The Walt Whitman Archive
Complete Prose Works
In the pocket of my receptacle-book I find a list of
suggested and rejected names for this volume, or parts of it—such as the
following:
As the wild bee hums in May,
Away from Books—away from Art,
& August mulleins grow,
& Winter snow-flakes fall,
& stars in the sky roll round.
Now for the Day and Night—the lesson done,
Now for the Sun and Stars.
Notes of a half-Paralytic, As Voices in the Dusk,
from Speak- Week in and Week out, ers far
or hid, Embers of Ending
Days, Autochthons...Embryons, Ducks and
Drakes, Wing-and-Wing, Flood Tide and
Ebb, Notes and Recalles, Gossip at Early
Candle-light, Only Mulleins and
Bumble-Bees, Echoes and
Escapades, Pond-Babble...Tete-a-Tetes, Such
as I...Evening Dews, Echoes of a Life in the 19th
Century Notes after Writing a Book, in the
New World, Far and Near at 63, Flanges of
Fifty Years, Drifts and
Cumulus, Abandons...Hurry
Notes, Maize-Tassels...Kindlings, A
Life-Mosaic...Native Moments, Fore and
Aft...Vestibules, Types and
Semi-Tones, Scintilla at 60 and
after, Oddments...Sand-Drifts, Sands on
the Shores of 64, Again and
Again.