{
 "id": "walt-whitman/a-glimpse",
 "title": "A Glimpse",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
 "poet_slug": "walt-whitman",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
 "book_slug": "leaves-of-grass",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 69,
 "container": "Calamus",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1860–61 scan. The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whituoft"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/walt-whitman_leaves-of-grass",
  "file": "calamus.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322",
   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 5,
  "n_stanzas": 1,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 125,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "A glimpse through an interstice caught,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}