Whitman wrote a sequence of poems title “Live Oak, With Moss” — inspired, scholars believe, by his romance with one Fred Vaughan — but scattered them throughout his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass so that they wouldn’t be conspicuous. (Two of them were removed from subsequent editions for the next century.) Here’s how a scholar, back in 1959, discovered the series and reassembled it in sequence. – Virginia Magazine (UVA)