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Search : of captain, my captain!

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Thursday, September 13th, 1888.

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

Why, my boy, I didn't hear you at all!" He looked at my burden. "And what have you there?

I remember one of my last talks with Emerson.

, my Captain!

He saw my blank face.

Gave me a couple of sheets of manuscript containing original draft of My Captain.

Thursday, September 17, 1891

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

My own position is the writer's, not the publisher's.

New YorkSep. 16. 1891.My Dear Traubel,Your tender letter of sympathy reached me in due course.

And thanks to the careful nursing of my dear wife, and the pure and healthful air of the mountains, my

My shattered right arm is still however a cause of great anxiety.

against me in the days of my worst struggle.

Thursday, September 18, 1890

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

I don't want it to go forth that my feelings towards him are one whit less than they are.

My dear friend,My idea was, when you wrote me about the Club, that I might deliver some lecture in Philadelphia—maybe

path.If not thought best to do this under the auspices of the Club, why, I could do it independently, on my

I think we would have no trouble in filling the house, on some good subject.Give my best regards to Mr

Thursday, September 19, 1889

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

s face was radiant: I know he fully entered into my idea—indeed endorsed it.

W. said: "My first impulse would have been to get mad at the delay; but as you say, when I see the dishes

We discussed my idea of closing the volume with a paragraph from Sarrazin. W. took hold at once.

Greatly curious about my meeting with Franz Vetta (Louis Neumayer) today—and questioned me explicitly

Thursday, September 24, 1891

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

"My writing days are done—all done!" Had he read Morse's paper? "Yes! and enjoyed it, too.

He laughed, too, "No, made one in my old age, by long trials!"

And to my "yes" reached back to the table next him and brought forth a bottle.

Give him my love and this bottle!"

Of my real innerness he knows less than I do!"

Thursday, September 25, 1890

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

Said to me as I came in, "You arrive just at the right minute: I am just returned from my trip."

It is a very interesting little volume, without which my "W.

I am glad my letter was in time for the Postscript of the volume.Thanks for your article on last Birthday

Had my notes in his breast pocket, marked "Horace," descriptive of room, etc.

Thursday, September 26, 1889

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

Gilchrist was examining a copy of my entrance. W. asked me: "Well, Horace—what's the news?"

My sympathies are all against him."

Brinton refrains from stating himself positively, I notice—writes somewhat in the Captain Cuttle vein—of

Captain Cuttle, who said"—here W. assumed a voice and position of vehemence—"if the ship comes safely

This replying to my question if such a language would not be developed.

Thursday, September 27th, 1888.

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

If he could find them wished my father "to go over them and report."

My father is reading Bucke's W.W.

They are a rest to my mind—are always fresh, new—give me the quiet, the peace, I crave."

My friends may say that to me when I say hello to the Colonel, but I say, damn my friends if their friendship

He said: "I carry it about in my heart—carry it—yes: and William, too.

Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

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

He wants my book to be personal.

I'd as likely go back on my mother.

I hope he will accept my letter: he will some day see my position."

, period of my life, all told—in some ways possessing features not unlike my present experience.

My interest in the books and my consideration for you!

Thursday, September 3, 1891

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

No, no, no—give my love to them all—tell them I remember the old days. Oh!

Tell Nellie—tell Anne—tell all, my love is with them, though I am here!"

He laughed, "Are they my letters, Mary? I was just telling Horace how to get them downstairs."

I also had letter from Bucke.W. reported, "This has been one of my very worst days—a day full of discomfort

It is assessed at $800, and $25 is my tax yearly.

Thursday, September 4, 1890

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

Still thinks he has la grippe—cold in head, sore throat—but he looks very well.Said to me, "I got my

I expressed my pleasure over the notes he gave me yesterday.

You need not quote much: if you give them as my words, they will be taken as mine without that guarantee

"I advised him—perhaps he might make up a Dutch piece—about my ancestry—in a shape the Critic would take—and

Thursday, September 5, 1889

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

Did I ever tell you what my good Doctor—a very wise man there in Washington—used to tell me?

Thursday, September 6th, 1888.

