Veil with their lids thine eyes, O Soul

Whitman Archive Title: Veil with their lids thine eyes, O Soul
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00312
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 30
Folder: To the Man-of-War-Bird (1876). A.MS. drafts.
Series: Literary File
Date: between 1867-1876
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: One of the notebooks commonly known as the "Penitenzia" notebooks because that word is written in red ink on the covers. It includes drafts and trial lines of the poem "Penitenzia," (published posthumously as "Mask with Their Lids"). loc.02901 is another "Penitenzia" notebook that also has drafts and trial lines for the poem.