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.

W

wadding 1

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

waded 1

  1. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,

wafted 1

  1. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.

wag 1

  1. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,

wages 3

  1. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  2. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
  3. p. 88, line 4Worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages;

wagon 2

  1. p. 18, line 16The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
  2. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,

waist 3

  1. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
  2. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  3. 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,

waistbands 1

  1. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,

waists 2

  1. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  2. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;

wait 13

  1. p. xi, line 47[…] let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any […]
  2. p. xi, line 93[…] more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees […]
  3. p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
  4. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  5. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
8 more lines
  1. p. 33, line 20All truths wait in all things,
  2. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  3. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  4. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 84, line 6The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement;
  7. p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.
  8. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,

waited 2

  1. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  2. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,

waiting 10

  1. p. xi, line 26[…] evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in […]
  2. p. 31, line 10Waiting in gloom protected by frost,
  3. p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
  4. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  5. p. 48, line 11Waiting responses from oracles . . . . honoring the gods . . . . saluting the sun,
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  1. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;
  2. p. 56, line 12I stop some where waiting for you
  3. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  4. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  5. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,

waits 11

  1. p. iii, line 11[…] sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest […]
  2. p. viii, line 80[…] nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last […]
  3. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  6. p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
  7. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,
  8. 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,

wake 1

  1. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.

walk 13

  1. p. vi, line 87[…] feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He learns the […]
  2. p. viii, line 89[…] taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight […]
  3. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;
  4. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,
  5. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 55, line 24Who wishes to walk with me?
  3. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  4. p. 69, line 15Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
  5. p. 69, line 16Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
  6. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  7. 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,
  8. 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.

walked 1

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

walking 6

  1. p. 23, line 28A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deerskin leggings,
  2. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
  3. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  4. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  5. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
  6. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?

walkingbeam 1

  1. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,

walks 10

  1. p. vii, line 37[…] be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or […]
  2. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  3. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
  4. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  5. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
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  1. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  2. p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
  3. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  4. 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:

wall 1

  1. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,

Wallabout 1

  1. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,

wallow 1

  1. p. 25, line 26That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,

wallpapers 1

  1. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;

walls 3

  1. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  2. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  3. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:

wall-scaffold 1

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

walnut-tree 1

  1. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;

Walt 2

  1. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  2. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?

wander 1

  1. p. 70, line 4I WANDER all night in my vision,

wandering 6

  1. p. x, line 105[…] of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are […]
  2. p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  3. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  4. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  5. 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,
  6. p. 70, line 7Wandering and confused . . . . lost to myself . . . . ill-assorted . . . . contradictory,

want 3

  1. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  2. p. 44, line 19Say old topknot! what do you want?
  3. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

wanted 2

  1. p. v, line 42[…] step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or […]
  2. p. 61, line 18(What is it that you made money? what is it that you got what you wanted?)

wanting 1

  1. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,

wants 3

  1. p. iv, line 105[…] of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the […]
  2. p. iv, line 106[…] he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks […]
  3. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

war 6

  1. p. iv, line 55[…] and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always […]
  2. p. v, line 3[…] off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who […]
  3. p. v, line 4[…] he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks […]
  4. p. x, line 80[…] will come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and […]
  5. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  6. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

ward 1

  1. 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,

war-days 1

  1. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;

wareroom 1

  1. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

wares 1

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

warflesh 1

  1. 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,

warily 1

  1. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.

warm 1

  1. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;

warmly 1

  1. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;

warp 2

  1. p. viii, line 54[…] Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets is to […]
  2. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.

warrant 1

  1. p. xii, line 58[…] is not intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor […]

warrantee 1

  1. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,

warriors 1

  1. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

wars 2

  1. p. iv, line 85[…] these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters […]
  2. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,

war-vessels 1

  1. 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,

was 81

  1. p. iii, line 11[…] a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to […]
  2. p. v, line 52[…] triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life […]
  3. p. vii, line 119[…] of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as […]
  4. p. ix, line 105[…] It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did […]
  5. p. x, line 99[…] by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that […]
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  1. p. xi, line 43[…] makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation […]
  2. p. xi, line 114[…] a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus […]
  3. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  4. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  5. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  6. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
  9. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  10. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  11. p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.
  12. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  13. p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
  14. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  15. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  16. p. 41, line 8And that was a jetblack sunrise.
  17. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
  18. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  19. p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,
  20. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  21. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
  22. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  23. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  24. p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
  25. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  26. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
  27. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  28. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  29. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  30. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  31. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  32. p. 50, line 13Long I was hugged close . . . . long and long.
  33. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  34. p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
  35. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  36. p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
  37. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  38. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  39. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  40. 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;
  41. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  42. p. 66, line 21He was a goodfellow,
  43. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  44. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.
  45. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  46. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  47. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  48. p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?
  49. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  50. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  51. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  52. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  53. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  54. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  55. 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,
  56. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  57. 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.
  58. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
  59. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  60. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  61. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
  62. 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,
  63. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  64. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  65. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  66. 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.
  67. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.

wash 1

  1. p. 52, line 23Now I wash the gum from your eyes,

washed 2

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,
  2. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;

washes 1

  1. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.

