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‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

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  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its […]
  2. p. iii, line 5[…] old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still […]
  3. p. iii, line 23[…] doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here […]
  4. p. iii, line 41[…] but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in […]
  5. p. iii, line 63[…] the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits […]
  6. p. iii, line 70[…] and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous […]
  7. p. iii, line 85[…] that of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the […]
  8. p. iv, line 14[…] with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into […]
  9. p. iv, line 22[…] over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more […]
  10. p. iv, line 83[…] and new. It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these […]
  11. p. iv, line 87[…] characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme […]
  12. p. iv, line 96[…] and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall […]
  13. p. iv, line 99[…] mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or […]
  14. p. v, line 3[…] too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly […]
  15. p. v, line 11[…] obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach […]
  16. p. v, line 20[…] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around […]
  17. p. v, line 28[…] sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is […]
  18. p. v, line 36[…] The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect […]
  19. p. v, line 40[…] What is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he […]
  20. p. v, line 41[…] himself by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers […]
  21. p. v, line 43[…] wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has […]
  22. p. v, line 45[…] passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or […]
  23. p. v, line 57[…] he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation […]
  24. p. v, line 76[…] the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate […]
  25. p. v, line 92[…] but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things […]
  26. p. v, line 106[…] poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and […]
  27. p. v, line 116[…] gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is […]
  28. p. vi, line 4[…] income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take […]
  29. p. vi, line 15[…] a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of […]
  30. p. vi, line 18[…] and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that […]
  31. p. vi, line 21[…] is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to […]
  32. p. vi, line 41[…] His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot […]
  33. p. vi, line 46[…] earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea […]
  34. p. vi, line 56[…] of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand for […]
  35. p. vi, line 61[…] it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre […]
  36. p. vi, line 67[…] there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is […]
  37. p. vi, line 69[…] be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ […]
  38. p. vi, line 70[…] and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and […]
  39. p. vi, line 83[…] clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of […]
  40. p. vi, line 91[…] the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions […]
  41. p. vi, line 100[…] afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul […]
  42. p. vii, line 11[…] artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or […]
  43. p. vii, line 21[…] himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any […]
  44. p. vii, line 22[…] art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality […]
  45. p. vii, line 25[…] I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely […]
  46. p. vii, line 39[…] custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians […]
  47. p. vii, line 56[…] can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and […]
  48. p. vii, line 74[…] hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches […]
  49. p. vii, line 84[…] the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or […]
  50. p. vii, line 97[…] geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their […]
  51. p. viii, line 10[…] distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that […]
  52. p. viii, line 79[…] place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to […]
  53. p. viii, line 103[…] easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of […]
  54. p. ix, line 28[…] its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner […]
  55. p. ix, line 30[…] one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought […]
  56. p. ix, line 39[…] pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral […]
  57. p. x, line 2[…] The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of […]
  58. p. x, line 39[…] a person does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can a man or woman make that affects […]
  59. p. x, line 46[…] as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the […]
  60. p. x, line 47[…] or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins […]
  61. p. x, line 48[…] or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation […]
  62. p. x, line 49[…] of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison […]
  63. p. x, line 51[…] no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any […]
  64. p. x, line 52[…] seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment […]
  65. p. x, line 53[…] prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any […]
  66. p. x, line 54[…] of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to […]
  67. p. x, line 55[…] by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners […]
  68. p. x, line 57[…] husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the […]
  69. p. xi, line 1[…] them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no […]
  70. p. xi, line 9[…] the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they conform to […]
  71. p. xi, line 12[…] case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the […]
  72. p. xi, line 19[…] well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age in […]
  73. p. xi, line 30[…] the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic […]
  74. p. xi, line 32[…] with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and […]
  75. p. xi, line 35[…] its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not […]
  76. p. xi, line 36[…] the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and […]
  77. p. xi, line 105[…] symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of […]
  78. p. xii, line 58[…] the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The […]
  79. p. xii, line 60[…] the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work […]
  80. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  81. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  82. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  83. p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  84. p. 14, line 23Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  85. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  86. p. 15, line 14But they are not the Me myself.
