The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 44
... holds his hand. I love the president personally.” Whitman also later published prose sketches based on his wartime notebooks, first as Memoranda During the War in 1876, then in expanded form as Specimen Days in 1882. Specimen Days is a ...
... holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain, The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece, His blue shirt exposes ...
... holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots, The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child, The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her ...
... hold, The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle, As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change, The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof ...
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1856 | |
1860 | |
1867 | |
1872 | |
1891 | |
PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |