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Search : William White

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[Here the frailest leaves of me]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

Tears.

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

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

After the Sea-Ship.

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

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

Calamus 14

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Tears.

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

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

After the Sea-Ship.

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

AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes

Leaves of Grass 2

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

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 23 March [1878]

  • Date: March 23, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

about what I was wanting— Herb, I hope you will lay on while your hand is in & finish the black & white

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 2 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

squash, crooked-necked crook- ed-necked squash, cowcumber, beets, pars- nip parsnip , carrot, turnip, white

the slow, lumbering cart, blood-dabbled and grease dropping, bears away from the slaughter-house, a white-armed

white- armed boy sitting on top of it, shouting Hi!

And I swear that I don't see why a man in gold spectacles and a white cravat stuck up in a library, stuck

Walt Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 11 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Shepard, Charles E.
Text:

and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there, milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge, by those milk-white

Of The Weather

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

In the street the sun beats down in one concentrated glare, beneath which white men wince and wilt.

Now are Spring and Summer Raglans discarded, and white-gossamer fabrics take their place.

The Frazer River Ferment

  • Date: 28 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There were then 4,000,000 adult white men in the Union, of whom 100,000, or one in 40, left for California

On the 1st of April, there were 150,000 adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

[I saw in Louisiana a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00087[I saw in Louisiana a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to George S. Boutwell, 3 April 1869

  • Date: April 3, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

White and Errickson of the First Collection Dist. of Missouri—and to say that I approve of the compromise

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870

  • Date: April 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Chase, seized at the same time with the "Catherine Whiting," and for alleged complicity with her.

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe sum- mer summer , bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Thought.

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

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Thought.

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

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1864

  • Date: January 8, 1864
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

The stuff itself is disgusting, the whole of it going to prove that the nigger is better than the white

Annotations Text:

Whitman also rejected arguments for white superiority; he marked an article on "The Slavonians and Eastern

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1888

  • Date: November 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All quiet here, no word from Wm Gurd, it begins to smell wintry, ground is white with snow this morning

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 April [188]9

  • Date: April 2, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Ground still quite white with snow Affectionately yours R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1891

  • Date: July 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

"White Star S.S. Brittanic N. Y.["] I will send you a word the last thing as I sail out to sea.

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 17 March [1877]

  • Date: March 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

mean the excitement of so much company—every thing is quiet & secluded here—all winter too, the snow white

Monday, December 23, 1889

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

Left with him a copy of The American containing Browning Symposium—Morris, Williams, Wayland, Thompson

I have no doubt of Morris and Frank Williams at any time—they are both in the right drift—particularly

and without going to Philadelphia, as I had hoped to do We sailed Sept. 25th. on the Germanic of the White

Camden, New Jersey

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
Text:

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Day with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored bull

Annotations Text:

.; Jove's trick on Europa refers to the myth in which Zeus disguised himself as a tame, white-colored

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 31 July 1885

  • Date: July 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 362).

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1877

  • Date: July 9, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

accompanying this letter Whitman has written a list, as follows: "envelopes at Altemuss | take the white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman, 30 April 1887

  • Date: April 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1977), 2:510.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 15 December 1882

  • Date: December 15, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:310).

Abolitionists Around

  • Date: May 12, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He said— “The American Government was a failure, and its dissolution was the question for white men as

country would some day assert their rights and their manhood, Union or no Union; that they would say to white

mass of the people sooner or later decide;—not an isolated association of men and women, black and white

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

[What think you I have]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white

Benjamin Helm Bristow to Columbus Delano, 23 October 1871

  • Date: October 23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting, Esq., Superintendent of Indian Affairs of California, relative to certain acts of trespass upon

W. A. Field to George M. Robeson, 30 June 1869

  • Date: June 30, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

telegram received last night from Marshal Barlow of New York City, I am informed that the steamer Whiting

Leaves of Grass 4

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

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Walt Whitman to Beatrice Gilchrist, 30 August [1878]

  • Date: August 30, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I think Mrs Stafford is only middling—(I havn't haven't been at White Horse now for a fortnight) —My

Walt Whitman to Frederick Oldach, 16 May 1889

  • Date: May 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(if yet to be done) trim them, especially No: 1 and No: 4, leaving a little more white paper at bottom

George E. Dodge to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): George E. Dodge
Text:

WHITE PINE TIMBER AND LUMBER TO ORDER. OFFICE, NO. 72 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK. GE, MEIGS & CO.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 March 1886

  • Date: March 23, 1886
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 March 1886

Annotations Text:

White," a literary critic and scholar, who argued that Shakespeare was not a pseudonym of Francis Bacon

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

formative years of Leaves of Grass, many of the most explosive Western battles between natives and whites

Tale of the Western Frontier," about a deformed and treacherous amalgam of the worst qualities of the white

the far west, the bride was a red girl" (section 10)—a scene that has been read as suggestive of the white

the present day, have propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 29 November 1890

  • Date: November 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

had our first fall of snow here today, & very beautiful did the outside world look, all robed in its white

fair This morn are everywhere: For snow has fallen in the night And robed the slumb'ring world in white

[These I, singing in spring]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white

The World Below the Brine.

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

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

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