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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paces 1

  1. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,

Pacific 2

  1. p. iv, line 26[…] the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or […]
  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.

pack 2

  1. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,
  2. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

packed 1

  1. p. 18, line 18The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow:

paddles 1

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

paddle-tail 1

  1. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;

paid 2

  1. p. ix, line 31[…] a legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of […]
  2. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:

pail 1

  1. p. 21, line 33What is removed drops horribly in a pail;

pain 3

  1. p. vii, line 69[…] and death, And of all terror and all pain […]
  2. p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  3. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.

painless 1

  1. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,

pains 3

  1. p. x, line 89[…] for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast […]
  2. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
  3. p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,

painted 1

  1. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?

paintings 2

  1. p. ix, line 40[…] natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in […]
  2. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

palate 1

  1. p. 30, line 26The air tastes good to my palate.

pale 2

  1. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;
  2. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,

pale-green 1

  1. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

paling 1

  1. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.

pallid 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

pallor 1

  1. p. x, line 10[…] as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and […]

palm 2

  1. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,

palms 3

  1. p. 35, line 16I skirt the sierras . . . . my palms cover continents,
  2. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  3. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,

palpable 6

  1. p. xi, line 1[…] The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being […]
  2. p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 65, line 21They are palpable as the living are palpable.
  5. 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.

panes 1

  1. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;

panorama 1

  1. p. 47, line 29The panorama of the sea . . . . but the sea itself?

pant 1

  1. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,

panther 1

  1. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,

panting 1

  1. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,

paper 4

  1. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  2. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  3. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
  4. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

papers 2

  1. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,

papiermache 1

  1. p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,

paradox 3

  1. p. 95, line 14Do you call that a paradox? It certainly is a paradox.
  2. p. 95, line 16And there is another paradox.

paralysed 1 today: paralyzed

  1. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,

paralyzed see paralysed

parents 5

  1. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  2. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  3. 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.
  4. 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,
  5. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

parks 1

  1. p. v, line 5[…] recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the […]

parleying 1

  1. p. v, line 43[…] The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed […]

Parliament 1

  1. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,

parlor 1

  1. 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,

parlors 4

  1. p. iii, line 44[…] ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most […]
  2. p. x, line 13[…] stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss […]
  3. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  4. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

parsnips 1

  1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,

part 24

  1. p. vi, line 67[…] of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best […]
  2. p. ix, line 5[…] of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty […]
  3. p. ix, line 7[…] the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]
  4. p. ix, line 86[…] star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor […]
  5. p. x, line 41[…] in a day or a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but […]
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  1. p. x, line 104[…] well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any of […]
  2. p. xii, line 31[…] any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is it without […]
  3. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  4. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,
  5. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  6. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  7. p. 51, line 19They are but parts . . . . any thing is but a part.
  8. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  9. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  10. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,
  11. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  12. p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
  13. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,
  14. 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.
  15. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,
  16. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  17. 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,

partaker 1

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

parted 1

  1. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,

particle 3

  1. p. ix, line 76[…] deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through […]
  2. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  3. p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,

particular 2

  1. p. xi, line 11[…] its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead […]
  2. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;

particulars 1

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

parting 2

  1. p. vi, line 98[…] frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified […]
  2. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,

partners 2

  1. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  2. p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,

partridges 1

  1. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;

parts 9

  1. p. iv, line 67[…] coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all […]
  2. p. viii, line 101[…] into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American […]
  3. p. ix, line 100[…] of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth out of his […]
  4. p. xi, line 1[…] moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without […]
  5. p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
  6. p. 51, line 19They are but parts . . . . any thing is but a part.
  7. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  8. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;

parturition 1

  1. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;

pass 35

  1. p. vii, line 73[…] be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and […]
  2. p. viii, line 76[…] drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place […]
  3. p. x, line 16[…] true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth or middle age […]
  4. p. xii, line 51The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only […]
  5. p. xii, line 63[…] nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal from it. It rejects […]
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  1. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  2. 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,
  3. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  4. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  5. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  6. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  7. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  8. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  9. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
  10. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  11. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
  12. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  13. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
  14. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  15. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  16. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  17. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
  18. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,
  19. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  20. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
  21. p. 76, line 27I too pass from the night;
  22. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  23. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  24. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  25. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  26. 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?

passage 2

  1. p. xi, line 43[…] of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself […]
  2. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;

passages 1

  1. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,

passed 12

  1. p. iii, line 8[…] while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that […]
  2. p. v, line 44[…] struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any […]
  3. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
  4. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.
  5. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
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  1. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
  2. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  3. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
  4. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  5. 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,
  6. 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.

passengers 1

  1. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,

passes 5

  1. p. xii, line 22[…] every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with […]
  2. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  3. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  4. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  5. p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.

passing 4

  1. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  2. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
  3. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  4. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.

passion 3

  1. p. v, line 86[…] manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old […]
  2. p. vi, line 27[…] is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency […]
  3. p. vii, line 68[…] shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all pain […]

passionate 3

  1. p. v, line 83[…] well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and […]
  2. p. xii, line 18[…] young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears […]
  3. p. 27, line 17O unspeakable passionate love!

