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When it was first published, it began with the line "Here my last words, and the most baffling."
They are his "frailest . . . and yet my strongest lasting."
have survived as positive examples of homosexual desire.Whitman admits in this poem, "I shade and hide my
"Some walk by my side" as equals, "some behind" as followers, "and some embrace my arms or neck" as lovers
Illustrated World in April of 1890 and was included in Whitman's collection of prose and poetry Good-Bye My
from that collection as an annex to the Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Good-Bye my
1524 Walnut Street Philadelphia My Dear good gray Poet— Ever since I bought the first edition of Leaves
included Two Rivulets, a collection of prose and poetry that Whitman hoped would "set the key-stone to my
liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my
She married a sea captain named Davis, but was soon widowed.
Ferry" in her novel Alexander's Bridge (1912), to Whitman's doctrine of the "open road" in her novel My
"The Doctrine of the Open Road in My Ántonia." Approaches to Teaching Cather's "My Ántonia." Ed.
implicit in the lexical conversion of "leaves" of grass into knife-like "blades" in "Scented Herbage of My
had strong reservations about it, and Whitman later referred to it as "the horrible dismemberment of my
My dear Mr.
Ye Painte Shoppe, 1833 Spruce Street Philadelphia My Dear Mr.
Whitman, My small colored boy is the bearer of a note to Mr.
O'Grady | sent photos to him Dec 24 '81 11 Lr Lower Fitzwilliam St Dublin October 5, 1881 Dear Sir, My
My impressions regarding this literature I have published in various works.
poems & tales into a complete whole & so the student can never be exactly certain what is & what is not my
In the revolt of Islam he has a fine Panegyric on the future of America Fr For my own part I put him
I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal punctuating even the remotest parts of my
I hear that you are sick & write a line to send you my love & all manner of kind wishes.
Donald BarlowStauffer"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891
)This group of poems originally appeared in the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman's last miscellany
the New York theater, etc.A group of thirty-one poems from the book was later printed as "Good-Bye my
death he had frequently expressed in his younger years.There are two poems with the title "Good-Bye my
"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)
what he had recently described in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as his program to "exploit [my
The dominant themes in the two annexes, "Sands and Seventy" and Good-Bye my Fancy," as well as in "Old
Speaking to Horace Traubel about their subject matter, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of sickness
This questioning mood may be found in "Queries to my Seventieth Year," published about a month before
Still the lingering sparse leaves are, he says, "my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, / The
First Annex" (the Second Annex contains poems from a previously published miscellany entitled Good-Bye My
Talking to Traubel about the subject matter of these poems, Whitman said, "Of my personal ailments, of
"Queries to My Seventieth Year" reveals some of the ambiguous feelings he has about the year to come.
In "As I Sit Writing Here" he writes, "Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
/ Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, / May filter in my daily songs
In his manuscript notebooks he wrote of "the chanted Hymn whose tremendous sentiment shall uncage in my
or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William Tell' and 'Gazza Ladra,' were among my
Whitman commented on the singing of this "strangely overpraised woman," writing that she "never touched my
days in Specimen Days and in an essay, "The Old Bowery," collected in the prose section of Good-Bye My
in London in 1882, albeit in a significantly edited form under the title of "The Tomb Flowers," in My
About "My Boys and Girls" Whitman's " My Boys and Girls " is a brief sketch that first appeared in The
Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My
See Whitman's " My Boys and Girls ."
For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, " My Boys and Girls (
"My Boys and Girls" Walter Whitman My Boys and Girls The Rover March or April 1844 3 75 per.00333 Written
Because issues of The Rover do not include a publication date, there is some disagreement about when "My
suggests March or April 1844—between March 27 and April 20, 1844—as the likely date of publication of "My
Boys and Girls" in The Rover.; See Whitman's "My Boys and Girls
"; For further discussion of the plot of "My Boys and Girls," see Patrick McGuire, "My Boys and Girls
his second letter to Hale, Whitman emphasized the success of his earlier fiction pieces, writing, "My
Much like the bachelor narrator of " My Boys and Girls ," closely identified with Whitman himself, the
Also, like "My Boys and Girls," this story too turns to the fleeting nature of youth and childhood and
Boanes' nephew, admitting that "the name of the person is burnt in welcome characters of fire upon my
Requital," a sentence that seemed to make an explicit statement against capital punishment: "Some of my
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine New York, NY March 1844 [138]–139 per.00333 Walter Whitman My
My Discharge Papers are in the Hands of John P Hunt Attorney and Counsellor at Law 247 Broadway I wish
you would do me the favor of of of Looking up my Claim and Pushing it through for me as I have suffered
this John P Hunt and weather whether he is an authorized claim agent or not and about how Long Before my
Where Whitman had written "my Mississippi" or "prairies in Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri,
All my free time was devoted to memorizing the self-tutor as if this were my sole salvation.
I had broken completely with my family.
I opened at random and read: My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, I skirt sierras
, my palms cover continents, I am afoot with my vision . . .
reckon,’ he adds, with quaint colloquial arrogance, ‘I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my
afternoons and sitting by him, and he liked to have me—liked to put out his arm and lay his hand on my
were hurt by being blamed by his officers for something he was entirely innocent of—said ‘I never in my
He preferred sentimental ballads like "My Mother's Bible," "The Soldier's Farewell," and the "Lament
Her singing, her method, gave the foundation, the start . . . to all my poetic literary efforts" (Prose
[Out from Behind This Mask]Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My Portrait, illustrating
[Come, said my Soul]According to the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass, this poem appeared
Two Rivulets" section of Two Rivulets (1876).; Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My
.; Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My Likeness,
.; Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-Bye
My Fancy (1891).
"Come, Said My Soul" was reprinted in the New York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1876, and on the title
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Published with the subtitle "For unknown buried soldiers,
Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher."
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.
Whitman Archive has not yet verified publication information for this poem.; Reprinted in Good-bye My
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Transcription not currently available.
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]," New-York Saturday Press 4 February 1860, 2.
"Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); "That Shadow My Likeness," Leaves of Grass (1867); slight changes
O Captain! My Captain!" New-York Saturday Press, 4 November 1865, 218.
.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; "Old Age Echoes" was the title given to a collection of four
poems first published in Lippincott's Magazine: Sounds of the WinterReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (
The Unexpress'dReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
Sail Out for Good, Eidólon YachtReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
After the ArgumentReprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
I have been in Camden once or twice & should have called to see you but thought perhaps my coming would
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
keept kept me busy for the past month & I have an old lady staying with me & Jane away so you see that my
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
I intended to come to see you on my way here I had only time to make the train so could not see so will
call on my way Home are you better or do you still keep the same I hoped when the weather got cooler