Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

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  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or […]
  2. p. iii, line 3[…] under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so […]
  3. p. iii, line 4[…] idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been […]
  4. p. iii, line 5[…] not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while […]
  5. p. iii, line 7[…] sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new […]
  6. p. iii, line 8[…] life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from […]
  7. p. iii, line 9[…] new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it […]
  8. p. iii, line 10[…] borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the […]
  9. p. iii, line 11[…] perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its […]
  10. p. iii, line 13[…] its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall […]
  11. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth […]
  12. p. iii, line 16[…] Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the […]
  13. p. iii, line 17[…] the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the […]
  14. p. iii, line 18[…] States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and […]
  15. p. iii, line 19[…] poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their […]
  16. p. iii, line 21[…] and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of […]
  17. p. iii, line 22[…] in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but […]
  18. p. iii, line 26[…] details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and […]
  19. p. iii, line 28[…] the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that […]
  20. p. iii, line 29[…] beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in […]
  21. p. iii, line 30[…] ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and […]
  22. p. iii, line 31[…] Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push […]
  23. p. iii, line 32[…] tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth […]
  24. p. iii, line 35[…] splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn […]
  25. p. iii, line 37[…] need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men […]
  26. p. iii, line 38[…] the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
  27. p. iii, line 41Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives […]
  28. p. iii, line 45[…] its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and […]
  29. p. iii, line 47[…] the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of […]
  30. p. iii, line 48[…] friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom […]
  31. p. iii, line 51[…] aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the […]
  32. p. iii, line 52[…] or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused […]
  33. p. iii, line 53[…] state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of […]
  34. p. iii, line 56[…] and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it […]
  35. p. iii, line 57[…] never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight […]
  36. p. iii, line 58[…] felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure […]
  37. p. iii, line 59[…] fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul […]
  38. p. iii, line 61[…] elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his […]
  39. p. iii, line 62[…] and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to […]
  40. p. iii, line 64[…] him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
  41. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of […]
  42. p. iii, line 70[…] monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships […]
  43. p. iii, line 74[…] farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may […]
  44. p. iii, line 76[…] suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can […]
  45. p. iii, line 78[…] always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum […]
  46. p. iii, line 79[…] cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action […]
  47. p. iii, line 81[…] and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot […]
  48. p. iii, line 83[…] necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that […]
  49. p. iii, line 84[…] records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if […]
  50. p. iii, line 85[…] of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out […]
  51. p. iii, line 86[…] their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in […]
  52. p. iii, line 89[…] in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the […]
  53. p. iii, line 90[…] of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the […]
  54. p. iii, line 91[…] or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse […]
  55. p. iii, line 92[…] sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of […]
  56. p. iii, line 93[…] United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all […]
  57. p. iii, line 94[…] all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the […]
  58. p. iv, line 1[…] of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and […]
  59. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America […]
  60. p. iv, line 5[…] to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them a bard is to be […]
  61. p. iv, line 6[…] to be commensurate with a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for […]
  62. p. iv, line 13[…] and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they […]
  63. p. iv, line 16[…] spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off […]
  64. p. iv, line 17[…] the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and […]
  65. p. iv, line 20[…] and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over […]
  66. p. iv, line 22[…] Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the […]
  67. p. iv, line 23[…] off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When […]
  68. p. iv, line 25[…] above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches […]
  69. p. iv, line 26[…] When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north […]
  70. p. iv, line 29[…] them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and […]
  71. p. iv, line 36[…] coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks […]
  72. p. iv, line 37[…] icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet […]
  73. p. iv, line 40[…] and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and […]
  74. p. iv, line 46[…] and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter […]
  75. p. iv, line 48[…] descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous […]
  76. p. iv, line 49[…] real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes […]
  77. p. iv, line 50[…] enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports […]
  78. p. iv, line 51[…] agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky […]
  79. p. iv, line 53[…] new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the […]
  80. p. iv, line 54[…] north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation […]
  81. p. iv, line 55[…] stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm […]
  82. p. iv, line 56[…] war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable […]
  83. p. iv, line 57[…] surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior […]
  84. p. iv, line 58[…] calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the […]
  85. p. iv, line 59[…] immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and […]
  86. p. iv, line 61[…] hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers […]
  87. p. iv, line 62[…] clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless […]
  88. p. iv, line 63[…] animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new […]
  89. p. iv, line 64[…] free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up […]
  90. p. iv, line 65[…] new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost […]
  91. p. iv, line 66[…] members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and […]
  92. p. iv, line 67[…] up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen […]
  93. p. iv, line 69[…] and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of […]
  94. p. iv, line 70[…] workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement […]
  95. p. iv, line 71[…] enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories […]
  96. p. iv, line 72[…] the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap […]
  97. p. iv, line 73[…] the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the […]
  98. p. iv, line 74[…] mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the […]
  99. p. iv, line 75[…] swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of […]
  100. p. iv, line 76[…] and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands […]
  101. p. iv, line 77[…] and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern […]
  102. p. iv, line 78[…] tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it […]
  103. p. iv, line 79[…] which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For […]
  104. p. iv, line 80[…] it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the […]
  105. p. iv, line 81[…] and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is […]
  106. p. iv, line 84[…] quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their […]
  107. p. iv, line 86[…] eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here […]
  108. p. iv, line 87[…] illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among […]
  109. p. iv, line 89[…] creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees […]
  110. p. iv, line 90[…] and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are […]
  111. p. iv, line 91[…] and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  112. p. iv, line 93Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need […]
  113. p. iv, line 95[…] stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so […]
  114. p. iv, line 98[…] much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things […]
  115. p. iv, line 103[…] fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He […]
  116. p. iv, line 104[…] more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants […]
  117. p. iv, line 107[…] and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous […]
  118. p. iv, line 109[…] building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul […]
  119. p. iv, line 110[…] encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade […]
  120. p. v, line 3[…] sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits […]
  121. p. v, line 4[…] war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches […]
  122. p. v, line 5[…] horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful […]
  123. p. v, line 6[…] artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse […]
  124. p. v, line 9[…] word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates […]
  125. p. v, line 13[…] he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops […]
  126. p. v, line 15[…] he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds […]
  127. p. v, line 18[…] faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain […]
  128. p. v, line 19[…] that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He […]
  129. p. v, line 21[…] arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the […]
  130. p. v, line 22[…] falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise […]
  131. p. v, line 23[…] he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the soul and […]
  132. p. v, line 24[…] the hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane […]
  133. p. v, line 29[…] and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they […]
  134. p. v, line 30[…] is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing […]
  135. p. v, line 34[…] about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how […]
  136. p. v, line 35[…] mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great […]
  137. p. v, line 37[…] may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him […]
  138. p. v, line 39[…] remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If he […]
  139. p. v, line 42[…] he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared […]
  140. p. v, line 46[…] despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell […]
  141. p. v, line 48[…] nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded […]
  142. p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes […]
  143. p. v, line 53[…] that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer […]
  144. p. v, line 54[…] it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is […]
  145. p. v, line 55[…] he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it […]
  146. p. v, line 57[…] they do not. He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is […]
  147. p. v, line 58[…] does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest […]
  148. p. v, line 59[…] regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious […]
  149. p. v, line 61[…] eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves […]
  150. p. v, line 62[…] the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any […]
