Title: sorrow
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: 1865
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00052
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), 1:157. 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: This manuscript was likely written soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, as Whitman composed his elegy for Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." A few of the words appear in that poem, including "mourn," "sad," "wailing," and others.
Contributors to digital file: Lisa Renfro, Nick Krauter, Melissa Sinner, Justin St. Clair, Nicole Gray, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth Price, and Brett Barney