passionless 1

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

passions 4

  1. p. vi, line 74[…] the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to […]
  2. p. vi, line 93[…] dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles […]
  3. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  4. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

passive 1

  1. p. 80, line 4She is all things duly veiled . . . . she is both passive and active . . . . she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and sons as well as daughters.

passkey 1

  1. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.

password 1

  1. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;

past 19

  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid […]
  2. p. iv, line 48[…] enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and […]
  3. p. v, line 39[…] but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself […]
  4. p. vi, line 81[…] the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The […]
  5. p. vi, line 87[…] again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you […]
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  1. p. viii, line 16[…] as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be […]
  2. p. xi, line 104[…] inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or […]
  3. p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  4. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  5. p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
  6. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  7. p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,
  8. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  9. p. 65, line 5Is today nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?
  10. p. 68, line 10The law of the past cannot be eluded,
  11. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  12. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  13. p. 69, line 18The past and the present indicate that it is good.

pastreading 1

  1. p. 73, line 15Confused . . . . a pastreading . . . . another, but with darkness yet.

pasturage 1

  1. p. iv, line 38[…] wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with […]

pasture 1

  1. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,

pasturelife 1

  1. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;

patches 1

  1. p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,

paternal 1

  1. p. 23, line 23Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,

paternity 1

  1. p. ix, line 35[…] with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and […]

path 2

  1. p. v, line 79[…] real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the […]
  2. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;

paths 1

  1. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,

patience 1

  1. p. vi, line 5[…] others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to […]

patient 3

  1. p. viii, line 30[…] or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put […]
  2. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  3. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,

patiently 2

  1. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,
  2. p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.

patriarchs 1

  1. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,

patriots 1

  1. p. viii, line 82[…] faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips […]

pats 1

  1. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;

patter 1

  1. 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,

pattern 1

  1. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.

patterns 2

  1. p. ix, line 42[…] any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or […]
  2. p. 63, line 13The milliner's ribbons . . the dressmaker's patterns . . . . the tea-table . . the home-made sweetmeats:

pause 3

  1. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,
  2. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  3. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.

pausing 1

  1. p. 70, line 8Pausing and gazing and bending and stopping.

pave 1

  1. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,

pavement 4

  1. p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
  2. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  3. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;

pavingman 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,

pay 3

  1. p. vi, line 30[…] misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning […]
  2. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
  3. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

paying 1

  1. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

payment 2

  1. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,
  2. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

peace 11

  1. p. iv, line 55[…] the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by […]
  2. p. iv, line 107[…] wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of […]
  3. p. iv, line 108[…] routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture […]
  4. p. x, line 80[…] round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor […]
  5. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
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  1. p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  2. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  3. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  4. p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.
  5. p. 75, line 27Peace is always beautiful,
  6. p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.

peachpit 1

  1. p. v, line 70[…] have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the […]

peaks 1

  1. p. iv, line 37[…] and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or […]

peal 1

  1. p. 46, line 7Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,

pears 1

  1. p. v, line 104[…] shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and […]

pear-shaped 1

  1. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;

pecan trees see pekantrees

peculation 1

  1. p. x, line 49[…] the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of […]

peddler see pedlar

pedlar 1 today: peddler

  1. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,

peep 1

  1. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,

peeped 1

  1. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,

peeringly 1

  1. p. 17, line 30I peeringly view them from the top.

peers 1

  1. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,

pekantrees 1 today: pecan trees

  1. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,

pell-mell 1

  1. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!

pelts 1

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

pen 1

  1. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;

penal 1

  1. p. viii, line 66[…] bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing […]

pendant 1

  1. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,

pennant 1

  1. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,

pennants 1

  1. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.

people 23

  1. p. iii, line 45[…] or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of […]
  2. p. iv, line 6[…] a bard is to be commensurate with a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives […]
  3. p. v, line 30[…] antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting […]
  4. p. v, line 90[…] of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some […]
  5. p. vi, line 6[…] concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or […]
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  1. p. viii, line 64[…] from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the tushes of power […]
  2. p. viii, line 88[…] bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung […]
  3. p. viii, line 109[…] response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is […]
  4. p. ix, line 61[…] are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As […]
  5. p. x, line 59[…] wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on […]
  6. p. xii, line 14[…] institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy […]
  7. p. xii, line 20[…] the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's […]
  8. 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,
  9. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  10. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  11. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  12. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  13. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.
  14. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  15. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  16. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  17. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:
  18. p. 88, line 7The People scorned the ferocity of kings.

