Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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Book Specimen Days

Section A HAPPY HOUR'S COMMAND

Section ANSWER TO AN INSISTING FRIEND

Section GENEALOGY -- VAN VELSOR AND WHITMAN

Section THE OLD WHITMAN AND VAN VELSOR CEMETERIES

Section THE MATERNAL HOMESTEAD

Section TWO OLD FAMILY INTERIORS

Section PAUMANOK, AND MY LIFE ON IT AS CHILD AND YOUNG MAN

Section MY FIRST READING. -- LAFAYETTE

Section PRINTING OFFICE. -- OLD BROOKLYN

Section GROWTH -- HEALTH -- WORK

Section MY PASSION FOR FERRIES

Section BROADWAY SIGHTS

Section OMNIBUS JAUNTS AND DRIVERS

Section PLAYS AND OPERAS TOO

Section THROUGH EIGHT YEARS

Section SOURCES OF CHARACTER -- RESULTS -- 1860

Section OPENING OF THE SECESSION WAR

Section NATIONAL UPRISING AND VOLUNTEERING

Section CONTEMPTUOUS FEELING

Section BATTLE OF BULL RUN, JULY, 1861

Section THE STUPOR PASSES -- SOMETHING ELSE BEGINS

Section DOWN AT THE FRONT

Section AFTER FIRST FREDERICKSBURG

Section BACK TO WASHINGTON

Section FIFTY HOURS LEFT WOUNDED ON THE FIELD

Section HOSPITAL SCENES AND PERSONS

Section PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL

Section THE WHITE HOUSE BY MOONLIGHT

Section AN ARMY HOSPITAL WARD

Section A CONNECTICUT CASE

Section TWO BROOKLYN BOYS

Section A SECESH BRAVE

Section THE WOUNDED FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE

Section A NIGHT BATTLE, OVER A WEEK SINCE

Section UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER

Section SOME SPECIMEN CASES

Section MY PREPARATIONS FOR VISITS

Section AMBULANCE PROCESSIONS

Section BAD WOUNDS -- THE YOUNG

Section THE MOST INSPIRITING OF ALL WAR'S SHOWS

Section BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

Section A CAVALRY CAMP

Section A NEW YORK SOLDIER

Section HOME-MADE MUSIC

Section ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Section HEATED TERM

Section SOLDIERS AND TALKS

Section DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER

Section HOSPITALS ENSEMBLE

Section A SILENT NIGHT RAMBLE

Section SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS AMONG THE SOLDIERS

Section CATTLE DROVES ABOUT WASHINGTON

Section HOSPITAL PERPLEXITY

Section DOWN AT THE FRONT

Section PAYING THE BOUNTIES

Section RUMORS, CHANGES, &C.

Section VIRGINIA

Section SUMMER OF 1864

Section A NEW ARMY ORGANIZATION FIT FOR AMERICA

Section DEATH OF A HERO

Section HOSPITAL SCENES. -- INCIDENTS

Section A YANKEE SOLDIER

Section UNION PRISONERS SOUTH

Section DESERTERS

Section A GLIMPSE OF WAR'S HELL-SCENES

Section GIFTS -- MONEY -- DISCRIMINATION

Section ITEMS FROM MY NOTE BOOKS

Section A CASE FROM SECOND BULL RUN

Section ARMY SURGEONS -- AID DEFICIENCIES

Section THE BLUE EVERYWHERE

Section A MODEL HOSPITAL

Section BOYS IN THE ARMY

Section BURIAL OF A LADY NURSE

Section FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS

Section SOUTHERN ESCAPEES

Section THE CAPITOL BY GAS-LIGHT

Section THE INAUGURATION

Section ATTITUDE OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS DURING THE WAR

Section THE WEATHER. -- DOES IT SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE TIMES?

