Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

The 7,190 different words in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

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each 40

  1. p. vi, line 59[…] masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse […]
  2. p. vii, line 50The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms […]
  3. p. viii, line 10[…] unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent […]
  4. p. viii, line 76[…] their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No […]
  5. p. ix, line 15[…] setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a […]
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  1. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  2. p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  3. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  4. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  5. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  6. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
  7. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  8. p. 26, line 17And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  9. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  10. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  11. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  12. p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
  13. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  14. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  15. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  16. p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  17. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  18. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  19. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
  20. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  21. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  22. p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  23. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  24. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  25. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  26. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.
  27. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  28. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

eager 3

  1. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
  2. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  3. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.

eagle 1

  1. p. iv, line 46[…] mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's […]

ear 1

  1. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

early 8

  1. p. v, line 83[…] as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love […]
  2. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
  3. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
  4. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  5. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  6. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  7. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
  8. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,

earnest 1

  1. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;

ears 4

  1. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  2. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
  3. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  4. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

earth 70

  1. p. iii, line 16[…] of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves […]
  2. p. iii, line 18[…] the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly […]
  3. p. v, line 67[…] and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what […]
  4. p. vi, line 1[…] lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to […]
  5. p. vi, line 45[…] envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of […]
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  1. p. vi, line 62[…] light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky […]
  2. p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken as […]
  3. p. viii, line 89[…] when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering […]
  4. p. ix, line 5[…] women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from […]
  5. p. ix, line 7[…] liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]
  6. p. ix, line 74[…] no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or […]
  7. p. x, line 14[…] loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea […]
  8. p. xi, line 110[…] be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]
  9. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
  10. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  11. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  12. p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  13. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  14. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  15. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  16. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  17. p. 27, line 8Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  18. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  19. p. 27, line 10Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  20. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  21. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  22. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  23. p. 27, line 14Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  24. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  25. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  26. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  27. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  28. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  29. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  30. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  31. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  32. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  33. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  34. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  35. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  36. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  37. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  38. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  39. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  40. p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.
  41. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  42. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  43. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  44. p. 71, line 10The earth recedes from me into the night,
  45. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  46. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  47. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  48. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
  49. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  50. p. 85, line 13The melodious character of the earth!
  51. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,
  52. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.
  53. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  54. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
  55. p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,
  56. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  57. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,
  58. p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;
  59. p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,

earth-beetles 1

  1. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?

ease 7

  1. p. vii, line 37[…] their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority […]
  2. p. ix, line 34[…] and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and […]
  3. p. xi, line 20[…] retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that […]
  4. p. xi, line 76[…] he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes […]
  5. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
  6. p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  7. p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,

easier 1

  1. p. viii, line 102[…] in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when […]

easiest 1

  1. p. 21, line 14What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me,

easily 3

  1. p. iv, line 26[…] longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them […]
  2. p. v, line 14[…] baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and […]
  3. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.

east 4

  1. p. iv, line 28[…] or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him […]
  2. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  3. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  4. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;

eastern 2

  1. p. iii, line 83[…] to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable […]
  2. p. vii, line 84[…] the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more […]

easy 1

  1. p. x, line 7[…] a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the […]

eat 6

  1. p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  2. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  3. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  4. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  5. p. 52, line 20Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
  6. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,

eater 1

  1. p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,

eaters 1

  1. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,

eating 6

  1. p. iii, line 10[…] that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits […]
  2. p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,
  3. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
  4. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
  5. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
  6. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;

ebb 2

  1. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,

eccentric 1

  1. p. iv, line 100[…] but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place […]

echo 3

  1. p. ix, line 66[…] the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from […]
  2. p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
  3. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.

echoes 3

echoes 2 · echos 1

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,
  2. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  3. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?

economies 2

  1. p. ix, line 110[…] crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but […]
  2. p. ix, line 111[…] and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence […]

ecstasy see extasy

ecstatic see extatic

eddies 6

  1. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
  2. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
  3. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  4. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  5. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  6. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,

edge 3

  1. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  2. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  3. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

edges 1

  1. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,

editor 2

  1. p. xii, line 59[…] welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall […]
  2. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

educated 1

  1. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?

educations 1

  1. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?

