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soldiers not for itself alone, Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book
of causes, (With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,) These recitatives for thee,—my book
Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee, As a wheel on its axis turns, this book
When I Read the Book. WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life
lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book
I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link'd
Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give
To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!
What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?
The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place, The shape
not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print, It is not to be put in a book
, it is not in this book, It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing
descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk, When I can touch the body of books
All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All
a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat, The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs, The prison
me; Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons
The Singer in the Prison. THE SINGER IN THE PRISON. 1 O sight of pity, shame and dole!
RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison, Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above, Pouring in
seated, sear-faced murderers, wily counter- feiters counterfeiters , Gather'd to Sunday church in prison
While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd, (Convict forgetting prison, keeper his loaded
Resumed, the large calm lady walks the narrow aisle, The wailing melody again, the singer in the prison
In one, along a suite of noble rooms, 'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine
YOU felons on trial in courts, You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd
with iron, Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
how uneasy they are when he moves away from them; Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books
fleet, His voyage behold, his return, his great fame, His misfortunes, calumniators, behold him a prisoner
Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son
slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave, The felon steps forth from the prison
idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers
be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death
Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
In you whoe'er you are my book perusing, In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing, All,
, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs, The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper
book-words! what are you?
shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;) For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for
with sweat; Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion bet- ter better than talk, book
Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books
gluttony, lust; The open air I sing, freedom, toleration, (Take here the mainest lesson—less from books—less
dying and diseas'd, The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage, The crazed, prisoners
Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books, Absorbing deep and full from thoughts
undoubtedly authentic remains of the stanchest and earliest revolutionary patriots from the British prison
ships and prisons of the times of 1776–83, in and around New York, and from all over Long Island; originally
with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books
Perfume this book of mine O blood-red roses! Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac!
THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased
O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this? Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?
these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners
These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness?
labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself, Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison
Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man, (Is it night?
Thirty-one poems from Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy
is $8 and a dozen numbers of the paper containing it —And I reserve the right of printing in future book
it is too long for one number; & then to issue the volume next fall, as they say it is a Christmas book
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892
O'C's letter enclosed —Houghton & Co. are to publish her book, in the way you will see—all well—no particular
Gosse reviewed Two Rivulets in "Walt Whitman's New Book," The Academy, 9 (24 June 1876), 602–603, and
Camden NJ Jan: 4 '91 Y'rs rec'd & glad to hear f'm you & ab't the book —have sent word to Dr B[ucke]
acceptable — Cold weather here—comfortable with me—a rush of visitors to-day & last evn'g—just sold a big book
little for publication—word just f'm Dr Bucke, he is getting on well—Snow & sleighing there—O'Connor's book
Whitman often referred to Complete Poems & Prose (1888) as his "big book."
For more information on the book, see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog
Gosse reviewed Two Rivulets in "Walt Whitman's New Book," The Academy, 9 (24 June 1876), 602–603, and
. & Co: Boston accept her book f'm Mrs.
Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as
eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book
Whitman recorded in his Commonplace Book that the lecture was "a noble, (very eulogistic to WW & L of
speech itself was published in New York by the Truth Seeker Company in 1890 (Whitman's Commonplace Book
Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Whitman, as
He hopes that the influence of the book "may bind our hearts more firmly together in the coming years
who deal with life & nature & experience at first hand, & who despise second hand presentations in books
1891, letter to Whitman and Johnston's January 17, 1891, letter to Whitman (Whitman's Commonplace Book
doughnuts Mrs: D made yesterday—my neice still in Saint Louis—my two sisters both bad health—Best Love to Harry
requested $100, but the poems were rejected by Scribner's on January 23, 1891 (Whitman's Commonplace Book