Section INAUGURATION BALL

Section SCENE AT THE CAPITOL

Section A YANKEE ANTIQUE

Section WOUNDS AND DISEASES

Section DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

Section SHERMAN'S ARMY'S JUBILATION -- ITS SUDDEN STOPPAGE

Section NO GOOD PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN

Section RELEASE'D UNION PRISONERS FROM SOUTH

Section DEATH OF A PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER

Section THE ARMIES RETURNING

Section THE GRAND REVIEW

Section WESTERN SOLDIERS

Section A SOLDIER ON LINCOLN

Section TWO BROTHERS, ONE SOUTH, ONE NORTH

Section SOME SAD CASES YET

Section CALHOUN'S REAL MONUMENT

Section HOSPITALS CLOSING

Section TYPICAL SOLDIERS

Section "CONVULSIVENESS"

Section THREE YEARS SUMM'D UP

Section THE MILLION DEAD, TOO, SUMM'D UP

Section THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS

Section AN INTERREGNUM PARAGRAPH

Section NEW THEMES ENTERED UPON

Section ENTERING A LONG FARM-LANE

Section TO THE SPRING AND BROOK

Section AN EARLY SUMMER REVEILLLE

Section BIRDS MIGRATING AT MIDNIGHT

Section BUMBLE-BEES

Section CEDAR-APPLES

Section SUMMER SIGHTS AND INDOLENCIES

Section SUNDOWN PERFUME -- QUAIL-NOTES -- THE HERMIT-THRUSH

Section A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND

Section LOCUSTS AND KATYDIDS

Section THE LESSON OF A TREE

Section AUTUMN SIDE-BITS

Section THE SKY -- DAYS AND NIGHTS -- HAPPINESS

Section COLORS -- A CONTRAST

Section NOVEMBER 8, '76

Section CROWS AND CROWS

Section A WINTER DAY ON THE SEA-BEACH

Section SEA-SHORE FANCIES

Section IN MEMORY OF THOMAS PAINE Spoken at Lincoln Hall, Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 28, '77, for 140th anniversary of T.P.'s birth-day.

Section A TWO HOURS' ICE-SAIL

Section SPRING OVERTURES -- RECREATIONS

Section ONE OF THE HUMAN KINKS

Section AN AFTERNOON SCENE

Section THE GATES OPENING

Section THE COMMON EARTH, THE SOIL

Section BIRDS AND BIRDS AND BIRDS

Section FULL-STARR'D NIGHTS

Section MULLEINS AND MULLEINS

Section DISTANT SOUNDS

Section A SUN-BATH -- NAKEDNESS

Section THE OAKS AND I

Section A QUINTETTE

Section THE FIRST FROST -- MEMS

Section THREE YOUNG MEN'S DEATHS

Section FEBRUARY DAYS

Section A MEADOW LARK

Section SUNDOWN LIGHTS

Section THOUGHTS UNDER AN OAK -- A DREAM

Section CLOVER AND HAY PERFUME

Section AN UNKNOWN

Section BIRD-WHISTLING

Section HORSE-MINT

Section THREE OF US

Section DEATH OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

Section JAUNT UP THE HUDSON

Section HAPPINESS AND RASPBERRIES

Section A SPECIMEN TRAMP FAMILY

Section MANHATTAN FROM THE BAY

Section HUMAN AND HEROIC NEW YORK

Section HOURS FOR THE SOUL

Section STRAW-COLOR'D AND OTHER PSYCHES

Section A NIGHT REMEMBRANCE

Section WILD FLOWERS

Section A CIVILITY TOO LONG NEGLECTED

Section DELAWARE RIVER -- DAYS AND NIGHTS

Section SCENES ON FERRY AND RIVER -- LAST WINTER'S NIGHTS

Section THE FIRST SPRING DAY ON CHESTNUT STREET

Section UP THE HUDSON TO ULSTER COUNTY

Section DAYS AT J.B.'S TURF-FIRES -- SPRING SONGS

Section MEETING A HERMIT

Section AN ULSTER COUNTY WATERFALL

Section WALTER DUMONT AND HIS MEDAL

Section HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS

Section TWO CITY AREAS, CERTAIN HOURS

Section CENTRAL PARK WALKS AND TALKS

Section A FINE AFTERNOON, 4 to 6

Section DEPARTING OF THE BIG STEAMERS

Section TWO HOURS ON THE MINNESOTA

Section MATURE SUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS

Section EXPOSITION BUILDING -- NEW CITY HALL -- RIVER TRIP

Section SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER

Section BEGIN A LONG JAUNT WEST

Section IN THE SLEEPER

Section MISSOURI STATE

Section LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA, KANSAS

Section THE PRAIRIES And an Undeliver'd Speech.