educed 1

  1. p. vii, line 120[…] and all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever […]

effect 2

  1. p. vii, line 23[…] not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and […]
  2. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,

effectual 1

  1. p. xii, line 70[…] meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is […]

effectually 1

  1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

efflux 1

  1. p. 27, line 31Partaker of influx and efflux . . . . extoler of hate and conciliation,

effort 1

  1. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done […]

effuse 2

  1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
  2. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,

egg 1

  1. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

eggs 2

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,
  2. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

egotism 1

  1. p. 47, line 23I know perfectly well my own egotism,

egress 1

  1. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.

eight 1

  1. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.

eighteen-pound 1

  1. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,

eighty 4

  1. p. x, line 32[…] the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back […]
  2. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  3. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  4. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,

either 4

  1. p. iii, line 77[…] nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and […]
  2. p. xi, line 56[…] and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens […]
  3. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  4. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.

elaborate 1

  1. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

elastic 1

  1. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

elasticity 1

  1. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!

elated 1

  1. p. viii, line 92[…] calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the […]

elbowed 1

  1. p. 27, line 14Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!

elbows 1

  1. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,

elder 3

  1. p. xi, line 87[…] man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall […]
  2. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.
  3. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,

elderhand 2

  1. p. 15, line 32And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
  2. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,

eldest 1

  1. p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,

election 1

  1. p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

elections 1

  1. p. iii, line 62[…] temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they […]

electric 1

  1. p. v, line 72[…] the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]

electrical 1

  1. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,

elegance 2

  1. p. iii, line 60[…] the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance […]
  2. p. vii, line 23[…] I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between […]

elegant 1

  1. p. xii, line 3[…] of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is […]

elemental 1

  1. p. 43, line 14The whirling and whirling is elemental within me.

elementary 1

  1. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,

elements 2

  1. p. vii, line 62[…] and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of […]
  2. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,

elevation 1

  1. p. x, line 19[…] revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without […]

eleven 1

  1. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;

eleves 1

  1. p. 44, line 1Eleves I salute you,

elk 1

  1. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,

Elkhorn 1

  1. p. 23, line 28A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deerskin leggings,

else 18

  1. p. v, line 95[…] but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is […]
  2. p. ix, line 29[…] not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds […]
  3. p. x, line 37[…] you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a person does […]
  4. p. x, line 64[…] charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand […]
  5. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
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  1. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
  2. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  3. p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
  4. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  5. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  6. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  7. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  8. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
  9. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
  10. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
  11. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  12. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  13. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.

else's 1

  1. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.

elsewhere 1

  1. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.

elude 1

  1. p. xii, line 18[…] or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or […]

eluded 6

  1. p. 68, line 10The law of the past cannot be eluded,
  2. p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  3. p. 68, line 12The law of the living cannot be eluded . . . . it is eternal,
  4. p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  5. p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  6. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.

eludes 1

  1. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

emanations 1

  1. p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,

embodied 1

  1. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,

embodiments 1

  1. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.

embody 1

  1. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,

embouchure 2

  1. p. iv, line 14[…] the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him […]
  2. p. iv, line 15[…] embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of […]

embouchures 1

  1. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,

embowered 1

  1. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;

embrace 2

  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  2. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,

embraced 1

  1. p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,

embraces 2

  1. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  2. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

embracing 1

  1. p. 55, line 10To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.

embryo 1

  1. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;

emerge 1

  1. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,

emergency 1

  1. p. xi, line 27[…] again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]

emerging 2

  1. p. 70, line 13The newborn emerging from gates and the dying emerging from gates,

emetic 1

  1. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,

emigrant 1

  1. p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,

eminence 1

  1. p. viii, line 38[…] the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under […]

eminent 1

  1. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

emit 2

  1. p. ix, line 11[…] genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is […]
  2. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.

employed 2

  1. p. xii, line 14[…] public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or […]
  2. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,

employing 1

  1. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

employment 3

  1. p. vi, line 64[…] direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that […]
  2. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  3. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.

emptied 2

  1. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  2. p. 84, line 5I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,

emptier 1

  1. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,

empty 1

  1. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,

en 2

  1. p. xi, line 96[…] their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise […]
  2. p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.