Washington 1

  1. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,

wasted 1

  1. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.

wastes 1

  1. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;

watch 1

  1. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,

watched 1

  1. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,

watches 2

  1. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  2. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,

watchfires 1

  1. p. 38, line 22I am a free companion . . . . I bivouac by invading watchfires.

watching 3

  1. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
  2. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;
  3. p. 88, line 30Nevertheless be ready . . . . be not weary of watching,

water 11

  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  2. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  3. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  4. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
  5. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
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  1. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
  4. 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;
  5. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  6. 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?

water-blue 1

  1. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

water-pheasant 1

  1. p. iv, line 43[…] fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard […]

water-plants 1

  1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

waters 2

  1. p. iv, line 23[…] not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is […]
  2. 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.

water-shore 1

  1. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,

watery 1

  1. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,

wave 2

  1. p. xi, line 44[…] and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful […]
  2. p. xi, line 46[…] one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his […]

waves 7

  1. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,
  2. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
  3. p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  4. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
  5. p. 66, line 11Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf,
  6. p. 73, line 7What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
  7. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;

waxes 1

  1. p. 22, line 20The canal-boy trots on the towpath—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread,

way 21

  1. p. v, line 44[…] any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of […]
  2. p. vii, line 23[…] or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have […]
  3. p. vii, line 25[…] curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for […]
  4. 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,
  5. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
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  1. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  2. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  3. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
  4. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  5. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
  6. 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,
  7. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,
  8. p. 89, line 1CLEAR the way there Jonathan!
  9. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
  10. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  11. 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,
  12. p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,
  13. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

wayfarer 1

  1. p. 52, line 19Sit awhile wayfarer,

ways 3

  1. p. xi, line 9[…] of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off […]
  2. p. xi, line 10[…] ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case […]
  3. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

we 77

  1. p. vii, line 52[…] equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose […]
  2. p. vii, line 53[…] us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be […]
  3. p. vii, line 55[…] you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does […]
  4. p. viii, line 92[…] friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves […]
  5. p. ix, line 72[…] Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world […]
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  1. p. ix, line 90[…] life, nor in that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action […]
  2. p. x, line 96[…] the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of the hundreds of far […]
  3. p. x, line 106[…] stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought […]
  4. p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
  5. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
  6. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  7. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  8. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  9. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  10. 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,
  11. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  12. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
  13. p. 32, line 18And that we call Being.
  14. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  15. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  16. 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,
  17. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  18. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
  19. 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.
  20. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  21. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,
  22. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  23. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  24. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  25. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  26. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  27. 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,
  28. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
  29. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  30. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  31. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  32. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  33. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  34. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  35. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  36. 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?
  37. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  38. 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;
  39. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  40. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  41. p. 60, line 11We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand;
  42. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  43. 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;
  44. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  45. p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
  46. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  47. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  48. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  49. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  50. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  51. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  52. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;
  53. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
  54. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
  55. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  56. 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;
  57. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  58. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
  59. p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,
  60. p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?
  61. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?

weak 1

  1. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,

weakest 1

  1. p. 47, line 20The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,

weakness 1

  1. p. v, line 49[…] man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]

wealth 9

  1. p. iii, line 92[…] The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce […]
  2. p. vii, line 79[…] he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of […]
  3. p. ix, line 78[…] of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of […]
  4. p. x, line 27[…] made about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint […]
  5. p. 93, line 22Great is wealth and great is poverty . . . . great is expression and great is silence.
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  1. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:
  2. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  3. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
  4. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

wealthiest 1

  1. p. xii, line 68[…] superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that […]

weapons 1

  1. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,

wear 2

  1. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  2. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;

weary 1

  1. p. 88, line 30Nevertheless be ready . . . . be not weary of watching,

weatherbeaten 1

  1. p. iv, line 51[…] and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts […]

wedding-guests 1

  1. p. x, line 35[…] and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running […]

wedge 1

  1. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

weeds 4

  1. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
  2. p. 39, line 18I fall on the weeds and stones,
  3. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  4. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

week 5

  1. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
  2. p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  3. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  4. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,

weekly 1

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

weep 1

  1. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

weeper 1

  1. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

weeping 2

  1. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  2. 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,

weeps 1

  1. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,

weft 1

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

weight 2

  1. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  2. 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;

