Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

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

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ice 3

  1. p. iv, line 35[…] canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the […]
  2. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  3. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,

icebergs 1

  1. p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.

iceboats 1

  1. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,

ice-wind 1

  1. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,

icicled 1

  1. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;

icicles 1

  1. p. iv, line 36[…] swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and […]

icy 2

  1. p. x, line 11[…] of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or […]
  2. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

idea 4

  1. p. iii, line 3[…] its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with […]
  2. p. viii, line 46In the make of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of […]
  3. p. viii, line 52[…] They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must sustain it […]
  4. p. xii, line 1[…] through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty […]

ideal 1

  1. p. iii, line 74[…] nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice […]

ideality 1

  1. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

identify 1

  1. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,

identities 2

  1. p. v, line 64[…] any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks […]
  2. p. x, line 111[…] inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess […]

identity 4

  1. p. 14, line 18Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.
  2. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
  3. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  4. p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.

idiom 2

  1. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;

idiot 2

  1. p. 75, line 20The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wronged,
  2. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

idiots 1

  1. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,

idle 2

  1. p. 15, line 16Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
  2. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.

idly 1

  1. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.

idols 2

  1. p. 45, line 31With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and all idols and images,
  2. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

if 76

  1. p. iii, line 82[…] grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to […]
  2. p. iii, line 83[…] generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind […]
  3. p. iii, line 85[…] must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times […]
  4. p. iii, line 86[…] make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery and what […]
  5. p. iv, line 106[…] what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit […]
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  1. p. v, line 6[…] of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to […]
  2. p. v, line 40[…] power of attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by […]
  3. p. v, line 52The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small […]
  4. p. v, line 111[…] comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman […]
  5. p. vii, line 8[…] the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you […]
  6. p. vii, line 104[…] must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and […]
  7. p. vii, line 106[…] content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the […]
  8. p. x, line 73[…] and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if […]
  9. p. x, line 74[…] savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply […]
  10. p. x, line 75[…] savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the […]
  11. p. x, line 76[…] chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no […]
  12. p. x, line 77[…] is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less […]
  13. p. xi, line 10[…] is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no […]
  14. p. xi, line 30[…] who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as […]
  15. p. xi, line 32[…] immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul […]
  16. p. xi, line 35[…] semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to […]
  17. p. xi, line 36[…] he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude […]
  18. p. xii, line 71[…] are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof […]
  19. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  20. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  21. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  22. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  23. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  24. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  25. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  26. p. 26, line 17And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  27. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  28. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,
  29. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  30. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  31. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  32. 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,
  33. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  34. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  35. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
  36. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  37. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  38. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  39. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  40. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  41. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
  42. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  43. 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?
  44. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
  45. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  46. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  47. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  48. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  49. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;
  50. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
  51. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,
  52. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  53. p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  54. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  55. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  56. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  57. 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,
  58. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  59. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  60. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  61. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  62. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  63. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  64. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  65. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  66. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
  67. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.

ignominious 1

  1. p. xii, line 24[…] uniform with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and […]

ignominy 1

  1. p. v, line 47[…] or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or […]

ignorance 1

  1. p. v, line 49[…] and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]

ignorant 2

  1. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  2. p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?

ill 1

  1. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;

ill-assorted 1

  1. p. 70, line 7Wandering and confused . . . . lost to myself . . . . ill-assorted . . . . contradictory,

ill-doing 1

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

illegal 1

  1. p. x, line 68[…] learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe […]

illiterate 2

  1. p. v, line 33[…] is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest […]
  2. 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,

illuminated 1

  1. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

illustrated 1

  1. p. iv, line 86[…] be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm […]

illustrations 1

  1. p. ix, line 41[…] carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic […]

images 1

  1. p. 45, line 31With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and all idols and images,

imagine 1

  1. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?

imbueing 1

  1. p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.

immaterial 1

  1. p. 38, line 10I help myself to material and immaterial,

immeasurable 1

  1. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,

immediate 1

  1. p. xi, line 31[…] If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does […]

immense 4

  1. p. x, line 24[…] civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the […]
  2. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  3. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  4. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

immerse 1

  1. p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.

immerses 1

  1. p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.

immigrant 2

  1. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
  2. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;

immigrants 3

  1. p. iv, line 58[…] always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior […]
  2. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  3. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?

immobile 1

  1. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,

immodest 2

  1. p. vii, line 118[…] nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all […]
  2. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.

immodestly 1

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

immortal 6

  1. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  2. p. 17, line 16They do not know how immortal, but I know.
  3. 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?
  4. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  5. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,

immortality 6

  1. p. iv, line 110[…] commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by […]
  2. p. x, line 31[…] at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year […]
  3. p. xi, line 105[…] and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or […]
  4. p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;
  5. p. 70, line 1I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  6. 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.

