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Respondez!

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Not the Pilot

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows-chill'd, rivers

Burial

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

without eye-sight lingers a different living, and looks curiously on the corpse. 3 To think that the rivers

now President shall surely be buried. 4 Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Leaves of Grass 2

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

friendship, procreation, prudence, and naked- ness nakedness ; After treading ground and breasting river

Me Imperturbe

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

Song of the Banner at Day-Break

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours; And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers

1861

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

The Centenarian's Story

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted; I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

story, and send it eastward and west- ward westward ; I must preserve that look, as it beam'd on you, rivers

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

The Dresser

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

like a swift- running swift-running river, they fade; Pass and are gone, they fade—I dwell not on soldiers

A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

crowding from all directions—from the Altay mountains, From Thibet—from the four winding and far-flowing rivers

Others May Praise What They Like

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Missouri, praise nothing, in art, or aught else, Till it has breathed well the atmosphere of this river

Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, O my rivers

When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific; In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

Thoughts 2

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 5 February 1867

  • Date: February 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the sun is shining, & as I look out this morning on the Potomac, I see the ice is broke up, & the river

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1867

  • Date: February 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

If sin hath slain mine honor, straight appears, The river of his tears, Wherein I find redemption: tenderly

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 February 1867

  • Date: February 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is pleasant here this forenoon—as I look out of my window, the river looks fine—there is a slight

Walt Whitman's Works

  • Date: 3 March 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun, Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow Stone River

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 March 1867

  • Date: March 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

by the big window I have mentioned several times in former letters—it is very pleasant indeed—the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 March 1867

  • Date: March 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

my desk—the air is very clear, & I can see a great distance over the Potomac off into Virginia—the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 June 1867
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Hafiz again, only drunk now with Catawba wine instead of the Saoma, and worshipping the Mississippi river

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Walt Whitman to Alfred Pratt, 25 July 1867

  • Date: July 25, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

office, seated by the same old open window, where I can look out & have a splendid view of the Potomac river

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
Text:

Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

John M. Binckley to A. Fahnestock, 6 August 1867

  • Date: August 6, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

acquired by the United States for the purpose of establishing Range Lights near the mouth of the Maumee River

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 21 September 1867

  • Date: September 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

times—they have done their work, & now they are to me as a tale that is told—Only the majestic & moving river

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement

about five miles from the river.

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Brightley's Digest, 207, provides that if "any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river

be construed as equivalent to "District of Columbia," should a murder be committed on the Potomac river

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

essence of the demonstrative human spirit, with the undemonstrative spirit of the hill and wood, the river

and by slow stages, and with many and long stoppages and detours, journeyed along and down the Ohio river

Louis; roved through that region, explored the Illinois river and the towns along its bank, and lingered

In the door-yard, toward the river, are fresh graves, mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel

following summer, the bloody holocaust of the Wilderness, and the fierce promenade down to the James river

Henry Stanbery to Ulysses S. Grant, 7 January 1868

  • Date: January 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river

adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 10 April 1868

  • Date: April 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in office—as I look out it is dark & cloudy with a chill rain, but the grass is green & I see the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 16 April 1868

  • Date: April 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

was so bad, I left, & went off & had a real good tramp, way up Georgetown, along the banks of the river—it

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

below there—and the beautiful curious liquid "In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

native thoughts looking through smutched faces , Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river

John M. Binckley to Gideon Welles, 25 April 1868

  • Date: April 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River

John M. Binckley to Theodore Phillips, 16 June 1868

  • Date: June 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

communication of the 11th instant, relative to a tract of land remaining unappropriated upon the Mississippi River

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1868

  • Date: July 12, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

have a trip or two of that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 25 September 1868

  • Date: September 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Among other things I spend a portion of the day, with the pilots of the ferry boats, sailing on the river

The river & bay of New York & Brooklyn are always a great attraction to me. It is a lively scene.

At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 29 September [1868]

  • Date: September 29, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall spend an hour or two on the river to-day. Your letter of 27th, Sunday, came this morning.

Walt Whitman to Henry Hurt, 2 October [1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river

Walt Whitman to Lewis Wraymond, [2 October (?) 1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He has been up the Hudson river this summer driving hotel coach. He is the same old Duffy.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 October [1868]

  • Date: October 9, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I was out early taking a short walk by the river—only two squares from where I live.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 October [1868]

  • Date: October 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From the window of my room, I can look down across the city, the river, and off miles upon miles in the

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 October 1868

  • Date: October 18, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This forenoon I have been out away down along the banks of the river & cove, & making explorations generally

Walt Whitman to John Flood, Jr., 22 November 1868

  • Date: November 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

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