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This has been my life:— From early morn till evening, I've labored here for naught, And others coming
"And some other coming after—," When I've fallen by the way— With a touch completes my life work— And
turn, suffered leaf-flight and twig-flight, and with a fair enough outside, shall fall, at last, with my
sometimes nips ahead and sometimees sometimes tuck but in the main we are all right as long as I only have my
will and would like very much to see you whenever you feel as if you could come or any of the rest of my
I feel myself growing old and failing every day but my health has been better this winter than usual
Greenport Dec 23 Dear Brother Walter I received a letter from you last night and an order for my annual
thing about it in your letter I am not feeling well at all this winter not sick abed but a pain in my
expect pains and aches as we are growing old but I am thankful I am no worse can get around and do my
But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be
Rukh–mabai, my Indian friend was with us—her first visit to Oxford, and she was tremendously interested
This is a most unsatisfactory letter—but I feel as if the fog had got into my head.
Whitman I think it must have been my guardian angel that gave thee the "impalpable nudge" to write to
I am worse & not better, & now I have to go off for I don't know how long to the Pyrennees, leaving my
My road has seemed so shut up—I am laid aside in the midst of all the work I care for—fit for nothing—and
Whitman, Thy welcome card came just as we were leaving London last week, after a very sad week with my
I am using these days of leisure to mature a scheme of education for Ray, & enlarge my list of books
gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city, but I am going to make my
I should have been glad to die before I had left such a message as my last utterance, the final outcome
But I am disobeying my doctor, who has forbidden long letters for the present.
I am on the Free Trade side, in spite of my American upbringing.
I am so grateful to thee for seeing him—I suppose it was my letter he presented?
He has been a very intimate friend of my husband's since their College days, but I do not know him very
I have an accumulation of 20 letters to write today—so I must make my first one short.
It is not so unhappy for me, because for several years all my work has been given to what seems to me
In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)
In 1888, after Alcott's death, Whitman said, "Alcott was always my friend" (With Walt Whitman 1:333)
His and Lisa Samuels's notion of deformance has shaped my and many others' approaches to tagging and
My co-editor Rachel Price and I recently edited Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 translation of Whitman's
with the famous stepped indentations of "O Captain! My Captain!"
[Oh captain! My captain!] O Captain! My Captain! Allá á lo lejos... [Far off...]
, turning sweetly towards me, You half-opened my shirt, plunging your tongue inside my chest unto my
dog and my gun by my side.
We came alongside at once, the ships' yards entangled, the cannons touched, My captain took part in the
I let forth a laugh as I hear the voice of my captain answer loudly: No! We do not lower it!
Just when all seems lost, he is redeemed by the miracle of a touch: "He ahold of my hand has completely
Terrible Doubt" echoes the philosophy of other "Calamus" poems, perhaps most closely "Scented Herbage of My
In his Memoirs, Neruda wrote of his own work, "If my poetry has any meaning at all, it is [its] tendency
Another poet of this same hemisphere helped me along this road, Walt Whitman, my comrade from Manhattan
Nixonicide and Praise for the Chilean Revolution) with the following invocation:It is as an act of love for my
In "Starting from Paumanok," Whitman promises to "thread a thread through my poems that time and events
the 6th inst. relative to proceedings pending in your District "to confiscate the property of the Captain
In respect to the interest of Captain Goodwin, no difficulty is perceived.
It is not perceived that Captain Goodwin is to blame for this, but it is equally difficult to see how
Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that
Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.
as one who values your writings more than I can ever attempt to express, please allow me to express my
Your teachings rest always in my mind like gleams of sunlight upon the pathway of the future, & I may
write a leading article without trying, as much as lies within me, to hold your "Democratic Vistas" in my
wish I might myself give you the special hand grasp which he gave me for you, but I can only send you my
Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during
Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, September 13, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My
Within my bosom reside two opposing elements" (Bergman 11).