immutable 1

  1. p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.

impalpable 4

  1. p. v, line 104[…] and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems […]
  2. p. xi, line 2[…] does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its […]
  3. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  4. p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.

impartial 1

  1. p. vi, line 61[…] onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light or […]

impartiality 1

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

impassive 2

  1. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  2. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,

impatient 2

  1. p. iii, line 5[…] accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to […]
  2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

implements 3

  1. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  2. p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,
  3. p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,

imponderable 1

  1. p. 69, line 22The vegetables and minerals are all perfect . . and the imponderable fluids are perfect;

important 1

  1. p. 45, line 1I do not ask who you are . . . . that is not important to me,

impossible 1

  1. p. v, line 68[…] What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened […]

impotence 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?

impotent 1

  1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,

impregnable 1

  1. p. iv, line 57[…] always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and […]

improve 1

  1. p. xii, line 41[…] be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of […]

improvements 2

  1. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,
  2. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?

impulse 1

  1. p. vii, line 1[…] lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations […]

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inadmissible 1

  1. p. viii, line 5[…] or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every […]

inanimate 1

  1. p. xi, line 38[…] periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises […]

inarmed 1

  1. p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,

incarnates 1

  1. p. iv, line 10[…] His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi […]

inception 1

  1. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,

inch 4

  1. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  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. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.

inches 1

  1. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;

includes 1

  1. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

income 1

  1. p. vi, line 4[…] up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God […]

incomparable 1

  1. p. xi, line 33[…] to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and […]

inconceivable 1

  1. p. xi, line 40[…] bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and […]

inconsistent 1

  1. p. viii, line 20[…] the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the […]

incorporate 1

  1. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,

increase 5

  1. p. vii, line 20[…] more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He […]
  2. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  3. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  4. p. 75, line 3The droves and crops increase . . . . the barns are wellfilled.
  5. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?

indecent 1

  1. p. 29, line 24Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured.

indecorous 1

  1. p. iii, line 50[…] deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens […]

indeed 2

  1. p. iii, line 35[…] prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need […]
  2. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!

indefinite 1

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

independence 1

  1. p. x, line 4[…] the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of […]

independent 2

  1. p. v, line 108[…] or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a […]
  2. p. xii, line 40[…] and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing […]

indescribable 2

  1. p. v, line 32[…] believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and […]
  2. 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!

indestructible 1

  1. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.

index 1

  1. p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.

indian-hen 1

  1. p. iv, line 43[…] surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird […]

indicate 6

  1. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United […]
  2. p. v, line 77[…] themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to […]
  3. p. v, line 79[…] to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women […]
  4. p. 47, line 26My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality;
  5. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
  6. p. 69, line 18The past and the present indicate that it is good.

indicates 7

  1. p. iii, line 27[…] vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and […]
  2. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
  3. p. 69, line 17The whole universe indicates that it is good,
  4. p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  5. p. 75, line 29The myth of heaven indicates the soul;
  6. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.

indication 3

  1. p. vi, line 80[…] of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past […]
  2. p. vi, line 81[…] of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined […]

indifference 2

  1. p. viii, line 63[…] any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show […]
  2. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,

indifferent 3

  1. p. vi, line 27[…] poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or […]
  2. p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,
  3. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.

indifferently 1

  1. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,

indirect 4

  1. p. iv, line 82[…] be transcendant and new. It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes […]
  2. p. x, line 43[…] affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as […]
  3. p. x, line 44[…] her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The […]
  4. p. xi, line 24[…] body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he […]

indispensable see indispensible

indispensible 2 today: indispensable

  1. p. viii, line 47[…] great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women […]
  2. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,

individual 4

  1. p. v, line 55[…] the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good […]
  2. p. vi, line 76[…] more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well […]
  3. p. xii, line 30[…] for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials […]
  4. p. xii, line 66[…] like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the […]

individuals 1

  1. p. iii, line 80[…] is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of […]

indolent 1

  1. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,

indoors 3

  1. p. ix, line 46[…] or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates […]
  2. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
  3. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.

indulgence 1

  1. p. vi, line 5[…] tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known […]

industrious 1

  1. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

ineffable 2

  1. p. xi, line 81[…] is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead […]
  2. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!

inevitable 1

  1. p. vi, line 50[…] no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From […]

inevitably 1

  1. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

inexplicable 1

  1. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,

inexpressible 2

  1. p. xii, line 10[…] the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  2. 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,

infants 2

  1. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  2. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

infected 1

  1. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,

inferiority 1

  1. p. viii, line 100[…] gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could […]

infidel 1

  1. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.

