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W. Hale White to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1880

  • Date: March 21, 1880
  • Creator(s): W. Hale White
Text:

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

W. A. Field to John A. Rawlins, 1 May 1869

  • Date: May 1, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river

W. A. Field to George S. Boutwell, 28 June 1870

  • Date: June 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

alias Trombley, from the Light House Reservation of the United States at the mouth of the Saginaw river

Vocalism.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Vocalism.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
Text:

was wheeled by Warry right past my hotel, according to his custom, down to the wharf, close to the river

It was a day of perfect loveliness and the long drive through the park and along the Schuykill River

steam-tugs and ferry-boats, and a little later the lights on the river and ashore, with the distant

Fels drove us Fairmount through Park, returning along the Schuykill river to the city.

Niagara River. By JULIA CRUIKSHANK. 4$.6d.net.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: Visit to Brooklyn

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

wheelhouse, chatting to him, looking at the stream of passengers, and enjoying the breeze from the river

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden, October 15th to 24th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston | J. W. Wallace
Text:

15 TH TO 24 TH O N Thursday morning, October 15th, Andrew Rome and I left Brooklyn and crossed the river

"Oh yes," he replied, "I saw a good deal of it about Quebec, and about the Saguenay river."

We left early and Harned, Buckwalter, Traubel and I crossed the river to Camden to visit W.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

was wheeled by Warry right past my hotel, according to his custom, down to the wharf, close to the river

behind him. the hope of meeting him, when he accosted me, and invited me to accompany them down to the river's

from him that— "That miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

The sun had set beyond the river, and in its afterglow Venus was outshining mildly and unattended.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. W. Wallace
Text:

It was a day of perfect loveliness and the long drive through the park and along the Schuykill river

The new moon was shining, and the lights on the river as we crossed it were very beautiful.

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
Text:

was on a clear, bright, sunny day in the month of September that I crossed by the ferry the Delaware river

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 27 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
Text:

Camden is reached by a ferry crossing the Delaware River from this city, and, but for being in a different

It so happened that when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 July 1886
  • Creator(s): F. B. S.
Text:

the unprepossessing city of Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river

attractive appearance used to catch the attention of crowds afternoons on Chestnut street across the river

Whitman became acquainted with most all of the younger generation of literary men across the river in

[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

  • Date: 1879–1882
Text:

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

Untitled

  • Date: 19 June 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Camden is a prosperous city of some fifty thousand souls, situated on the left bank of the Delaware river

Union Union!

  • Date: undated
Text:

reading Old Time Gleanings with the subtitle Reminiscences, Gossip, Traditions, &c. of the Delaware river

Tuesday, September 3, 1889

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

W. in parlor—had been in but a few minutes from outing towards the river.

Tuesday, October 27, 1891

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

To the east, looking up or down, was the winding, solemn, inevitable river, confused northward among

heavy but mists hung lightly, lacily, upon the horizon—the sun setting in cold color and the flowing river

On the river remarked the beauty of the night.

Tuesday, November 6, 1888.

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

"If you could lay it aside, take a walk out, ride across the river, loaf a bit in the streets, the secret

he said: "that would be the solution of it all: that was my old way: a walk to the river, a look up at

Tuesday, November 20, 1888.

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

directness of observation and purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we would row up the river

Tuesday, May 27, 1890

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

the whole tied with a piece of common wrapping yarn.But "whatever all this," he had been down to the river

Tuesday, May 14, 1889

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

We have had quite a jaunt down along the river.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

He had observed how the Pennsylvania Railroad was extending its wharves out into the river.

Tuesday, June 4, 1889

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

W. said: "We did not go to the river today, but out towards the hospital—and had a good time."

Tuesday, June 17, 1890

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

s again—found him just returned from the river—sitting in the chair, directly in front of the step, facing

"We sat by the river for a long time.

It seems to be a quiet day on the river—less movement, activity—fewer boats—and I did not regret it:

Tuesday, June 12, 1888.

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

was very great—very great: my nag stood in the water for fifteen minutes while I looked across the river—saw

Tuesday, July 8, 1890

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

Would go to the river at sundown.We spoke somewhat of the "Annex to Annex" of "Leaves of Grass," but

Tuesday, July 22, 1890

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

He hunted me out down by the river, where we sat a long time. The heat was intense.

Tuesday, July 16, 1889

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

Expressed rejoicing at getting to the river. "It was a grand trip—a grand evening, too.

Tuesday, July 10, 1888.

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

Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

Tuesday, January 27, 1891

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

If a fellow wants the fresh air, river, sea, sky—he has it there, too, for the asking.

Tuesday, January 1, 1889.

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

on one of the long piers, or take the ferry boat, and watch her as she swept around into the East River

Tuesday, February 19, 1889

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

"They have been telling me of it: it is quite near the river, isn't it?"

Tuesday, February 10, 1891

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

on the sunny side of one of the Camden ferry boats, taking his daily two or three trips across the river

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

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

I asked him if he thought he would go to the river this night—the first absolutely clear afternoon for

Tuesday, August 25, 1891

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

in New York—they were—many of them—horrible ramshackles, almost ready to tumble pell-mell into the river

Philadelphia is not bad, either—how could it be, with such a noble river?

Tuesday, April 9, 1889

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

"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

Tuesday, April 17, 1888.

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

but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Tuesday, April 15, 1890

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

He thought the river "a trifle coolish, but refreshing."

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

Cloud and traveled down the Ohio River.

Another train took them to Albany, and from there they traveled by boat down the Hudson River to New

Clair River and on the Canada-Michigan border fifty-five miles northeast of Detroit.

proceeded to Quebec, and the next day continued 134 miles to Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay River

A steamboat took them up that river to Chicoutimi and Ha Ha Bay, then back again to Quebec on the eighth

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G. | Price, Kenneth M., Folsom, Ed
Text:

parts: first by rail to Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, and then by government steamer up the Potomac River

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
Text:

scalpelonseveredcarotid currentofmillionsofveins capillariessonoroustributariesofthe GREAT FUTURE RIVER

Bettertobeabeggar,avagabond.”[...]ThatsummerIspentanhour or two at the river every morning. [. . .]

WheneverIspentthenoonsweatingintheboat, then the restofthedaymybloodwouldstayfresh,invigoratedbymy plunge into the river

Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology has been extremely popular in Italy since 1943, whenthefirsttranslation

Transcendentalism

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod.

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river

Topple down upon him

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes

To You, Whoever You Are

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you, These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

To You.

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

These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you; These immense meadows—these interminable rivers

To You.

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

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

To You.

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

These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers

To Workingmen

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

native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces, Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by the river-banks—men

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

Hopple and ball at ancles, and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

gloss on the poem by placing just before it "Enfans d'Adam 2" (later titled "From Pent-up Aching Rivers

At the end of "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," possession itself is reversed by desire for the body, and

A series of efforts—"Literature" (drafted c. 1914), The Custom of the Country (1913), Hudson River Bracketed

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