perceive 10

  1. p. v, line 81[…] between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The […]
  2. p. v, line 91[…] They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is […]
  3. p. vii, line 76[…] they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man […]
  4. p. viii, line 45[…] to be is just as great as to perceive or tell […]
  5. p. ix, line 28[…] large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library […]
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  1. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
  2. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  3. p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,
  4. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  5. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;

perceived 1

  1. p. 79, line 6I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,

perceives 3

  1. p. iii, line 9[…] into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and […]
  2. p. iii, line 10[…] the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that […]
  3. p. xi, line 24[…] and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or […]

perception 1

  1. p. v, line 88[…] is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in […]

perfect 38

  1. p. iv, line 70[…] the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness […]
  2. p. v, line 37[…] great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould […]
  3. p. v, line 100[…] out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud […]
  4. p. vii, line 4[…] uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the […]
  5. p. vii, line 99[…] and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent […]
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  1. p. viii, line 9[…] women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in […]
  2. p. viii, line 17[…] shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the […]
  3. p. viii, line 38[…] sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general law […]
  4. p. ix, line 53[…] ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of […]
  5. p. ix, line 66[…] them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and […]
  6. p. ix, line 70[…] faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we […]
  7. p. ix, line 97[…] large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of […]
  8. p. xii, line 40[…] wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for […]
  9. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  10. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  11. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  12. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  13. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  14. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  15. p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
  16. p. 69, line 22The vegetables and minerals are all perfect . . and the imponderable fluids are perfect;
  17. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
  18. p. 77, line 14The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
  19. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  20. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  21. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  22. p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
  23. p. 87, line 13The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,
  24. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
  25. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,
  26. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,
  27. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

perfectformed 1

  1. p. 75, line 17The stammerer, the sick, the perfectformed, the homely,

perfection 4

  1. p. vi, line 48[…] the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
  2. p. vi, line 58[…] just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each […]
  3. p. xi, line 106[…] deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality […]
  4. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,

perfections 1

  1. p. vi, line 55[…] harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand […]

perfectly 2

  1. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  2. p. 47, line 23I know perfectly well my own egotism,

performance 2

  1. p. iii, line 30[…] and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its […]
  2. p. xi, line 50[…] projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them […]

performances 1

  1. p. x, line 62[…] realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity […]

performer 2

  1. p. xi, line 50[…] prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live […]
  2. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.

performers 1

  1. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,

perfume 3

  1. p. v, line 104[…] oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest […]
  2. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  3. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.

perfumes 2

  1. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,

perhaps 7

  1. p. xi, line 20[…] to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that […]
  2. p. xi, line 93[…] Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior […]
  3. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  4. p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
  5. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  6. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  7. 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:

periled 2

  1. p. xi, line 17[…] atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for […]
  2. p. xi, line 19[…] for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age in riches […]

period 1

  1. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.

periods 1

  1. p. xi, line 37[…] opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and […]

permit 1

  1. p. ix, line 39[…] from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or […]

permits 2

  1. p. xi, line 10[…] they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has […]
  2. p. xii, line 64[…] can conceal from it. It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the […]

permitted 1

  1. p. viii, line 87[…] when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the […]

perpetual 7

  1. p. iv, line 58[…] by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine […]
  2. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,
  3. p. 51, line 24I tramp a perpetual journey,
  4. 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?
  5. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  6. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.

perpetually 3

  1. p. 26, line 6To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  2. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  3. p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,

persiflage 1

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

persimmon 2

  1. p. iv, line 33[…] tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and […]
  2. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;

person 22

  1. p. v, line 33[…] that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive […]
  2. p. vii, line 37[…] will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom […]
  3. p. viii, line 99[…] and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel […]
  4. p. ix, line 79[…] whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has […]
  5. p. x, line 38[…] has reference to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can […]
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  1. p. xi, line 22[…] for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to […]
  2. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  3. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  4. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  5. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  6. p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,
  7. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
  8. p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
  9. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.
  10. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
  11. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  12. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  13. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:
  14. p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.

personal 5

  1. p. ix, line 66[…] of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a […]
  2. p. x, line 63[…] again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason […]
  3. p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.
  4. 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;
  5. 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;

personally 1

  1. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;

personnel 1

  1. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;

persons 11

  1. p. iii, line 56[…] to a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the […]
  2. p. v, line 86[…] of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open […]
  3. p. vi, line 8[…] number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families […]
  4. p. vi, line 75[…] or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual […]
  5. p. vii, line 81[…] The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests […]
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  1. p. viii, line 5[…] hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and […]
  2. p. x, line 83[…] widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves […]
  3. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
  4. p. 29, line 15Voices of prostitutes and of deformed persons,
  5. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
  6. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

perspective 1

  1. p. iii, line 32[…] crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific […]

persuades 1

  1. p. vi, line 29[…] which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks […]

pert 1

  1. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,

peruse 1

  1. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,

peruses 1

  1. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.

pervaded 1

  1. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,

pervades 2

  1. p. v, line 29[…] Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up […]
  2. p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.

pervading 1

  1. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,

pet 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,

pettiness 1

  1. p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was […]

pew 1

  1. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,

phallic 1

  1. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,

phantasms 2

  1. 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;
  2. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;

phantoms 4

  1. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  2. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  3. p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,
  4. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?

phase 1

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

phases 1

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

philosophers 1

  1. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;

philosophy 6

  1. p. vii, line 43[…] new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate […]
  2. p. viii, line 18[…] be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal […]
  3. p. viii, line 23[…] toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than the […]
  4. p. viii, line 32[…] put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of […]
  5. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
  6. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!

phœbe-bird 1

  1. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,

photographs 1

  1. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?

phrenologist 1

  1. p. vii, line 95[…] sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they […]

physical 1

  1. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,

physician 3

  1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
  2. p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
  3. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,

physiognomy 1

  1. p. iii, line 48[…] dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to […]

physiology 1

  1. p. ix, line 57[…] without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in […]

piano-forte 1

  1. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,

piazza 1

  1. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;

pick 4

  1. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  2. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;
  3. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  4. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,

pickets 1

  1. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,

picking 1

  1. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,

picks 1

  1. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;

pic-nics 1

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

picture 1

  1. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?

picturesque 2

  1. p. iii, line 48[…] the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their […]
  2. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,

piddle 1

  1. 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,

piece 1

  1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;

pieces 1

  1. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.

pied-sheldrake 1

  1. p. iv, line 44[…] indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron […]

pier 2

  1. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  2. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;

pierce 1

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

pierced 1

  1. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

pikefisher 1

  1. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,

pike-pointed 1

  1. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

piled 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,

piledriver 1

  1. p. 62, line 17The pump, the piledriver, the great derrick . . the coalkiln and brickkiln,

pilot 1

  1. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,

pilot's 1

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

pimpled 2

  1. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  2. 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?

pimples 1

  1. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,

pine 1

  1. p. iv, line 30[…] rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut […]

pines 1

  1. p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,

pinings 1

  1. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.

pink-faint 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.

pinnacles 1

  1. p. vi, line 94[…] finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or […]

pint 1

  1. p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;

pioneercaps 1

  1. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,

pious 1

  1. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,

pipe-legged 1

  1. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.

pismire 1

  1. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

pistol 1

  1. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.

pitted 1

  1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

pity 1

  1. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

pity's 1

  1. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,

pivot 1

  1. p. v, line 13[…] stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he […]

place 31

  1. p. iv, line 101[…] fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its […]
  2. p. viii, line 10[…] to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the […]
  3. p. viii, line 77[…] other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first […]
  4. p. xi, line 95[…] by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take […]
  5. p. xi, line 96[…] kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the […]
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  1. p. xii, line 61[…] they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also […]
  2. p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  3. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  4. p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  5. p. 24, line 11The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,
  6. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
  7. p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.
  8. 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,
  9. p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
  10. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  11. p. 56, line 11Missing me one place search another,
  12. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  13. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
  14. p. 66, line 14A hearse and stages . . . . other vehicles give place,
  15. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  16. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  17. p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
  18. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  19. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  20. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  21. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  22. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.

places 4

  1. p. vi, line 89[…] may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does […]
  2. p. ix, line 48[…] honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human […]
  3. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
  4. 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.

placid 1

  1. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,

placing 2

  1. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,
  2. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,

plain 3

  1. p. x, line 7[…] and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of […]
  2. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  3. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.

plainingmachines 1 today: planing machines

  1. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

plainly 1

  1. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.

plains 1

  1. p. 23, line 3The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,

plan 1

  1. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.

plane 1

  1. p. v, line 25[…] and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play […]

planes 1

  1. p. xi, line 55[…] new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his […]

planet 1

  1. p. ix, line 84[…] the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in […]

planing machines see plainingmachines

plank 3

  1. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  2. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  3. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,

planned 1

  1. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

planners 1

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

planning 2

  1. p. 38, line 3Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning,
  2. 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?

plans 2

  1. p. iv, line 89[…] Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful […]
  2. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

plant 2

  1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  2. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,

plantation 1

  1. p. iv, line 75[…] New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest […]

planter 1

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

planting 1

  1. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,

plast 1 today: plaster

  1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

plaster see plast

plasters 1

  1. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

plasticity 1

  1. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,

plate 1

  1. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,

plate-glass 1

  1. 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,

plates 1

  1. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;

platform 1

  1. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,

plaudits 1

  1. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,

play 9

  1. p. v, line 26[…] is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men […]
  2. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
  4. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  5. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  6. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  7. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
  8. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

played 2

  1. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,
  2. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,

playing 3

  1. p. vi, line 36[…] the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man […]
  2. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  3. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,

plays 3

  1. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  2. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  3. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

plead 1

  1. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

pleasantly 4

  1. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  2. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  3. p. 69, line 15Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
  4. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;

please 3

  1. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
  2. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

pleased 7

  1. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
  2. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  3. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  4. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,
  5. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;

pleases 1

  1. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,

pleasure 14

  1. p. vi, line 32[…] amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven […]
  2. p. vi, line 70[…] has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take the handsomest […]
  3. p. ix, line 9[…] the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all […]
  4. p. ix, line 38[…] strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them […]
  5. p. xii, line 34[…] society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty […]
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  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. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
  3. p. 67, line 8To think how much pleasure there is!
  4. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  5. 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;
  6. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;

pleasures 1

  1. p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,

plenty 4

  1. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  2. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  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. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,

plenum 1

  1. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,

pliant 2

  1. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  2. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

plot 1

  1. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.

plotted 1

  1. p. 71, line 5The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,

plough 1

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

ploughed 1

  1. p. vi, line 20[…] shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall […]

plougher 1

  1. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;

ploughing 2

  1. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  2. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,

ploughs 1

  1. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;

pluck 3

  1. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  2. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
  3. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,

plumb 4

  1. p. vi, line 51[…] is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from […]
  2. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  3. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,

plumb bob see plumbob

plumbob 1 today: plumb bob

  1. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:

plummets 1

  1. p. 38, line 9My course runs below the soundings of plummets.