Section ON TO DENVER -- A FRONTIER INCIDENT

Section AN HOUR ON KENOSHA SUMMIT

Section AN EGOTISTICAL "FIND"

Section NEW SENSES -- NEW JOYS

Section STEAM-POWER, TELEGRAPHS, &C.

Section AMERICA'S BACK-BONE

Section THE PARKS

Section ART FEATURES

Section DENVER IMPRESSIONS

Section I TURN SOUTH -- AND THEN EAST AGAIN

Section UNFULFILL'd WANTS -- THE ARKANSAS RIVER

Section A SILENT LITTLE FOLLOWER -- THE COREOPSIS

Section THE PRAIRIES AND GREAT PLAINS IN POETRY (After traveling Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.)

Section THE SPANISH PEAKS -- EVENING ON THE PLAINS

Section AMERICA'S CHARACTERISTIC LANDSCAPE

Section EARTH'S MOST IMPORTANT STREAM

Section PRAIRIE ANALOGIES -- THE TREE QUESTION

Section MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LITERATURE

Section AN INTERVIEWER'S ITEM

Section THE WOMEN OF THE WEST

Section THE SILENT GENERAL

Section PRESIDENT HAYES'S SPEECHES

Section ST. LOUIS MEMORANDA

Section NIGHTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Section UPON OUR OWN LAND

Section EDGAR POE'S SIGNIFICANCE

Section BEETHOVEN'S SEPTETTE

Section A HINT OF WILD NATURE

Section LOAFING IN THE WOODS

Section A CONTRALTO VOICE

Section SEEING NIAGARA TO ADVANTAGE

Section JAUNTING TO CANADA

Section SUNDAY WITH THE INSANE

Section REMINISCENCE OF ELIAS HICKS

Section GRAND NATIVE GROWTH

Section A ZOLLVEREIN BETWEEN U.S. AND CANADA

Section THE ST. LAWRENCE LINE

Section THE SAVAGE SAGUENAY

Section CAPES ETERNITY AND TRINITY

Section CHICOUTIMI AND HA-HA SAY

Section THE INHABITANTS -- GOOD LIVING

Section CEDAR-PLUMS LIKE -- NAMES (Back again in Camden and down in Jersey.)

Section DEATH OF THOMAS CARLYLE

Section CARLYLE FROM AMERICAN POINTS OF VIEW Later Thoughts and Jottings.

Section A COUPLE OF OLD FRIENDS -- A COLERIDGE BIT

Section A WEEK'S VISIT TO BOSTON

Section THE BOSTON OF TO-DAY

Section MY TRIBUTE TO FOUR POETS

Section MILLET'S PICTURES -- LAST ITEMS

Section BIRDS -- AND A CAUTION

Section SAMPLES OF MY COMMON-PLACE BOOK

Section MY NATIVE SAND AND SALT ONCE MORE

Section HOT WEATHER NEW YORK

Section "CUSTER'S LAST RALLY"

Section SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES -- MEMORIES

Section A DISCOVERY OF OLD AGE

Section A VISIT, AT THE LAST, TO R. W. EMERSON

Section OTHER CONCORD NOTATIONS

Section BOSTON COMMON -- MORE OF EMERSON

Section AN OSSIANIC NIGHT -- DEAREST FRIENDS

Section ONLY A NEW FERRY BOAT

Section DEATH OF LONGFELLOW

Section STARTING NEWSPAPERS

Section THE GREAT UNREST OF WHICH WE ARE PART

Section BY EMERSON'S GRAVE

Section AT PRESENT WRITING -- PERSONAL A letter to a German friend -- extract.

Section AFTER TRYING A CERTAIN BOOK

Section FINAL CONFESSIONS -- LITERARY TESTS

Section NATURE AND DEMOCRACY -- MORALITY