item: #1 of 12 id: 12933 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date: None words: 72765 flesch: 78 summary: THOMAS CARLYLE One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. Occasionally these articles were duly fathered by great men, as this gave them the required specific gravity. keywords: america; author; beauty; books; boy; carlyle; children; church; country; day; death; dickens; dollars; edison; england; fact; father; form; friend; genius; george; gladstone; god; goldsmith; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hugo; ireland; left; life; little; london; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; new; night; number; people; place; plain; play; poet; public; read; room; ruskin; shakespeare; shop; sir; street; swift; thackeray; things; think; thought; time; truth; turner; victor; village; way; white; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12933.txt plain text: 12933.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 30342 author: Burroughs, John title: Whitman: A Study date: None words: 67717 flesch: 69 summary: When John Brown mounted the scaffold in Virginia, in 1860, the poet says:-- I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd, I stood very near you, old man, when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds, you mounted the scaffold,-- very near him he stood in spirit; very near him he stood in the person of others, but not in his own proper person. VIII Whitman was of large mould in every way, and of bold, far-reaching schemes, and is very sure to fare better at the hands of large men than of small. keywords: age; air; art; artist; body; book; character; common; country; culture; day; death; democracy; earth; emerson; face; form; good; grass; human; leaves; life; like; literary; literature; look; love; men; mind; modern; nature; new; people; personality; poems; poet; poetic; poetry; power; real; science; self; sense; soul; spirit; spiritual; taste; things; thought; time; universal; view; walt whitman; way; whitman; words; work; world cache: 30342.txt plain text: 30342.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 31027 author: Legler, Henry Eduard title: Walt Whitman, Yesterday & Today date: None words: 10296 flesch: 71 summary: In columns of bantering comment, after parodying his style of all-inclusiveness, the United States Review (1855) characterizes Walt Whitman thus: No skulker or tea-drinking poet is Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman: Yesterday & Today_ keywords: author; book; death; earth; edition; good; grass; leaves; life; literature; love; new; pages; poems; poet; song; soul; thee; thou; thought; time; walt; whitman; world; years cache: 31027.txt plain text: 31027.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 31781 author: Shay, Frank title: The Bibliography of Walt Whitman date: None words: 6127 flesch: 77 summary: Octavo, half-calf, leather label; portrait, Photo'd from life, Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N. Y., by G. F. Pearsall, Fulton St. signed Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819; title, pp. Octavo maroon cloth, uncut; title stamped in gilt on front cover; portrait, the 70th year, title, contents, (5)-140; advertisement. 1888 Complete (portrait) Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888. keywords: cloth; contents; copies; edition; grass; leaves; new; title; uncut; walt; whitman cache: 31781.txt plain text: 31781.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 34417 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Walt Whitman: An Address date: None words: 12984 flesch: 77 summary: Young and Pollok, Addison and Watts were regarded as great poets. To a testimonial, intended to cheer his declining years, not only in a complimentary sense, came some eighteen hundred or more people to listen to a tribute to the aged poet by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, such as seldom falls to the lot of living man to hear about himself. keywords: book; day; death; joy; life; love; man; men; new; night; people; poet; sea; soul; thought; truth; walt; whitman; words; world cache: 34417.txt plain text: 34417.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 35395 author: Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows) title: The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman date: None words: 64992 flesch: 75 summary: I wish I could send you good letters, dearest Friend, making myself the vehicle of what is stirring around me in life & thought that would interest you; for there is plenty. Dear friend, best love & remembrance to you & to the young folk. keywords: america; anne gilchrist; away; beautiful; body; book; bye; camden; children; coming; day; dear; dearest; dearest friend; death; england; feel; friend; good; hampstead; hand; happy; health; heart; herby; home; hope; joy; letter; life; light; little; london; look; love; men; mother; mrs; nature; new; old; poems; poet; road; rossetti; soul; tell; things; thought; time; walt whitman; want; way; woman; words; work; years; young cache: 35395.txt plain text: 35395.