  87. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  88. p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.
  89. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  90. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  91. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  92. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  93. 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,
  94. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  95. p. 17, line 16They do not know how immortal, but I know.
  96. p. 17, line 24Undrape . . . . you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  97. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  98. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  99. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  100. p. 20, line 2They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  101. p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  102. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  103. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  104. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
  105. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  106. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
  107. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  108. p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  109. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  110. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  111. p. 24, line 16If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing,
  112. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  113. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  114. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
  115. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  116. p. 25, line 19I might not tell everybody but I will tell you.
  117. p. 25, line 25I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  118. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  119. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  120. p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  121. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  122. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  123. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  124. p. 29, line 25I do not press my finger across my mouth,
  125. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  126. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.
  127. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?
  128. p. 31, line 18Writing and talk do not prove me,
  129. p. 33, line 22They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  130. p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  131. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  132. p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  133. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  134. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  135. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  136. p. 34, line 33I do not know where they got those tokens,
  137. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  138. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  139. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  140. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  141. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  142. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
  143. p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.
  144. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  145. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  146. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  147. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  148. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  149. p. 42, line 3Not a moment's cease,
  150. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  151. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  152. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  153. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
  154. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  155. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  156. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,
  157. p. 45, line 1I do not ask who you are . . . . that is not important to me,
  158. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  159. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  160. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
  161. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  162. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  163. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  164. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  165. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
  166. p. 48, line 7I do not despise you priests;
  167. p. 49, line 4I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  168. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  169. p. 49, line 26I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  170. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
  171. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  172. 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,
  173. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
  174. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  175. p. 52, line 6It is not far . . . . it is within reach,
  176. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  177. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  178. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  179. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  180. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  181. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  182. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
  183. p. 54, line 6And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  184. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  185. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  186. p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  187. 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?
  188. p. 55, line 4There is that in me . . . . I do not know what it is . . . . but I know it is in me.
  189. p. 55, line 7I do not know it . . . . it is without name . . . . it is a word unsaid,
  190. p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.
  191. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  192. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,
  193. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.
  194. 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?
  195. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
  196. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
  197. 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,
  198. 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,
  199. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  200. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,
  201. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
  202. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,
  203. p. 59, line 11It is not to be put in a book . . . . it is not in this book,
  204. 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?
  205. p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  206. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  207. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  208. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  209. p. 60, line 12I do not say they are not grand and good—for they are,
  210. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  211. p. 60, line 17It is not they who give the life . . . . it is you who give the life;
  212. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  213. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  214. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  215. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  216. 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,
  217. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  218. 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.
  219. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,
  220. p. 63, line 23I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  221. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  222. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
  223. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  224. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  225. p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
  226. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  227. 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;
  228. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,
  229. p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  230. 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;
  231. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
  232. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  233. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  234. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
  235. p. 68, line 2It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided;
  236. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  237. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  238. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  239. p. 68, line 24A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Camanche is not nothing,
  240. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
  241. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  242. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  243. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  244. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  245. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  246. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  247. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  248. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  249. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
  250. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  251. p. 73, line 14I turn but do not extricate myself;
  252. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;
  253. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  254. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  255. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  256. p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
  257. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  258. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  259. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  260. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  261. 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,
  262. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  263. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
  264. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,
  265. 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.
  266. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  267. 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?
  268. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.
  269. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,
  270. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?
  271. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  272. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  273. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  274. p. 82, line 7For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  275. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
  276. p. 83, line 7I see them and complain not and am content with all.
  277. p. 84, line 4And I knew for my consolation what they knew not;
  278. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  279. p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  280. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  281. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  282. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  283. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
  284. p. 88, line 2Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
  285. 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;
  286. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,
  287. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  288. p. 88, line 30Nevertheless be ready . . . . be not weary of watching,
  289. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  290. p. 89, line 26I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  291. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
  292. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  293. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  294. p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.
  295. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  296. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  297. 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.
  298. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  299. 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.
  300. p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?
  301. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?
  302. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,
  303. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.
  304. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,
  305. 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.
  306. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,
  307. p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.