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

Spoke of Gilchrist's life of his mother: "You should read it—read my copy: Karl Knortz has it now, but

It's my secret until the next fellow catches on by himself—then it's his secret, too.

why I like or don't like but I am quite firm in my preferences."

Well—give him my love—tell him I have all sorts of faith in his success.

Some of them say my face there has a rogue in it. O'Connor called it my sea-captain face.

Time

  • Creator(s): Matteson, John T.
Text:

In "Starting from Paumanok," Whitman promises to "thread a thread through my poems that time and events

[Time always without break]

  • Date: 1887
Text:

which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

MY VISITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my rambles, I use them as landmarks.

I have already distributed quite a large amount of money, put in my hands for that purpose by benevolent

I regularly carry a haversack with me, and my coat has two of the biggest kind of pockets. [ To be Continued

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Here is another characteristic scene of the dark and bloody year 1863, from notes of my visit to Armory

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

A GLIMPSE FROM MY NOTES.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all and slighted none.

It has given me my plainest and most fervent views of the true ensemble and extent of the States.

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From the first I found it necessary to systematize my doings, and, among other things, always kept little

note-books for impromptu jottings in pencil to refresh my memory of names and circumstances and what

But before entering on my personal memoranda of the war, I have one or two thoughts to ventilate before

ABRAHAM LINCOLN—MY FIRST SIGHT AND IMPRESSION OF HIM.

It reads: 'I cannot survive the loss of the liberties of my country.'") THE EVE OF A LONG WAR.

Titus M. Coan to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1880

  • Date: November 22, 1880
  • Creator(s): Titus M. Coan
Text:

Coan's letter books sent $10 due from Century Club THE CENTURY 109 EAST 15TH STREET November 22 d 1880 My

To a Cantatrice

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

who should serve the good old cause, the prog- ress progress and freedom of the race, the cause of my

To a Certain Civilian.

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

therefore leave my works, And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano- tunes piano-tunes

To a Certain Civilian.

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

therefore leave my works, And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano- tunes piano-tunes

To a Common Prostitute.

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

I exclude you; Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

To a Common Prostitute

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

I exclude you; Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

To a Common Prostitute.

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

do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

To a Common Prostitute

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

I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

To a Common Prostitute.

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

do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire.

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

my brother or my sister! Keep on!

To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire.

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

COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!

To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire.

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

COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!

To a Foil'd Revolter or Revoltress

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

my brother or my sister! Keep on!

To a Foiled Revolter or Revoltress

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

my brother or my sister! Keep on!

To a Locomotive in Winter

  • Date: about 1876
Text:

of an unpublished poem entitled The Soul and the Poet, which may be a draft of the poem Come, said my

To a Locomotive in Winter.

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

THEE for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee

Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter

To a Locomotive in Winter.

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

THEE for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee

Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter

"To a Locomotive in Winter" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

implies that the only way the train can join the dialogue of the recitative is through him ("Roll through my

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my

To a Stranger.

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

with me, I ate with you, and slept with you—your body has be- come become not yours only, nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass—you take of my beard,

To a Stranger.

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

or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard

To a Stranger

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

or a girl with me, I ate with you, and slept with you—your body has become not yours only, nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass—you take of my beard,

To a Stranger.

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

or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard

To be at all

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

thousands, each one with his entry to himself; They are always watching with their little eyes, from my

head to my feet.

lift put the girder of the earth a globe the house away if it lay between me and whatever I wanted.— My

To Foreign Lands.

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

prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy; Therefore I send you my

To Foreign Lands.

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

prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my

To Foreign Lands.

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

prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my

To Him That Was Crucified.

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

MY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you

I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;) I specify you with joy, O my

divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my

To Him That Was Crucified

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

MY spirit to yours, dear brother; Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you

I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;) I specify you with joy, O my

divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my

To Him That Was Crucified.

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

MY spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not under- stand understand

you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you

- ousies jealousies , recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my

To Him That Was Crucified

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

MY spirit to yours, dear brother, Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you

I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;) I specify you with joy, O my

divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my

To Him That Was Crucified.

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

MY spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not under- stand understand

you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you

- ousies jealousies , recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my

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