enamored see enamoured

enamoured 1 today: enamored

  1. p. 21, line 10I am enamoured of growing outdoors,

encampments 1

  1. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;

encircles 1

  1. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

enclose 6

  1. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races […]
  2. p. vii, line 53[…] We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there […]
  3. p. viii, line 3[…] whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all […]
  4. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  5. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,

encloser 1

  1. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

encloses 2

  1. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
  2. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,

enclosing 2

  1. p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,
  2. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

encompass 3

  1. p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  2. p. 31, line 16Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me,

encouraged 2

  1. p. vi, line 99[…] parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does […]
  2. p. 56, line 10Failing to fetch me me at first keep encouraged,

encouragement 2

  1. p. vii, line 87[…] checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the […]
  2. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;

encourages 1

  1. p. xi, line 87[…] cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch […]

encouraging 2

  1. p. iv, line 109[…] large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of […]
  2. p. vii, line 71[…] be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad […]

end 5

  1. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  3. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  4. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
  5. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.

ended 1

  1. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.

endless 4

  1. p. iv, line 64[…] commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December […]
  2. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  3. p. 28, line 16Endless unfolding of words of ages!
  4. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,

endlessly 1

  1. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?

enemies 1

  1. p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,

enemy 1

  1. p. viii, line 71[…] loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet […]

enemy's 2

  1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,

enfolders 1

  1. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?

enfolding 1

  1. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:

enfolds 1

  1. p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.

engaged 2

  1. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  2. p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

engagements 1

  1. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.

engineer 2

  1. p. v, line 6[…] he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he […]
  2. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

engineering 1

  1. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,

engineers 1

  1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

engines 2

  1. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,
  2. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:

engirth 2

  1. p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,

England 2

  1. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;
  2. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,

English 8

  1. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough […]
  2. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  3. p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,
  4. p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?
  5. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?

engraved 1

  1. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,

engrossed 1

  1. p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;

enjoy 5

  1. p. iv, line 1[…] magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable […]
  2. p. vii, line 53[…] you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only […]
  3. p. vii, line 54[…] enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We […]
  4. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  5. p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

enjoying 3

  1. p. 20, line 4I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and breakdown.
  2. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  3. p. 38, line 3Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning,

enjoyments 2

  1. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  2. p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,

enjoys 1

  1. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,

ennuyee 1

  1. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,

ennuyees 1

  1. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

enormous 3

  1. p. iv, line 49[…] things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of […]
  2. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  3. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

enough 21

  1. p. v, line 82[…] souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters […]
  2. p. v, line 113[…] conjunction in a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery […]
  3. p. ix, line 104[…] out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the […]
  4. p. xi, line 112[…] befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of […]
  5. p. xi, line 113[…] it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all […]
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  1. p. 26, line 15I exist as I am, that is enough,
  2. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  3. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  4. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  5. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  6. p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,
  7. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  8. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,
  9. p. 52, line 22Long enough have you dreamed contemptible dreams,
  10. p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  11. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  12. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  13. p. 79, line 6I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
  14. p. 79, line 7To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  15. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,
  16. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,

enraged 1

  1. p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.

ensemble 1

  1. p. viii, line 34[…] influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is […]

ensues 1

  1. p. x, line 38[…] of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of consequence […]

entangled 1

  1. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,

enter 6

  1. p. iv, line 48[…] countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and past and present […]
  2. p. v, line 71[…] and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling […]
  3. p. ix, line 34[…] and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and […]
  4. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  5. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
  6. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;

entered 1

  1. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,

entering 2

  1. p. iv, line 52[…] the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first […]
  2. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

enterprise 1

  1. p. iv, line 70[…] and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the […]

enthusiasts 1

  1. p. x, line 89[…] friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love […]

entrenched 1

  1. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,

entrenchments 1

  1. p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.

entretied 1

  1. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,

enveloping 1

  1. p. ix, line 77[…] tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic […]

envelops 1

  1. p. v, line 15[…] runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage […]

environ 1

  1. p. 20, line 5Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,

envy 1

  1. p. vi, line 44[…] fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw […]

epic 1

  1. p. iv, line 83[…] be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the […]

epilepsy 1

  1. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

equable 1

  1. p. iv, line 98[…] Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are […]

equal 9

  1. p. v, line 25[…] soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a […]
  2. p. vii, line 51[…] man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no […]
  3. p. viii, line 91[…] at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are […]
  4. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.
  5. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
4 more lines
  1. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  2. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  3. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?
  4. p. 94, line 6Great is the greatest nation . . the nation of clusters of equal nations.

