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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nails 1

  1. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,

naive 1

  1. p. 59, line 2The naive . . . . the simple and hardy . . . . he going to the polls to vote . . . . he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time;

naivete 2

  1. p. x, line 19[…] the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or […]
  2. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;

naked 6

  1. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  2. p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!
  3. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
  4. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,
  5. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  6. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;

nakedness 1

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

name 8

  1. p. x, line 46[…] as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations […]
  2. p. x, line 98[…] and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun […]
  3. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  4. p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,
  5. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  6. p. 55, line 7I do not know it . . . . it is without name . . . . it is a word unsaid,
  7. 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?
  8. 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.

named 1

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

namely 1

  1. p. iii, line 79[…] and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the […]

names 2

  1. p. viii, line 82[…] martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from […]
  2. p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?

narrow 1

  1. p. 16, line 15And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,

narrowest 1

  1. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

nastiness 1

  1. p. x, line 54[…] attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or […]

natal 1

  1. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.

nation 15

  1. p. iii, line 23[…] day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind […]
  2. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the […]
  3. p. iii, line 77[…] poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the […]
  4. p. xii, line 30[…] an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials. Does this […]
  5. p. xii, line 62[…] and do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it […]
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  1. p. xii, line 67[…] half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation […]
  2. p. xii, line 68[…] he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation […]
  3. p. xii, line 69[…] soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets […]
  4. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
  5. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  6. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  7. p. 94, line 6Great is the greatest nation . . the nation of clusters of equal nations.

nations 14

  1. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest […]
  2. p. iii, line 24[…] merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars […]
  3. p. iv, line 85[…] more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and […]
  4. p. iv, line 93Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most […]
  5. p. vii, line 10[…] of the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the […]
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  1. p. x, line 96[…] the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good […]
  2. p. x, line 98[…] the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all […]
  3. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  4. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  5. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  6. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  7. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.
  8. p. 93, line 9Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft . . . . where you sail I sail,
  9. p. 94, line 6Great is the greatest nation . . the nation of clusters of equal nations.

native 5

  1. p. iii, line 60[…] music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible […]
  2. p. vii, line 45[…] science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and […]
  3. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
  4. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
  5. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;

nativeborn 1

  1. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

nativity 1

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

natural 8

  1. p. iv, line 10[…] his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and […]
  2. p. viii, line 108[…] the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or […]
  3. p. ix, line 39[…] accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings […]
  4. p. ix, line 59[…] only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people […]
  5. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  6. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  7. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  8. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

nature 8

  1. p. iii, line 16[…] upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In […]
  2. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and […]
  3. p. iii, line 70[…] generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business […]
  4. p. vii, line 63[…] power of the sea and the motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and […]
  5. p. vii, line 68[…] of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all […]
  6. p. ix, line 54[…] open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are […]
  7. p. ix, line 98[…] with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human […]
  8. 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,

navy 1

  1. p. xii, line 15[…] executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition […]

near 11

  1. p. v, line 70[…] a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter with […]
  2. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  3. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
  4. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  5. p. 42, line 14Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin,
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  1. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  2. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  3. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
  4. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  5. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.
  6. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

nearer 2

  1. p. xi, line 5[…] without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul […]
  2. p. 61, line 5It is nearer and farther than they.

nearest 4

  1. p. 21, line 14What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me,
  2. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
  3. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  4. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

near-human 1

  1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;

nearly 1

  1. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.

neath 1

  1. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.

nebula 1

  1. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,

nebulous 1

  1. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,

necessarily 1

  1. p. iii, line 25[…] of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses […]

necessary 3

  1. p. iii, line 82[…] the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records […]
  2. p. ix, line 55[…] work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the completion of the work. Most works are most […]
  3. p. x, line 66[…] arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little […]

necessity 1

  1. p. v, line 48[…] or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for […]

neck 17

  1. p. vi, line 37[…] children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above all love […]
  2. p. xi, line 33[…] and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its […]
  3. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  4. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  5. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
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  1. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  2. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;
  3. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  4. p. 45, line 11O despairer, here is my neck,
  5. p. 46, line 27My head evolves on my neck,
  6. p. 76, line 15The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
  7. 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,
  8. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.
  9. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  10. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  11. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,
  12. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,

necklace 1

  1. p. viii, line 72[…] enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work […]

necks 2

  1. p. viii, line 56[…] slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists […]
  2. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

need 12

  1. p. iii, line 36[…] the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or […]
  2. p. iv, line 94[…] States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them […]
  3. p. vi, line 68[…] is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not […]
  4. p. vii, line 42[…] defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of […]
  5. p. ix, line 27[…] are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say […]
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  1. p. ix, line 63[…] histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
  2. p. 17, line 23Who need be afraid of the merge?
  3. p. 33, line 22They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  4. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  5. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  6. p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
  7. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,

needed 1

  1. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.

