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you know how

  • Date: 1855 or before
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

The Wound-Dresser.

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

loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river

The Wound-Dresser.

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

loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

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

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.

The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk

red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river

The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the

I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from

A Woman Waits for Me

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

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

A Woman Waits for Me.

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

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

A Woman Waits for Me.

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

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

A Woman Waits for Me.

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

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, In you I wrap a thousand onward years, On you I graft

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 9)

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

I thought you were already over the river."

On the river remarked the beauty of the night.

And our rivers, spirit, life."

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

Harned had been in and talked with W. while I was across the river. W.'

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 8)

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

But he will never set the river afire."

Trees, farms, cities, the clouds, rivers, sunset, workingmen, factories, dogs—oh!

"Look at the river, lying off there—flowing—and the city across—and the mist.

And by and by we turned to the left and to the river.

Philadelphia is not bad, either—how could it be, with such a noble river?

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 7)

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

The river was rich in boats—I have rarely seen it more so."

"By and by we shall go to the river." When I left he gave me the package to mail.

Asked me about the intense fog on the river: "How the pilots dread the fog!

At once across the river—up to Bush's in 6th Avenue elevated—to 18th.

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

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 6)

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

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

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

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

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

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

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

Denver is phenomenal for its background—its ample background: not much of a river there, but a river

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

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 4)

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

what does it look like on the river?

W. wanted to know whether the river was frozen across.

"They are the most wonderful of all the birds on the river," I said.

"They have been telling me of it: it is quite near the river, isn't it?"

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 3)

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

I had been way off in the country on the other side of the river, walking with Kemper and May.

Who could share with me the thought of that evening's ride across the river?

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

I took it with me to mail over the river.

or, why does the flowing river make me happy?—why? why? making that mood the talisman for all?"

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 2)

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

I have never lived away from a big river." Took up Brinton's suggestion that W.'

a river, the sky the sky.

—first to Bonsall's house for the Book Maker—then across the river for conferences at different places

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

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

but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Parkhurst across the river, has studied Millet some and lectures about him, illustrating the talks.

magazines—that of porcelain, fine china, dainty curtains, exquisite rugs—never a look of flowing rivers

"I drove up as far as Pea Shore—right up to the river, halting there for half an hour, looking over the

Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 9

  • Date: 27 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Young and active men recoiled from the unpleasant duty of going across the river at that late hour, and

genial sympathies, a jolly host, a welcome guest, a man of his word, ranking high one side of the river

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 2

  • Date: 21 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

prefer water to land, since he derives both his income and his pleasures from the rolling deep of the river

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1889

  • Date: October 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

They call the Missouri river terraces "benches" out there she says.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

directness of observation & purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we row up the river

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

  • Date: November 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

he will get elected for he is a good union man— i am in the hospittle on davids island up the east river

A Wild Poet of the Woods

  • Date: February 1861
  • Creator(s): Hollingshead, John
Text:

Land of the spinal river, the Mississippi! Land of the Alle- ghanies Alleghanies ! Ohio's land!

Wicked Architecture

  • Date: 19 July 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In New York, closed in by rivers, pressing desperately toward the business center at its southern end

observations about the growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River

Fifth Avenue, Fourteenth Street, from river to river, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets and indeed

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

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

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

literati, and preachers famousandobscure,asteadystreamofvisitorsfromallovertohissmallhouse across the river

John Newton married young, and moved across the river to a 160-acre plantation.

, and re- turned to a war-torn county whose seat, Guntersville, had been burned to the ground in a river

He died young, drowned in the Oktahutche River (about which he had written many a poetic verse), some

name as “meeting place by the rapid water.” http://www.tourismsarnialambton.com/communities/st-clair-river

Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Genoways, Ted
Text:

as far ahead of “the fat gentleman in striped trousers,” as a Baltimore clipper does beyond a North River

wereneverpublishedinnewspapersormagazines;however,they appear in Specimen Days from sections “Swallows on the River

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

often–Mrs O’C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially–spent an hour down by the Delaware river

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

A young man stands at the Delaware River’s edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and

burning, aching, “resistless,” emphatically physical yearning for young men (see “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers

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

Commune and “From the Genius of Liberty,” 215 Leaves of Grass (1870–71), 145–60; “From Pent- Up A ching Rivers

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

The pages contain notes about each of the states, with particular attention paid to mountains, rivers

begins to make note of the state's mountains—the Mohegans and the Katskills—as well as the major rivers—the

Whitman, Poet and Seer

  • Date: 22 January 1882
  • Creator(s): G. E. M.
Text:

It is a land to which all the currents, and longings, and peoples of history move like rivers converging

vitreous form of the fall moon just tinged with blue: Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

Following the Ohio River along the newly settled states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, still

This river, which together with its tributaries supplies half of the arable land of the United States

contradicting any Zeitgeist, just like myself, I see the skyline of the large banks in Frankfurt on the river

Whitman in the British Isles

  • Creator(s): M. Wynn Thomas
Text:

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

He is Behemoth, wallowing in primitive jungles, bathing at fountain-heads of mighty rivers, crushing

"Flood-tide of the river, flow on!

the ideal, of the same order as Blake's Albion and Jerusalem; and Whitman is rhapsodizing over the rivers

ghosts of Whitman's ferry: their images Crowding the enfilade of steel and stone Have the whole East River

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

Illinois" or "my prairies on the Missouri," Bal'mont had preferred some all-inclusive phrase, such as "rivers

These boundless rivers! You are measureless and boundless like them!"

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
Text:

At all times he was keenly inquisitive in matters that belonged to the river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain, the river was high, and the falls finer than usual.

Lawrence River, which he had seen during the past summer.

We were cross ing a bridge over the Concord river, about a mile from Mr.

I have tried them by stars, rivers.

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

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

“I will plant companionship thick as trees all along the rivers of America . . .

Hence the poem’s great concluding benediction on time’s pro- cess: “Flow on, river!

My mighty Yangtse River in the south! Good morning! My icy Yellow River in the north!

Rivers.

Whitman East & West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2002
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

As we drove across the river from Philadelphia into Camden, we were shocked by the slums that seemed

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

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

, their return is via the Mississippi to the Great Lakes, finally on the Hudson River.

Lawrence River.

Whitman enjoys a sight on the Delaware River of what seems to him a perfect combination of nature and

Whitman and William Duckett drive four miles to "Billy" Thompson's on the Delaware River at Glouces ter

A Delaware River ferryman visits Walt, bringing news of scenes and people Whitman has been incapable

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

Whitman and World Cultures

  • Creator(s): Caterina Bernardini
Text:

contributions," and that such a poet must "incarnat[e] [ his country's] geography and natural life and river

Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him. ( 1856, 183–184) In the 1860 edition, his ambition

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

He would have met another Brooklynite who managed the leap over the East River and found success in the

duringWhitman’s tenure; both sites were located nearWil- liamsburg’s two ferry landings on the East River

Let us hope that he will indulge us with a hymn to the aresnicated Undin of the rejuvenating river.”

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

essay, I am at a rustic house I have built at awild making place a mile or more from my home upon the river

;&qm jihjD\hihest point of rocks I can overlook a long stretch ofthe river and ofthe farm I can hear

In the door-yard, toward the are fresh of their river, graves, mostly officers, names on pieces of barrel-staves

,towards dusk, near the cotton-wood or pekan-trees, Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red River

We have body come upon a great river, a great lake, an immense plain, a rugged mountain.

Whitman & Dickinson: A Colloquy

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Athenot, Éric | Miller, Cristanne
Text:

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

Whispers of Heavenly Death.

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

sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers

Whispers of Heavenly Death.

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

sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers

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