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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jags 1

  1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

jail 2

  1. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  2. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

jailer 1

  1. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

jam 1

  1. p. v, line 73[…] softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]

jamb 1

  1. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,

jambs 1

  1. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

jar 1

  1. p. vi, line 42[…] and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To […]

jars 1

  1. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

jaunt 1

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

jaws 1

  1. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,

jealous 4

  1. p. xii, line 18[…] costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the […]
  2. p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
  3. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
  4. p. 74, line 30I am jealous and overwhelmed with friendliness,

jealousy 1

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

jeer 2

  1. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  2. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)

Jehovah 1

  1. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,

jelly 1

  1. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

jerks 1

  1. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;

jetblack 2

  1. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  2. p. 41, line 8And that was a jetblack sunrise.

jets 2

  1. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,
  2. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

jetted 1

  1. p. ix, line 58[…] in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of […]

jetting 2

  1. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  2. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

Jew 2

  1. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.

jibes 1

  1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,

jigs 1

  1. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

jingling 1

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

jobs 1

  1. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,

join 1

  1. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.

joined 1

  1. p. vi, line 83[…] and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to […]

joiner 1

  1. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.

joins 1

  1. p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,

joint 1

  1. p. vi, line 17[…] of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time […]

jointer 1

  1. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

joints 7

  1. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  2. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,
  3. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  4. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,

jokes 1

  1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

jolly 1

  1. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.

jolt 2

  1. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  2. 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;

jolts 1

  1. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,

Jonathan 2

  1. p. 89, line 1CLEAR the way there Jonathan!
  2. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,

jostling 2

  1. p. v, line 73[…] electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
  2. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,

jot 1

  1. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,

jour 1

  1. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,

journey 3

  1. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  2. p. 51, line 24I tramp a perpetual journey,
  3. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:

journeying 2

  1. p. vii, line 14[…] their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with […]
  2. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.

journeyman 1

  1. p. 92, line 2Boss and journeyman and apprentice? . . . . churchman and atheist?

journeymen 1

  1. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,

journeywork 1

  1. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,

joy 6

  1. p. vi, line 31[…] for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing […]
  2. p. viii, line 92[…] master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in […]
  3. p. ix, line 68[…] personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful […]
  4. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  5. p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
  6. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.

joyously 1

  1. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.

joys 2

  1. 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,
  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;

Judea 1

  1. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;

judge 5

  1. p. v, line 21[…] he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing […]
  2. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  3. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  4. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,
  5. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

judges 7

  1. p. v, line 20[…] He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling […]
  2. p. v, line 21[…] is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As […]
  3. p. x, line 55[…] not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to fathers […]
  4. p. xi, line 50[…] The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it […]
  5. 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,
  6. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  7. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

judgment 2

  1. p. v, line 20[…] ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the […]
  2. p. xi, line 55[…] or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can […]

judgment-day 1

  1. p. xi, line 12[…] or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous […]

judiciary 1

  1. p. viii, line 107[…] to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love […]

jug 1

  1. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,

juice 3

  1. p. 30, line 30Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  2. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  3. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

July 2

  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!
  2. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;

jump 2

  1. p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
  2. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.

junction 1

  1. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,

June 1

  1. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;

junior 1

  1. p. 20, line 19To niches aside and junior bending.

jury 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,

just 30

  1. p. v, line 36[…] how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power […]
  2. p. v, line 69[…] or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to […]
  3. p. vi, line 57[…] for the rest but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses […]
  4. p. viii, line 44[…] bring them up well . . . that to be is just as great as to perceive or tell […]
  5. p. x, line 45[…] the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body. Not one […]
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  1. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  2. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  3. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  4. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  5. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  6. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  7. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
  8. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
  9. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  10. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  11. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  12. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  13. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  14. p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
  15. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:
  16. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  17. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  18. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  19. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  20. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
  21. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  22. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.
  23. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
  24. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

justice 6

  1. p. x, line 76[…] simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic […]
  2. p. xii, line 8[…] chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the […]
  3. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
  4. p. 95, line 2Great is Justice;
  5. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,
  6. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

justification 1

  1. p. ix, line 65[…] absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap […]

justified 2

  1. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  2. p. 85, line 15The justified mother of men!

just-opened 1

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