needle 1

  1. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,

needles 1

  1. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,

needs 3

  1. p. xii, line 32[…] answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society […]
  2. p. xii, line 33[…] reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old […]
  3. p. xii, line 34[…] less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this […]

negligent 1

  1. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,

negligently 1

  1. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,

negro 4

  1. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  2. p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
  3. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
  4. p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

neighbor 1

  1. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,

neighbors 3

  1. p. x, line 90[…] all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers […]
  2. p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
  3. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,

neither 11

  1. p. iv, line 103[…] on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse […]
  2. p. vi, line 105[…] pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with […]
  3. p. vii, line 3[…] and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with […]
  4. p. vii, line 118[…] The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and […]
  5. p. viii, line 59[…] other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson […]
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  1. p. xi, line 27[…] who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
  2. p. xi, line 76[…] terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him […]
  3. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  4. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  5. p. 57, line 13Neither a servant nor a master am I,
  6. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.

nerve 2

  1. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  2. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;

nest 4

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,
  2. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  3. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  4. p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.

neuters 1

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

never 56

  1. p. iii, line 36[…] riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the […]
  2. p. iii, line 57[…] slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of […]
  3. p. iv, line 79[…] and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and […]
  4. p. v, line 10[…] flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High […]
  5. p. v, line 31[…] pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that […]
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  1. p. v, line 39[…] or remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If […]
  2. p. v, line 90[…] of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they […]
  3. p. v, line 91[…] by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or […]
  4. p. vi, line 103[…] soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy […]
  5. p. viii, line 20[…] regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to […]
  6. p. viii, line 49[…] of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than […]
  7. p. viii, line 77[…] is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go […]
  8. p. ix, line 50[…] form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre […]
  9. p. ix, line 61[…] genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly […]
  10. p. ix, line 74[…] that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit […]
  11. p. ix, line 81[…] discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of […]
  12. p. ix, line 83[…] soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of the globe […]
  13. p. xi, line 91[…] and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  14. p. xi, line 114[…] race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of […]
  15. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  16. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  17. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.
  18. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  19. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  20. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  21. p. 28, line 18A word of the faith that never balks,
  22. p. 31, line 16Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me,
  23. p. 33, line 25Logic and sermons never convince,
  24. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  25. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  26. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  27. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,
  28. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
  29. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  30. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;
  31. p. 51, line 14There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage;
  32. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  33. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  34. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  35. 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.
  36. p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
  37. 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?
  38. 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.
  39. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  40. p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;
  41. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  42. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  43. 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.
  44. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  45. p. 88, line 28Liberty let others despair of you . . . . I never despair of you.
  46. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  47. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.
  48. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

never-erased 1

  1. p. 83, line 29I see your rounded never-erased flow,

nevertheless 2

  1. p. 56, line 8But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  2. p. 88, line 30Nevertheless be ready . . . . be not weary of watching,

new 30

  1. p. iii, line 8[…] which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the […]
  2. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them a […]
  3. p. iv, line 52[…] tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements […]
  4. p. iv, line 64[…] and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly […]
  5. p. iv, line 82[…] the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive […]
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  1. p. vii, line 41[…] nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism […]
  2. p. ix, line 66[…] of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains […]
  3. p. xi, line 54[…] to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought […]
  4. p. xi, line 89[…] two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on […]
  5. p. xi, line 96[…] prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of […]
  6. p. xi, line 101[…] divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and […]
  7. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  8. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  9. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  10. p. 26, line 31I chant a new chant of dilation or pride,
  11. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
  12. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  13. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
  14. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,
  15. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  16. 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,
  17. p. 59, line 3Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, sailors, mano'warsmen, merchantmen, coasters,
  18. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  19. p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,
  20. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  21. p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.
  22. p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
  23. 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.

newborn 1

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

new-comers 1

  1. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;

Newfoundland 1

  1. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

newly-come 1

  1. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,

new-made 1

  1. p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:

news 2

  1. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  2. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

newspapers 4

  1. p. iii, line 44[…] or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their […]
  2. p. ix, line 41[…] wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in the […]
  3. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,
  4. p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.

new-washed 1

  1. p. 17, line 11I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my hat and boots,

New-York 2

  1. p. iv, line 74[…] life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the […]
  2. p. ix, line 19[…] trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with […]

next 7

  1. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
  2. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  3. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  4. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  5. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  6. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  7. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?