Welchman 1 today: Welshman

  1. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;

welcome 12

  1. p. iii, line 54[…] fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to […]
  2. p. viii, line 49[…] women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the […]
  3. p. xii, line 58[…] intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman […]
  4. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  5. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
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  1. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  2. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
  3. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
  4. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  5. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,

well 59

  1. p. v, line 82[…] their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers […]
  2. p. vi, line 77[…] as you hear or read. To do this well is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow […]
  3. p. viii, line 44[…] than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just as great as to perceive […]
  4. p. ix, line 106[…] who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful life […]
  5. p. x, line 68[…] white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last […]
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  1. p. x, line 74[…] the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is […]
  2. p. x, line 101[…] no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by […]
  3. p. x, line 103[…] of his great hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the […]
  4. p. x, line 107[…] are here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought or done by you whoever you are, or by […]
  5. p. xi, line 18[…] his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his […]
  6. p. xii, line 10[…] and courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible […]
  7. p. xii, line 69[…] the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs […]
  8. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  9. p. 17, line 3They are alive and well somewhere;
  10. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  11. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  12. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  13. p. 23, line 23Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
  14. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  15. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  16. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
  17. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  18. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  19. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  20. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
  21. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,
  22. p. 45, line 23It is middling well as far as it goes . . . . but is that all?
  23. p. 47, line 23I know perfectly well my own egotism,
  24. p. 53, line 3Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,
  25. p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
  26. p. 55, line 20Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
  27. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
  28. 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,
  29. p. 67, line 16What will be will be well—for what is is well,
  30. p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  31. p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
  32. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
  33. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,
  34. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,
  35. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  36. p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
  37. 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,
  38. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  39. p. 80, line 4She is all things duly veiled . . . . she is both passive and active . . . . she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and sons as well as daughters.
  40. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,
  41. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  42. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
  43. p. 83, line 28Well then you cannot trick me.
  44. p. 87, line 17Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;
  45. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

wellbeloved 2

  1. p. iv, line 89[…] and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the […]
  2. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,

well-considered 1

  1. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.

well-dressed 1

  1. p. 89, line 22See how well-dressed . . . . see how orderly they conduct themselves.

wellfilled 2

  1. p. 75, line 3The droves and crops increase . . . . the barns are wellfilled.
  2. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;

wellformed 1

  1. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.

wellgrown 1

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

wellhung 1

  1. p. xii, line 39[…] death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent […]

wellknown 1

  1. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,

wellmade 1

  1. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,

welloff 2

  1. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
  2. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,

well-riddled 1

  1. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,

wells 1

  1. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

well-served 1

  1. p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.

wellshaped 1

  1. p. iii, line 13[…] its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for […]

well-suited 2

  1. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  2. p. 69, line 15Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,

well-taken 1

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

well-united 1

  1. p. xii, line 25[…] the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is […]

Welshman see Welchman

went 8

  1. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
  2. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
  3. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  4. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  5. 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,
  6. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  7. p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
  8. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,

were 35

  1. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit […]
  2. p. iii, line 82[…] of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern […]
  3. p. iii, line 88[…] has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the […]
  4. p. vi, line 56[…] respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest […]
  5. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
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  1. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
  2. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  3. p. 40, line 22They were the glory of the race of rangers,
  4. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  5. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;
  6. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
  7. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  8. p. 41, line 25Only three guns were in use,
  9. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  10. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  11. p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
  12. 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,
  13. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  14. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
  15. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  16. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  17. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  18. 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;
  19. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
  20. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.
  21. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,
  22. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  23. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  24. 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.
  25. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  26. p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
  27. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  28. p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.

