadelphia.

Alma, 136 O'Connor, William D., 45, 77, 100, ; Mrs.

See, for instance, Swinburne's discussion of Whitman in William Blake: A Critical Essay (London: John

Hyder, "Swinburne's 'Changes of Aspect' and Short Notes," PLMA 58 (March 1943): 241; William J.

(Edinburgh: William Brown, 1884); originally published in the Round Table Series 4. 13.

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow of breath as

William Carlos Williams once praised a poem by Marianne Moore as an anthology of transit, presumably

A little the odor of wood: the light flickering upon the wall, the bed white and clean.

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

He was an independent, God-worshipping man, and exercised great influence for good over both whites and

elected Mayor of the city, and he held a number of other offices before his death in 1854. with his white

Buen, a most venerable white–haired ancient, (we understand, just dead!)

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar and long white

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

W. spoke of O'Connor: "William is all gentleman: however strong, however impetuous, however overwhelming

There I left them at least the 25th.Very respectfully,William Cook Capt. 19th U.S.C.T.92 W. 10thNew York

Herbert and Talcott Williams seem to entertain quite a shine for each other.

I said of it "It has a William Morris lay-out." He replied: "Do you say so?

See what he says there of William—towards the end."

He answered: "He is grand, sure enough—a hero, sure enough: I am not afraid to cite William in capital

He said: "Probably William: I have passed many of my letters around, as you know—from one to the other

: sometimes starting with Bucke, sometimes with William: now and then with Kennedy."

what wouldn't I give to be near enough to William now to see him occasionally."

taught it: grown-up people should be forced to remember it: it is precious, sacred, everlasting: William

I have no faith in the young emperor now coming on—in William: he is a proud, narrow martinet—no more

William O'Connor always said that whenever I had a particularly idiotic picture taken I went into raptures

Poet and Person (1867) was co-written by Whitman to promote the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass; William

upon information from Whitman associates such as Traubel and Ellen O'Connor Calder, the widow of William

I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing.

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

cut according to his own fancy shockingly contrary to the very stiff and prim usage of the time, his white

as we faced the opposite bank of the stream, for a long distance it was broadly bordered in creamy white

only in the circle of themselves, modest and pretty, desperately scratching for rhymes, pallid with white

worlds and new, who accept evil as well as good, ignorance as well as erudition, black as soon as white

" and twenty-four other works in the magazine, as well as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, William

, included Whitman's "Bervance; or, Father and Son," as well as works by John Greenleaf Whittier, William

The account begins with the following: "I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.

, "Addenda to Whitman's Short Stories," 221–222; White, "Two Citations" 36–37; White, "Whitman as Short

White, William. "Addenda to Whitman's Short Stories."

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

The epigraph is stanzas xxx–xxxi from "The Ages," by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878); the lines appear

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

One of them, I noticed, had the figure of a fair female, robed in pure white.

Intemperate men were frequently portrayed as white men who, during the course of their descent into poverty

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles

First at William & Mary and now at Nebraska, I have had one or two students helping me (working a combined

Nelson, and Matt Cohen—were hired into full-time staff positions at William & Mary in Information Technology

how that sounds like William O'Connor!

If only William O'Connor could hear you talk so!"

Williams, Philadelphia. M. B. W.'s letter with portrait, &c. on the table.

No reply as yet from William Carey.

Said Frank Williams was over today.

William R.

That was the one William Swinton most affected—most read. You know about William Swinton?

—found it white? White quartz, eh? Very pretty? No inscription? No monument of any kind?"

Widener, 10.00 William M. Singerly, 10.00 W. L.Elkins, 10.00 J.M.

WILLIAM C.BONAPARTE WYSE. MANOR OF STJOHN S,ATERFORD,Auguet11,879.

Stoddart, Francis Howard Williams, Dr. R. M. Bucke, Talcott Williams, T. B.

Brinton, Francis Howard Williams, Thomas B. Earned, and Dr. R.

Williams then read from the Zend-Avesta and Plato.

It is alleged that one William Fincher is now performing compulsory labor or service in the chain:gang

Said he would write to William Carey, asking permission to use the negative.

I received today the following letter from William Carey: Editorial DepartmentThe Century MagazineUnion

"Do you know much about William Kingdon Clifford, the English scientist?

William O'Connor was probably the prince of conversationalists—in the high sense brilliant—not tawdrily

He took over to Frank Williams and they had a laugh over it together.

"He was a friend of William's; I thought he might be interested.

Frank Williams was in to see me today.

Longfellow, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Whittier, Webster, Calhoun, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, even William

The fact is, as William O'Connor would say, that Burns has become established—it is safe to enthuse over

procrastination.I will enclose a copy of something he has just written for the Life Saving Report, of the year William

Here was a sheet, too (William L.

Neither of us had word from Talcott Williams.

O'Connor delightful—full of reminiscence—of her tender love for William and for W.