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Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

Connecticut large manufactures of clocks, cotton goods, and gutta‑percha, shad fishery of Connecticut river

Maryland Alleghany Mts Cattskills Catskills Valley of the Mohawk Great lakes & small lakes, Susquehannah river

Bay." the falls of Niagara,— The amplitude, ease, and perfect proportions of the scenery— the broad river

Roanoke —500 length Savannah 600 miles Altamaha 500 Alabama 500 the sluggish rivers, flowing over the

White river the Arkansas river 1200 m —the beautiful valleys of the Arkansas and the Washita —a great

When I spoke of the beauty of the river at sunset he remarked: "Ah!

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

described some old experiences in the mountains about Bushkill—the great vistas—particularly the rivers

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently undulating rivers. Oh!

the memories of rivers—the Hudson—the Ohio—the Mississippi!

The Hudson is quite another critter—the neatest, sweetest, most delicate, clearest, cleanest river in

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

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

A.MS. drafts.loc.00132xxx.00155[Skirting the river]1880poetryhandwritten1 leaf12.5 x 19 cm; These lines

[Skirting the river]

Esopus-on-Hudson March 17 Dear friends We arrived here all safe at last—(after adventures)—had to cross the river

here, snow 8 inches deep in every direction—but I like it much—a far view from my window of miles of river

We are very comfortable here, folks are (as every where) very kind to us—Harry has gone across the river

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04150xxx.00330[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]about 1885handwrittenpoetry1 leaf3

[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]

loc.00038xxx.00053[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]between 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1

[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]

The Frazer River Ferment The FRAZER RIVER FERMENT.

The arrival of the Moses Taylor, yesterday, put us in possession of the fact that the Frazer River excitement

which has absorbed public attention here during last fortnight may be expressed in two words—“Frazer River

adult white men in this State; 12,000 (some say 22,000) or one in ten, have already gone to Frazer River

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04146xxx.00335[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']about 1885handwrittenpoetry1

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

Esopus April 29 All goes well—enjoyed my journey up the river that afternoon & evening—10½ when I got

in—Every thing soothes, comforts, invigorates me here—the hills, rocks, sky, river, nearer & more to

Red Mts Madagascar R Cape of Good Hope (8550 miles from New York Rivers—in Africa the Niger 2300 miles

Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River

Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile Senegal , 900 miles, emptying into the Atlantic through Senegambia Orange River

exhalations cities, ignorance, enti altogether unenlightened and unexplored Fellahtas, on the Niger river

Lakes of the Thousand Islands St Lawrence River Aug 1 I am here in a handsome little steam yacht (owned

1000 sq miles) on earth—I am pretty well—go to Montreal Tuesday—then to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—back

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

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

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

mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river

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

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.

FLOOD-TIDE of the river, flow on! I watch you, face to face, Clouds of the west!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living

Flow on, river! Flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

Bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river

and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river

I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old, Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

9 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb- tide ebbtide !

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river

and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river

I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old, Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

9 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb- tide ebbtide !

Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Those claiming to know, formerly asserted that many a noble river, unable to reach the great natural

genial tropical clime; he fell in with the Niger, of the Joliba, as the natives called this magnificent river

the great desert, and west of the island Mozambique, which, like our own Minnesota, gives rise to rivers

Thursday morning last before daylight one of our Regts, commenced to throw a Pontoon Bridge across the River

when the Rebel sharpshooters opened on them from the houses along the bank of the River, and our Artillery

morning our side made an advance driving the Rebel Skirmishers back about a mile and a half from the river

as we got up the Rebs cracked away at us, last night all the troops fell back on this side of the river

works are going along pretty well although just at this moment we are in ill-luck consequent upon the river

having risen and overflowed our cofferdam and thereby stopped progress on the river work.

