Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “shall”

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  1. p. iii, line 14[…] and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
  2. p. iv, line 79[…] it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues […]
  3. p. iv, line 96[…] greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets […]
  4. p. iv, line 97[…] their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man […]
  5. p. v, line 49[…] the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
  6. p. vi, line 14[…] insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not […]
  7. p. vi, line 18[…] motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know […]
  8. p. vi, line 19[…] not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured […]
  9. p. vi, line 21[…] manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the […]
  10. p. vi, line 22[…] shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master […]
  11. p. vi, line 23[…] master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
  12. p. vi, line 99[…] moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest […]
  13. p. vii, line 11[…] the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay […]
  14. p. vii, line 16[…] moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style […]
  15. p. vii, line 30[…] regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition […]
  16. p. vii, line 32[…] composition without a shred of my composition. You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with […]
  17. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors […]
  18. p. vii, line 72[…] generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any […]
  19. p. vii, line 74[…] one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be […]
  20. p. vii, line 75[…] not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most […]
  21. p. vii, line 76[…] privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent […]
  22. p. vii, line 81[…] the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out […]
  23. p. vii, line 104[…] begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and the son […]
  24. p. vii, line 107[…] exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable […]
  25. p. viii, line 2[…] ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for […]
  26. p. viii, line 16[…] investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon […]
  27. p. viii, line 17[…] and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates […]
  28. p. viii, line 60[…] and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by […]
  29. p. ix, line 6[…] from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of […]
  30. p. ix, line 28[…] from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The […]
  31. p. ix, line 38[…] These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must […]
  32. p. ix, line 79[…] republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never […]
  33. p. x, line 111[…] to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its […]
  34. p. xi, line 43[…] spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave […]
  35. p. xi, line 85[…] and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the […]
  36. p. xi, line 88[…] the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an […]
  37. p. xi, line 91[…] stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  38. p. xi, line 95[…] two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en […]
  39. p. xi, line 96[…] the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they […]
  40. p. xi, line 97[…] masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be […]
  41. p. xi, line 98[…] be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage […]
  42. p. xi, line 99[…] own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity […]
  43. p. xi, line 101[…] men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters […]
  44. p. xi, line 103[…] women and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the […]
  45. p. xi, line 105[…] today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection […]
  46. p. xi, line 108[…] exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder […]
  47. p. xii, line 10[…] decision and courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  48. p. 13, line 2And what I assume you shall assume,
  49. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  50. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  51. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  52. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  53. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  54. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  55. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  56. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  57. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  58. p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  59. p. 25, line 30Shall I pray? Shall I venerate and be ceremonious?
  60. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  61. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  62. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  63. p. 30, line 2Translucent mould of me it shall be you,
  64. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,
  65. p. 30, line 4Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you,
  66. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,
  67. p. 30, line 7My brain it shall be your occult convolutions,
  68. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,
  69. p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,
  70. p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;
  71. p. 30, line 11Sun so generous it shall be you,
  72. p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
  73. p. 30, line 13You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you,
  74. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
  75. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
  76. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  77. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  78. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  79. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  80. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,
  81. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  82. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  83. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  84. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  85. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  86. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
  87. 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?
  88. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  89. p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
  90. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
  91. p. 56, line 8But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  92. p. 57, line 15I will be even with you, and you shall be even with me.
  93. p. 59, line 5None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.
  94. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  95. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  96. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  97. p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  98. 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;
  99. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  100. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  101. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  102. p. 69, line 7I shall go with the rest,
  103. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  104. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  105. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
  106. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
  107. p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
  108. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  109. p. 81, line 8They shall be stript that you may see them.
  110. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  111. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  112. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  113. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
  114. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  115. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  116. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  117. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,
  118. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,
  119. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
  120. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.
  121. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.