...sad,' mixed with the peaceful remembrance that the good work is not all unheeded on earth, since ' Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.' Here it will well be seen that we are in the thick of the war and the hospitals. The next poem relates...

...to memory ; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed and tended — " Many a spldier's loving arms about this neck have crossed and rested,...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips," — • Published by the Author : New York. walks with him through some of the hospitals, where he...

...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals ; The hurt and the wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night — some...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. A LETTER FROM CAMP. I. up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete ; And come to the...

...could understand at least one phase of his character, that best revealed in his own unmetred lines : " I sit by the restless all the dark night ; some are...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips." Dear old Walt! He was much belabored because he would write as he would. Yet all his roughness was...

...hundreds of them, thousands, tens of thousands,—by day and by night, for weeks, months, years ? " I sit by the restless all the dark night; some are...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips :—" Kisses, that touched with the fire of a strange, new, undying eloquence the lips that received...

...Does not this make more real the closing lines of that autobiographical poem, "The WoundDresser?" — Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. The soldier being a rebel made no difference so long as he needed loving ministrations. For instance,...

...Does not this make more real the closing lines of that autobiographical poem, " The WoundDresser?" — Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips. The soldier being a rebel made no difference so long as he needed loving ministrations. For instance,...

...burning flame). . . . The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand ; I sit by the restless all night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall...Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Such passages indicate better than pages of eulogy the sort of man that Whitman was, and one may be...

...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are...(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have crqss'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips). 819 GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT...

...resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are...(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested, Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA. LONG,...