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Walt Whitman, the American Poet

  • Date: May 1876
  • Creator(s): Adams, Robert Dudley
Text:

energetic sons did, and still do, amidst a newer and far grander variety of wilderness of lake, plain, river

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

poet describes the grand and terrible dalliance of two eagles, high shift in the bright air, abovea river

New Work by Walt. Whitman

  • Date: 11 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Walt Whitman to Edward Dowden, 4 March 1876

  • Date: March 4, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I get out nearly every day, but not far, & cannot walk from lameness—make much of the river here, the

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 19 February 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
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a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

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

Walt Whitman to William J. Linton, 14 September [1875]

  • Date: September 14, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Pleasant September days & nights here—I have just been out for an hour on the river—now, 2 p. m., sitting

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 31 July 1875

  • Date: July 31, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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America, (if convenient,) give him my address here in Camden —(Philadelphia is on one side of the river

Delaware, & Camden immediately opposite on the other—ferries constantly running—I live near the river

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [18 July] 1875

  • Date: [July 18], 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
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The ridge runs parallel with the big river and ally divides our valley into a sandstone sub valley nex

broad but low Sand mountain; and a sub valley lime land next the river.

mostly stopped erge d a er growth young hickories are no vi suggestion of the presence of the great river

A mountain range north of the river coming right in front of me for two or three miles close to the river

Walt Whitman to Edward Dowden, 2 May 1875

  • Date: May 2, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

crippled, left leg, quite badly) but eke out a jaunt with the horse cars, & the ferry boats on the noble river

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

The East River bridge does not seem to be getting on very fast I believe the piers are not quite finished

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [19 February] 1875

  • Date: [February 19], 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

However, if now, or about to be a fruit farmer "on the banks of one of the noblest and most fruitful rivers

[Skirting the river]

  • Date: 1880
Text:

A.MS. drafts.loc.00132xxx.00155[Skirting the river]1880poetryhandwritten1 leaf12.5 x 19 cm; These lines

[Skirting the river]

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 7 October 1874

  • Date: October 7, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

is 10 miles North East of this village at the extreme southern point or great bend of the Tennessee river

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

The river is running through the bottom as a smiling child.

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
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accordance with this view, James Russell Lowell has declined from the higher walks of poetry—from rivers

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 11 June 1874

  • Date: June 11, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Burroughs has been to visit me here—he is settled on a little farm of his own on the Hudson river

Walter Godey to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1874

  • Date: June 1, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Godey
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I passed a very pleasant day up the River Saturday—fishing—the day proved to be warm and after several

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 25 April 1874

  • Date: April 25, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

left Washington, & has settled on a little farm with horse, cows, & fowls on the banks of the Hudson river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]

  • Date: April 16, [1874]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

[—]very acceptable[—]from John Burroughs last Saturday & Sunday—he has built a house on the Hudson river

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Through Fourteenth street to the river, and then over the Long Bridge, and some three miles beyond, is

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 11 February [1874]

  • Date: February 11, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sky delightful— Walt nearly 5—It is near sundown, very fine, & I am going out—as I like to be on the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 February [1874]

  • Date: February 6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

half mile or so to the ferry—the Delaware here is full three quarters of a mile wide—it is a noble river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 January [1874]

  • Date: January 30, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Philadelphia —I have felt better since 4 o'clock & have come out & crossed the river, & taken quite a

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 25 January 1874

  • Date: January 25, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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(It is almost a part of Philadelphia, where I now live—on the opposite side of the Delaware river.)

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

their tiny leaves, without the actual camp and hospital and army sights from '62 to '5 rushing like a river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [16 January 1874]

  • Date: January 16, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

can be—the ground is white with snow in all directions, it is not melting anywhere—as I crossed the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 19 December [1873]

  • Date: December 19, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— I have been out most every day the past week, & been across the river to Philadelphia—it has been a

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 31 October [1873]

  • Date: October 31, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It makes a pleasant little trip as the river here is most as wide as the Potomac from 7 th st. wharf—has

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 September [1873]

  • Date: September 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—I hear quite often from John Burroughs—he has bought a spot of land, right on the Hudson river, about

N.Y. & is building himself a house there, right on a steep bank, with the road on one side, & the river

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 17 August 1873

  • Date: August 17, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am at present temporarily here at Camden, on the Delaware river, immediately opposite Philadelphia,

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Even the sluggish little river Colne one cannot find fault with, it nourishes such a luxuriant border

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?

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 11 May [1873]

  • Date: May 11, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, I wish you could take a look at the prospect, it is so fine, the trees & grass so green, and the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [2 February 1873]

  • Date: February 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have been up by the window looking out on the river & scenery—it is beautiful weather now—they have

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 19 July [1872]

  • Date: July 19, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.—28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivating wild region, by Vermont Central R.R. &

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 June [1872]

  • Date: June 18, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the day, but mornings & nights perfect—No moonlight walks out beyond Uniontown here—but I go on the river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1 June 1872
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 2 February 1872

  • Date: February 2, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

south window I can see a far-stretching & noble view, many, many miles of open ground, the Potomac river

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 30 January 1872

  • Date: January 30, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

is a broad, magnificent place in its natural features—avenues, spaces, vistas, environing hills, rivers

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River

Amos T. Akerman to H. H. Wells, 16 December 1871

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River

Benjamin Helm Bristow to Edward N. McCook, 26 September 1871

  • Date: September 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

President, of one Dorcas Mary Lavin, setting forth that her husband Nicholas Lavin, was murdered at River

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the East and North rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1871

  • Date: June 1, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

yesterday we had a very hard thunder storm and it done a great deal of dammage damage along the North River

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