Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

The 7,190 different words in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

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udder 1

  1. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,

ugly 1

  1. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,

ultimate 1

  1. p. v, line 19[…] grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges […]

umbrage 1

  1. p. xi, line 99[…] his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the […]

unabashed 1

  1. p. xi, line 89[…] world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through […]

unaccountable 1

  1. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,

unappreciated 1

  1. p. xii, line 60[…] editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work. The […]

unapproached 1

  1. p. iii, line 30[…] soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and […]

unattained 1

  1. p. xi, line 80[…] with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable […]

unavoidably 1

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

unbuttoning 1

  1. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,

unceasing 1

  1. p. 83, line 25An unceasing deathbell tolls there.

unclench 1

  1. p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.

uncloses 1

  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

unclothed 2

  1. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  2. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;

uncombed 1

  1. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;

uncommon 1

  1. p. vii, line 3[…] their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and […]

unconquerable 1

  1. p. iv, line 2[…] breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]

unconsciousness 1

  1. p. v, line 33[…] and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power […]

unconstraint 1

  1. p. vii, line 36[…] of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out […]

uncountable 1

  1. p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,

uncut 1

  1. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

undaunted 1

  1. p. 73, line 5I see his white body . . . . I see his undaunted eyes;

undecided 1

  1. p. 68, line 2It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided;

undeniable 1

  1. p. 79, line 15It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,

undeniably 1

  1. p. x, line 23[…] forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads […]

under 22

  1. p. iii, line 2[…] repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of […]
  2. p. viii, line 39[…] the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond […]
  3. p. ix, line 19[…] its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American […]
  4. p. ix, line 87[…] space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition […]
  5. p. xi, line 72[…] any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize […]
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  1. p. xi, line 99[…] shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women […]
  2. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  3. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  4. 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.
  5. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;
  6. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;
  7. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  8. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.
  9. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.
  10. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  11. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  12. 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;
  13. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  14. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  15. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  16. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.
  17. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

underbrush 1

  1. p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,

underground 1

  1. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.

underhanded 1

  1. p. x, line 12[…] icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others […]

underhold 1

  1. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;

underlies 1

  1. p. vii, line 98[…] are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises […]

underlying 1

  1. p. 31, line 12I underlying causes to balance them at last,

underneath 1

  1. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,

understand 11

  1. p. vi, line 58[…] in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its […]
  2. p. vii, line 52[…] us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose […]
  3. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  4. p. 38, line 27I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  5. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
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  1. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  2. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  3. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  4. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  5. p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  6. 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.

understood 1

  1. p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,

undisguised 1

  1. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,

undrape 1

  1. p. 17, line 24Undrape . . . . you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,

undress 1

  1. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,

undulating 1

  1. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,

unearthly 2

  1. p. ix, line 48[…] that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt […]
  2. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

uneducated 1

  1. p. vi, line 8[…] or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of […]

unending 1

  1. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,

unequal 1

  1. p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

unerringly 1

  1. p. v, line 101[…] of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and […]

unfailing 1

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

unfinished 1

  1. p. 57, line 4This is unfinished business with me . . . . how is it with you?

unflagging 1

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

unfledged 1

  1. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

unfolding 1

  1. p. 28, line 16Endless unfolding of words of ages!

ungovernable 2

  1. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,

ungrown 1

  1. 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,

unhappy 1

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

unharmed 2

  1. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  2. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.

unheard 1

  1. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;

unhurt 1

  1. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

uniform 4

  1. p. xii, line 23[…] by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is […]
  2. p. 16, line 14Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
  3. 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,

uniformity 3

  1. p. v, line 93[…] poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or […]
  2. p. v, line 97[…] a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the […]
  3. p. v, line 99[…] the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws […]

unimpeachableness 1

  1. p. vii, line 6[…] insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass […]

unintermitted 2

  1. p. viii, line 16[…] their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis […]
  2. p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.

union 3

  1. p. iv, line 56[…] and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the […]
  2. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  3. p. 60, line 11We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand;

unitary 1

  1. p. 15, line 16Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,

unite 2

  1. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.