infidelity 1

  1. p. v, line 16[…] overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith […]

infidels 1

  1. p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,

infinite 1

  1. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;

infiniteness 1

  1. p. xi, line 40[…] and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by […]

infinitesimals see infinitessimals

infinitessimals 1 today: infinitesimals

  1. p. x, line 12[…] all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all […]

influence 1

  1. p. viii, line 33[…] of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the […]

influences 1

  1. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.

influx 1

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

infold 1

  1. p. 45, line 2You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

inform 1

  1. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

informers 2

  1. p. viii, line 87[…] the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people […]
  2. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.

informs 1

  1. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

ingenious 1

  1. p. xii, line 59[…] warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated […]

ingratitude 1

  1. p. viii, line 63[…] of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the […]

inhabit 1

  1. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,

inherit 1

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

inland 2

  1. p. iv, line 16[…] embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts […]
  2. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.

inmost 1

  1. p. vi, line 107[…] it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet […]

inner 2

  1. p. ix, line 73[…] for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single exception […]
  2. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,

innocence 1

  1. p. vii, line 117[…] The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest […]

innocent 2

  1. p. viii, line 99[…] word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any […]
  2. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,

insane 3

  1. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;
  2. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,
  3. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

inscribed 1

  1. p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,

inside 5

  1. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  3. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  4. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  5. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,

insignificant 1

  1. p. 33, line 23The insignificant is as big to me as any,

insouciance see insousiance

insousiance 1 today: insouciance

  1. p. vii, line 5[…] speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the […]

inspiration 3

  1. p. x, line 68[…] or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it […]
  2. p. xi, line 103[…] all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future […]
  3. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,

inspired 1

  1. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,

instance 1

  1. p. viii, line 43[…] that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up […]

instant 1

  1. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,

instead 5

  1. p. viii, line 86[…] the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and […]
  2. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  3. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  4. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  5. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,

instinct 3

  1. p. ix, line 6[…] part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]
  2. p. ix, line 93[…] of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  3. p. xii, line 18[…] men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from […]

institutions 2

  1. p. xii, line 13[…] or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive […]
  2. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

instruments 6

  1. p. v, line 66[…] all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is […]
  2. p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  3. p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;
  4. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.

insulter 1

  1. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

insults 2

  1. p. vi, line 13[…] or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a […]
  2. p. 43, line 18That I could forget the mockers and insults!

integral 1

  1. p. 27, line 30I am integral with you . . . . I too am of one phase and of all phases.

intellect 1

  1. p. xii, line 58[…] visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented […]

intellectual 1

  1. p. vii, line 1[…] carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither […]

intend 1

  1. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.

intent 1

  1. p. viii, line 61[…] Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any […]

intentional 1

  1. p. 20, line 26And consider the green and violet and the tufted crown intentional;

intentions 1

  1. p. ix, line 23[…] government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance […]

interceding 1

  1. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;

intercourse 1

  1. p. xii, line 12[…] like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by […]

interest 7

  1. p. x, line 79[…] wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round. All the best […]
  2. p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
  3. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  4. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  5. p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.

interests 3

  1. p. vii, line 82[…] one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most […]
  2. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,

interior 1

  1. p. iv, line 61[…] wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and […]

interminable 2

  1. p. 29, line 14Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
  2. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,

interminably 1

  1. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,

international 1

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

interpositions 1

  1. p. ix, line 24[…] The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They […]

interpreters 1

  1. p. xi, line 101[…] kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things […]

interrogating 1

  1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,

interrogation 1

  1. p. xii, line 20[…] mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes […]

interrogatories 1

  1. p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,

intertinged 1

  1. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,

intertravel 1

  1. p. v, line 1[…] federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far […]

intervals 1

  1. p. vi, line 40[…] or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for […]

intimates 1

  1. p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,

into 17

  1. p. iii, line 8[…] the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the […]
  2. p. iv, line 15[…] where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia […]
  3. p. v, line 52[…] hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with […]
  4. p. v, line 98[…] rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The […]
  5. p. viii, line 99[…] deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority […]
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  1. p. viii, line 100[…] person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these […]
  2. p. xi, line 34[…] with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself […]
  3. p. xi, line 79[…] he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see […]
  4. p. xi, line 83[…] sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and […]
  5. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  6. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
  7. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  8. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
  9. p. 71, line 10The earth recedes from me into the night,
  10. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  11. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  12. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:

intoxicate 1

  1. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

intricate 1

  1. p. 25, line 13Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?

intuitively 1

  1. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,

inure 2

  1. p. x, line 110[…] singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall […]

inured 1

  1. p. x, line 109[…] or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always […]

invading 1

  1. p. 38, line 22I am a free companion . . . . I bivouac by invading watchfires.

invalids 1

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

inventions 1

  1. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,

inventors 4

  1. p. iii, line 44[…] or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech […]
  2. p. vii, line 40[…] traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from […]
  3. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
  4. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

investigation 2

  1. p. vii, line 112[…] of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling […]
  2. p. viii, line 15[…] to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted […]

investigations 1

  1. p. v, line 65[…] A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the […]

invigoration 1

  1. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.

invisible 1

  1. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?

invisibly 1

  1. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.

invitation 1

  1. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;

invite 1

  1. p. 13, line 4I loafe and invite my soul,

invited 3

  1. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,

invites 1

  1. p. viii, line 67[…] or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is […]

inviting 1

  1. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,

involutions 1

  1. p. viii, line 104[…] suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures […]

inward 1

  1. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,

Iowa 1

  1. p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?

