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Walt Whitman to Bernard O'Dowd, 1–2 January 1891

  • Date: January 1–2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you, all welcomed—As I write I hear the great steam whistle (for noon) of a huge factory down by the river—looks

Walt Whitman to Byron Sutherland, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

down the Potomac for several miles, & over into Virginia, along Arlington heights—The trees, grass, river

A Poet's Western Visit

  • Date: 15 November 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Wondrous rivers, railroads everywhere, plenty of wood, interminable and fertile meadows, wheat, fruit

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.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 February 1867

  • Date: February 26, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is pleasant here this forenoon—as I look out of my window, the river looks fine—there is a slight

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

references to North and South and the key references to the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River

Outlines for a Tomb.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Outlines for a Tomb.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life

Walt Whitman. The Man and His Book—Some New Gems for His Admirers

  • Date: 2 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance

grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight down- ward downward falling, Till o'er the river

Tuesday, April 9, 1889

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

"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

Monday, August 12, 1889

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

"Yes," he said, to my question, "Yes, I have been out—down to the river: and how beautiful—oh!

"The river is my elixir," he finally said—"and such."

A Legend of Life and Love

  • Date: July 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Upon the banks of a pleasant river stood a cottage, the residence of an ancient man whose limbs were

up from opposite directions, and stood together at a tomb built on a hill by the borders of a fair river

A boy again, and in the confiding heart of a boy, I walk with Eva by the river's banks.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In some respects, this side of the river has more claims to be considered the representative first settlement

of the Dutch in the New World, than the location of our neighbors over westward of the East River.

He was partially responsible for the expansion of Brooklyn into swamplands on the East River.

History of the Introduction of Water into the City

  • Date: 25 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vegetation, a clear surplus of 500,000 gallons per annum, which ordinarily would go to the supply of rivers

(Boston) surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,230 '' '' 62 feet under surface . . . 2,210 Hudson River

(at Albany) . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,320 Mohawk River (at Cohoes) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,880 Patroon's

Creek (used for Albany Water Works) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,720 Thames River (at

London . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,000 New River (supply for London) . . . . . . . . . . 19,200 Hampstead

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 26 June 1866

  • Date: June 26, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

window I have so often mentioned, & have the cool breeze blow on you, as it is now, & the trees & 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

George Washington Whitman to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1863

  • Date: January 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

We have just come off Picket,  everything along the river and in the camp is just the same as when you

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, 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.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1885

  • Date: July 21, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

how you would too, sort of human Delaware river. With best love Herbert H Gilchrist.

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

  • Date: March 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Westminster to Waterloo Bridges this afternoon with the tide—higher than usual—just at the full; the river

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 1 August 1866

  • Date: August 1, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

view of great expanse, & very comforting every way—also a pleasant breeze coming in steadily from the river

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 10 April 1868

  • Date: April 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in office—as I look out it is dark & cloudy with a chill rain, but the grass is green & I see the river

Whitman as a Consul

  • Date: 20 March 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

eyes roamed in an absent way among the stars that twinkled alike in the sky and on Philadelphia's river

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.

Cluster: Thoughts. (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 8 October 1882

  • Date: October 8, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river—His

Calamus 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Henry Stanbery to Ulysses S. Grant, 7 January 1868

  • Date: January 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river

adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river

The Poetry of the Future

  • Date: 19 January 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Sunday, May 5, 1889

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

Had only limited time for getting across the river to the train. Sunday, May 5, 1889

Tuesday, July 16, 1889

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

Expressed rejoicing at getting to the river. "It was a grand trip—a grand evening, too.

Monday, November 25, 1889

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

"I suppose nothing startling is going on—yet the countless rills run on, the rivers, the seas flow and

Monday, May 19, 1890

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

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

Wednesday, May 21, 1890

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

Yes, if I keep as I am I may very easily get over the river."

Friday, February 14, 1890

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

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

Health—Nature's Aids—Consumption

  • Date: 23 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

vapor of our sugar-kettles, so much vaunted as a cure, is of no more benefit than the vapor of a North river

Hot Weather Philosophy

  • Date: 2 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

The Opera in Brooklyn

  • Date: 10 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

time did the inducements held out more than rival those offered by any third-rate house, across the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3–5 August [1870]

  • Date: August 3–5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

o'clock—had some business in New York, which I attended, then came back & spent an hour & a half on the river

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1863

  • Date: May 12, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

done that, And Lee as you say must have been badly hurt or he would never let Hooker come across the river

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 8 December 1862

  • Date: December 8, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

line, for more than a mile, so that I had to keep my Eyes open,  we were posted along the bank of the river

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 4 March [1869]

  • Date: March 4, 1869
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

a letter from Jeff it seems their concern has overflowed once on account of the great rise of the river

Mary I. P. Cummings to Walt Whitman, [12] August 1890

  • Date: August [12], 1890
  • Creator(s): Mary I. P. Cummings
Text:

Indeed even now you may be— "Beyond the rock-waste and the river— Beyond the ever and the never— Beyond

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1877

  • Date: December 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

with squalid children picking them over, and dirty alleys, and courts and houses half roofless, and a river

The Police and Fire Telegraph

  • Date: 10 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

after connecting Williamsburgh with Brooklyn, to Astoria, and thence by a submarine cable across the river

Bathing

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Every morning and evening the East and North Rivers ought to show not hundreds but thousands and tens

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