plum-orchard 1

  1. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,

plunge 1

  1. p. xi, line 34[…] hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if […]

plunged 1

  1. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,

plunges 1

  1. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,

plutonic 1

  1. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,

pocketless 1

  1. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,

pockets 2

  1. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  2. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,

pod 1

  1. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

poem 7

  1. p. iii, line 18[…] The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and […]
  2. p. vi, line 14[…] and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words […]
  3. p. vii, line 99[…] their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the […]
  4. p. viii, line 31[…] no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or […]
  5. p. xi, line 65A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all […]
  6. p. xi, line 70[…] man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather […]
  7. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,

poems 13

  1. p. v, line 100[…] of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from […]
  2. p. v, line 106[…] form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but […]
  3. p. vi, line 70[…] most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and […]
  4. p. vii, line 42[…] from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an […]
  5. p. vii, line 110[…] man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
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  1. p. xi, line 48[…] wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects […]
  2. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away […]
  3. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  4. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  5. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
  6. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  7. 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;

poet 34

  1. p. iii, line 76[…] for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always […]
  2. p. iv, line 81[…] cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is to be […]
  3. p. iv, line 98[…] their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from […]
  4. p. v, line 35[…] the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist […]
  5. p. v, line 42[…] what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now […]
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  1. p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any […]
  2. p. v, line 77[…] not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always […]
  3. p. vi, line 18[…] every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall […]
  4. p. vi, line 26[…] one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance […]
  5. p. vi, line 73[…] the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions […]
  6. p. vi, line 84[…] future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be from what […]
  7. p. vi, line 91[…] himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes […]
  8. p. vi, line 100[…] or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows […]
  9. p. vi, line 108[…] of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in […]
  10. p. vii, line 17[…] satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel […]
  11. p. vii, line 87[…] practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance […]
  12. p. vii, line 108[…] the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of […]
  13. p. vii, line 114[…] and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless […]
  14. p. viii, line 19[…] this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never […]
  15. p. ix, line 101[…] the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth out of his mother's womb and from […]
  16. p. ix, line 109[…] lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies […]
  17. p. x, line 74[…] is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if […]
  18. p. xi, line 8[…] soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul […]
  19. p. xi, line 30[…] trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the […]
  20. p. xi, line 49[…] or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after […]
  21. p. xi, line 75[…] full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease […]
  22. p. xii, line 72[…] the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he […]
  23. p. 26, line 24I am the poet of the body,
  24. p. 26, line 25And I am the poet of the soul.
  25. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  26. p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;
  27. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  28. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.

poetic 2

  1. p. v, line 90[…] of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets […]
  2. p. v, line 92[…] perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract […]

poetical 2

  1. p. iii, line 16[…] time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem […]
  2. p. iv, line 94[…] nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest […]

poetry 1

  1. p. iii, line 64[…] not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]

poets 18

  1. p. iii, line 81[…] action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after […]
  2. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the […]
  3. p. iv, line 94[…] with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the […]
  4. p. iv, line 97[…] be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable […]
  5. p. v, line 91[…] outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic […]
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  1. p. vii, line 36[…] old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks […]
  2. p. vii, line 50The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on […]
  3. p. vii, line 97[…] phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction […]
  4. p. vii, line 98[…] not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem […]
  5. p. viii, line 50[…] or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out […]
  6. p. viii, line 55[…] warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn […]
  7. p. ix, line 8As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul […]
  8. p. ix, line 23[…] commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and […]
  9. p. ix, line 64The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them […]
  10. p. xi, line 101[…] shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events […]
  11. p. xii, line 70[…] well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake […]
  12. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  13. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

point 3

  1. p. viii, line 23[…] tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is […]
  2. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  3. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;

pointed 1

  1. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.

points 2

  1. p. xi, line 53[…] style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or […]
  2. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.

poised 1

  1. 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,

poison 1

  1. p. x, line 50[…] or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of […]

poisoned 1

  1. p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,

poke 1

  1. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

poke-easy 1

  1. p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,

pokeweed 1

  1. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.

polar 1

  1. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

Pole 1

  1. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,

police 2

  1. p. xii, line 16[…] navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the […]
  2. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;

policeman 2

  1. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;
  2. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,

polished 3

polished 2 · polish'd 1

  1. p. xii, line 54[…] the vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave […]
  2. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  3. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.

polite 2

  1. p. xii, line 55[…] of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure […]
  2. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

political 2

  1. p. viii, line 47[…] make of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever […]
  2. p. xii, line 1[…] change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has […]

politician 1

  1. p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,

politics 6

  1. p. iii, line 3[…] has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts […]
  2. p. vii, line 43[…] free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native […]
  3. p. viii, line 104[…] the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city […]
  4. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,
  5. p. 60, line 24All doctrines, all politics and civilization exurge from you,
  6. 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.

polls 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;

ponderous 1

  1. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

pond-side 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.

pond-snipe 1

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,

pool 1

  1. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,

poor 4

  1. p. x, line 81[…] help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and […]
  2. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
  3. p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,
  4. p. 88, line 4Worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages;

poorest 1

  1. p. viii, line 113[…] in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his […]

poorhouse 1

  1. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,

poorly 2

  1. p. viii, line 61[…] shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one […]
  2. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.

