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TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor

neck with incomparable love, Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities

, The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whal- ing whaling , gold-digging, Wharf-hemm'd cities

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!

while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to children—saw in

The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries—the soil, trees, cities

I see the results glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;) How the great cities

women there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold; Of cities

the world—politics, produce, The announcements of recognized things—science, The approved growth of cities

But we too announce solid things; Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing —they

doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance malignance , are provided for; I do not doubt that cities

slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

burial-places , to find him; And I found that every place was a burial-place; The houses full of life were

shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Manna- hatta Manhatta , were

I am willing to disregard burial-places, and dispense with them; And if the memorials of the dead were

City of Orgies CITY OF ORGIES. CITY of orgies, walks and joys!

City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious, Not the pageants

the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return; We observe that salute of American

we flit by each other, fluid, affection- ate affectionate , chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And

Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf of the sea-beach dancing, Cities

Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were

for Oregon: Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I

dream'd that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it

led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks

invisible; Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me; Fancying how happy you were

, if I could be with you, and become your loving comrade; Be it as if I were with you.

F 5 I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth; I see them welding State to State, city to city,

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them; I am a real Parisian; I am a

Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; I descend upon all those cities

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I pen- etrate penetrate those cities myself; All islands

tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

fool'd 114 Native Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

CITY OF ORGIES. CITY of orgies, walks and joys!

Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I

, if I could be with you, and become your loving comrade; Be it as if I were with you.

tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and

The "North American Review," unquestionably the highest organ of American letters, in the course of a

They are certainly filled with an American spirit, breathe the American air, and assert the fullest American

During those years, Washington was a city in whose unbuilt places and around whose borders were thickly

all sufferers, they were all men.

Scenes in Another World (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1858; rev. ed. 1870); see National Cyclopaedia of American

in New York in 1849 and served as sanitary engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Health of New York City

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

career as chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

Probably either John or Robert McNamee, both of whom were engineers.

Probably David Brower, an engineer who worked for the city.

have heard my Father speak a few days ago of your Leaves of Grass and says it is well suited to the American

I too, dear friend, would be so glad if we were near each other where we could have each other's company

He went from Harewood hospital here, to Brooklyn, to the City Hospital there—he had a terrific operation

I shall be pleased to see you when in our city, and in anything that I can contribute to your happiness

. | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington | Dec | 11 | D. C.

James Monroe was the American consul at Rio de Janeiro from 1863 to 1869, and was later, after service

It seems as if things were going to brighten up about "Leaves of Grass."

Thomson 242 Canal St New York City. Hugh B. Thomson to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1866

We carried a basket of grub, built a fire & made tea, &c—had a first rate, quiet time—the Falls were

WALT WHITMAN as distinctively and transcendently the representative Poe of America-as holding to American

: Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is

; Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands; There

the grand city stands.

The thought of the comradeship of Americans is never absent from the poet's pages.

Pericles (c. 495-429 BC) advanced both Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire, ushering in the city's

here, from parents the same and their parents' parents the same," and hence, physiologically, is American

To a small job printing office in that city belongs the honor, if such, of bringing it to light.

Some three score copies were deposited in a neighboring book store, and as many more in another book

A demand arose, and before many months all the copies of the thin quarto were sold.

issued in Boston as a 12mo. of 456 pages, in 1860.

On April 19, 1861, Thayer & Eldridge informed Whitman that the plates of Leaves of Grass were now in

adding stroke after stroke, part after part, as serenely and good-naturedly as if the rest of mankind were

been building so long is a man—a new democratic man, whom he believes to be typical of the future American

Song of the Broad Axe' and 'To Working-Men' comprise most of those poems which, in other editions, were

up a couple of small houses, to be worth about $2000 a piece, in some good spot, outer part of the city—one

Marshal for California, to which you were recently appointed by the President.

City. Sir: I enclose a copy of a letter relative to the steamer "Pearl."

. | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington D. C. | Oct | 27 | Free.

Washington City Oct. 26. 1866. To | Hon.

was tried on an indictment of [please notice] Seven Counts ; the 1st charged him with, on Oct. 22, 1860

The evidence proved that on Oct. 22, 1860, the Falmouth Bank sent through the mail a package containing

Circuit Court, sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats

documents to show that in nine other cases, involving the same material issues, decrees of restitution were

acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., & to say in reply, that full instructions were

the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

T HERE is as yet nothing distinctive in American literature except its tendency.

discovered an American poet.

probably had in his pockets whilst we were talking.

These were all inarticulate poets, and he interpreted them.

soldiers who were in the hospitals.

Stitt, and Andrew Kerr were employees in the office; see Whitman's letters to Kerr of August 25, 1866

Metropolitan Hotel New York City.