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  1. p. iv, line 28[…] He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid […]
  2. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;

western 5

  1. p. iii, line 87[…] any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North […]
  2. p. vii, line 84[…] be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  3. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  4. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
  5. p. 72, line 22I descend my western course . . . . my sinews are flaccid,

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  1. p. ix, line 87[…] the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the […]
  2. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  3. p. 27, line 25Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you.
  4. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  5. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  6. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.

wetweather 1

  1. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

whaleboat 1

  1. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,

whale's 1

  1. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,

whaling 1

  1. p. iv, line 63[…] and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening […]

wharf 3

  1. p. iv, line 58[…] and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses […]
  2. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  3. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?

wharves 2

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;
  2. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;

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  1. p. v, line 9[…] can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation […]
  2. p. vi, line 13[…] school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be […]
  3. p. viii, line 2[…] dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they […]
  4. p. viii, line 24[…] happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical […]
  5. p. viii, line 31[…] patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy […]
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  1. p. xi, line 6[…] bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest […]
  2. p. xi, line 27[…] and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
  3. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  4. p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
  5. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  6. p. 30, line 4Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you,
  7. p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
  8. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,
  9. p. 68, line 4You are thenceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
  10. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  11. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,
  12. p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,
  13. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

wheat 4

  1. p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;
  2. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  3. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  4. p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,

wheatlot 1

  1. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,

wheel 3

  1. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

wheeled 1

  1. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,

wheels 1

  1. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,

wheeze 1

  1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,

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  1. p. iv, line 25[…] of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast […]
  2. p. viii, line 76[…] young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of […]
  3. p. viii, line 77[…] liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor […]
  4. p. viii, line 81[…] the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away […]
  5. p. viii, line 82[…] of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the […]
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  1. p. viii, line 84[…] public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but […]
  2. p. viii, line 86[…] same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws […]
  3. p. viii, line 89[…] are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with […]
  4. p. viii, line 92[…] equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of […]
  5. p. viii, line 95[…] with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night […]
  6. p. viii, line 101[…] of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could easier […]
  7. p. viii, line 103[…] the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners […]
  8. p. viii, line 110[…] people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue […]
  9. p. viii, line 116[…] eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government or […]
  10. p. ix, line 4[…] against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women […]
  11. p. ix, line 112[…] of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the […]
  12. p. x, line 29[…] faint for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought […]
  13. p. xii, line 67[…] An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The […]
  14. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
  15. p. 35, line 13What I guessed when I loafed on the grass,
  16. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  17. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  18. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
  19. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,
  20. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  21. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  22. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  23. 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?
  24. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  25. p. 61, line 1All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
  26. p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  27. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  28. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  29. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  30. 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,
  31. p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  32. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,
  33. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
  34. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  35. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
  36. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  37. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  38. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
  39. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  40. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  41. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  42. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  43. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  44. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  45. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  46. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  47. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  48. 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,
  49. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  50. 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.

whence 2

  1. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  2. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

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  1. p. iv, line 14[…] falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The […]
  2. p. iv, line 91[…] the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  3. p. vi, line 89[…] you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only […]
  4. p. viii, line 6[…] or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames […]
  5. p. ix, line 59[…] are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great […]
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  1. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  2. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
  3. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  4. p. 34, line 33I do not know where they got those tokens,
  5. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  6. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  7. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
  8. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  9. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,
  10. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  11. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,
  12. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  13. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  14. 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;
  15. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;
  16. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  17. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  18. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  19. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  20. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  21. p. 36, line 19Where the half-burned brig is riding on unknown currents,
  22. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  23. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;
  24. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
  25. 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,
  26. 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,
  27. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
  28. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  29. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  30. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;
  31. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  32. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
  33. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  34. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
  35. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
  36. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  37. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;
  38. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  39. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  40. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  41. p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
  42. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  43. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  44. p. 56, line 12I stop some where waiting for you
  45. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  46. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
  47. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
  51. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  52. p. 93, line 9Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft . . . . where you sail I sail,

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  1. p. viii, line 48[…] is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or […]
  2. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  3. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  4. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  5. p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  6. p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
  7. p. 95, line 17Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,

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  1. p. viii, line 109[…] of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better […]
  2. p. x, line 64[…] be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is […]
  3. p. x, line 100[…] or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time […]
  4. p. xii, line 19[…] the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the […]
  5. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
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  1. p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  2. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  3. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  4. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
  5. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  6. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  7. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  8. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,
  9. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?

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  1. p. iii, line 7[…] opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of […]
  2. p. iii, line 27[…] moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and […]
  3. p. iv, line 79[…] protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of […]
  4. p. v, line 78[…] to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to […]
  5. p. vi, line 27[…] He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune […]
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  1. p. vi, line 28[…] passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and […]
  2. p. vi, line 102[…] the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But […]
  3. p. vii, line 48[…] original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
  4. p. vii, line 65[…] love? It is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and […]
  5. p. ix, line 47[…] before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance […]
  6. p. ix, line 88[…] wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during […]
  7. p. x, line 22[…] civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features […]
  8. p. x, line 111[…] and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of […]
  9. p. xi, line 37[…] if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and […]
  10. p. xi, line 39[…] and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its […]
  11. p. xii, line 1[…] circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the […]
  12. p. xii, line 22[…] in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform […]
  13. p. xii, line 67[…] as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and […]
  14. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
  15. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  16. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  17. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  18. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  19. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  20. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  21. 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,
  22. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  23. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  24. 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.
  25. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  26. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  27. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
  28. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:

