Title: Hast never come to thee an hour
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Late 1870s or early 1880s
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00058
Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. 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: This manuscript features two drafts of "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour," a poem published first in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The manuscript was likely written in the late 1870s or early 1880s.
Contributors to digital file: Nicole Gray, Nick Krauter, Matthew Miller, Andy Jewell, Kenneth Price, and Brett Barney
Hast never come to thee an hour
Hast never come to thee an hour,
When The ^A sudden ^ [penetrating?] gleam ^precipitating all——the ^phantasm, mockery of wealth?
Of all these eager aims—these politics,
amours?
The phantasm thou art making life?
Hast never come to thee in life an one hour
One
A
sudden
^strange unearthly
gleam, precipitating, bursting all
the phantasm
these bubble
mockery
^ies?
of wealth
Of all
tThese eager business aims?
these
these shows,
amours—pol
itics,
amours,
fashions,
wealth?
[Interpellation?]