  151. p. v, line 64[…] from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks all the […]
  152. p. v, line 65[…] world. A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of […]
  153. p. v, line 66[…] mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What […]
  154. p. v, line 67[…] man and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely […]
  155. p. v, line 69[…] or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and […]
  156. p. v, line 71[…] given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly […]
  157. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the […]
  158. p. v, line 75[…] land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks […]
  159. p. v, line 77[…] are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects […]
  160. p. v, line 79[…] dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive […]
  161. p. v, line 82[…] reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate […]
  162. p. v, line 83[…] beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens […]
  163. p. v, line 85[…] risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for […]
  164. p. v, line 86[…] the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an […]
  165. p. v, line 87[…] drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of the […]
  166. p. v, line 88[…] air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence of the […]
  167. p. v, line 90[…] perception of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by […]
  168. p. v, line 92[…] to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or […]
  169. p. v, line 95[…] in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds […]
  170. p. v, line 96[…] and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of a […]
  171. p. v, line 98[…] it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect […]
  172. p. v, line 99[…] own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth […]
  173. p. v, line 100[…] The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as […]
  174. p. v, line 103[…] a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and […]
  175. p. v, line 104[…] and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the […]
  176. p. v, line 105[…] pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not […]
  177. p. v, line 111[…] from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it […]
  178. p. v, line 113[…] in a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years […]
  179. p. v, line 114[…] the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail […]
  180. p. vi, line 1[…] is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks […]
  181. p. vi, line 3[…] to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others […]
  182. p. vi, line 6[…] not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown […]
  183. p. vi, line 9[…] go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air […]
  184. p. vi, line 10[…] the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life […]
  185. p. vi, line 14[…] flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the […]
  186. p. vi, line 15[…] fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the […]
  187. p. vi, line 16[…] lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint […]
  188. p. vi, line 18[…] in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He […]
  189. p. vi, line 19[…] time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not […]
  190. p. vi, line 22[…] but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
  191. p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the […]
  192. p. vi, line 26[…] universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent […]
  193. p. vi, line 32[…] to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All […]
  194. p. vi, line 34[…] his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter […]
  195. p. vi, line 35[…] he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with […]
  196. p. vi, line 36[…] or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm round the […]
  197. p. vi, line 37[…] of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above all […]
  198. p. vi, line 41[…] is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar […]
  199. p. vi, line 45[…] and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer […]
  200. p. vi, line 46[…] rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition […]
  201. p. vi, line 47[…] surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
  202. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss […]
  203. p. vi, line 51[…] it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another […]
  204. p. vi, line 52[…] From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another […]
  205. p. vi, line 53[…] from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of […]
  206. p. vi, line 54[…] the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not […]
  207. p. vi, line 56[…] man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but […]
  208. p. vi, line 57[…] the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and […]
  209. p. vi, line 58[…] the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish […]
  210. p. vi, line 61[…] impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or […]
  211. p. vi, line 62[…] the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the […]
  212. p. vi, line 63[…] or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of […]
  213. p. vi, line 64[…] employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is […]
  214. p. vi, line 66[…] of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one […]
  215. p. vi, line 68[…] does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most […]
  216. p. vi, line 69[…] thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is […]
  217. p. vi, line 70[…] who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take the […]
  218. p. vi, line 71[…] of poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
  219. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the […]
  220. p. vi, line 73[…] exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes […]
  221. p. vi, line 77[…] To do this well is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose […]
  222. p. vi, line 78[…] laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it […]
  223. p. vi, line 79[…] is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best and then […]
  224. p. vi, line 80[…] must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present […]
  225. p. vi, line 81[…] the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined […]
  226. p. vi, line 84[…] present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be from what has been […]
  227. p. vi, line 85[…] from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on […]
  228. p. vi, line 87[…] them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize […]
  229. p. vi, line 88[…] me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The […]
  230. p. vi, line 89[…] He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle […]
  231. p. vi, line 91[…] he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character […]
  232. p. vi, line 94[…] he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for […]
  233. p. vi, line 96[…] what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden […]
  234. p. vi, line 98[…] half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward […]
  235. p. vi, line 100[…] be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals […]
  236. p. vi, line 101[…] moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in […]
  237. p. vi, line 102[…] make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging […]
  238. p. vi, line 105[…] has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches […]
  239. p. vi, line 107[…] too far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest […]
  240. p. vi, line 108[…] other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are […]
  241. p. vi, line 110The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is […]
  242. p. vi, line 112[…] the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity […]
  243. p. vi, line 114[…] nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and […]
  244. p. vii, line 1[…] or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all […]
  245. p. vii, line 4[…] very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and […]
  246. p. vii, line 5[…] literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of […]
  247. p. vii, line 6[…] and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the […]
  248. p. vii, line 7[…] the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have […]
  249. p. vii, line 8[…] the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him […]
  250. p. vii, line 9[…] achieved it you have looked on one of the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You […]
  251. p. vii, line 10[…] have looked on one of the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate […]
  252. p. vii, line 11[…] all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the […]
  253. p. vii, line 12[…] not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their […]
  254. p. vii, line 13[…] the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance […]
  255. p. vii, line 14[…] tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon […]
  256. p. vii, line 15[…] appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate […]
  257. p. vii, line 16[…] any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more […]
  258. p. vii, line 19[…] has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and […]
  259. p. vii, line 20[…] and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I […]
  260. p. vii, line 23[…] elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will […]
  261. p. vii, line 24[…] to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the […]
  262. p. vii, line 25[…] like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what […]
  263. p. vii, line 34[…] shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me […]
  264. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will […]
  265. p. vii, line 39[…] precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is […]
  266. p. vii, line 42[…] silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft […]
  267. p. vii, line 44[…] need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any […]
  268. p. vii, line 47[…] he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of […]
  269. p. vii, line 50The messages of great poets to each man and woman are […]
  270. p. vii, line 58[…] men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think […]
  271. p. vii, line 60[…] supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and […]
  272. p. vii, line 61[…] is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the […]
  273. p. vii, line 62[…] dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and […]
  274. p. vii, line 63[…] fury of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love […]
  275. p. vii, line 65[…] hate and love? It is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master […]
  276. p. vii, line 67[…] I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of […]
  277. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and […]
  278. p. vii, line 76[…] be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he […]
  279. p. vii, line 77[…] shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows […]
  280. p. vii, line 78[…] most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth […]
  281. p. vii, line 79[…] the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one […]
  282. p. vii, line 82[…] of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor […]
  283. p. vii, line 83[…] interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more […]
  284. p. vii, line 84[…] nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  285. p. vii, line 85[…] the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  286. p. vii, line 87[…] and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset […]
  287. p. vii, line 88[…] greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted […]
  288. p. vii, line 89[…] support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there […]
  289. p. vii, line 91[…] he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer […]
  290. p. vii, line 97[…] and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of […]
  291. p. vii, line 98[…] the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or […]
  292. p. vii, line 100[…] matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception of it . . . of them and by them stand the […]
  293. p. vii, line 101[…] of it . . . of them and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be […]
  294. p. vii, line 103[…] souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and […]
  295. p. vii, line 105[…] If there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the […]
  296. p. vii, line 106[…] between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the […]
  297. p. vii, line 107[…] son is the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the […]
  298. p. vii, line 108[…] of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are […]
  299. p. vii, line 110[…] poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
  300. p. vii, line 111Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths […]
  301. p. vii, line 112[…] faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells […]
  302. p. vii, line 113[…] qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always […]
  303. p. vii, line 114[…] Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness […]
  304. p. vii, line 116[…] always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor […]
  305. p. vii, line 118[…] are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that […]
  306. p. vii, line 119[…] neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it […]
  307. p. viii, line 2[…] what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case […]
  308. p. viii, line 5[…] any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of […]
  309. p. viii, line 7[…] every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that […]
  310. p. viii, line 11[…] its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known […]
  311. p. viii, line 12[…] soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  312. p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken […]
  313. p. viii, line 15[…] simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be […]
  314. p. viii, line 19[…] Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what […]
  315. p. viii, line 21[…] happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point […]
  316. p. viii, line 22[…] the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that […]
  317. p. viii, line 24[…] comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than […]
  318. p. viii, line 26[…] light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward […]
  319. p. viii, line 27[…] follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than […]
  320. p. viii, line 29[…] or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata […]
  321. p. viii, line 30[…] time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would […]
  322. p. viii, line 34[…] also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The […]
  323. p. viii, line 35[…] master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees […]
  324. p. viii, line 37[…] sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common […]
  325. p. viii, line 38[…] he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general […]
  326. p. viii, line 39[…] perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond with […]
  327. p. viii, line 40[…] great for that is to correspond with it. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all […]
  328. p. viii, line 46In the make of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence […]
  329. p. viii, line 47[…] idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never […]
  330. p. viii, line 50[…] but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are […]
  331. p. viii, line 52[…] of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must […]
  332. p. viii, line 54[…] it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and […]
  333. p. viii, line 56[…] is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are […]
  334. p. viii, line 57[…] of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to the […]
  335. p. viii, line 58[…] of their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak […]
  336. p. viii, line 60[…] they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose […]
  337. p. viii, line 63[…] failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the […]
  338. p. viii, line 64[…] or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and […]
  339. p. viii, line 65[…] sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes […]
  340. p. viii, line 69[…] is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance […]
  341. p. viii, line 70[…] a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and […]
  342. p. viii, line 71[…] and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do […]
  343. p. viii, line 72[…] prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is […]
  344. p. viii, line 73[…] the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their […]
  345. p. viii, line 74[…] leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young […]
  346. p. viii, line 75[…] strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone […]
  347. p. viii, line 79[…] No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the […]
  348. p. viii, line 80[…] or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded […]
  349. p. viii, line 81[…] rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names […]
  350. p. viii, line 82[…] the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public […]
  351. p. viii, line 83[…] large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the […]
  352. p. viii, line 84[…] halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened […]
  353. p. viii, line 85[…] when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the […]
  354. p. viii, line 86[…] but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney […]
  355. p. viii, line 88[…] laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth […]
  356. p. viii, line 89[…] people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers […]
  357. p. viii, line 90[…] abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling […]
  358. p. viii, line 95[…] when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and […]
  359. p. viii, line 97[…] the soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over […]
  360. p. viii, line 98[…] surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person […]
  361. p. viii, line 99[…] that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when […]
  362. p. viii, line 100[…] a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all […]
  363. p. viii, line 102[…] parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms […]
  364. p. viii, line 103[…] true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of […]
  365. p. viii, line 107[…] preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from […]
  366. p. viii, line 109[…] a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a […]
  367. p. viii, line 112[…] rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from […]
  368. p. viii, line 117[…] and when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small […]
  369. p. ix, line 3[…] punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and […]
  370. p. ix, line 4[…] escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part […]
  371. p. ix, line 5[…] and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged […]
  372. p. ix, line 6[…] any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the […]
  373. p. ix, line 7[…] of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]
  374. p. ix, line 8As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in […]
  375. p. ix, line 9[…] of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over […]
  376. p. ix, line 10[…] and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they […]
  377. p. ix, line 12[…] emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep […]
  378. p. ix, line 13[…] daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many […]
  379. p. ix, line 14[…] with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise […]
  380. p. ix, line 16[…] condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its […]
  381. p. ix, line 17[…] beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York […]
  382. p. ix, line 18[…] its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full […]
  383. p. ix, line 20[…] steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs […]
  384. p. ix, line 22[…] large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of […]
  385. p. ix, line 23[…] the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and […]
  386. p. ix, line 29[…] realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to […]
  387. p. ix, line 32[…] Any one and every one is owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom […]
  388. p. ix, line 41[…] or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or […]
  389. p. ix, line 42[…] in any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms […]
  390. p. ix, line 45[…] to put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before […]
  391. p. ix, line 46[…] sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes […]
  392. p. ix, line 49[…] or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it must never […]
  393. p. ix, line 53[…] those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of […]
  394. p. ix, line 54[…] the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to […]
  395. p. ix, line 55[…] come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the completion of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will […]
  396. p. ix, line 59[…] jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius […]
  397. p. ix, line 61[…] forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances […]
  398. p. ix, line 64The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of […]
  399. p. ix, line 65[…] the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new […]
  400. p. ix, line 73[…] lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single […]
  401. p. ix, line 76[…] subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping […]
  402. p. ix, line 77[…] faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole […]
  403. p. ix, line 78[…] enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall […]
  404. p. ix, line 80[…] person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be […]
  405. p. ix, line 82[…] and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew […]
  406. p. ix, line 84[…] and there never grew up in any of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor […]
  407. p. ix, line 85[…] any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in […]
  408. p. ix, line 86[…] in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the […]
  409. p. ix, line 87[…] nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of […]
  410. p. ix, line 88[…] the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes […]
  411. p. ix, line 89[…] birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that follows what […]
  412. p. ix, line 93[…] or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  413. p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for […]
  414. p. ix, line 98[…] destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up […]
  415. p. ix, line 100[…] to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his […]
  416. p. ix, line 101[…] brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth out of his mother's womb […]
  417. p. ix, line 105[…] goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well […]
  418. p. ix, line 109[…] completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees […]
  419. p. ix, line 110[…] sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of […]
  420. p. x, line 1[…] much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality […]
  421. p. x, line 2[…] the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it […]
  422. p. x, line 3[…] life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a […]
  423. p. x, line 4[…] or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and […]
  424. p. x, line 6[…] on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals […]
  425. p. x, line 7[…] soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the […]
  426. p. x, line 8[…] that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is […]
  427. p. x, line 9[…] a great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their […]
  428. p. x, line 14[…] or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the […]
  429. p. x, line 15[…] bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and […]
  430. p. x, line 16[…] and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with […]
  431. p. x, line 17[…] do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a […]
  432. p. x, line 18[…] and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the […]
  433. p. x, line 19[…] of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is […]
  434. p. x, line 20[…] of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface […]
  435. p. x, line 22[…] great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with […]
  436. p. x, line 24[…] which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before […]
  437. p. x, line 25[…] it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about […]
  438. p. x, line 26[…] before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence […]
  439. p. x, line 27[…] right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears […]
  440. p. x, line 28[…] prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to […]
  441. p. x, line 29[…] the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike […]
  442. p. x, line 30[…] little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the […]
  443. p. x, line 32[…] suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to […]
  444. p. x, line 35[…] time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look […]
  445. p. x, line 37[…] in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what […]
  446. p. x, line 41[…] day or a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or her […]
  447. p. x, line 42[…] direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect […]
  448. p. x, line 43[…] same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real […]
  449. p. x, line 44[…] or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it […]
  450. p. x, line 45[…] real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body […]
  451. p. x, line 46[…] body just as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of […]
  452. p. x, line 47[…] deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of […]
  453. p. x, line 48[…] venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning […]
  454. p. x, line 51[…] serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity […]
  455. p. x, line 53[…] of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of […]
  456. p. x, line 59[…] greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever […]
  457. p. x, line 60[…] ever is or ever can be stamped on the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that […]
  458. p. x, line 63[…] further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing […]
  459. p. x, line 64[…] personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no […]
  460. p. x, line 68[…] black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out […]
  461. p. x, line 69[…] sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or […]
  462. p. x, line 72[…] much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If […]
  463. p. x, line 73[…] the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the […]
  464. p. x, line 74[…] or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the […]
  465. p. x, line 75[…] poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same […]
  466. p. x, line 76[…] President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more […]
  467. p. x, line 78[…] wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round. All the […]
  468. p. x, line 80[…] will come round . . all will come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to […]
  469. p. x, line 81[…] all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows […]
  470. p. x, line 83[…] and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives […]
  471. p. x, line 84[…] shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw […]
  472. p. x, line 87[…] and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good […]
  473. p. x, line 88[…] boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's […]
  474. p. x, line 90[…] of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest […]
  475. p. x, line 94[…] men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and […]
  476. p. x, line 97[…] whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to […]
  477. p. x, line 101[…] at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his […]
  478. p. x, line 102[…] of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all that is well […]
  479. p. x, line 104[…] or done this day on any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed […]
  480. p. x, line 105[…] surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we […]
  481. p. x, line 110[…] and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you […]
  482. p. xi, line 1[…] guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable […]
  483. p. xi, line 5[…] that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than […]
  484. p. xi, line 6[…] the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is […]
  485. p. xi, line 7[…] the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of […]
  486. p. xi, line 8[…] prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of […]
  487. p. xi, line 9[…] answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if […]
  488. p. xi, line 12[…] has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous […]
  489. p. xi, line 13[…] sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or […]
  490. p. xi, line 14[…] the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows […]
  491. p. xi, line 16[…] no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it […]
  492. p. xi, line 18[…] it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it […]
  493. p. xi, line 24[…] real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good […]
  494. p. xi, line 25[…] the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward […]
  495. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself […]
  496. p. xi, line 30[…] today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he […]
  497. p. xi, line 35[…] and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the […]
  498. p. xi, line 36[…] transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and […]
  499. p. xi, line 39[…] and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness […]
  500. p. xi, line 41[…] up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the […]
  501. p. xi, line 42[…] by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits […]
  502. p. xi, line 44[…] to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one […]
  503. p. xi, line 45[…] wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait […]
  504. p. xi, line 46[…] children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test […]
  505. p. xi, line 47[…] the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains […]
  506. p. xi, line 48[…] of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or […]
  507. p. xi, line 50[…] centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it […]
  508. p. xi, line 52[…] them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has […]
  509. p. xi, line 57[…] that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made […]
  510. p. xi, line 58[…] and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is […]
  511. p. xi, line 59[…] made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and […]
  512. p. xi, line 61[…] long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman […]
  513. p. xi, line 62[…] the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged […]
  514. p. xi, line 63[…] young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
  515. p. xi, line 75[…] content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness […]
  516. p. xi, line 77[…] brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he […]
  517. p. xi, line 81[…] previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of […]
  518. p. xi, line 84[…] the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the […]
  519. p. xi, line 85[…] and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of […]
  520. p. xi, line 86[…] a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two […]
  521. p. xi, line 87[…] out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off […]
  522. p. xi, line 88[…] they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed […]
  523. p. xi, line 90[…] an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never […]
  524. p. xi, line 91[…] lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  525. p. xi, line 95[…] degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their […]
  526. p. xi, line 97[…] new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own […]
  527. p. xi, line 98[…] and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of […]
  528. p. xi, line 99[…] The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves […]
  529. p. xi, line 100[…] be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed […]
  530. p. xi, line 101[…] and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women […]
  531. p. xi, line 104[…] their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality […]
  532. p. xi, line 106[…] not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise […]
  533. p. xi, line 108[…] liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to […]
  534. p. xi, line 109[…] arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]
  535. p. xi, line 110[…] and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]
  536. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and […]
  537. p. xi, line 113[…] brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all change of […]
  538. p. xii, line 1[…] never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of […]
  539. p. xii, line 2[…] the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant […]
  540. p. xii, line 4[…] and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the […]
  541. p. xii, line 5[…] is the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It […]
  542. p. xii, line 7[…] races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality […]
  543. p. xii, line 9[…] friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  544. p. xii, line 10[…] is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  545. p. xii, line 13[…] intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or […]
  546. p. xii, line 15[…] employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or […]
  547. p. xii, line 17[…] tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and […]
  548. p. xii, line 18[…] the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no […]
  549. p. xii, line 19[…] passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs […]
  550. p. xii, line 20[…] standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and […]
  551. p. xii, line 24[…] its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond […]
  552. p. xii, line 26[…] of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown […]
  553. p. xii, line 27[…] models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me […]
  554. p. xii, line 28[…] fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I know that […]
  555. p. xii, line 33[…] without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of […]
  556. p. xii, line 41[…] mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve […]
  557. p. xii, line 42[…] improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of […]
  558. p. xii, line 43[…] of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too […]
  559. p. xii, line 44[…] milk of the nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the […]
  560. p. xii, line 46[…] ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on […]
  561. p. xii, line 47[…] and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault […]
  562. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The […]
  563. p. xii, line 51[…] distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied […]
  564. p. xii, line 52[…] coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor […]
  565. p. xii, line 53[…] vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and […]
  566. p. xii, line 54[…] by the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and […]
  567. p. xii, line 55[…] swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with […]
  568. p. xii, line 57[…] remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that […]
  569. p. xii, line 59[…] that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they […]
  570. p. xii, line 60[…] The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place […]
  571. p. xii, line 62[…] fall in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on […]
  572. p. xii, line 65[…] Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is […]
  573. p. xii, line 67[…] as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the […]
  574. p. xii, line 68[…] has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way […]
  575. p. xii, line 70[…] go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If […]
  576. p. xii, line 71[…] effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that […]
  577. p. xii, line 72[…] the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him […]
  578. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  579. p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
  580. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  581. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  582. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  583. p. 13, line 13The smoke of my own breath,
  584. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  585. p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
  586. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
  587. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  588. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  589. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  590. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
  591. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  592. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  593. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  594. 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,
  595. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  596. p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  597. p. 14, line 16Always the procreant urge of the world.
