"The Unexpressed" (p. 493). First published in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1891. A Whitman manuscript, on display in the Whitman Exhibition at the New York Public Library in 1925, indicates that the poem had been offered to Harper's, October 18, 1890.

"Grand is the Seen" (p. 494). A manuscript showing several variations was published in the Conservator, January 1897:

"Grand is the seen, the light — grand are the sky & stars.
Grand is the earth, & grand are time & space,

And grand their laws so multiform, so evolutionary, puzzling, lasting;
Then grander is one's unseen soul, endowing comprehending those —
Lighting the light, the sky & stars, sailing the sea, delving the earth,
More multiform — more puzzling than they, more evolutionary vast & lasting."

"A Kiss to the Bride" (p. 497). Cf. Letter CXXVIII, n. (p. 1032).

"Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Published Shame" (p. 497). First published in New York Daily Graphic, March 5, 1873.

"Of Many a Smutch'd Deed Reminiscent" (p. 499). Cf. "Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats" (p. 431), and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, § 6 (p. 150). The manuscript of this poem appears in N. and F., p. 39. Probably it was first published after the poet's death. Other "Old Age Echoes" may belong in the same category such as the first five poems in the group and "Supplement Hours".

"Death's Valley" (p. 499). First published in Harper's Magazine, April 1892.

"A Thought of Columbus" (p. 501). A facsimile of the manuscript of this, Whitman's last deliberate composition, was published in Once a Week, July 9, 1892. Cf. "Prayer of Columbus" (p. 381).

"Blood-Money" (p. 503). This poem, almost the first that Whitman published in free verse, appeared in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Supplement, March 22, 1850. It was inspired, like Whittier's "Ichabod", by Webster's speech conciliating the slave states, on the 7th of March, and by the Fugitive Slave Law.

"Resurgemus" (p. 505). First published in the New York Daily Tribune, June 21, 1850. Cf. "Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States" (p. 246). A comparison of the two versions is made in U.P.P., I, pp. xci, 27-30.