"Spirit that Form'd This Scene" (p. 436). First published in the Critic, September 10, 1881.

"A Clear Midnight" (p. 437). Set to music by Eugene Bonner, F.S. Converse, Philip Dalmas, W.H. Pommer, Ada Weigle Powers, Lynnel Reed, and Eva Ruth Spalding.

"Years of the Modern" (p. 438). Though first published in 1865 (in Drum-Taps), parts of this poem were written in prose form in 1856. (Cf. "The Eighteenth Presidency", pp. 586-602.)

"As at Thy Portals also Death" (p. 445). Whitman's mother died, May 23, 1873.

"The Artilleryman's Vision" (p. 291). Cf. "The Dying Veteran" (p. 473), and "The Sleepers", § 5 (p. 388).

"The Sobbing of the Bells" (p. 448). This tribute to President Garfield, whom Whitman had known personally (Traubel, I, p. 324), written at the Hotel Bulfinch in Boston (Kennedy, p. 3), was first published in the Boston Daily Globe, September 27, 1881. A facsimile reproduction of the manuscript is to be found in Bucke, facing p. 54. Whitman once expressed a doubt about the propriety of retaining the poem because it borrows a line from Poe's "The Bells" for its title. (Traubel, III, p. 129.)

"So Long" (p. 450). First appearing in the 1860 edition, this poem was always kept at the end of Leaves of Grass (though the Annexes in late editions came after it).

"Mannahatta" (p. 454). First published in New York Herald, February 27, 1888. Whitman has another poem with the same title (p. 427).

"Paumanok" (p. 454). First published in New York Herald, February 29, 1888.

"From Montauk Point" (p. 454). First published in New York Herald, March 1, 1888.

"A Carol Closing Sixty-nine" (p. 455). First published in New York Herald, May 21, 1888. Whitman had offered this poem to Lippincott's Magazine, but when it did not appear in the June issue, he withdrew it and sent it to the Herald in order that it might appear near his birthday (Traubel, I, p. 179). A Critic paragraph taking note of his approaching birthday, declared that "the number of those who greatly admire his writings, though without thinking them the be-all and the end-all of American poetry, and who feel for his personality a heartfelt and growing affection has increased in proportion as his work and the story of his career have become better known". (Critic, May 25, 1889.)

"The Bravest Soldiers" (p. 455). First published in New York Herald, March 18, 1888.

"A Font of Type" (p. 455). In John Russell Young's Men and Memories (Vol. I, p. 107) the original version of this poem is given as follows:

"O latent mine! O unlaunched voices! passionate powers, all eligible.
Wrath, argument, praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout, or love's caress,
(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer, merely),
Shores, oceans, roused to fury and to death,
Or soothed to ease and sheeny sun, and sleep,
With these pallid slivers, waiting.

"As I Sit Writing Here" (p. 456). First published in New York Herald, May 14, 1888.

"My Canary Bird" (p. 456). First published in New York Herald, March 2, 1888.

"Queries to My Seventieth Year" (p. 456). First published in New York Herald, May 2, 1888.

"The Wallabout Martyrs" (p. 456). First published in New York Herald, March 16, 1888. Cf. "The Centenarian's Story" (p. 270).