  598. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  599. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  600. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  601. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
  602. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  603. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  604. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  605. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  606. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  607. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
  608. 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,
  609. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  610. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  611. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,
  612. p. 15, line 14But they are not the Me myself.
  613. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  614. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
  615. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  616. p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.
  617. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  618. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  619. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
  620. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
  621. 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;
  622. p. 15, line 32And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
  623. p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
  624. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  625. p. 16, line 3And that a kelson of the creation is love;
  626. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  627. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  628. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.
  629. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  630. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  631. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  632. p. 16, line 10Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
  633. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  634. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
  635. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  636. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  637. p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  638. p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
  639. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  640. p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  641. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  642. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  643. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  644. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  645. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  646. p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  647. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  648. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  649. p. 17, line 6And ceased the moment life appeared.
  650. 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,
  651. p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  652. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  653. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  654. p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  655. p. 17, line 22For me children and the begetters of children.
  656. p. 17, line 23Who need be afraid of the merge?
  657. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  658. p. 17, line 27The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  659. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  660. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  661. p. 17, line 30I peeringly view them from the top.
  662. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
  663. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.
  664. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,
  665. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  666. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;
  667. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,
  668. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  669. p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  670. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;
  671. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  672. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  673. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
  674. p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
  675. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  676. p. 18, line 16The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
  677. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  678. p. 18, line 18The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow:
  679. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
  680. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  681. p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
  682. p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  683. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  684. p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,
  685. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
  686. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  687. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  688. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
  689. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  690. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  691. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  692. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  693. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  694. p. 19, line 6I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
  695. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
  696. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  697. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  698. p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  699. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  700. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  701. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  702. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  703. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  704. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  705. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  706. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  707. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  708. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
  709. p. 20, line 5Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  710. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  711. p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,
  712. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  713. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  714. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  715. 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,
  716. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  717. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  718. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  719. p. 20, line 17I go with the team also.
  720. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  721. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  722. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  723. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,
  724. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  725. p. 20, line 26And consider the green and violet and the tufted crown intentional;
  726. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  727. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  728. p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  729. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  730. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
  731. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  732. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,
  733. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  734. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
  735. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  736. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  737. p. 21, line 9They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  738. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  739. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,
  740. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  741. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
  742. p. 21, line 19The pure contralto sings in the organloft,
  743. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  744. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
  745. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  746. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,
  747. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  748. p. 21, line 25The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar,
  749. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  750. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  751. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
  752. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  753. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  754. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;
  755. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,
  756. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,
  757. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  758. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  759. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
  760. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  761. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
  762. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  763. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;
  764. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  765. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
  766. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  767. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
  768. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  769. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
  770. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,
  771. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  772. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  773. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  774. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  775. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
  776. 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,
  777. p. 22, line 20The canal-boy trots on the towpath—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread,
  778. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  779. p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,
  780. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  781. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  782. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,
  783. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  784. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  785. p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,
  786. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  787. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  788. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
  789. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;
  790. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,
  791. p. 23, line 3The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
  792. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  793. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
  794. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  795. 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!
  796. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  797. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  798. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  799. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
  800. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  801. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
  802. p. 23, line 16The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
  803. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  804. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  805. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  806. p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
  807. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  808. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  809. p. 23, line 28A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deerskin leggings,
  810. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
  811. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  812. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  813. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,
  814. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,
  815. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  816. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  817. p. 24, line 11The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,
  818. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
  819. p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.
  820. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  821. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  822. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  823. p. 24, line 20This is the common air that bathes the globe.
  824. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  825. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
  826. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
  827. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
  828. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  829. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.
  830. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  831. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  832. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  833. p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,
  834. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.
  835. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  836. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  837. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,
  838. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  839. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  840. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  841. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  842. p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
  843. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  844. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  845. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  846. p. 25, line 25I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  847. p. 25, line 26That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
  848. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
  849. p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
  850. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
  851. p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  852. p. 26, line 6To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  853. p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  854. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  855. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  856. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  857. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  858. p. 26, line 23And I know the amplitude of time.
  859. p. 26, line 24I am the poet of the body,
  860. p. 26, line 25And I am the poet of the soul.
  861. p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,
  862. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  863. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  864. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  865. p. 27, line 1Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
  866. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
  867. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  868. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
  869. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  870. p. 27, line 10Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  871. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  872. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  873. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  874. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  875. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  876. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  877. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!
  878. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  879. p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;
  880. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  881. p. 28, line 5I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
  882. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  883. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
  884. p. 28, line 8I step up to say that what we do is right and what we affirm is right . . . . and some is only the ore of right,
  885. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  886. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  887. p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  888. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  889. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  890. p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.
  891. p. 28, line 18A word of the faith that never balks,
  892. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  893. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
  894. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  895. p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  896. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  897. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
  898. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  899. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  900. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  901. p. 29, line 6Unscrew the locks from the doors!
  902. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
  903. p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.
  904. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;
  905. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  906. p. 29, line 14Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
  907. p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,
  908. p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
  909. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  910. p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
  911. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
  912. p. 29, line 23Voices of sexes and lusts . . . . voices veiled, and I remove the veil,
  913. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  914. p. 29, line 28I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  915. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
  916. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  917. p. 30, line 4Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you,
  918. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  919. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  920. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  921. p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  922. p. 30, line 24To behold the daybreak!
  923. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  924. p. 30, line 26The air tastes good to my palate.
  925. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
  926. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  927. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  928. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  929. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  930. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  931. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
  932. p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  933. p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.
  934. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?
  935. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
  936. p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
  937. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.
  938. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  939. p. 31, line 20With the hush of my lips I confound the topmost skeptic.
  940. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  941. p. 31, line 24I hear the sound of the human voice . . . . a sound I love,
  942. p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
  943. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  944. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,
  945. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  946. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;
  947. 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,
  948. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;
  949. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,
  950. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.