population 1

  1. p. iv, line 72[…] the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee […]

populous 2

  1. p. iv, line 108[…] of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the […]
  2. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,

porch 1

  1. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

pores 1

  1. p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,

pork 1

  1. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;

pork-store 1

  1. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;

port 2

  1. p. 37, line 27Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure;
  2. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;

porter 1

  1. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

portfolio 1

  1. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,

portray 1

  1. p. vii, line 29[…] as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my […]

ports 1

  1. p. iv, line 52[…] of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north […]

posh 1

  1. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,

position 2

  1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
  2. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?

positive 2

  1. p. viii, line 68[…] promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with […]
  2. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!

possess 6

  1. p. ix, line 10[…] soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As […]
  2. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  3. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  4. p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  5. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,
  6. p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.

possesses 1

  1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:

possession 1

  1. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.

possible 2

  1. p. vi, line 28[…] and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly […]
  2. p. xi, line 15[…] thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who […]

postpone 1

  1. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,

pour 3

  1. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  2. p. 49, line 21They pour and they pour and they exhale away.

pouring 1

  1. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.

poverty 3

  1. p. ix, line 26[…] first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large […]
  2. p. 93, line 22Great is wealth and great is poverty . . . . great is expression and great is silence.
  3. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?

powder 1

  1. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

powdered 1

  1. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,

powder-magazine 1

  1. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,

powder-parcels 1

  1. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,

powders 1

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

power 10

  1. p. v, line 34[…] an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a […]
  2. p. v, line 37[…] sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but […]
  3. p. v, line 39[…] is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If he does […]
  4. p. vii, line 62[…] the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and of […]
  5. p. viii, line 65[…] from the sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any […]
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  1. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  2. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  3. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

powerful 4

  1. p. vi, line 8[…] man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers […]
  2. p. vi, line 69[…] the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that […]
  3. p. ix, line 36[…] toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy […]
  4. p. xii, line 4[…] subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense […]

powers 1

  1. p. vii, line 3[…] depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature […]

powowing 1 today: powwowing

  1. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

powwowing see powowing

practical 4

  1. p. iii, line 51[…] to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens […]
  2. p. vii, line 47[…] forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere […]
  3. p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always […]
  4. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?

practice 1

  1. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

practiced 2

practiced 1 · practised 1

  1. p. x, line 59[…] or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be […]
  2. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?

prairie 3

  1. p. iv, line 39[…] sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of […]
  2. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  3. p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?

prairie-dog 1

  1. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

praise 1

  1. p. v, line 23[…] faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity […]

pray 1

  1. p. 25, line 30Shall I pray? Shall I venerate and be ceremonious?

prayer 2

  1. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
  2. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,

preached 1

  1. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

preacher 3

  1. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
  2. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,

preaches 1

  1. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,

precedence 1

  1. p. viii, line 53[…] confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The […]

precedent 1

  1. p. vii, line 38[…] ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of […]

precedes 1

  1. p. ix, line 88[…] of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the […]

precepts 1

  1. p. v, line 94[…] to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and […]

precious 1

  1. p. x, line 91[…] their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded […]

precise 1

  1. p. ix, line 15[…] and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty […]

precisely 2

  1. p. vii, line 26[…] richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or […]
  2. p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,

precision 2

  1. p. vi, line 67[…] about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust […]
  2. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

prefer 1

  1. p. xi, line 23[…] great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same […]

preferment 1

  1. p. viii, line 106[…] politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or […]

preferring 1

  1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

pregnancy 1

  1. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?

prelude 1

  1. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.

premises 1

  1. p. x, line 2[…] attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of […]

premonitory 1

  1. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,

preparation 2

  1. p. 29, line 17Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
  2. p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.

preparations 3

  1. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  2. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  3. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;

prepared 3

  1. p. v, line 43[…] poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him […]
  2. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  3. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,

prepares 1

  1. p. xii, line 56[…] polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent […]

preparing 2

  1. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
  2. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,

prescient 2

  1. p. xi, line 49[…] poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance […]
  2. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,

presence 4

  1. p. iii, line 57[…] knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in […]
  2. p. v, line 42[…] takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or […]
  3. p. vi, line 36[…] a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck […]
  4. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,

present 16

  1. p. iii, line 80[…] profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As […]
  2. p. iv, line 49[…] essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and […]
  3. p. vi, line 83[…] and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet […]
  4. p. vi, line 91[…] lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over […]
  5. p. viii, line 16[…] are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with […]
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  1. p. xi, line 14[…] righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no […]
  2. p. xi, line 42[…] the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be […]
  3. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  4. p. 38, line 28The courage of present times and all times;
  5. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
  6. p. 53, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour;
  7. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  8. p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  9. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  10. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  11. p. 69, line 18The past and the present indicate that it is good.