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 35725 author: Whitman, Walt title: The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion date: None words: 53295 flesch: 82 summary: And now that I have lived for eight or nine days amid such scenes as the camps furnish, and had a practical part in it all, and realize the way that hundreds of thousands of good men are now living, and have had to live for a year or more, not only without any of the comforts, but with death and sickness and hard marching and hard fighting (and no success at that) for their continual experience--really nothing we call trouble seems worth talking about. At the time he wrote the 51st was doing provost duty at Lancaster, but would not probably remain so very long--seem to be moving towards southeast Kentucky--had a good camp, and good times generally. keywords: army; brooklyn; cases; course; day; days; dear; dearest mother; george; good; han; home; hope; hospitals; jeff; letter; little; love; man; mat; men; morning; mother; new; night; papers; poor; present; sick; soldiers; things; time; walt; ward; washington; way; week; wounded; yesterday; york cache: 35725.txt plain text: 35725.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 36305 author: Byron, May title: A Day with Walt Whitman date: None words: 5973 flesch: 73 summary: days,--The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air--the white and pink pond-blossoms, with great heart-shaped leaves, the glassy waters of the creek, the banks, with dense bushery and the picturesque beeches and shade and turf; the tremulous, reedy call of some bird from recesses, breaking the warm, indolent, half-voluptuous silence: the prevailing delicate, yet palpable, spicy, grassy, clovery perfume to my nostrils,--and over all, encircling all, to my sight and soul, the free space of the sky, transparent and blue, (_Specimen Days_,) (_Specimen Days._) keywords: air; day; days; grass; life; like; nature; night; soul; trees; whitman; world cache: 36305.txt plain text: 36305.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 38889 author: Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) title: Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors date: None words: 41021 flesch: 60 summary: Along the hill-side are the famous Acacia path of Mrs. Hawthorne and other walks planned by the novelist, some of them having been opened by him in the last summer of his life. The interior was cosy and more commodious than the exterior would indicate, and one could readily conceive that the artistic taste and deft fingers of Mrs. Hawthorne might create here the idyllic home her letters portray. keywords: alcott; author; away; berkshire; books; boston; channing; concord; corner; day; delightful; door; emerson; farm; fields; friends; grave; hawthorne; hill; holmes; home; house; letters; life; literary; longfellow; lowell; man; mansion; mountain; mrs; near; novelist; place; poet; ripley; river; room; scenes; sidenote; spot; street; study; summer; thoreau; thought; time; trees; village; way; wayside; whittier; wife; work; world; years cache: 38889.txt plain text: 38889.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 42281 author: Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt title: Walt Whitman in Mickle Street date: None words: 44104 flesch: 72 summary: After the death of Whitman Mrs. Davis resided for a short time at No. 432 Clinton street, Camden, and then she went to live with a wealthy family in New York City. It cannot be denied that a person with these traits of character would be an uncomfortable inmate to have in any home, and with Mr. Whitman this disregard for the convenience of others grew more marked as he advanced in years and deteriorated in body. keywords: camden; davis; day; days; donaldson; door; friends; fritzinger; hand; home; house; housekeeper; left; life; little; living; mary; mickle; money; mother; mrs; new; nurse; people; place; poet; room; street; things; thought; time; walt whitman; warren; way; whitman; woman; work; years cache: 42281.txt plain text: 42281.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 44973 author: Gould, Elizabeth Porter title: Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought date: None words: 14142 flesch: 91 summary: Let even wisest questions cease While I breathe in such life and peace This happy, happy hour. It must be so, If such a soul 'midst parting's woe, Could with truth's perfect clearness see The secret of life's mystery; Could _know_ that fullest life of man Needs heaven's light to round God's plan. keywords: day; dear; death; earth; god; heart; heaven; hour; joy; life; light; love; man; power; soul; thou; thought; thy; years cache: 44973.txt plain text: 44973.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 56536 author: Binns, Henry Bryan title: A Life of Walt Whitman date: None words: 157165 flesch: 80 summary: _Camden's Compliment_ = _Camden's Compliment to W. W._, 1889. Good-bye and Hail, W. W._, 1892. keywords: 10s; america; attitude; author; body; book; boston; brooklyn; bucke; burroughs; camden; carpenter; character; children; city; college; comp; consciousness; country; crown 8vo; d.d; day; days; death; demy 8vo; described; divine; edition; emerson; england; english; experience; expression; eyes; face; faith; family; father; fcap; fellowship; fourth; friends; general; george; god; good; grass; great; hand; health; heart; history; home; house; human; illustrated; illustrations; introduction; island; john; kennedy; leaves; letters; library; life; lincoln; little; living; long; love; m.a; meaning; men; methuen; mind; mother; mrs; mss; nation; nature; net; new; new york; night; north; notes; open; pages; papers; party; passion; people; personality; place; plates; poems; poet; power; present; president; prose; purpose; read; real; religion; saw; school; sea; second; second edition; self; sense; series; song; soul; south; spirit; street; things; thought; time; view; volume; w. w.; walt; walt whitman; war; washington; way; west; whitman; women; words; work; world; years; york cache: 56536.txt plain text: 56536.txt