United 4

  1. p. iii, line 17[…] earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history […]
  2. p. iii, line 41[…] in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or […]
  3. p. iii, line 92[…] of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and […]
  4. p. iv, line 93Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets […]

uniting 1

  1. p. 33, line 5Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.

universal 3

  1. p. xii, line 32[…] this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed […]
  2. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,

universe 12

  1. p. v, line 54[…] dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete […]
  2. p. v, line 114[…] is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will […]
  3. p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet […]
  4. p. viii, line 12[…] admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  5. p. x, line 72[…] or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the […]
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  1. p. 26, line 6To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  2. p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
  3. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  4. p. 69, line 17The whole universe indicates that it is good,
  5. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  6. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  7. p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

universes 1

  1. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.

university 1

  1. p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,

unjust 1

  1. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,

unknown 6

  1. p. vi, line 7[…] take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely […]
  2. p. x, line 98[…] hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that […]
  3. 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.
  4. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  5. p. 36, line 19Where the half-burned brig is riding on unknown currents,
  6. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.

unlading 1

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;

unlearned 3

  1. p. x, line 67[…] is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from […]
  2. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  3. p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;

unlikely 1

  1. p. v, line 68[…] and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have […]

unmarried 1

  1. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,

unmatched 1

  1. p. ix, line 20[…] sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam […]

unmoved 1

  1. p. viii, line 113[…] poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and […]

unmuzzled 1

  1. p. 84, line 2You'll be unmuzzled . . . . you certainly will.

unnamable 1

  1. p. 32, line 12It wrenches unnamable ardors from my breast,

unneeded 1

  1. p. vi, line 19[…] The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready […]

unnumbered 1

  1. p. vii, line 55[…] only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more […]

unquiet 1

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

unreal 1

  1. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

unrecorded 1

  1. p. x, line 92[…] all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations […]

unrequited 4

  1. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  2. p. 71, line 3The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  3. p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
  4. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,

unrhymed 1

  1. p. iii, line 63[…] them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of […]

unrighteous 1

  1. p. xi, line 13[…] from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act […]

unrumples 1

  1. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,

unsaid 1

  1. p. 55, line 7I do not know it . . . . it is without name . . . . it is a word unsaid,

unscrew 2

  1. p. 29, line 6Unscrew the locks from the doors!
  2. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

unseen 7

  1. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  2. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  3. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  4. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  5. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
  6. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  7. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.

unshakable 1

  1. p. x, line 72[…] sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of […]

unshaved 1

  1. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;

unshoveled see unshovelled

unshovelled 1 today: unshoveled

  1. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!

unslaughter'd 1 today: unslaughtered

  1. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.

unslaughtered see unslaughter'd

unsound 1

  1. 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,

unspeakable 2

  1. p. 27, line 17O unspeakable passionate love!
  2. 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,

unspeakably 3

  1. p. viii, line 9[…] and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and […]
  2. p. viii, line 41[…] with it. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for […]
  3. p. viii, line 42[…] he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive […]

unspoken 1

  1. p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,

unsunk 1

  1. p. 47, line 2Ever the hard and unsunk ground,

unsurveyed 1

  1. p. iv, line 59[…] the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters […]

untainted 1

  1. p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,

untied 1

  1. p. iii, line 24[…] a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving […]

until 2

  1. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  2. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.

untired 1

  1. p. xi, line 52[…] live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to […]

unto 1

  1. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.