Irishman 1

  1. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,

iron 3

  1. p. viii, line 72[…] the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their […]
  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. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.

ironical 2

  1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,
  2. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?

ironworks 1

  1. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;

Iroquois 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,

irrepressibly 1

  1. p. ix, line 54[…] of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the completion of the […]

irresolute 1

  1. p. vi, line 39[…] leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His […]

irretrievable 1

  1. p. 42, line 24These so . . . . these irretrievable.

irrigation 1

  1. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

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Isis 1

  1. p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,

island 2

  1. p. 36, line 22Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island,
  2. 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.

issuing 1

  1. p. x, line 18[…] with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life […]

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Italian 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.

itch 1

  1. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

itches 1

  1. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,

its 97

  1. p. iii, line 2[…] the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes […]
  2. p. iii, line 7[…] manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new […]
  3. p. iii, line 12[…] in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who […]
  4. p. iii, line 31[…] the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads […]
  5. p. iii, line 32[…] its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its […]
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  1. p. iii, line 34[…] spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own […]
  2. p. iii, line 42[…] United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor […]
  3. p. iii, line 44[…] colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people […]
  4. p. iii, line 79[…] have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses […]
  5. p. iv, line 10[…] spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with […]
  6. p. iv, line 83[…] indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age […]
  7. p. iv, line 101[…] or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality […]
  8. p. iv, line 102[…] bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter […]
  9. p. v, line 64[…] but this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A […]
  10. p. v, line 98[…] and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme […]
  11. p. vi, line 15[…] and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and […]
  12. p. vi, line 16[…] its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes […]
  13. p. vi, line 59[…] law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself […]
  14. p. vi, line 103[…] which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride […]
  15. p. vi, line 104[…] own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can […]
  16. p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but […]
  17. p. viii, line 10[…] referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of […]
  18. p. viii, line 97[…] the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed […]
  19. p. ix, line 1[…] or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the […]
  20. p. ix, line 17[…] or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped […]
  21. p. ix, line 18[…] table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or […]
  22. p. ix, line 26[…] They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they […]
  23. p. ix, line 27[…] dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or […]
  24. p. ix, line 76[…] mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and […]
  25. p. x, line 112[…] Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable […]
  26. p. xi, line 3[…] exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so […]
  27. p. xi, line 4[…] from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming […]
  28. p. xi, line 10[…] less ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own […]
  29. p. xi, line 11[…] ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or […]
  30. p. xi, line 15[…] the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that […]
  31. p. xi, line 33[…] body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into […]
  32. p. xi, line 34[…] incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the […]
  33. p. xi, line 40[…] the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today […]
  34. p. xii, line 23[…] remain. Is it uniform with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes […]
  35. p. xii, line 62[…] work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can […]
  36. p. xii, line 70[…] may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of […]
  37. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  38. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
  39. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  40. p. 17, line 27The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  41. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  42. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  43. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  44. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  45. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  46. p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.
  47. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  48. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  49. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  50. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,
  51. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
  52. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
  53. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;
  54. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  55. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  56. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
  57. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
  58. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
  59. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  60. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  61. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
  62. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  63. p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
  64. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  65. 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,
  66. 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?
  67. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,
  68. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
  69. p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.
  70. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  71. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  72. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,
  73. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,
  74. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  75. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  76. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  77. p. 88, line 3For court thieving in its manifold mean forms,
  78. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,
  79. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,
  80. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  81. 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;

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  1. p. v, line 98[…] luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight […]
  2. p. vi, line 60[…] floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not […]
  3. p. vii, line 49[…] is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
  4. p. vii, line 114[…] soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence […]
  5. p. viii, line 66[…] cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light […]
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  1. p. ix, line 75[…] exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted […]
  2. p. x, line 37[…] gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a […]
  3. p. xi, line 44[…] what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and […]
  4. p. xi, line 89[…] till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars […]
  5. p. xii, line 65[…] it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as […]
  6. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  7. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
  8. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  9. p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  10. p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.
  11. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  12. p. 47, line 29The panorama of the sea . . . . but the sea itself?
  13. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  14. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
  15. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?
  16. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
  17. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,
  18. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  19. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,