  951. p. 32, line 5I hear the violincello or man's heart's complaint,
  952. p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
  953. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!
  954. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  955. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  956. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;
  957. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  958. p. 32, line 13It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,
  959. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,
  960. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,
  961. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  962. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  963. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  964. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
  965. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,
  966. p. 33, line 1Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
  967. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,
  968. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  969. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,
  970. p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  971. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  972. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  973. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,
  974. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  975. p. 33, line 22They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  976. p. 33, line 23The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  977. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  978. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  979. p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
  980. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  981. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  982. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  983. p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,
  984. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  985. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  986. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,
  987. p. 34, line 8And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake.
  988. p. 34, line 13In vain the speeding or shyness,
  989. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  990. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,
  991. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  992. p. 34, line 18In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  993. p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
  994. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  995. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,
  996. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  997. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  998. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  999. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  1000. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  1001. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  1002. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
  1003. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  1004. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  1005. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  1006. p. 35, line 13What I guessed when I loafed on the grass,
  1007. 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.
  1008. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
  1009. p. 35, line 16I skirt the sierras . . . . my palms cover continents,
  1010. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,
  1011. p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  1012. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  1013. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  1014. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  1015. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  1016. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
  1017. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  1018. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
  1019. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
  1020. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
  1021. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  1022. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  1023. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
  1024. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,
  1025. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  1026. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,
  1027. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  1028. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  1029. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
  1030. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;
  1031. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  1032. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  1033. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  1034. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  1035. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  1036. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  1037. p. 36, line 19Where the half-burned brig is riding on unknown currents,
  1038. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  1039. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;
  1040. p. 36, line 22Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island,
  1041. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;
  1042. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  1043. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  1044. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  1045. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  1046. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
  1047. p. 36, line 31Where the hay-rick stands in the barnyard, and the dry-stalks are scattered, and the brood cow waits in the hovel,
  1048. p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,
  1049. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
  1050. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  1051. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  1052. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;
  1053. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  1054. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
  1055. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  1056. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
  1057. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  1058. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;
  1059. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  1060. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;
  1061. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;
  1062. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
  1063. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  1064. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  1065. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,
  1066. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
  1067. 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,
  1068. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  1069. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
  1070. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  1071. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
  1072. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  1073. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  1074. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
  1075. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  1076. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  1077. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  1078. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  1079. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
  1080. p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,
  1081. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,
  1082. p. 38, line 9My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  1083. 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.
  1084. 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,
  1085. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  1086. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  1087. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  1088. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
  1089. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  1090. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  1091. p. 38, line 25My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,
  1092. p. 38, line 27I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  1093. p. 38, line 28The courage of present times and all times;
  1094. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
  1095. p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,
  1096. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  1097. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  1098. p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.
  1099. p. 39, line 9The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
  1100. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  1101. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  1102. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  1103. p. 39, line 13The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  1104. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,
  1105. p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
  1106. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,
  1107. p. 39, line 18I fall on the weeds and stones,
  1108. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,
  1109. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  1110. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  1111. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  1112. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  1113. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
  1114. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  1115. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  1116. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  1117. p. 39, line 31The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
  1118. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
  1119. p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,
  1120. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.
  1121. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  1122. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,
  1123. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
  1124. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,
  1125. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  1126. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
  1127. p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.
  1128. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  1129. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
  1130. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  1131. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  1132. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  1133. p. 40, line 22They were the glory of the race of rangers,
  1134. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,
  1135. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  1136. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  1137. p. 40, line 29None obeyed the command to kneel,
  1138. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  1139. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
  1140. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;
  1141. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
  1142. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;
  1143. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
  1144. p. 41, line 9Did you read in the seabooks of the oldfashioned frigate-fight?
  1145. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  1146. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  1147. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
  1148. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,
  1149. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  1150. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  1151. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  1152. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  1153. p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,
  1154. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  1155. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
  1156. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  1157. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
  1158. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,
  1159. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.
  1160. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  1161. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  1162. p. 42, line 6Serene stood the little captain,
  1163. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  1164. p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
  1165. p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  1166. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  1167. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  1168. p. 42, line 14Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin,
  1169. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  1170. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,
  1171. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  1172. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  1173. p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  1174. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
  1175. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  1176. p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  1177. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  1178. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,
  1179. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
  1180. p. 42, line 28What stills the traveler come to the vault at Mount Vernon,
  1181. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  1182. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,
  1183. p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  1184. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  1185. p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
  1186. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  1187. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  1188. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
  1189. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,
  1190. p. 43, line 14The whirling and whirling is elemental within me.
  1191. p. 43, line 17I discover myself on a verge of the usual mistake.
  1192. p. 43, line 18That I could forget the mockers and insults!
  1193. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  1194. p. 43, line 21I remember . . . . I resume the overstaid fraction,
  1195. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
  1196. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.
  1197. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,
  1198. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
  1199. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  1200. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  1201. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
  1202. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  1203. p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
  1204. 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?
  1205. p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,
  1206. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  1207. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  1208. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  1209. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  1210. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  1211. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  1212. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  1213. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
  1214. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  1215. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  1216. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,
  1217. p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
  1218. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.
  1219. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  1220. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  1221. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  1222. p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
  1223. p. 45, line 25Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
  1224. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  1225. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
  1226. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,
  1227. p. 45, line 31With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and all idols and images,
  1228. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  1229. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  1230. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
  1231. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  1232. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  1233. p. 46, line 7Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
  1234. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  1235. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  1236. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  1237. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  1238. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,
  1239. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  1240. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  1241. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  1242. p. 46, line 21. . . . A call in the midst of the crowd,
  1243. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  1244. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.
  1245. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  1246. p. 47, line 2Ever the hard and unsunk ground,
  1247. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  1248. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
  1249. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  1250. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  1251. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.
  1252. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  1253. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
  1254. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
  1255. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  1256. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  1257. p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
  1258. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,
  1259. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.
  1260. p. 47, line 20The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
  1261. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  1262. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  1263. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  1264. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
  1265. p. 47, line 29The panorama of the sea . . . . but the sea itself?
  1266. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  1267. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
  1268. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  1269. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  1270. p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?
  1271. p. 48, line 6Sermons and creeds and theology . . . . but the human brain, and what is called reason, and what is called love, and what is called life?
  1272. p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  1273. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  1274. p. 48, line 11Waiting responses from oracles . . . . honoring the gods . . . . saluting the sun,
  1275. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  1276. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
  1277. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  1278. p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,
  1279. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
  1280. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  1281. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,
  1282. p. 48, line 21Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.
  1283. p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,
  1284. p. 48, line 28How the flukes splash!
  1285. p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,
  1286. p. 49, line 2And the night is for you and me and all,
  1287. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  1288. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  1289. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  1290. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  1291. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  1292. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,
  1293. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  1294. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  1295. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  1296. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
  1297. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
  1298. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
  1299. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  1300. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  1301. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  1302. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  1303. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
  1304. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.
