Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “him”

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  1. p. iii, line 63[…] off his hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and […]
  2. p. iv, line 6[…] is to be commensurate with a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception […]
  3. p. iv, line 16[…] they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and […]
  4. p. iv, line 24[…] breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific […]
  5. p. iv, line 29[…] west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and […]
  6. p. iv, line 46[…] buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him […]
  7. p. iv, line 48[…] hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and past and […]
  8. p. iv, line 99[…] great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity […]
  9. p. iv, line 107[…] checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast […]
  10. p. v, line 4[…] most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the […]
  11. p. v, line 11[…] legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands […]
  12. p. v, line 38[…] to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What is past is […]
  13. p. v, line 45[…] Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy […]
  14. p. v, line 79[…] always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men […]
  15. p. vi, line 42[…] thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him […]
  16. p. vi, line 44[…] and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten […]
  17. p. vii, line 9[…] triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of […]
  18. p. vii, line 16[…] with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is […]
  19. p. vii, line 38[…] that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans […]
  20. p. vii, line 89[…] remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all […]
  21. p. vii, line 90[…] the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings […]
  22. p. ix, line 70[…] is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us […]
  23. p. x, line 40[…] can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a month or any […]
  24. p. x, line 42[…] the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect […]
  25. p. x, line 71[…] and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and […]
  26. p. xi, line 26[…] he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever […]
  27. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he […]
  28. p. xi, line 36[…] not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all […]
  29. p. xi, line 46[…] the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still […]
  30. p. xi, line 56[…] planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked down upon […]
  31. p. xi, line 62[…] buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do […]
  32. p. xi, line 63[…] him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
  33. p. xi, line 64[…] do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
  34. p. xi, line 78[…] or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm […]
  35. p. xi, line 84[…] and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one […]
  36. p. xi, line 87[…] chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the […]
  37. p. xii, line 73[…] of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]
  38. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  39. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
  40. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
  41. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  42. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  43. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  44. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  45. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  46. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  47. p. 35, line 4Choosing to go with him on brotherly terms.
  48. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  49. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  50. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
  51. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  52. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,
  53. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  54. p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  55. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  56. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.
  57. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
  58. 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:
  59. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  60. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  61. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  62. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,
  63. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  64. p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  65. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  66. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  67. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  68. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:
  69. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  70. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  71. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  72. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  73. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  74. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  75. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  76. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  77. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,
  78. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
  79. p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,
  80. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
  81. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  82. 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,
  83. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  84. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  85. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  86. 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;
  87. 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,
  88. p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  89. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  90. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,
  91. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  92. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,
  93. 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?
  94. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,
  95. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  96. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.
  97. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  98. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  99. p. 85, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  100. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,
  101. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  102. p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
  103. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  104. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  105. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  106. p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  107. p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  108. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  109. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  110. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,
  111. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.
  112. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  113. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  114. p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
  115. 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.
  116. 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,
  117. 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,
  118. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  119. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.