For the last three weeks the river has been just on the verge of overflowing us—the consequence was that

keep it out of the dam—the foundations are from 25 to 30 feet under the surface of the water in the river

and I felt it would make bad work to be drowned out  It would (the river) go up to within just a few

.— Now drawn nigher the river's rim edge of the river Wierd Weird like creatures suddenly rise m This

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

Like Earth O River

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

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

11 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow

I too many and many a time cross'd the river, the sun half an hour high; I watched the Twelfth-month

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living

crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refreshed by the gladness of the river, and the bright

I too many and many a time crossed the river, the sun half an hour high, I watched the Twelfth Month

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

lads, who go in the water “not sufficiently versed in swimming, or who venture in bad parts of the river

are not sure but the fear of such arrests often drives boys, and men too, into those places of the river

(always commendable in man, woman, or child,) of laving the whole body with the cool waters of the river

We are rowed on the beautiful river every day that it is warm enough—a very winding river not much broader

They lead an easy-going life here—seem to spend half their time floating about on the river—or meeting

Weimer, in the East River, should teach those who desire to bathe, but cannot swim, the propriety of

shilling, why then, sooner than abstain from bathing, you may run the risk of being drowned in the River—there

everything to interest me—the constantly changing but ever-beautiful panorama on both sides of the river

all the way, (nearly 100 miles up here)—the magnificent north river bay part of the city—the high straight

succession of handsome villages & cities—the prevailing green—the great rocky mountains, gray & brown—the river

itself, now expanding, now narrowing—the glistening river with continual sloops, yachts, &c. their white

New York— June 26 p m Dear friend— Here I am back again in N Y—Came down the river Monday night, & shall

three or four miles to Gloucester, on the Delaware below here, to a fine old public house close to the river

the great boat, 20 black men rowing rhythmically, paying out the big seine—making a circuit in the river

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

descending the Alleghanies, Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

Mayor Tiemann says in his message transmitting the petition: The great benefit to the public of free river

Besides, no city is better situated to afford its inhabitants the refreshing and healthful pleasures of river

Bounded by two noble rivers which afford every facility for locating baths, they should before this have

What has become confessedly needed over the wild and unknown regions that lie between the Missouri river

nobody travels, far below the great lines of travel—and thence run through the dreary deserts of Red River

as this of the Overland Mail, ought to have been Independence, (latitude 40 degrees,) on the Kansas river

and follow it for two or three miles as it passes B—that is except at the points at the mouth of the river

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

that in the summer it is terribly offensive to those who live along the edge of the river I shall be

shore we pushed on as fast as possible towards Newbern which is a nice little Citty lying up the Neuse river

and had a good nights sleep,   the next morning we came to this camp, which is on the bank of the river

They had a chain of breastworks leading from the river, away back in the woods I dont know how far  

The fleet after setting us on shore sailed up the river and walked into the rebels shore batteries in

fine style  the rebels had sunk vessels all across the river but our boats got through somehow and drove

Johnson, if he had attempted to come to the relief of Pemberton,  We are between the Yazoo and Black rivers

, our advance came up to the enemys pickets, who were posted on the opposite side of the Big Black river

at Jackson,  this City you know is the Capitol of the state and is built on the bank of the Pearl river

the river again just below the city, makeing a line of about 3 miles in length.

, while someone crossed the river, and made an attack on the rear, which of course would have cutt off

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

You can walk out toward the suburbs, or cross the river, or even promenade the flagged sidewalks, with

Or, if you prefer, you can take a bath in the river. Then sleep is such a pleasure, these nights!

hearty massage at 1 & went in wheel chair soon after 2—quite a jaunt—went to the bank—went down to the river

side—sun, river & sky fine—sat 15 minutes in the Nov. sun—find my head & bodily strength pretty low

Early next morning we were under weigh again, and at night, we came to anchor in the Nuese river about

, the rest of the Brigade mooving somewhere further up the river.

Sailed up the Yazoo river about 14 miles and landed at Snyders Bluff, Miss.  

crossed the river weather very hot.

stopped a few minutes and then went on up the river reached Memphis Tenn about 3 P.M.

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