  1305. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  1306. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  1307. 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,
  1308. p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,
  1309. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  1310. 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;
  1311. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  1312. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  1313. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  1314. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  1315. 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,
  1316. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
  1317. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  1318. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;
  1319. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  1320. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  1321. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
  1322. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  1323. 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?
  1324. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  1325. p. 52, line 23Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
  1326. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  1327. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,
  1328. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  1329. p. 52, line 28I am the teacher of athletes,
  1330. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  1331. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  1332. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  1333. 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,
  1334. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  1335. p. 53, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour;
  1336. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  1337. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
  1338. 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.
  1339. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  1340. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
  1341. p. 53, line 17The maul the oar and the handsaw second my words.
  1342. p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
  1343. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  1344. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  1345. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  1346. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  1347. p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
  1348. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  1349. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  1350. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  1351. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  1352. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  1353. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  1354. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  1355. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  1356. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  1357. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
  1358. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  1359. p. 54, line 17To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
  1360. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,
  1361. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  1362. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,
  1363. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.
  1364. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  1365. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  1366. p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
  1367. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  1368. p. 54, line 30Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
  1369. p. 55, line 1I ascend from the moon . . . . I ascend from the night,
  1370. p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,
  1371. p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  1372. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  1373. p. 55, line 10To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  1374. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  1375. p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  1376. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  1377. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.
  1378. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  1379. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  1380. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
  1381. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  1382. p. 56, line 2It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
  1383. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  1384. p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  1385. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,
  1386. p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.
  1387. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  1388. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  1389. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.
  1390. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  1391. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  1392. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
  1393. p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
  1394. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  1395. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  1396. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  1397. 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?
  1398. 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,
  1399. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
  1400. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
  1401. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  1402. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  1403. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  1404. 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;
  1405. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
  1406. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
  1407. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  1408. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,
  1409. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.
  1410. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  1411. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  1412. 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,
  1413. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
  1414. 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?
  1415. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  1416. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
  1417. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  1418. p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  1419. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?
  1420. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  1421. p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  1422. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  1423. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  1424. p. 60, line 17It is not they who give the life . . . . it is you who give the life;
  1425. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  1426. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;
  1427. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  1428. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  1429. p. 60, line 22The Congress convenes every December for you,
  1430. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
  1431. p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;
  1432. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
  1433. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  1434. p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  1435. p. 61, line 4It is not the violins and the cornets . . . . it is not the oboe nor the beating drums— nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza . . . . nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus,
  1436. p. 61, line 6Will the whole come back then?
  1437. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  1438. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  1439. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  1440. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;
  1441. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
  1442. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
  1443. 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;
  1444. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;
  1445. p. 61, line 20The jaunt of hunting or fishing, or the life of hunting or fishing,
  1446. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;
  1447. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,
  1448. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;
  1449. p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,
  1450. p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:
  1451. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  1452. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;
  1453. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
  1454. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
  1455. 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;
  1456. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;
  1457. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:
  1458. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:
  1459. p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:
  1460. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;
  1461. p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;
  1462. 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;
  1463. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,
  1464. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;
  1465. p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;
  1466. p. 62, line 17The pump, the piledriver, the great derrick . . the coalkiln and brickkiln,
  1467. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;
  1468. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;
  1469. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,
  1470. p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,
  1471. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;
  1472. p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;
  1473. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;
  1474. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;
  1475. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,
  1476. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;
  1477. 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:
  1478. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;
  1479. p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;
  1480. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,
  1481. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;
  1482. p. 63, line 13The milliner's ribbons . . the dressmaker's patterns . . . . the tea-table . . the home-made sweetmeats:
  1483. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:
  1484. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
  1485. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,
  1486. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,
  1487. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
  1488. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  1489. 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.
  1490. p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
  1491. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,
  1492. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  1493. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  1494. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  1495. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  1496. 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,
  1497. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,
  1498. p. 65, line 1TO think of time . . . . to think through the retrospection,
  1499. p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.
  1500. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  1501. p. 65, line 5Is today nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?
  1502. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  1503. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  1504. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  1505. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
  1506. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  1507. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  1508. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
  1509. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  1510. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  1511. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  1512. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  1513. p. 65, line 21They are palpable as the living are palpable.
  1514. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  1515. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  1516. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  1517. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  1518. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  1519. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  1520. p. 66, line 11Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf,
  1521. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,
  1522. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,
  1523. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.
  1524. p. 66, line 16Rapid the trot to the cemetery,
  1525. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
  1526. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,
  1527. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  1528. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  1529. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  1530. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
  1531. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  1532. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  1533. 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?
  1534. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  1535. 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;
  1536. 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;
  1537. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
  1538. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
  1539. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  1540. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  1541. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.
  1542. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  1543. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.
  1544. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  1545. p. 68, line 10The law of the past cannot be eluded,
  1546. p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  1547. p. 68, line 12The law of the living cannot be eluded . . . . it is eternal,
  1548. p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  1549. p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  1550. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
  1551. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  1552. 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.
  1553. p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
  1554. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
  1555. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  1556. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  1557. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  1558. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
  1559. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  1560. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  1561. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  1562. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  1563. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  1564. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  1565. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  1566. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  1567. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  1568. p. 69, line 7I shall go with the rest,
  1569. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
  1570. p. 69, line 17The whole universe indicates that it is good,
  1571. p. 69, line 18The past and the present indicate that it is good.
  1572. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  1573. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  1574. p. 69, line 22The vegetables and minerals are all perfect . . and the imponderable fluids are perfect;
  1575. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  1576. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  1577. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
  1578. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  1579. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  1580. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  1581. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,
  1582. p. 70, line 13The newborn emerging from gates and the dying emerging from gates,
  1583. p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.
  1584. 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,
  1585. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  1586. p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  1587. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
  1588. p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
  1589. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,
  1590. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
  1591. p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
  1592. p. 71, line 3The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  1593. p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
  1594. p. 71, line 5The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,
  1595. p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.
  1596. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,
  1597. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.
  1598. p. 71, line 10The earth recedes from me into the night,
  1599. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  1600. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  1601. p. 71, line 13I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
  1602. p. 71, line 14And I become the other dreamers.
  1603. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  1604. p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,
  1605. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  1606. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
  1607. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
  1608. p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,
  1609. p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,
  1610. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.
  1611. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  1612. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  1613. p. 72, line 3He rises with me silently from the bed.
  1614. p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  1615. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  1616. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.
  1617. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  1618. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  1619. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,
  1620. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
  1621. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
  1622. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  1623. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
  1624. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  1625. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  1626. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  1627. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
  1628. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
  1629. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  1630. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  1631. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  1632. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  1633. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  1634. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,
  1635. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  1636. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,
  1637. p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
  1638. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.
  1639. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
  1640. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;
  1641. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  1642. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;
  1643. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
  1644. 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,
  1645. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  1646. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  1647. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  1648. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  1649. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  1650. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  1651. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  1652. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,
  1653. p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  1654. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  1655. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  1656. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
  1657. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  1658. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
  1659. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  1660. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  1661. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,
  1662. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  1663. p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,
  1664. p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,
  1665. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,
  1666. p. 75, line 3The droves and crops increase . . . . the barns are wellfilled.