Niagara 1

  1. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;

niches 1

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

nigh 7

  1. p. viii, line 58[…] the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you […]
  2. p. xii, line 10[…] courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  3. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.
  4. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  5. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  6. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
  7. p. 92, line 4Draw nigh and commence,

nigher 1

  1. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;

nighest 2

  1. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  2. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,

night 56

  1. p. iii, line 22[…] with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation […]
  2. p. vii, line 74[…] any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and […]
  3. p. viii, line 97[…] soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the […]
  4. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  5. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
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  1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  3. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  4. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
  5. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  6. p. 27, line 5Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night!
  7. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
  8. p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!
  9. p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
  10. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,
  11. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  12. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  13. p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.
  14. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  15. p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  16. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  17. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  18. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  19. p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
  20. p. 45, line 15Sleep! I and they keep guard all night;
  21. p. 49, line 2And the night is for you and me and all,
  22. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
  23. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  24. p. 55, line 1I ascend from the moon . . . . I ascend from the night,
  25. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  26. 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:
  27. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
  28. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  29. p. 70, line 4I WANDER all night in my vision,
  30. p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.
  31. p. 71, line 10The earth recedes from me into the night,
  32. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  33. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  34. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
  35. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  36. p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  37. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
  38. p. 76, line 27I too pass from the night;
  39. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  40. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  41. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  42. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  43. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  44. 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,
  45. 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.
  46. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  47. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

night-heron 1

  1. p. iv, line 45[…] blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's […]

nights 6

  1. p. x, line 11[…] moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals […]
  2. p. 15, line 13They come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  3. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  4. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  5. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  6. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;

nighttime 1

  1. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,

nightwatchman's 1

  1. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,

nimble 1

  1. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,

nimbler 1

  1. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,

nimbus 1

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

nine 3

  1. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
  2. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,

nip 1

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

nipple 1

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

nipples 1

  1. p. xii, line 43[…] solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has […]

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noble 2

  1. p. iv, line 67[…] from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American […]
  2. p. viii, line 92[…] man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires […]

nobles 1

  1. p. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;

noblest 2

  1. p. v, line 34[…] that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one […]
  2. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;

nobody 3

  1. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  2. p. 33, line 28Only what nobody denies is so.
  3. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;

nod 2

  1. p. ix, line 82[…] can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there […]
  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.

nodding 1

  1. p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!

nods 1

  1. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,

noiselessly 2

  1. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  2. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,

noises 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:

noisiest 1

  1. p. 31, line 17I crowd your noisiest talk by looking toward you.

noisy 1

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

nomad 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,

nomination 1

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

nominee 2

  1. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,

nonchalance 1

  1. p. iii, line 29[…] roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial […]

nonchalant 1

  1. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,

none 10

  1. p. viii, line 4[…] sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or […]
  2. p. xii, line 64[…] no disguise can conceal from it. It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and […]
  3. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  4. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  5. p. 40, line 29None obeyed the command to kneel,
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  1. p. 59, line 5None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.
  2. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
  3. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.
  4. p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,

noon 1

  1. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;

noontime 1

  1. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,

nor 88

  1. p. iii, line 42[…] best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or […]
  2. p. iii, line 44[…] or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in […]
  3. p. iii, line 71[…] of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice […]
  4. p. iii, line 72[…] states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice […]
  5. p. iii, line 74[…] learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live […]
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  1. p. iv, line 103[…] object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he […]
  2. p. v, line 94[…] rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life […]
  3. p. vi, line 62[…] not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor […]
  4. p. vi, line 63[…] acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This […]
  5. p. vi, line 64[…] of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about […]
  6. p. vii, line 3[…] all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect […]
  7. p. vii, line 81[…] American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor […]
  8. p. vii, line 82[…] or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most […]
  9. p. vii, line 83[…] of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states […]
  10. p. vii, line 118[…] and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and […]
  11. p. viii, line 79[…] goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all […]
  12. p. ix, line 84[…] in any of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the […]
  13. p. ix, line 85[…] nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst […]
  14. p. ix, line 86[…] asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet […]
  15. p. ix, line 87[…] ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor […]
  16. p. ix, line 88[…] that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in […]
  17. p. ix, line 89[…] at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that follows what we term death, nor […]
  18. p. ix, line 90[…] that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality […]
  19. p. ix, line 91[…] stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being […]
  20. p. x, line 58[…] boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever […]
  21. p. x, line 63[…] returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be […]
  22. p. x, line 78[…] the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round […]
  23. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse […]
  24. p. xii, line 14[…] or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor […]
  25. p. xii, line 15[…] detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or […]
  26. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  27. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  28. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  29. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  30. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  31. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  32. p. 17, line 24Undrape . . . . you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  33. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
  34. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  35. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  36. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  37. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  38. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  39. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  40. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  41. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  42. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  43. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,
  44. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  45. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  46. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  47. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
  48. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
  49. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  50. p. 57, line 13Neither a servant nor a master am I,
  51. p. 61, line 4It is not the violins and the cornets . . . . it is not the oboe nor the beating drums— nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza . . . . nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus,
  52. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  53. p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;
  54. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  55. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  56. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  57. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  58. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  59. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  60. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
  61. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  62. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.