presented 2

  1. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;

presents 1

  1. p. x, line 35[…] a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you […]

preserves 1

  1. p. v, line 30[…] the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting […]

presidency 1

  1. p. viii, line 108[…] legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the […]

president 10

  1. p. v, line 58[…] not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he […]
  2. p. vii, line 114[…] swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm […]
  3. p. x, line 75[…] wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if […]
  4. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
  5. p. 27, line 1Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
4 more lines
  1. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  2. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  3. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  4. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,

President's 6

  1. p. iii, line 62[…] openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him […]
  2. p. iv, line 96[…] the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their […]
  3. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  4. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
  5. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  6. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,

press 12

  1. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  2. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  3. p. 27, line 5Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night!
  4. p. 29, line 25I do not press my finger across my mouth,
  5. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
5 more lines
  1. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;
  2. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,
  3. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

presses 1

  1. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,

pressing 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,

pretty 2

  1. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  2. p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,

prevail 2

  1. p. v, line 113[…] or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a […]
  2. p. v, line 116[…] and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost […]

prevarication 1

  1. p. ix, line 76[…] in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a […]

prevent 1

  1. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.

previously 2

  1. p. xi, line 79[…] takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and […]
  2. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

price 3

  1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,

prices 1

  1. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.

pride 10

  1. p. iii, line 92[…] the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of […]
  2. p. vi, line 102[…] knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own […]
  3. p. vi, line 105[…] But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch […]
  4. p. 26, line 31I chant a new chant of dilation or pride,
  5. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
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  1. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  2. p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;
  3. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  4. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  5. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,

pried 1

  1. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,

priest 4

  1. p. xi, line 98[…] man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches […]
  2. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
  3. p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
  4. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

priests 5

  1. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a […]
  2. p. xi, line 97[…] order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest […]
  3. p. 48, line 7I do not despise you priests;
  4. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  5. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

prime 1

  1. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?

primeval 1

  1. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;

primitive 1

  1. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,

princes 1

  1. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

principle 1

  1. p. viii, line 35[…] ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do […]

principles 1

  1. p. ix, line 25[…] and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need […]

print 6

  1. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  2. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
  3. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  4. 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?
  5. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

printed 2

  1. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  2. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

printer 2

  1. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  2. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?

printing-office 1

  1. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?

prints 1

  1. p. ix, line 42[…] or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing […]

prison 7

  1. p. viii, line 71[…] frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote […]
  2. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  3. p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
  4. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,
  5. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
  6. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

prisoner 2

  1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
  2. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,

prisoners 3

  1. p. x, line 56[…] harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to fathers or of […]
  2. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  3. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.

privacy 1

  1. p. x, line 47[…] not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons […]

privately 1

  1. 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.

privies 1

  1. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,

privilege 3

  1. p. vii, line 75[…] They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who […]
  2. p. vii, line 76[…] riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The […]
  3. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,

pro 1

  1. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;

probably 3

  1. p. iii, line 16[…] nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially […]
  2. p. v, line 82[…] Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen […]
  3. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation […]

proceed 1

  1. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

proceeds 3

  1. p. vi, line 51[…] exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and […]
  2. p. vi, line 52[…] eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally […]
  3. p. vi, line 53[…] hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with […]

process 2

  1. p. ix, line 16[…] Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its […]
  2. p. ix, line 92[…] or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated […]

processes 2

  1. p. xi, line 38[…] gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond […]
  2. p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;

procession 6

  1. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  2. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  3. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  4. p. 80, line 19All is a procession,
  5. p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
  6. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

procreant 1

  1. p. 14, line 16Always the procreant urge of the world.

procreate 1

  1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

prodigal 1

  1. p. 27, line 16Prodigal! you have given me love! . . . . therefore I to you give love!

prodigious 1

  1. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,

produced 2

  1. p. iii, line 2[…] not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea […]
  2. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.

product 1

  1. p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,

profession 1

  1. 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,

professions 1

  1. p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,

profit 2

  1. p. v, line 96[…] much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of a sweeter […]
  2. p. x, line 71[…] and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the […]

profitable 1

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

profits 4

  1. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  2. p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;
  3. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  4. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;

profound 1

  1. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,

profoundest 1

  1. p. x, line 64[…] force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No […]

profuse 2

  1. p. vi, line 60[…] itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the […]
  2. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,

program see programme

programme 2 today: program

  1. p. x, line 60[…] is or ever can be stamped on the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that returned […]
  2. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.

progress 2

  1. p. vi, line 31[…] or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception […]
  2. p. xi, line 84[…] The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there […]

project 1

  1. p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.

projected 1

  1. p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.

projects 1

  1. p. xi, line 49[…] any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the […]

prolific 2

  1. p. iii, line 34[…] with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the […]
  2. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,

prologue 1

  1. p. v, line 26[…] sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he […]

promenaders 1

  1. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,

promise 2

  1. p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.
  2. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

promises 1

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

promotion 1

  1. p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,

promotions 1

  1. 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?

promulges 3

  1. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  2. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.