  1667. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  1668. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  1669. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
  1670. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;
  1671. 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,
  1672. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
  1673. p. 75, line 12The homeward bound and the outward bound,
  1674. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,
  1675. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  1676. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,
  1677. p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,
  1678. p. 75, line 17The stammerer, the sick, the perfectformed, the homely,
  1679. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  1680. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
  1681. p. 75, line 20The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wronged,
  1682. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  1683. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  1684. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
  1685. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  1686. p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.
  1687. p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  1688. p. 75, line 29The myth of heaven indicates the soul;
  1689. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  1690. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
  1691. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
  1692. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,
  1693. p. 76, line 4The soul is always beautiful,
  1694. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  1695. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,
  1696. p. 76, line 8The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
  1697. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,
  1698. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
  1699. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  1700. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  1701. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,
  1702. 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,
  1703. p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  1704. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  1705. p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
  1706. p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,
  1707. p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
  1708. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
  1709. 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,
  1710. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  1711. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
  1712. p. 76, line 25The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  1713. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
  1714. p. 76, line 27I too pass from the night;
  1715. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  1716. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  1717. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  1718. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  1719. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  1720. p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
  1721. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  1722. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
  1723. p. 77, line 14The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
  1724. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  1725. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  1726. p. 77, line 17It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,
  1727. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  1728. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  1729. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.
  1730. 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;
  1731. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
  1732. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
  1733. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;
  1734. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
  1735. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,
  1736. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,
  1737. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  1738. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,
  1739. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  1740. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  1741. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  1742. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  1743. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  1744. 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.
  1745. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  1746. 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,
  1747. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  1748. 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,
  1749. p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  1750. p. 79, line 7To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  1751. 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,
  1752. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  1753. p. 79, line 13This is the female form,
  1754. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
  1755. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
  1756. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  1757. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  1758. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  1759. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.
  1760. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
  1761. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
  1762. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,
  1763. p. 80, line 2You are the gates of the body and you are the gates of the soul.
  1764. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  1765. p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,
  1766. p. 80, line 6I see the bearer of the great fruit which is immortality . . . . the good thereof is not tasted by roues, and never can be.
  1767. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  1768. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  1769. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  1770. p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;
  1771. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,
  1772. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  1773. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
  1774. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  1775. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  1776. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  1777. p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
  1778. p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?
  1779. p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?
  1780. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.
  1781. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,
  1782. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  1783. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.
  1784. p. 81, line 5In that head the allbaffling brain,
  1785. p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
  1786. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  1787. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  1788. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  1789. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  1790. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  1791. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  1792. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  1793. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
  1794. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  1795. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  1796. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  1797. p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
  1798. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  1799. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  1800. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  1801. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
  1802. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  1803. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
  1804. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  1805. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,
  1806. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,
  1807. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  1808. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
  1809. p. 83, line 1The face of an amour . . . . the face of veneration,
  1810. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,
  1811. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,
  1812. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,
  1813. p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
  1814. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;
  1815. p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.
  1816. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  1817. p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.
  1818. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  1819. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  1820. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,
  1821. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
  1822. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
  1823. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
  1824. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
  1825. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  1826. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  1827. p. 84, line 5I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
  1828. p. 84, line 6The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement;
  1829. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  1830. p. 84, line 9The Lord advances and yet advances:
  1831. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
  1832. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,
  1833. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
  1834. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
  1835. p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.
  1836. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  1837. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  1838. p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  1839. p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.
  1840. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
  1841. p. 84, line 31The old face of the mother of many children:
  1842. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,
  1843. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  1844. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.
  1845. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
  1846. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  1847. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  1848. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  1849. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
  1850. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  1851. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
  1852. p. 85, line 13The melodious character of the earth!
  1853. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  1854. p. 85, line 15The justified mother of men!
  1855. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  1856. p. 85, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  1857. p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  1858. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
  1859. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  1860. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,
  1861. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
  1862. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
  1863. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  1864. 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.
  1865. p. 86, line 9He is the answerer,
  1866. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
  1867. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  1868. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  1869. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  1870. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  1871. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  1872. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  1873. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  1874. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
  1875. p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
  1876. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  1877. p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  1878. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  1879. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  1880. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;
  1881. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
  1882. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  1883. p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,
  1884. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.
  1885. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,
  1886. p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.
  1887. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.
  1888. p. 87, line 13The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,
  1889. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  1890. p. 87, line 16You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses,
  1891. p. 87, line 17Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;
  1892. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
  1893. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  1894. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  1895. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:
  1896. p. 88, line 4Worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages;
  1897. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
  1898. 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;
  1899. p. 88, line 7The People scorned the ferocity of kings.
  1900. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:
  1901. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  1902. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,
  1903. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  1904. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  1905. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,
  1906. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,
  1907. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  1908. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  1909. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.
  1910. p. 88, line 29Is the house shut? Is the master away?
  1911. p. 89, line 1CLEAR the way there Jonathan!
  1912. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
  1913. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  1914. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
  1915. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  1916. p. 89, line 7How bright shine the foremost with cutlasses,
  1917. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,
  1918. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  1919. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;
  1920. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
  1921. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  1922. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  1923. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  1924. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  1925. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!
  1926. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,
  1927. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,
  1928. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  1929. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,
  1930. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.
  1931. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.
  1932. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
  1933. p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
  1934. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  1935. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
  1936. 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.
  1937. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,
  1938. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,
  1939. 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.
  1940. 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,
  1941. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;
  1942. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  1943. 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,
  1944. p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
  1945. 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,
  1946. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,
  1947. 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:
  1948. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,
  1949. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
  1950. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,
  1951. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  1952. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,
  1953. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  1954. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,
  1955. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;
  1956. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,
  1957. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,
  1958. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;
  1959. 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,
  1960. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;
  1961. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?
  1962. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
  1963. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  1964. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  1965. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  1966. p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;
  1967. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  1968. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  1969. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
  1970. 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.
  1971. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
  1972. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  1973. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.
  1974. p. 93, line 5GREAT are the myths . . . . I too delight in them,
  1975. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.
  1976. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
  1977. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,
  1978. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,
  1979. p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.
  1980. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
  1981. p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,
  1982. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?
  1983. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  1984. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,
  1985. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  1986. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:
  1987. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  1988. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
  1989. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.
  1990. p. 94, line 6Great is the greatest nation . . the nation of clusters of equal nations.
  1991. p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,
  1992. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?
  1993. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.
  1994. p. 94, line 10Great is the quality of truth in man,
  1995. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,
  1996. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.
  1997. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,
  1998. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  1999. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,
  2000. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.
  2001. p. 94, line 18Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,
  2002. 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;
  2003. p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?
  2004. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
  2005. p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
  2006. 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.
  2007. 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.
  2008. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,
  2009. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,
  2010. 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.
  2011. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,
  2012. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,
  2013. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,
  2014. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,
  2015. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.
  2016. p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,
  2017. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.