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  1. p. iii, line 88[…] by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of […]
  2. p. iv, line 27[…] coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to […]
  3. p. iv, line 53[…] making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance […]
  4. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
  5. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,
  6. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,

northeast 1

  1. p. iv, line 76[…] the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous […]

northern 1

  1. p. vii, line 85[…] eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]

northerner 2

  1. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,
  2. p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.

northwest 1

  1. p. iv, line 76[…] the character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to […]

northwesterners 1

  1. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,

Norwegian 1

  1. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

nose 2

  1. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
  2. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,

nostrils 2

  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  2. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,

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notebook 1

  1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,

notes 1

  1. p. 61, line 4It is not the violins and the cornets . . . . it is not the oboe nor the beating drums— nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza . . . . nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus,

nothing 62

  1. p. iv, line 100[…] grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its […]
  2. p. iv, line 101[…] Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object […]
  3. p. v, line 2[…] marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In […]
  4. p. vi, line 6[…] toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of […]
  5. p. vi, line 33[…] proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the […]
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  1. p. vi, line 42[…] and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear […]
  2. p. vi, line 112[…] sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess […]
  3. p. vi, line 113[…] letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of […]
  4. p. vii, line 25[…] and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I […]
  5. p. vii, line 40[…] brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms […]
  6. p. viii, line 36[…] principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in […]
  7. p. viii, line 42[…] great and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring […]
  8. p. viii, line 53[…] it is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade […]
  9. p. viii, line 54[…] sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets […]
  10. p. viii, line 67[…] Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and […]
  11. p. ix, line 51[…] be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed […]
  12. p. xi, line 10[…] if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case […]
  13. p. xi, line 20[…] age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has […]
  14. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  15. p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,
  16. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  17. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  18. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  19. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  20. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
  21. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  22. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  23. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  24. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  25. p. 45, line 2You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  26. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  27. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;
  28. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
  29. p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
  30. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  31. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,
  32. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  33. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  34. p. 65, line 5Is today nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?
  35. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  36. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  37. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  38. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  39. p. 68, line 24A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Camanche is not nothing,
  40. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
  41. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  42. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  43. p. 70, line 1I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  44. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  45. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  46. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  47. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,
  48. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,

notice 1

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

notions 1

  1. p. ix, line 111[…] economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he […]

nought 1

  1. p. xii, line 38[…] audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped […]

nourish 1

  1. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.

nourishing 1

  1. p. 27, line 5Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night!

novelty 1

  1. p. iii, line 54[…] their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight […]

November 1

  1. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

novice 1

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

now 52

  1. p. iv, line 91[…] beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  2. p. v, line 44[…] not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is […]
  3. p. x, line 110[…] and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they […]
  4. p. xi, line 2[…] palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from […]
  5. p. xi, line 53[…] direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior […]
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  1. p. xi, line 85[…] of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and […]
  2. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  3. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  4. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  5. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  6. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  7. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  8. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  9. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
  10. p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
  11. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  12. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.
  13. p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  14. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
  15. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  16. p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,
  17. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  18. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  19. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  20. p. 50, line 24Now I stand on this spot with my soul.
  21. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  22. p. 52, line 23Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
  23. p. 52, line 26Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  24. 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?
  25. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  26. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  27. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  28. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  29. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  30. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  31. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  32. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,
  33. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  34. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  35. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  36. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;
  37. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  38. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  39. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,
  40. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  41. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
  42. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
  43. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
  44. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,
  45. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,
  46. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
  47. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.

nucleus 1

  1. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,

nude 1

  1. p. 25, line 20Who goes there! hankering, gross, mystical, nude?

nudge 1

  1. p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.

nuisance 1

  1. p. ix, line 49[…] unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so […]

number 3

  1. p. vi, line 7[…] known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with […]
  2. p. viii, line 62[…] from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of […]
  3. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,

numberless 5

  1. p. viii, line 90[…] earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master […]
  2. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.
  3. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
  4. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,
  5. p. 88, line 2Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,

nursing 1

  1. p. xii, line 41[…] Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve readily […]