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MANNAHATTA.
My city's fit and noble name resumed,Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty,
meaning
A rocky founded island, where ever gayly dash
the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
WALT WHITMAN.
Publication Information
"Mannahatta."
New York Herald
27 February 1888:
4.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Notes
Mannahatta, meaning "land of many hills," is the Native American name Whitman uses for New York City. In the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass, Whitman italicized the final line and changed it to read, "A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves."
Whitman Archive ID
per.00099