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Chants Democratic and Native American 5

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

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Chants Democratic and Native American 6

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

Remember what was promulged by the founders, rat- ified ratified by The States, signed in black and white

Leaves of Grass 1

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

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Leaves of Grass 9

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

afar at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass 16

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

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Salut Au Monde!

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

of their churches —I hear the responsive base and soprano, I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-haired

and from one to an- other another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood- drops!

Poem of Joys

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

My children and grand-children—my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long

I am more than eighty years of age—my hair, too, is pure white—I am the most venerable mother; How clear

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! Loud! Loud I call to you my love!

Leaf of Faces

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

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum—it

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Enfans D'adam 3

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

beauty of person, The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, 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

A Boston Ballad, the 78th Year of These States

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

Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your smart grand-sons—their wives

Calamus 14

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Calamus 19

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

Behold this swarthy and unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

bay to notice the arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses, The white

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

Longings for Home

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers, The range afar—the richness

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

the old response, Take what I have then, (saying fain,) take the pay you approached for, Take the white

I see not merely that you are polite or white-faced, married, single, citizens of old States, citizens

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, Did you think it was in the white or gray

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

Walt Whitman's Yawp

  • Date: 14 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Umos
Text:

the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1860

  • Date: April 30, 1860
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1: 238–239.

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

  • Date: May 12, 1860
  • Creator(s): Henry Clapp, Jr. | Horace Traubel
Text:

fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

The New Poets

  • Date: 19 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

we had conquered— The captain on the quarter-deck, coldly giving his orders through a countenance white

Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt, with long white

Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1860

  • Date: May 24, 1860
  • Creator(s): Thayer & Eldridge
Annotations Text:

The Day Book billed itself as "The White Man's Paper" and changed its name to the Caucasian (August 1861

New Books

  • Date: 26 May 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Newport, Rye, Niagara, Shirley, Long Island, Cohasset, Bergen Point, Cape May, or the Mountains called White

Leaves of Grass—456 pages, electro-typed, beautiful print, fine type, elegant binding, seemly, comely, white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

squash, crooked-necked crook- ed-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, pars- nip parsnip , carrot, turnip, white

the slow, lumbering cart, blood-dabbled and grease dropping, bears away from the slaughter-house, a white-armed

white- armed boy sitting on top of it, shouting Hi!

And I swear that I don't see why a man in gold spectacles and a white cravat stuck up in a library, stuck

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

  • Date: June 5, 1860
  • Creator(s): William Wilde Thayer
Text:

Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Annotations Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Swimming Against the Current

  • Date: 10 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Heenan, Adah Isaacs Menken
Text:

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

"Leaves of Grass"—Smut in Them

  • Date: 16 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Dorrel who, seventy-five years ago, proclaimed himself the Messiah up in Franklin county, counseled

William Dorrell (1752–1846) was born in England but came to America with the British Army to fight in

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run-away sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

In 1841 Macaulay offered a scathing assessment of William Wycherley's work. Leaves of Grass

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

western persimmon—over the long-leaved corn—over the deli- cate delicate blue-flowered flax, Over the white

Leaves Of Grass

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake, Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy, White

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

within him by Wordsworth's "Excursion," on the first appearance of that poem in 1814, and by the "White

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published The Excursion in 1814, a collection of philosophical monologues

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.

Annotations Text:

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.; The Edinburgh Review, an influential

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored bull

Annotations Text:

.; Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored

Walt Whitman to Thayer & Eldridge, August 1860

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

draft.This fragment is written on the verso of a poem manuscript, "The ball-room was swept and the floor white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 8 December 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is called 'Harrington'; but it ought to be styled, 'A Glorification of Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

Progenitors

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

of these poems

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman transcribed part of William Collins's "Ode on the Passions" on the back of this leaf. of these

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

  • Date: April 19, 1861
  • Creator(s): W.W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Jacob Ryerson, Alert Aersen, Tunis Buys-Garret Cowenhoven, Gabriel Sprong, Urian Andries, John Williams

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Johnson said that, in his youth, he had visited and seen this grandson, whose name was William Jansen

William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth

This William lived to be 80 years of age, and died so late as 1805.

Diary of George Washington Whitman, September 1861 to 6 September 1863

  • Date: September 1861; September 6, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Just about daylight a white flag was hoisted on the rebel breastworks (as we afterwards found by the

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then among the crowd you would see the tall stout shoulders of Joseph Sprague, with his white head; Before

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady? or William Kurtz?, ca. 1863 - 1867

  • Date: ca. 1863 - 1867
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B. | Kurtz, William
Text:

or William Kurtz?

, ca. 1863 - 1867 For more information on Mathew Brady and William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

"David and William Campbell, Builders. April 6, 1808." TO BE CONTINUED. This piece is unsigned.

Important Ecclesiastical Gathering at Jamaica, L. I.

  • Date: 9 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

J., (New York: The Williams Printing Company, 1887), 52; Murgatroyd, Rev. E.

William P.

William B.

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