PatrickMcGuire"My Boys and Girls" (1844)"My Boys and Girls" (1844)While this sketch first appeared in
"My Boys and Girls" (1844)
Like the bachelor-speaker of "My Boys and Girls," the speaker here knows that the way to keep his heart
Childhood here, as in "My Boys and Girls," calls up other reminders of the sorrows of the world and especially
On 6 August 1889 O'Dowd commenced a letter to Whitman, addressed as "My Reverend Master," which he never
Philadelphia, May 21 st 189 1 My dear Mr. Whitman: Thanks.
I am reminded of the matter now by a note from my friend Nugent Robinson of Once a Week .
Aug. 31/69 My dear Walt Whitman, I have the advantage of you—I know you well—"My soul embraces you this
Last Summer, and this I have been living in the woods, with "Leaves of Grass" beside me, one of my rustic
know him well—I hope some of these days I may have the pleasure of a visit from him— I am spending my
change—but will be at home in a few weeks—and will be pleased to see you at any time— Hope you will pardon my
Brookfield is quoting from from Whitman's poem ultimately titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
'My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite; I laugh at what you call dissolution; And I know the
, my Captain,' 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.'
What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition.
You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me.'
place with my own day here.'
Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources
Whitman often commented upon the genius of Booth and called him "one of the grandest revelations of my
In Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), as well as his early newspaper
My Life. London: Victor Gollancz, 1928.Miller, James E., Jr. A Critical Guide to "Leaves of Grass."
M Chicago, June 1 st 18 89 My Dear Old Friend The enclosed I clipped from the Inter Ocean today, and
as this is my 48 th birthday, I am prompted by old recolections recollections to write you a few lines
I was in Washington the 2nd and I went to No 34 4 ½ Street and pawned my Watch a good American Lever,
for $22.07 which I was to pay within a month but I was robbed of my pocket Book which contained a receipt
I write to them more to my satisfaction, through my poems.
My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.
As to my literary situation here, my rejection by the coteries-& my poverty, (which is the least of my
Ed my nurse gets my breakfast & gets it very well.
For my love for you is hardly less than my love for my natural parent.
My Soul !
'Ve clof'led with him .... the yards entangled ...• the cannon touched, 895 My captain lashed fast with
I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain, \Ve have not struck, he composedly cried
-I put my arms around them-touch my lips to them .
my Fancy."
argument of the earth," a fragmentary but certain knowledge: "that the spirit of God is the brother of my
own," "that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers," "that
trance-like state similar to that he entered in section 5: "Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my
emerges from his "bower refresh'd with sleep" and urges, "Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my
body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."
A curious line in the middle of the poem—"The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body
Amativeness, and even Animality. . . . the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my
The récherché or ethereal sense, as used in my book, arises probably from it, Calamus presenting the
attachment," concluding "I proceed for all who are or have been young men, / To tell the secret of my
The next poem, "Scented Herbage of My Breast," initially introduces an extraordinarily copious imagery
expose me more than all my other poems."
O pulse of my life! / Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs."
I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my whole scheme that
Whitman said in "A Backward Glance," "I have not gain'd acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back
At the bottom of the recto of the first leaf we find this passage: My Lesson my Have you learned the
to my bare-stript heart, And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my feet.
Part of my purpose in this coda to my exploration of the poet’s creative pro- cess is to take advantage
or “To the Leaven’d Soil they Trod,” Or “Captain! My Captain!”
Le Baron), mystical experience, 9, 36 165, 265n9 “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
Oberlin Ohio Aug 9th 1867 Mr Whitman Dr Dear sir I take this opportunity to inform you that I have made my
trip to Wisconsin and returned here yesterday, and will soon be in Washington and hope my orders will
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Bless the Lord,O my soul!
my special word to thee. Who can be a companion of thy course!
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
O,the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Before the window where I do my morning work, there is an old lilac tree, dating from my grandmother's
Forgive my assurance, and, if possible give me that pleasure of that great recompense for being so unknown
It was there that I hastened to seek my old friend Walt Whitman on the first morning after my arrival
when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river, the house owned by my
father, where my early life was passed, was used as a hospital, and it was in that house that Walt began
On the day after my call, Walt came to see and dine with me, and I had many hours' conversation with
It is as follows:— "O captain! my captain!
Leave you not the little spot, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. "O captain!
my captain!
"My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I with silent tread, Walk the spot my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead."