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.

F

facades 1

  1. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,

face 52

  1. p. vi, line 16[…] in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every […]
  2. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  3. p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
  4. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  5. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
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  1. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  2. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  3. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.
  4. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;
  5. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  6. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
  7. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  8. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  9. 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,
  10. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
  11. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  12. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  13. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  14. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  15. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
  16. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  17. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,
  18. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  19. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
  20. p. 83, line 1The face of an amour . . . . the face of veneration,
  21. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,
  22. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,
  23. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
  24. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;
  25. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  26. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,
  27. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  28. p. 83, line 22This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
  29. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
  30. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  31. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
  32. p. 84, line 14This face is a lifeboat;
  33. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
  34. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;
  35. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
  36. p. 84, line 25This is a fullgrown lily's face,
  37. p. 84, line 31The old face of the mother of many children:
  38. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  39. p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  40. p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,

faces 16

  1. p. x, line 35[…] strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every […]
  2. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  3. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  4. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  5. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
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  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,
  2. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
  3. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  4. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
  5. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  6. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,
  7. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
  8. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;
  9. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

fact 1

  1. p. v, line 113[…] a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt […]

factories 3

  1. p. iv, line 72[…] amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the […]
  2. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,
  3. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;

factory 2

  1. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  2. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

facts 3

  1. p. ix, line 12[…] all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with […]
  2. p. ix, line 53[…] can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the […]
  3. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.

fade 1

  1. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.

faded 1

  1. p. viii, line 81[…] When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed […]

fades 2

  1. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  2. p. 39, line 31The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.

fail 3

  1. p. iv, line 100[…] from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good […]
  2. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  3. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,

failed 2

  1. p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,
  2. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,

failing 1

  1. p. 56, line 10Failing to fetch me me at first keep encouraged,

failure 2

  1. p. viii, line 62[…] men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from […]
  2. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,

failures 2

  1. p. viii, line 62[…] intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference […]
  2. p. viii, line 63[…] failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people […]

faint 3

  1. p. x, line 29[…] respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little and […]
  2. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  3. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,

fainter 2

  1. 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.

faintest 3

  1. p. vi, line 80[…] clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best and then becomes […]
  2. p. ix, line 77[…] or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth […]
  3. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,

faintly 1

  1. 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;

faintness 1

  1. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;

faith 9

  1. p. v, line 17[…] confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred […]
  2. p. v, line 23[…] he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things […]
  3. p. v, line 29[…] see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common […]
  4. p. vii, line 111Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of […]
  5. p. xii, line 7[…] It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage […]
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  1. p. 28, line 18A word of the faith that never balks,
  2. p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  3. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
  4. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.

faithful 5

  1. p. viii, line 60[…] neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good […]
  2. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  3. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  4. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,

faiths 2

  1. p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,

fakes 1

  1. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,

fall 12

  1. p. iii, line 84[…] the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not […]
  2. p. xii, line 61[…] statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work. The soul of […]
  3. p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  4. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
  5. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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  1. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
  2. p. 39, line 18I fall on the weeds and stones,
  3. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,
  4. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  5. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  6. p. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;

fallen 4

  1. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.
  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.
  3. p. 84, line 6The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement;
  4. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

falling 7

  1. p. v, line 21[…] as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he […]
  2. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
  3. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;
  4. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  5. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  6. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:
  7. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

falls 7

  1. p. iv, line 13[…] Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend […]
  2. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  3. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  4. p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
  5. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
  6. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,

familiar 1

  1. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.

families 1

  1. p. vi, line 9[…] with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of […]

family 4

  1. p. ix, line 108[…] gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The […]
  2. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
  3. 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?
  4. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

famous 2

  1. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,

fancied 2

  1. p. xi, line 72[…] woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and […]
  2. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,

fancies 2

  1. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  2. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;

fancy 1

  1. p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?

fancy-man 1

  1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.

fan-shaped 1

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

far 25

  1. p. v, line 2[…] land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he […]
  2. p. v, line 3[…] nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of […]
  3. p. v, line 70[…] space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things […]
  4. p. vi, line 106[…] balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost […]
  5. p. ix, line 104[…] birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was […]
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  1. p. x, line 35[…] presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward […]
  2. p. x, line 97[…] and all the good of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name […]
  3. p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  4. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  5. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,
  6. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  7. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
  8. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  9. p. 45, line 23It is middling well as far as it goes . . . . but is that all?
  10. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  11. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  12. p. 52, line 6It is not far . . . . it is within reach,
  13. p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;
  14. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  15. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
  16. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,
  17. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  18. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

fare 1

  1. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?

fare-collector 1

  1. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,

farm 1

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

farmboy 1

  1. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,

farmer 6

  1. p. viii, line 113[…] high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes […]
  2. p. x, line 77[…] is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the […]
  3. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  4. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
  5. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,
  6. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.

farmer's 3

  1. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  2. 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.
  3. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,

farmhouse 2

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
  2. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

farms 6

  1. p. iii, line 72[…] nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of […]
  2. p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
  3. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  4. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
  5. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,

farmwork 1

  1. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?

far-off 1

  1. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,

far-sprinkled 1

  1. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,

far-swooping 1

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

farther 7

  1. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  2. p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  3. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
  4. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  5. p. 61, line 5It is nearer and farther than they.

farthest 3

  1. p. v, line 22[…] around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns […]
  2. p. xi, line 5[…] from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any […]
  3. p. 32, line 13It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,

far-west 1

  1. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,

fascinate 1

  1. p. vii, line 27[…] is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat […]

fascination 2

  1. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,
  2. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?

fast 7

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  3. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
  4. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
  5. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  6. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  7. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?

fastenings 1

  1. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.

faster 1

  1. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.

fat 2

  1. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  2. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

father 10

  1. p. vii, line 105[…] there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son […]
  2. p. vii, line 107[…] is the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man […]
  3. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  4. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  5. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
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  1. p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  2. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  3. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  4. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,

fathered 1

  1. p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,

fathers 6

  1. p. iv, line 47[…] him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and […]
  2. p. x, line 56[…] officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys […]
  3. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  4. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,

fatherstuff 3

  1. p. vii, line 102[…] the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there […]
  2. p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
  3. p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,

fathomless 2

  1. p. vii, line 115[…] it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they […]
  2. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;

fatness 1

  1. p. xi, line 76[…] poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom […]

faultfinder's 1

  1. p. 28, line 4My gait is no faultfinder's or rejecter's gait,

faults 1

  1. p. ix, line 69[…] from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth […]

favor 1

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

favorites 1

  1. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,

favors 2

  1. p. xi, line 23[…] has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly […]
  2. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.

fear 4

  1. p. vi, line 43[…] jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses […]
  2. p. xii, line 71[…] poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is […]
  3. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  4. p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,

feared 2

  1. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  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,

fearlessly 1

  1. p. xi, line 88[…] shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself […]

fears 1

  1. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,

feast 1

  1. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;

features 5

  1. p. x, line 24[…] undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached […]
  2. p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,
  3. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  4. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?

federal 4

  1. p. iv, line 111[…] lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land […]
  2. p. viii, line 117[…] when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale […]
  3. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
  4. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.

fee 2

  1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  2. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,

feeble 1

  1. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.

feed 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,

feeding 1

  1. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,

feeds 1

  1. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;

feel 10

  1. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  2. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  3. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  4. p. 39, line 14All these I feel or am.
  5. p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
5 more lines
  1. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.
  2. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  3. p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  4. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,
  5. p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?

feeling 4

  1. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  2. p. 27, line 22I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
  3. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  4. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,

feels 4

  1. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  2. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  3. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  4. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,

feet 17

  1. p. vi, line 87[…] their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me […]
  2. p. viii, line 57[…] turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to […]
  3. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  4. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  5. 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.
12 more lines
  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  2. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,
  3. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
  4. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
  5. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  6. p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,
  7. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  8. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  9. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
  10. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  11. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  12. 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;

fell 1

  1. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,

fellow 2

  1. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  2. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,

fellows 3

  1. p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
  2. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.

fellow-senses 1

  1. p. 33, line 1Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,

felon 2

  1. p. x, line 74[…] scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or […]
  2. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

felt 5

  1. p. iii, line 57[…] have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of […]
  2. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  3. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  4. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  5. p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?

female 11

  1. p. iv, line 71[…] friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of […]
  2. p. x, line 70[…] out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so […]
  3. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  4. p. 71, line 3The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  5. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,
6 more lines
  1. p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;
  2. p. 77, line 14The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
  3. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,
  4. p. 79, line 13This is the female form,
  5. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  6. p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,

fence 2

  1. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  2. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,

fences 1

  1. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,

ferocity 1

  1. p. 88, line 7The People scorned the ferocity of kings.

ferried 1

  1. p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

ferries 1

  1. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;

ferry 1

  1. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;

ferrying 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

ferrywharf 1

  1. p. 66, line 11Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf,

festoons 1

  1. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

fetch 6

  1. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;
  2. p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.
  3. p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  4. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  5. p. 56, line 10Failing to fetch me me at first keep encouraged,
  6. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

fetches 1

  1. p. v, line 5[…] Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If […]

fetching 2

  1. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  2. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,

fetish 1

  1. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

feverish 1

  1. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

fevers 1

  1. p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,

few 14

  1. p. x, line 1[…] to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises […]
  2. p. x, line 5[…] sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American […]
  3. p. x, line 94[…] unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all […]
  4. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  5. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
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  1. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  3. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
  4. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  5. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  6. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
  7. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.

fiber see fibre

fibre 2 today: fiber

  1. p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;
  2. p. 56, line 9And filter and fibre your blood.

fickle 1

  1. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,

fiction 1

  1. p. ix, line 11[…] they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over […]

field 2

  1. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
  2. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,

fields 7

  1. p. v, line 84[…] early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring […]
  2. p. xii, line 28[…] Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today […]
  3. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  4. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  5. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
  6. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,
  7. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

field-sprouts 1

  1. 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,

fierce 1

  1. p. 79, line 15It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,

fierceness 1

  1. p. iii, line 53[…] by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty […]

fiercest 1

  1. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

fifes 1

  1. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

fifty 1

  1. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

fight 1

  1. 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,

fighting 2

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  2. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.

fighting-man 1

  1. p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;

filaments 1

  1. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,

file 1

  1. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;

fill 8

  1. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  2. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  3. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  4. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  5. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  6. 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,
  7. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  8. p. 84, line 29Fill me with albescent honey . . . . bend down to me,

filled 3

  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  2. 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?
  3. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,

filling 3

  1. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  2. p. 38, line 4Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
  3. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;

fills 3

  1. p. x, line 32[…] prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years […]
  2. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  3. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.

filter 2

  1. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  2. p. 56, line 9And filter and fibre your blood.

filth 1

  1. p. 25, line 26That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,

fin 1

  1. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,

final 5

  1. p. vii, line 110[…] the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
  2. p. xi, line 47[…] general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The […]
  3. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.
  4. p. 46, line 22My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  5. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,

finale 1

  1. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?

finally 1

  1. p. vi, line 93[…] rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no […]

find 12

  1. p. xi, line 103[…] and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past […]
  2. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  3. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
  4. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  5. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
7 more lines
  1. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  2. p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
  3. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  4. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  5. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  6. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,
  7. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

finding 2

  1. p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
  2. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

finds 1

  1. p. vii, line 48[…] practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]

fine 4

  1. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  2. p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
  3. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
  4. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:

finely 1

  1. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.

finer 2

  1. p. vii, line 41[…] writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the […]
  2. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,

finesse 1

  1. p. iii, line 93[…] of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture […]

finest 1

  1. p. v, line 105[…] to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent […]

finger 7

  1. p. v, line 13[…] concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily […]
  2. p. 29, line 25I do not press my finger across my mouth,
  3. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  4. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;
  5. p. 66, line 27Thumb extended or finger uplifted,
  6. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
  7. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.

fingers 4

  1. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  2. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  3. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  4. p. 73, line 19I cannot aid with my wringing fingers;

finish 4

  1. p. iv, line 86[…] their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic […]
  2. p. vi, line 59[…] of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that […]
  3. p. xi, line 70[…] as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has […]
  4. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!

finishes 1

  1. p. vi, line 93[…] and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell […]

fire 7

  1. p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,
  2. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  5. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,
  6. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  7. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,

fire-balls 1

  1. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,

fire-caps 1

  1. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,

fire-engine 1

  1. p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;

fire-engines 1

  1. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,

firelock 1

  1. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.

firelocks 1

  1. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?

fireman 1

  1. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,

firemen 3

  1. p. iv, line 74[…] and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character […]
  2. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  3. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.

fireplace 2

  1. p. 62, line 8City and country . . fireplace and candle . . gaslight and heater and aqueduct;
  2. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,

firm 3

  1. p. viii, line 115[…] with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility […]
  2. p. xi, line 79[…] in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no […]
  3. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,

firm-fibered see firmfibred

firmfibred 2 today: firm-fibered

  1. p. v, line 18[…] spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the […]
  2. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.

firmly 2

  1. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  2. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,

first 20

  1. p. iv, line 53[…] ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the […]
  2. p. vii, line 89[…] are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his […]
  3. p. viii, line 79[…] never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it […]
  4. p. ix, line 25[…] interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its […]
  5. p. x, line 68[…] legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of […]
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  1. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  2. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  3. p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,
  4. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  5. p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.
  6. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  7. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  8. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  9. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  10. 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,
  11. p. 56, line 10Failing to fetch me me at first keep encouraged,
  12. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  13. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  14. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
  15. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

fish 4

  1. p. iii, line 38[…] the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
  2. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  3. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  4. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

fishcuring 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

fisheggs 1

  1. p. 24, line 11The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,

fisher 1

  1. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;

fisheries 1

  1. p. iv, line 63[…] and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states […]

fishermen 2

  1. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  2. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,

fishers 1

  1. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

fishes 2

  1. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the […]
  2. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

fish-hawk 1

  1. p. iv, line 42[…] orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird […]

fishing 2

  1. p. 61, line 20The jaunt of hunting or fishing, or the life of hunting or fishing,

fish-pedlars 1

  1. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,

fish-smack 2

  1. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,
  2. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

fishtearer 1

  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,

fissure 1

  1. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.

fit 5

  1. p. iv, line 102[…] He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of […]
  2. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  3. p. 42, line 25O Christ! My fit is mastering me!
  4. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  5. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

fitfully 1

  1. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.

fitly 1

  1. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.

fitness 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.

fits 2

  1. p. xi, line 89[…] launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser […]
  2. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,

fittest 2

  1. p. iii, line 12[…] little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the […]
  2. p. iii, line 14[…] heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]

five 6

  1. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;
  2. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  3. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  4. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  5. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  6. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,

fixed 2

  1. p. x, line 105[…] or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that […]
  2. p. xi, line 55[…] superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked down […]

flabby 2

  1. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  2. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

flaccid 1

  1. p. 72, line 22I descend my western course . . . . my sinews are flaccid,

flag 2

  1. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;

flaggers 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

flagging 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

flags 2

  1. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
  2. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,

flag-tops 1

  1. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.

flails 1

  1. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,

flakes 1

  1. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

flames 4

  1. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  2. p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  3. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,
  4. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

flank 1

  1. p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,

flannel 1

  1. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;

flap 1

  1. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,

flaps 1

  1. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,

flash 1

  1. p. vi, line 98[…] his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it […]

flashes 2

  1. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
  2. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?

flat 3

  1. p. v, line 9[…] he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience […]
  2. p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
  3. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

flatboatmen 1

  1. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,

Flatfoot 1

  1. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,

flatiron 1

  1. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;

flaunt 1

  1. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,

flavored 1

  1. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;

flawless 1

  1. p. vii, line 8[…] woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who […]

flax 2

  1. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
  2. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

fleas 1

  1. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,

fleet 2

  1. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  2. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?

flesh 9

  1. p. vi, line 14[…] whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency […]
  2. p. 29, line 28I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  3. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  4. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,
  5. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
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  1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
  2. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  3. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,
  4. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

fleshy 1

  1. p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,

flex 2

  1. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  2. p. 77, line 17It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,

flexible 2

  1. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  2. 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;

flexibly 1

  1. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.

flickering 1

  1. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,

flies 5

  1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
  3. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  4. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  5. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,

flight 2

  1. p. vii, line 11[…] nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action […]
  2. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,

flights 1

  1. p. iv, line 39[…] free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon […]

flinching 1

  1. p. 54, line 17To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,

fling 2

  1. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  2. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;

flings 1

  1. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,

float 8

  1. p. ix, line 100[…] human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of […]
  2. p. xii, line 55[…] the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and […]
  3. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  4. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  5. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  6. 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;
  7. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
  8. p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?

floating 3

  1. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  2. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,

flock 1

  1. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,

flood 1

  1. p. xi, line 30[…] greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides […]

floodgates 1

  1. p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.

flooding 1

  1. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.

floods 1

  1. p. vi, line 59[…] understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward […]

floor 4

  1. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
  2. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  3. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
  4. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,

floormen 1

  1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,

florid 1

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

Floridian 1

  1. p. iv, line 21[…] Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and […]

floundering 1

  1. p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.

flounders 2

  1. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.

flow 11

  1. p. ix, line 53[…] perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly […]
  2. p. 26, line 6To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  3. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  4. p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
  5. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
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  1. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  2. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  3. p. 83, line 29I see your rounded never-erased flow,
  4. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,

flower 1

  1. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,

flowerbeds 1

  1. p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,

flowers 2

  1. p. x, line 15[…] and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true […]
  2. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,

flowing 3

  1. p. iii, line 33[…] push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees […]
  2. p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
  3. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?

flows 1

  1. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,

fluency 4

  1. p. iii, line 58[…] to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom […]
  2. p. v, line 105[…] and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations […]
  3. p. v, line 117[…] prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth […]
  4. p. vi, line 15[…] be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines […]

fluent 1

  1. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

fluid 3

  1. p. iv, line 72[…] female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and […]
  2. p. ix, line 87[…] in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes […]
  3. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,

fluids 2

  1. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
  2. p. 69, line 22The vegetables and minerals are all perfect . . and the imponderable fluids are perfect;

flukes 2

  1. p. 48, line 28How the flukes splash!
  2. p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,

flush 5

  1. p. vii, line 111Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of […]
  2. p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  3. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  4. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  5. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:

flute 1

  1. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.

fly 3

  1. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,
  2. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  3. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

flying 2

  1. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  2. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

foal 1

  1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

foaming 1

  1. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.

foddering 1

  1. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;

foe 1

  1. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,

fœtid 2

  1. p. ix, line 83[…] loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the […]
  2. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.

fog 3

  1. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  2. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
  3. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,

fold 3

  1. p. ix, line 15[…] the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits […]
  2. p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
  3. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

folded 3

  1. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?
  2. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  3. p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,

folds 2

  1. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  2. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,

folks 6

  1. p. v, line 76[…] mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty […]
  2. p. ix, line 66[…] by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
  5. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  6. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

follow 9

  1. p. vi, line 78[…] to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and […]
  2. p. viii, line 26[…] astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through […]
  3. p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,
  4. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  5. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
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  1. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  2. p. 53, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour;
  3. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.
  4. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,

followed 2

  1. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  2. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,

follower 1

  1. p. 93, line 8Great is liberty! Great is equality! I am their follower,

following 3

  1. p. ix, line 2[…] can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of […]
  2. p. xi, line 25[…] soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping […]
  3. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,

follows 3

  1. p. ix, line 90[…] changes of life, nor in that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance […]
  2. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,
  3. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

fond 2

  1. p. 53, line 3Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,
  2. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,

fondness 2

  1. p. ix, line 95[…] soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality […]
  2. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.

food 4

  1. p. ix, line 111[…] these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to […]
  2. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
  3. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  4. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,

foofoos 1

  1. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.

fool 2

  1. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?

fooled 2

  1. p. ix, line 81[…] and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is […]

foolish 7

  1. p. x, line 51[…] poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of […]
  2. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  3. p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
  4. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
  5. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  6. p. 72, line 11O hotcheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!

foot 7

  1. p. v, line 5[…] the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever […]
  2. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  3. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,
  4. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  5. p. 79, line 14A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  6. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  7. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

foothold 1

  1. p. 26, line 21My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,

foots 1

  1. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,

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forbearance 1

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

forbidden 1

  1. p. 29, line 22Through me forbidden voices,

force 7

  1. p. v, line 4[…] off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot […]
  2. p. ix, line 35[…] they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and […]
  3. p. x, line 63[…] Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether […]
  4. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  5. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  6. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,
  7. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?

forceps 1

  1. p. 33, line 22They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,

forces 1

  1. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,

forehead 3

  1. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  2. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  3. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,

foreheadless 1

  1. p. 68, line 24A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Camanche is not nothing,

foreheads 1

  1. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

foreign 1

  1. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,

foremost 1

  1. p. 89, line 7How bright shine the foremost with cutlasses,

forenoon 2

  1. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,
  2. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;

foreplane 1

  1. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

foreruns 1

  1. p. v, line 64[…] removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of […]

fores 1

  1. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

forest 1

  1. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,

forests 3

  1. p. iv, line 35[…] as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs […]
  2. p. v, line 75[…] the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect […]
  3. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,

forethought 1

  1. p. x, line 21[…] is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and […]

foretruck 1

  1. 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,

forever 16

  1. p. iii, line 27[…] in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space […]
  2. p. vii, line 46[…] grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression […]
  3. p. x, line 73[…] universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well […]
  4. p. 13, line 10It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it,
  5. p. 21, line 18Scattering it freely forever.
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  1. p. 31, line 6It provokes me forever,
  2. p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  3. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
  4. p. 51, line 10Outward and outward and forever outward.
  5. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  6. 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,
  7. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  8. p. 67, line 24Yourself! Yourself! Yourself forever and ever!
  9. 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;

forger 1

  1. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;

forgery 1

  1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:

forget 4

  1. p. 43, line 18That I could forget the mockers and insults!
  2. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  4. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

forgets 1

  1. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;

forgiven 1

  1. p. ix, line 70[…] How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man […]

forgiveness 1

  1. p. xi, line 15[…] or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly […]

form 10

  1. p. v, line 85[…] the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and […]
  2. p. v, line 104[…] and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music […]
  3. p. ix, line 49[…] is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made […]
  4. p. 32, line 19To be in any form, what is that?
  5. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
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  1. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  2. p. 67, line 19The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses—they are not phantasms . . they have weight and form and location;
  3. p. 79, line 13This is the female form,
  4. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  5. 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;

formation 3

  1. p. iv, line 55[…] defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and […]
  2. p. viii, line 29[…] than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of […]
  3. p. ix, line 92[…] afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]

formed 2

  1. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  2. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,

forming 1

  1. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.

formless 2

  1. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  2. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,

forms 11

  1. p. iii, line 2[…] past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or […]
  2. p. iii, line 8[…] passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating […]
  3. p. iv, line 91[…] and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  4. p. iv, line 92[…] the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  5. p. vi, line 84[…] are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be from what has […]
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  1. p. vii, line 41[…] finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour […]
  2. p. ix, line 60[…] in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of […]
  3. p. xi, line 39[…] and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up […]
  4. p. xii, line 35[…] needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and […]
  5. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  6. p. 88, line 3For court thieving in its manifold mean forms,

forsakes 1

  1. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,

forth 16

  1. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  2. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  3. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  4. p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
  5. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
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  1. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;
  2. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,
  3. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  4. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
  5. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  6. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  7. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,
  8. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  9. 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,

forthwith 1

  1. p. 15, line 5And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,

fort's 1

  1. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.

fortune 1

  1. p. vi, line 28[…] which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay […]

forty-one 1

  1. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.

forward 6

  1. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  2. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  3. p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  4. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
  5. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  6. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

found 2

  1. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  2. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

four 3

  1. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  2. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  3. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,

Fourth 1

  1. 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!

fourth-removed 1

  1. p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,

fowling-pieces 1

  1. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;

fraction 1

  1. p. 43, line 21I remember . . . . I resume the overstaid fraction,

fragments 1

  1. p. x, line 96[…] and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of the […]

fragrance 2

  1. p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
  2. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

framer 1

  1. p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,

framers 1

  1. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,

frames 1

  1. p. viii, line 7[…] motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns […]

framing 2

  1. p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
  2. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,

France 1

  1. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;

Francisco 1

  1. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,

fraud 1

  1. p. x, line 21[…] death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system […]

freckles 1

  1. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.

free 16

  1. p. iv, line 38[…] and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs […]
  2. p. iv, line 62[…] and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation […]
  3. p. iv, line 68[…] character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and […]
  4. p. v, line 100[…] rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly […]
  5. p. vii, line 20[…] things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will […]
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  1. p. vii, line 41[…] is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science […]
  2. p. viii, line 86[…] and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are […]
  3. p. viii, line 113[…] office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head […]
  4. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,
  5. p. 38, line 22I am a free companion . . . . I bivouac by invading watchfires.
  6. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,
  7. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  8. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
  9. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  10. p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,

freedom 4

  1. p. iii, line 50[…] looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the […]
  2. p. xii, line 8[…] the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is […]
  3. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

freely 5

  1. p. v, line 38[…] artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What […]
  2. p. vi, line 8[…] to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with […]
  3. p. 21, line 18Scattering it freely forever.
  4. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  5. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,

freeman's 1

  1. p. xii, line 21[…] people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this […]

freemouthed 1

  1. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,

freetrade 2

  1. p. v, line 1[…] immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too […]
  2. p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.

freewoman's 1

  1. p. xii, line 21[…] throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to […]

freeze 1

  1. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

freight 1

  1. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,

Frenchman 1

  1. p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.

frequent 2

  1. p. viii, line 70[…] battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs […]
  2. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;

fresh 3

  1. p. xii, line 27[…] generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for […]
  2. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  3. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,

freshcheeked 1

  1. p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

freshets 1

  1. p. iv, line 11[…] life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint […]

freshkilled 1

  1. p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,

freshly 2

  1. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
  2. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

freshness 2

  1. p. iii, line 47[…] common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their […]
  2. p. v, line 32[…] and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks […]

friend 11

  1. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  2. p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  3. p. 55, line 10To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  4. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  5. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
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  1. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
  2. p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
  3. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  4. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,

friendliness 3

  1. p. iv, line 69[…] American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the […]
  2. p. xii, line 8[…] to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that […]
  3. p. 74, line 30I am jealous and overwhelmed with friendliness,

friendly 7

  1. p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
  2. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;
  3. p. 36, line 29At musters and beach-parties and friendly bees and huskings and house-raisings;
  4. p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
  5. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  6. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
  7. p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

friends 3

  1. p. x, line 89[…] for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at […]
  2. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  3. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;

friendship 5

  1. p. viii, line 91[…] the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated […]
  2. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  3. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,
  4. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

friendships 2

  1. p. iii, line 47[…] in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness […]
  2. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;

frigate 1

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

frigate-fight 1

  1. p. 41, line 9Did you read in the seabooks of the oldfashioned frigate-fight?

frightened 1

  1. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:

fringed 1

  1. 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,

frisket 1

  1. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,

frivolity 1

  1. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?

frivolous 1

  1. p. 48, line 25Frivolous sullen moping angry affected disheartened atheistical,

fro 2

  1. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;

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front 4

  1. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
  2. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  3. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,

frost 1

  1. p. 31, line 10Waiting in gloom protected by frost,

froth 1

  1. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

frothing 1

  1. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;

frown 1

  1. p. vi, line 97[…] most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the one […]

frozen 1

  1. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,

fruit 5

  1. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  2. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,
  3. p. 80, line 6I see the bearer of the great fruit which is immortality . . . . the good thereof is not tasted by roues, and never can be.
  4. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;
  5. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

fruition 2

  1. p. vi, line 47[…] of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
  2. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it […]

fruit-pedlars 1

  1. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,

fruits 3

  1. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
  2. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  3. p. 88, line 17And all these things bear fruits . . . . and they are good.

fruitstand 1

  1. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

fuel 1

  1. p. vi, line 30[…] delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other […]

fugitive 1

  1. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;

fugitives 2

  1. p. x, line 84[…] and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that […]
  2. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.

full 18

  1. p. iv, line 94Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have […]
  2. p. viii, line 57[…] their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other […]
  3. p. ix, line 20[…] cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large […]
  4. p. xi, line 74[…] with explanations and realize and be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he […]
  5. p. xi, line 113[…] expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through […]
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  1. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  2. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  3. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  4. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  5. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  6. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
  7. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
  8. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  9. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!
  10. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;
  11. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  12. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
  13. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,

fullblown 1

  1. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

fullest 1

  1. p. iii, line 16[…] any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest […]

fullgrown 1

  1. p. 84, line 25This is a fullgrown lily's face,

fullness see fulness

full-noon 1

  1. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.

fullsized 3

  1. p. iv, line 1[…] of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
  2. p. iv, line 2[…] enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
  3. p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.

fullspread 1

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

fully 2

  1. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
  2. p. 84, line 32Whist! I am fully content.

fulness 2 today: fullness

  1. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  2. 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;

funeral 3

  1. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  2. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.
  3. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.

furiously 2

  1. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,

furlong 1

  1. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,

furniture 3

  1. p. ix, line 44[…] stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments or […]
  2. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  3. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

furs 2

  1. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;
  2. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

further 1

  1. p. x, line 62[…] duly realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of […]

furtherance 1

  1. p. x, line 83[…] the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the […]

fury 2

  1. p. vii, line 62[…] the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea and […]
  2. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,

futile 1

  1. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,

future 9

  1. p. iv, line 91[…] sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  2. p. vi, line 83[…] becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the […]
  3. p. vi, line 90[…] learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his […]
  4. p. viii, line 16[…] the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor […]
  5. p. xi, line 104[…] real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or […]
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  1. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  2. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  3. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  4. p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,