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Saturday, February 28, 1891

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

The cloud, sunset, river, tree—freedom, spontaneity—these are inimical to their art—are outside the demesne

Friday, July 17, 1891

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

Trees, farms, cities, the clouds, rivers, sunset, workingmen, factories, dogs—oh!

Saturday, July 25, 1891

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

"Look at the river, lying off there—flowing—and the city across—and the mist.

And by and by we turned to the left and to the river.

He remarked sails of schooners—and masts, a slight line into the mists—far up the river.

Saturday, April 4, 1891

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

told it to Longaker the other day—in the phrase of the lumbermen, when the logs all clutter up the river—and

Thursday, April 9, 1891

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

, "It is beautiful, masterful—yes, as you say, has an Indian flavor, almost—fresh odors of woods, rivers

Saturday, May 2, 1891

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

'Leaves of Grass' is a seashore, a mountain, floating cloud, sweeping river, storm, lightning, passion

Friday, December 5, 1890

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

At once across the river—up to Bush's in 6th Avenue elevated—to 18th.

Saturday, December 13, 1890

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

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

Monday, December 29, 1890

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

Neither have the clouds distinction—or the haughty rivers."

Monday, May 11, 1891

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

But he will never set the river afire."

Monday, June 1, 1891

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

occasion, and tell him we think of him at Concord as often as we look out over the meadow across the river

now as they did then, and they are an emblem to all believers and poets of the landscape beyond the river

Monday, August 10, 1891

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

And when I said, "I think it is rather hotter over the river," he allowed, "Likely, likely—but it seems

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?

Saturday, September 12, 1891

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

We paused on the Pavonia road to take a glimpse of the river, shot through with beams of golden gorgeous

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, 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

Sunday, September 20, 1891

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

That is a beautiful country, both sides—Port Huron, Sarnia—the river between. The noble river!

Monday, September 21, 1891

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

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time

Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Howard Nelson
Text:

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

The Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1870
  • Creator(s): Howitt, William
Text:

most dewy sentiments and kindly human feelings, like the cool and rapid rushing of a mountain-born river

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks

Specimen Days [1882]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
Text:

The immensity of the mountains and rivers themselves match, for Whitman, the immensity of the democratic

A Talk with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): J. Alfred Stoddart
Text:

paralysis and lately from catarrh in the head; perhaps, when the weather settles and I can get down to the river

J. Hubley Ashton to Watterson & Crawford, 24 October 1866

  • Date: October 24, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats & other 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.

He Is Ignored at Home

  • Date: 13 October 1889
  • Creator(s): J. W. K.
Text:

Walt lives across the river in a quiet old town, just opposite this city.

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.

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.

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

Immediately after the discovery of the North River by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Dutch tooks steps to

These works extended down to the river, and back, beyond Fort Green, and from the Wallabout to Gowanus

James Grant Wilson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1890

  • Date: July 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): James Grant Wilson
Text:

Lawrence River, J. W.

Walt Whitman: The Author of "Leaves of Grass" at Home

  • Date: 16 June 1885
  • Creator(s): James Scovel
Text:

He resides here, near the Delaware river, in a little cottage of his own, with a good "house-lady," as

a sonnet of Hood's, or a dainty bit of verse by Longfellow has form; but he has form as a tree, a river

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

I propose to leave here on Tuesday morning for New York via Kingston, Albany, & the Hudson River.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1891

  • Date: October 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

been beautiful & I have enjoyed the ride very much indeed—especially down the lovely valley of Mohawk River

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1891

  • Date: October 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

beautiful & luxuriously fitted steamboat was itself extremely interesting to begin with—Then the noble river

with cirrus clouds glowing warm golden on the underside, delicate pearl above—the reflections in the river

About the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

Daily Times in 1848, a local newspaper for residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River

Jennie Wren to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1891

  • Date: March 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): Jennie Wren
Text:

trust you have enjoyed these three days of sunshine and that you have been able to go down to the river

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
Text:

thisconnection, however, may note has to make himself familiarwith the whole poet of America — its lands, rivers

He isBehemoth, wallowing inprimeval jungles, bathing at fountain-heads ofmighty rivers,crush- ing the

human Cities,arts, thought explore. occupations, manufactures, have a larger place in his poetry than rivers

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

essay, I am at a rustic house I have built at awild making place a mile or more from my home upon the river

;&qm jihjD\hihest point of rocks I can overlook a long stretch ofthe river and ofthe farm I can hear

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

,towards dusk, near the cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red River

We have body come upon a great river, a great lake, an immense plain, a rugged mountain.

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 26 January 1884

  • Date: January 26, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Cold here, with the river whooping at night like a colossal Indian, or is it more like the explosions

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1873

  • Date: June 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I. to look at a place for sale, Yaphank on Carmans River. Do you know the country out there?

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 24 August 1879

  • Date: August 24, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1878

  • Date: February 28, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The unsafe condition of the ice in the River will prevent me going to N.Y.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1884

  • Date: January 8, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Winter is in full blush up here & the river snores & groans like an uneasy sleeper.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 23 December 1888

  • Date: December 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

in the chimney, & the wood of which I cut & hauled up the hill myself, out of the window on to the river

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1881

  • Date: March 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The robins are just here, & the ice on the river is moving this afternoon, bag & baggage.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1888

  • Date: January 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1879

  • Date: December 29, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

We have had a touch of winter here, & the river is frozen over, but to-day it is thawing again.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1889

  • Date: February 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs
Text:

but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction, Julian & that bit of land up there on the river

Bright days here & sharp, with ice boating in the river.

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1863

  • Date: June 19, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

home twice since i roat to you i cudent stay long for the rebels pickets was in site just acrous the river

millsprings our boys are all in good sirrets and egger to fight since rot to you wee went acrous the river

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1863

  • Date: June 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

is very low i dont think that he will live but 3 or foar days wee think we will cros the Cumbrlen river

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