About this Item

Title: After the dazzle of Day

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: 1887 or 1888

Whitman Archive ID: loc.00002

Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. . Transcribed from The Walt Whitman Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed. Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997). The transcription was then checked against 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: "After the Dazzle of Day" was first published in the New York Herald on February 3, 1888. This manuscript was probably composed in 1887 or early 1888, shortly before the poem's publication.