untold 1

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

untouchable 1

  1. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;

untouching 1

  1. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;

untranslatable 1

  1. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,

untried 2

  1. p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
  2. p. 49, line 4I do not know what is untried and afterward,

untruth 1

  1. 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;

untying 1

  1. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,

unused 1

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

unwilling 1

  1. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,

unworthy 1

  1. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,

unwrap 1

  1. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:

up 48

  1. p. iv, line 66[…] of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character […]
  2. p. v, line 11[…] does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he […]
  3. p. v, line 31[…] common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness […]
  4. p. vi, line 3[…] give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor […]
  5. p. vi, line 114[…] Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on […]
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  1. p. viii, line 44[…] greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just as great as to […]
  2. p. viii, line 55[…] The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the […]
  3. p. ix, line 83[…] only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of the globe nor upon […]
  4. p. ix, line 99[…] spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain of the world to […]
  5. p. xi, line 39[…] which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape […]
  6. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  7. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  8. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  9. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  10. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  11. p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  12. 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,
  13. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,
  14. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  15. p. 33, line 9I am given up by traitors;
  16. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
  17. p. 36, line 22Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island,
  18. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  19. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  20. p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.
  21. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
  22. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  23. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  24. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  25. p. 45, line 13I dilate you with tremendous breath . . . . I buoy you up;
  26. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  27. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
  28. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  29. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  30. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?
  31. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;
  32. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  33. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,
  34. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  35. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  36. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  37. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
  38. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,
  39. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  40. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  41. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  42. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.
  43. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

upheaving 1

  1. p. viii, line 30[…] the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God […]

upland 1

  1. p. iv, line 39[…] and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer […]

uplifted 1

  1. p. 66, line 27Thumb extended or finger uplifted,

upon 50

  1. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United […]
  2. p. iii, line 38[…] the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
  3. p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken as they are, and […]
  4. p. viii, line 18[…] unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever […]
  5. p. viii, line 66[…] and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and […]
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  1. p. viii, line 89[…] the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless […]
  2. p. ix, line 44[…] rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of […]
  3. p. ix, line 84[…] any of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids […]
  4. p. ix, line 85[…] upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor […]
  5. p. x, line 21[…] without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which […]
  6. p. x, line 59[…] nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on the […]
  7. p. xi, line 56[…] his so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of […]
  8. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
  9. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  10. p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
  11. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  12. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  13. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  14. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  15. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  16. p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
  17. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  18. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  19. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  20. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  21. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  22. p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
  23. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
  24. 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,
  25. p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  26. 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;
  27. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  28. p. 61, line 1All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
  29. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  30. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  31. 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;
  32. p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  33. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  34. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  35. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
  36. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  37. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  38. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
  39. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  40. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
  41. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.

upper 1

  1. p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;

upperhold 1

  1. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;

upright 1

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

uprights 1

  1. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,

upward 2

  1. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
  2. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,

Uranus 1

  1. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,

urge 4

  1. p. 14, line 15Urge and urge and urge,
  2. p. 14, line 16Always the procreant urge of the world.

urges 1

  1. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.

us 24

  1. p. vii, line 51[…] to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We […]
  2. p. vii, line 52[…] on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you […]
  3. p. ix, line 72[…] has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner […]
  4. p. x, line 98[…] far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever […]
  5. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
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  1. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  2. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  3. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
  4. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  5. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  6. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
  7. p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
  8. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  9. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
  10. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  11. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  12. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  13. 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;
  14. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  15. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  16. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
  17. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;

usages 2

  1. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;
  2. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

use 6

  1. p. iv, line 95[…] poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common […]
  2. p. ix, line 26[…] and stratagems to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its […]
  3. p. xii, line 28[…] the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I know that what answers for […]
  4. p. 16, line 19Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  5. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  6. p. 41, line 25Only three guns were in use,

used 2

  1. p. v, line 38[…] The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power of attack. What is […]
  2. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,

useful 1

  1. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.

uses 2

  1. p. iii, line 80[…] soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur […]
  2. 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;

using 1

  1. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,

usual 5

  1. p. 43, line 17I discover myself on a verge of the usual mistake.
  2. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
  3. p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
  4. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;
  5. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.

Utahan 1

  1. 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,

utmost 2

  1. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

utterance 1

  1. p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.

uttered 1

  1. p. vii, line 100[…] perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception of it . . . of […]

uttering 1

  1. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!

utterly 1

  1. p. viii, line 82[…] the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at […]

uttermost 1

  1. p. iv, line 67[…] duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of […]