equality 4

  1. p. iv, line 70[…] general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the […]
  2. p. xii, line 8[…] tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium […]
  3. p. 93, line 8Great is liberty! Great is equality! I am their follower,
  4. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.

equalizer 1

  1. p. iv, line 104[…] and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying […]

equally 9

  1. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  2. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  3. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  4. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.
  5. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;
  6. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
  7. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  8. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;

equals 3

  1. p. vii, line 74[…] pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches […]
  2. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  3. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?

equanimity 1

  1. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.

equilibrium 2

  1. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  2. p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,

equipped 1

  1. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,

equivalents 1

  1. p. vii, line 78[…] that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard […]

eras 3

  1. p. iv, line 85[…] wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not […]
  2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
  3. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

erect 1

  1. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,

Erie 1

  1. p. iv, line 19[…] and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and […]

errant 1

  1. p. xii, line 47[…] on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside […]

erudite 1

  1. p. xii, line 60[…] artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and […]

erysipalite 1

  1. p. 75, line 20The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wronged,

escape 5

  1. p. ix, line 3[…] in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of […]
  2. p. x, line 84[…] persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof […]
  3. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  4. p. 59, line 5None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.

escaped 1

  1. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,

esculent 2

  1. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
  2. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

Eskimos see esquimaux

especially 2

  1. p. ix, line 49[…] a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous […]
  2. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,

esquimaux 1 today: Eskimos

  1. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,

essences 1

  1. p. iv, line 48[…] both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of […]

essentially 1

  1. p. iii, line 17[…] fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto […]

estate 3

  1. p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.
  2. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?

esteemed 1

  1. p. x, line 28[…] the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at […]

estimated 1

  1. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,

estimation 1

  1. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,

eternal 8

  1. p. vi, line 26[…] that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible […]
  2. p. viii, line 19[…] ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is […]
  3. p. viii, line 22[…] the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of […]
  4. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  5. p. 68, line 12The law of the living cannot be eluded . . . . it is eternal,
  6. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  7. p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,

eternally 2

  1. p. vi, line 54[…] hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with man. To these […]
  2. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.

eternity 7

  1. p. v, line 24[…] things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent […]
  2. p. v, line 26[…] his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he […]
  3. p. v, line 27[…] play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and […]
  4. p. xi, line 37[…] and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes […]
  5. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  6. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
  7. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,

ether 1

  1. p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,

ethereal 1

  1. p. ix, line 86[…] upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the […]

etui 2

  1. p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;

eucharist 1

  1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

Europe 3

  1. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  2. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  3. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

European 1

  1. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,

eve 3

  1. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  2. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
  3. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;

even 7

  1. p. iii, line 44[…] authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the […]
  2. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  3. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  4. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  5. p. 57, line 15I will be even with you, and you shall be even with me.
  6. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.

evening 2

  1. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  2. p. 79, line 7To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,

events 4

  1. p. iv, line 49[…] of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines […]
  2. p. vi, line 64[…] any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of […]
  3. p. vi, line 74[…] poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some […]
  4. p. xi, line 102[…] interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects […]

ever 36

  1. p. v, line 6[…] fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows […]
  2. p. viii, line 1[…] of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the […]
  3. p. viii, line 18[…] with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of […]
  4. p. viii, line 19[…] basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent […]
  5. p. x, line 60[…] of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on the programme but it is duly […]
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  1. p. x, line 63[…] can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it […]
  2. p. x, line 99[…] name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has […]
  3. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  4. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  5. p. 23, line 22Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
  6. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  7. p. 47, line 2Ever the hard and unsunk ground,
  8. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  9. p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
  10. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
  11. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  12. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  13. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.
  14. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
  15. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  16. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  17. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  18. p. 67, line 24Yourself! Yourself! Yourself forever and ever!
  19. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  20. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  21. p. 81, line 26Have you ever loved a woman?
  22. p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;
  23. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
  24. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

ever-fresh 1

  1. p. xii, line 45[…] of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love […]

evergrowing 1

  1. p. xii, line 24[…] disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the […]

everlaughing 1

  1. p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,

ever-pushed 1

  1. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!

