Title: Proud music of the Storm
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Mid- to late 1860s
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00046
Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: These notes contributed to the poem first published in the February 1869 number of The Atlantic Monthly as "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm." Subsequently, the poem was titled "Proud Music of the Storm" in Passage to India (1871), Two Rivulets (1876), and in Leaves of Grass (1881–2). This manuscript was probably written in the mid- to late 1860s shortly before publication in 1869.
Related item: The back of the manuscript, which consists of two leaves pasted together, has a partially-obstructed letterhead reading "Washington." An unfinished letter begins underneath the letterhead: "Dear Sir: Pleas."
Contributors to digital file: Nicole Gray, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth Price, Nick Krauter, Heather Morton, and Brett Barney
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Proud music of the Storm
the cohorn, a wind instrument
made of bark, bound
round with wire
used by the Russian shepherds
—& ☞ The fishermen on
the Don & the
Wolga
I hear
the wild sound of
the wild sound of
the from the
the cohorn from
Russ
shepherds or the
fishermen along the
Don or those of the
Wolga
the
sound of the
loshki the
musical
little
bells of the wooden loshki
—The Russian loshki, the
little bells attached to the
wood
—
The Sib
I see,
In Siberia
the
I see
dance
the
miners dancing
to
mus
the sound of
plates of metal
struck by boys, with
iron or wood
The old Russian ^hunting
music,
the
^ great
band of composed
of horns alone only