prongs 1

  1. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,

pronouncing 1

  1. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,

proof 4

  1. p. v, line 63[…] corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual […]
  2. p. xii, line 72[…] one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as […]
  3. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  4. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,

proofs 1

  1. p. vii, line 101[…] of them and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the […]

propelled 1

  1. 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,

propels 2

  1. p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,

proper 1

  1. p. vi, line 66[…] events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part […]

properly 1

  1. p. ix, line 62[…] demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]

properties 1

  1. p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,

property 1

  1. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,

prophetical 1

  1. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,

prophets 1

  1. p. xi, line 96[…] take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall […]

proportion 1

  1. p. ix, line 2[…] its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all […]

proportioned 2

  1. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,

proportions 4

  1. p. iv, line 102[…] bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the […]
  2. p. vi, line 32[…] burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his […]
  3. p. vi, line 33[…] reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is […]
  4. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,

proprietor 2

  1. p. ix, line 27[…] need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any […]
  2. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?

propriety 1

  1. p. ix, line 98[…] sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are […]

prospecting 1

  1. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,

prosperous 1

  1. p. iii, line 71[…] nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for […]

prostitute 5

  1. p. x, line 78[…] it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest […]
  2. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  3. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  4. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  5. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

prostitutes 1

  1. p. 29, line 15Voices of prostitutes and of deformed persons,

prostitution 1

  1. p. x, line 52[…] women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the […]

prostrate 1

  1. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

protect 1

  1. p. iv, line 78[…] slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never […]

protected 2

  1. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  2. p. 31, line 10Waiting in gloom protected by frost,

proud 6

  1. p. xii, line 6[…] common sense. It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is […]
  2. p. xii, line 26[…] evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it […]
  3. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  4. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  5. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
  6. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

prouder 1

  1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.

proudest 1

  1. p. xii, line 69[…] The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its […]

prove 4

  1. p. v, line 40[…] If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what […]
  2. p. 31, line 18Writing and talk do not prove me,
  3. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  4. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

proved 2

  1. p. vii, line 36[…] and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease […]
  2. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,

proves 2

  1. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  2. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,

provoked 1

  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?

provokers 3

  1. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
  2. 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.

provokes 1

  1. p. 31, line 6It provokes me forever,

prow 1

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

prows 1

  1. p. ix, line 45[…] put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the […]

prudence 12

  1. p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness […]
  2. p. ix, line 112[…] food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few […]
  3. p. x, line 2[…] latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of it or the […]
  4. p. x, line 8[…] the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a […]
  5. p. x, line 27[…] the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed […]
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  1. p. x, line 31[…] drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness […]
  2. p. xi, line 7[…] spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and […]
  3. p. xi, line 9[…] soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits […]
  4. p. xi, line 22[…] and that only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things […]
  5. p. xii, line 9[…] growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that shall well […]
  6. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,

prudent 1

  1. p. ix, line 105[…] far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains […]

prurient 1

  1. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,

Prussian 1

  1. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,

prying 1

  1. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.

psalm 2

  1. p. iv, line 87[…] that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has […]
  2. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,

public 8

  1. p. viii, line 83[…] names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys […]
  2. p. ix, line 60[…] communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states […]
  3. p. xii, line 13[…] oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor […]
  4. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;
  5. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
  6. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
  7. p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,
  8. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:

publicly 1

  1. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;

puff 1

  1. p. ix, line 83[…] nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents […]

puffs 2

  1. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  2. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;

pulling 2

  1. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  2. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,

pulpit 3

  1. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  2. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
  3. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

pulse 2

  1. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  2. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,

pulses 1

  1. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;

pump 2

  1. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;
  2. p. 62, line 17The pump, the piledriver, the great derrick . . the coalkiln and brickkiln,

pumps 2

  1. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  2. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.

punctually 1

  1. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

punishment 1

  1. p. ix, line 2[…] scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance […]

purchase 2

  1. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  2. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,

purchaser 1

  1. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,

purchases 1

  1. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;

pure 2

  1. p. 21, line 19The pure contralto sings in the organloft,
  2. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,

purified 1

  1. p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.

puritan's 1

  1. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,

purity 2

  1. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  2. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

purport 1

  1. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

purpose 5

  1. p. vi, line 78[…] that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must […]
  2. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  3. p. 25, line 13Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  4. p. 32, line 33Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  5. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,

purposes 2

  1. p. vii, line 28[…] startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as […]
  2. p. 20, line 24. . . . I believe in those winged purposes,

pursue 1

  1. p. vi, line 77[…] well is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be […]

pursuing 2

  1. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
  2. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;

push 4

  1. p. iii, line 32[…] audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and […]
  2. p. x, line 63[…] performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else […]
  3. p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,
  4. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,

pushing 1

  1. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:

put 10

  1. p. viii, line 31[…] of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending […]
  2. p. viii, line 99[…] much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the […]
  3. p. ix, line 44[…] beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns […]
  4. p. ix, line 46[…] the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which […]
  5. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
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  1. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
  2. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  3. p. 59, line 11It is not to be put in a book . . . . it is not in this book,
  4. p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  5. p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?

putrid 1

  1. p. x, line 48[…] the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or […]

puts 8

  1. p. xi, line 10[…] of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or […]
  2. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
  3. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
  4. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  5. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  6. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  7. p. 86, line 6He puts things in their attitudes,
  8. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,

putting 5

  1. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  2. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.
  3. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
  4. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  5. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,

puzzle 1

  1. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,

puzzles 1

  1. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,