every 74

  1. p. iv, line 65[…] gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and […]
  2. p. iv, line 102[…] in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less […]
  3. p. v, line 8[…] knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat […]
  4. p. v, line 41[…] not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The […]
  5. p. vi, line 2[…] and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy […]
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  1. p. vi, line 11[…] families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been […]
  2. p. vi, line 17[…] between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not […]
  3. p. vii, line 99[…] poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they […]
  4. p. viii, line 6[…] persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men […]
  5. p. ix, line 31[…] bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library who can read the […]
  6. p. ix, line 60[…] where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must […]
  7. p. x, line 36[…] wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of […]
  8. p. xi, line 14[…] the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness […]
  9. p. xi, line 98[…] they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under […]
  10. p. xii, line 21[…] the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or […]
  11. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  12. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  13. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  14. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  15. p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,
  16. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  17. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  18. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  19. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,
  20. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  21. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  22. p. 34, line 8And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake.
  23. p. 37, line 27Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure;
  24. p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
  25. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  26. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  27. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  28. p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,
  29. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  30. p. 51, line 1Lighting on every moment of my life,
  31. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  32. p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
  33. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
  34. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  35. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  36. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  37. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
  38. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  39. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
  40. p. 60, line 22The Congress convenes every December for you,
  41. p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,
  42. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  43. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  44. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
  45. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  46. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  47. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  48. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;
  49. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  50. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  51. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  52. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  53. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  54. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.
  55. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  56. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  57. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,
  58. p. 92, line 6And that to another . . . . and every one to another still.
  59. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,
  60. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

everybody 2

  1. p. 25, line 19I might not tell everybody but I will tell you.
  2. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.

everyday 1

  1. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:

everything 4

  1. p. vi, line 23[…] creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
  2. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  3. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
  4. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

everywhere 1

  1. p. vii, line 66[…] on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the […]

evil 4

  1. p. xi, line 25[…] the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet […]
  2. p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,
  3. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.

evince 1

  1. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.

evolves 1

  1. p. 46, line 27My head evolves on my neck,

exact 6

  1. p. vi, line 50[…] miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight […]
  2. p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the […]
  3. p. ix, line 2[…] without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when […]
  4. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!
  5. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
  6. p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.

exactly 4

  1. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
  2. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  3. p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;

exaggerations 1

  1. p. ix, line 57[…] work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children […]

exalt 1

  1. p. vii, line 27[…] for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes […]

exaltations 1

  1. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,

exalted 1

  1. p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.

examine 2

  1. p. vi, line 11[…] season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or […]
  2. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;

examining 1

  1. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;

example 1

  1. p. vii, line 47[…] and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy […]

exceeding 1

  1. p. xi, line 18[…] periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled […]

excellent 1

  1. p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;

except 3

  1. p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  2. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  3. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,

exception 1

  1. p. ix, line 74[…] outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a […]

excess 1

  1. p. vi, line 114[…] better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave […]

exchange 1

  1. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,

exchanges 1

  1. p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.

excited 1

  1. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;

exclamations 1

  1. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,

excluded 1

  1. p. 48, line 24Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,

exclusive 1

  1. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,

exclusiveness 1

  1. p. v, line 46[…] vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion […]

excursion 2

  1. p. iv, line 75[…] Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and […]
  2. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,

executive 1

  1. p. xii, line 14[…] the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit […]

executives 1

  1. p. iii, line 42[…] States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges […]

exercises 1

  1. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

exhale 1

  1. p. 49, line 21They pour and they pour and they exhale away.

exhales 1

  1. p. 79, line 14A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,

exhausted 2

  1. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
  2. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;

exhibition-gallery 1

  1. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,

exhibits 2

  1. p. vi, line 94[…] passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are […]
  2. p. ix, line 16[…] precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the […]

exile 2

  1. p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,
  2. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,

exist 4

  1. p. viii, line 48[…] the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest […]
  2. p. xi, line 1[…] only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists […]
  3. p. xi, line 2[…] so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent […]
  4. p. 26, line 15I exist as I am, that is enough,

existence 2

  1. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  2. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.

