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Life and Love

  • Date: 20 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

kindness and philosophy—sending our glance through the cool and verdant lanes, by the sides of the blue rivers

Like Earth O river

Text:

Like Earth O river

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
Text:

nyp.00106xxx.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten

relate to the poem eventually titled Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight.; nyp.00736 Like Earth O River

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Like Earth O river, you offer us burial Like Existence mortal Life is your aimless hurrying on Like Time

Like Earth O River

Literary Notices

  • Date: 26 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Paul's from the River,' and the 'Royal Exchange,' are unusually elegant specimens of steel engraving.

The Literary World

  • Date: 12 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers

Living in Brooklyn

  • Date: 13 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

if they wished to live in a respectable neighborhood, and they are consequently forced to cross the river

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1888

  • Date: October 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

I row on the river every afternoon, all the men in the college who do not know how to row in the right

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1890

  • Date: October 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

streets fill up with students, the professors begin lecturing, the games & sports all begin, and the river

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

  • Date: After December 1, 1846; December 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

grave, Since I crossed this restless wave; And the evening, fair as ever, Shines on ruin, rock and river

Longings for Home.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through

Longings for Home

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

dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through

Longings for Home

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

dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers

; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [23 February 1869]

  • Date: February 23, 1869
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

soon i hear from Jeff and mat once in a while Jeff has or has had great anxiety about the works 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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 9 February [1871]

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

Saturday the pictures in the graphic is very good and very solem solemn some of them) but the hudson river

Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of

The Love of the Four Students

  • Date: December 9, 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

found that she was a Swiss immigrant, a widow, and kept a little ale-house on the banks of the North river

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long, low piazza looking out upon the river

The Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

  • Date: 6 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Zoology of the Mammoth Cave, together with a brief description of all the rooms, avenues, domes, rivers

Green River, with its towering cliffs, is but a few hundred yards from the hotel, and afford good fishing

The entrance to the Cave is one hundred and ninety-four feet above the Green River, and is about twenty-five

those parts of the Cave where no rocks have fallen, the floor presents the appearance of the bed of a river

Sparks), extends from the River Hall to the Mammoth Dome, a distance of three-quarters of a mile.”

Mannahatta.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the jobbers' houses of business —the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta

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

the jobbers' houses of business —the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta.

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

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta.

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

the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets

sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft, The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river

Mannahatta

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

ness business —the houses of business of the ship-mer- chants ship-merchants , and money-brokers—the river-streets

, and the sail- ing sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in 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

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?-1950)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

Me Imperturbe.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river

Me Imperturbe.

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

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Me Imperturbe.

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

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

Me Imperturbe

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

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

And how full of breadth is the scenery, everywhere with distant mountains, everywhere convenient rivers

There were nearly 200 of them, come up yesterday by boat from James River.

The Metropolitan Police Law

  • Date: 9 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Board, transferring one of the departments of the government of Brooklyn to the other side of the river

Mississippi River

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
Text:

In Specimen Days he calls the river "the most important stream on the globe" (Complete 865).In 1848,

During their stay, from 25 February until 27 May, Whitman made daily visits to the river to observe the

While there he visited the river as frequently as his health would allow, "every night lately" (Complete

Mississippi River

Monday, April 1, 1889

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

said: "If I get out as the weather grows milder I'll want to see these wonders: I'll get across the river

Monday, April 22, 1889

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

Just the few minutes before, in crossing the river I had seen the Missouri being put into her wharf.

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

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."

Monday, August 25, 1890

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

Had just returned from river. Said, "I think I have had—have—a return of the grip."

Monday, August 6, 1888.

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

never told you) that when I was a lad, working in a lawyer's office, it fell to me to go over the river

Monday, December 28, 1891

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

We crossed the river without event and to 9th and Green.

Monday, December 29, 1890

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

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

Monday, February 10, 1890

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

And the stomach is in direct communication with the sun, the air, the rivers—" &c.

Monday, January 13, 1890

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

I talked of the great sunset, and he was all ears: "I think I see—yes, I do see it—the river there—the

Monday, July 1, 1889

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

him we are still about as we were, weathering it out—not consciously retreating—getting off to the river

Monday, July 22, 1889

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

W. out on my arrival—had gone to the river between 6 and 7.

Monday, July 8, 1889

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

Was very cordial tonight—had a good color—and said that he felt rather better—had been to the river,

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, June 11, 1888.

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

Then I went over the river and at once to Ferguson's, where I talked with Myrick, head of the composing

Monday, June 24, 1889

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

W. wore his bright blue gown, and said: "I have just been out to my favorite companion—the river!

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