exists 1

  1. p. xi, line 2[…] parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that […]

exit 1

  1. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,

expanding 2

  1. p. 51, line 9Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding,

expanse 1

  1. p. vi, line 38[…] His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute […]

expect 2

  1. p. v, line 76[…] and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and […]
  2. p. v, line 79[…] which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls […]

expectantly 1

  1. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,

expectation 1

  1. p. xii, line 52[…] away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied by […]

expected 2

  1. p. vi, line 33[…] pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with […]
  2. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,

expecting 1

  1. p. v, line 31[…] preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about […]

experience 4

  1. p. vi, line 41[…] lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing […]
  2. p. vii, line 29[…] and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred […]
  3. p. viii, line 97[…] cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that […]
  4. p. 48, line 27By experience I know them.

experient 1

  1. p. 24, line 3A novice beginning experient of myriads of seasons,

expiration 1

  1. p. x, line 69[…] first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does […]

explain 1

  1. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.

explanation 2

  1. p. x, line 26[…] reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the […]
  2. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,

explanations 1

  1. p. xi, line 73[…] under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full? To no such […]

explorations 1

  1. p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.

explosion 1

  1. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,

expose 1

  1. p. v, line 40[…] is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes […]

exposed 1

  1. p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,

exposes 1

  1. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,

exposing 1

  1. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet […]

exposition 1

  1. p. viii, line 51[…] than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand […]

express 4

  1. p. xii, line 7[…] who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision […]
  2. p. xii, line 10[…] It is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  3. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  4. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:

expressed 1

  1. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

expression 9

  1. p. iv, line 81[…] the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new […]
  2. p. vi, line 66[…] This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does […]
  3. p. vi, line 110The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity […]
  4. p. vii, line 48[…] contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and […]
  5. p. xi, line 112The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On […]
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  1. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
  2. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  3. p. 93, line 22Great is wealth and great is poverty . . . . great is expression and great is silence.
  4. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

expressive 2

  1. p. v, line 34[…] humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not […]
  2. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

express-wagon 1

  1. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;

exquisite 5

  1. p. xi, line 106[…] the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in […]
  2. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  3. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
  4. p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
  5. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,

exquisitely 1

  1. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

extasy 1 today: ecstasy

  1. p. viii, line 98[…] night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless […]

extatic 1 today: ecstatic

  1. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,

extended 1

  1. p. 66, line 27Thumb extended or finger uplifted,

exterior 1

  1. p. iv, line 1[…] and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one […]

extoler 2

  1. p. 27, line 31Partaker of influx and efflux . . . . extoler of hate and conciliation,
  2. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.

extract 1

  1. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?

extravagance 1

  1. p. iii, line 34[…] flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the […]

extravagant 1

  1. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,

extreme 1

  1. p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and […]

extremest 1

  1. p. vi, line 96[…] is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile […]

extricate 1

  1. p. 73, line 14I turn but do not extricate myself;

exuding 2

  1. p. vii, line 106[…] if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love […]
  2. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,

exurge 1

  1. p. 60, line 24All doctrines, all politics and civilization exurge from you,

eye 4

  1. p. ix, line 46[…] ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which […]
  2. p. x, line 29[…] most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop […]
  3. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  4. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

eyelashes 2

  1. p. viii, line 75[…] their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is […]
  2. p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.

eyes 31

  1. p. vi, line 17[…] and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The […]
  2. p. viii, line 115[…] his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by […]
  3. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  4. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  5. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
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  1. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  2. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  3. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  4. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  5. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;
  6. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,
  7. p. 31, line 3My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
  8. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
  9. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  10. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  11. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  12. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  13. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  14. p. 52, line 23Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
  15. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
  16. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  17. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,
  18. p. 73, line 5I see his white body . . . . I see his undaunted eyes;
  19. p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,
  20. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  21. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
  22. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,
  23. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  24. p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,
  25. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,

eyesight 9

  1. p. v, line 59[…] he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who […]
  2. p. v, line 62[…] rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from […]
  3. p. vi, line 51[…] is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing […]
  4. p. vi, line 52[…] plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the […]
  5. p. vii, line 57[…] does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand […]
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  1. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  2. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  3. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  4. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,

eye-sockets 1

  1. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,