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  1. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  2. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

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  1. p. iii, line 7[…] still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the […]
  2. p. iii, line 11[…] the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days […]
  3. p. iii, line 36[…] summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples […]
  4. p. vi, line 106[…] the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets […]
  5. p. x, line 13[…] dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and […]
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  1. p. xi, line 18[…] lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains […]
  2. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  3. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  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. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  6. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  7. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  8. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
  9. 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;
  10. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  11. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  12. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  13. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
  14. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.

whimpering 1

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

whine 1

  1. p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

whip 2

  1. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,
  2. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

whip-stocks 1

  1. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.

whir see whirr

Whirl 1

  1. p. vii, line 66[…] something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the […]

whirling 4

  1. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;
  2. p. 43, line 14The whirling and whirling is elemental within me.
  3. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

whirls 1

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

whirr 1 today: whir

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

whiskers 1

  1. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,

whisper 1

  1. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,

whispering 2

  1. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  2. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.

whispers 1

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,

whist 1

  1. p. 84, line 32Whist! I am fully content.

whistles 1

  1. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

whistling 1

  1. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,

white 32

  1. p. x, line 67[…] in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the […]
  2. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  3. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
  4. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  2. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  3. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  4. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  5. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  6. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  7. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  8. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  9. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,
  10. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  11. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  12. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  13. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;
  14. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  15. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  16. p. 73, line 5I see his white body . . . . I see his undaunted eyes;
  17. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  18. 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,
  19. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
  20. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  21. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  22. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  23. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  24. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,
  25. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

white-blow 1

  1. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

whitefaced 1

  1. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

white-ibis 1

  1. p. iv, line 42[…] coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake […]

whiteleadworks 1

  1. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;

whites 1

  1. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,

white-topped 1

  1. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;

whitewashed 1

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

whither 1

  1. p. 69, line 16Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,

Whitman 1

  1. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,

whiz see whizz

whizz 1 today: whiz

  1. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.

whizzing 1

  1. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;

who 81

  1. p. iii, line 13[…] has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
  2. p. iii, line 57[…] a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence […]
  3. p. v, line 4[…] is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of […]
  4. p. v, line 61[…] to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses […]
  5. p. v, line 116[…] gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This […]
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  1. p. vi, line 69[…] another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of […]
  2. p. vii, line 9[…] of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of the […]
  3. p. vii, line 26[…] I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will […]
  4. p. vii, line 46[…] any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is […]
  5. p. vii, line 76[…] shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is […]
  6. p. viii, line 101[…] when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not […]
  7. p. ix, line 30[…] The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought and paid […]
  8. p. ix, line 32[…] and every one is owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of tongues […]
  9. p. ix, line 70[…] candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie […]
  10. p. ix, line 106[…] thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself […]
  11. p. xi, line 17[…] or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding […]
  12. p. xi, line 19[…] done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old […]
  13. p. xi, line 22[…] that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body […]
  14. p. xi, line 27[…] onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or […]
  15. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does […]
  16. p. xi, line 113[…] enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of […]
  17. p. xii, line 6[…] the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith […]
  18. p. xii, line 48[…] stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  19. p. 17, line 23Who need be afraid of the merge?
  20. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
  21. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  22. 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,
  23. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  24. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  25. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
  26. 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,
  27. p. 25, line 20Who goes there! hankering, gross, mystical, nude?
  28. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  29. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  30. p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
  31. p. 45, line 1I do not ask who you are . . . . that is not important to me,
  32. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  33. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
  34. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  35. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  36. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  37. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  38. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  39. p. 53, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
  40. 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.
  41. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  42. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  43. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  44. p. 55, line 24Who wishes to walk with me?
  45. p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  46. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  47. 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;
  48. p. 60, line 17It is not they who give the life . . . . it is you who give the life;
  49. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  50. 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.
  51. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  52. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  53. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  54. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  55. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  56. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
  57. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  58. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  59. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  60. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
  61. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
  62. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  63. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
  64. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  65. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,
  66. p. 92, line 1WHO learns my lesson complete?
  67. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?

whoever 12

  1. p. x, line 107[…] to be well thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly […]
  2. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  3. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  4. p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  5. p. 53, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour;
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  1. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  2. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  3. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  4. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;
  5. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  6. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,
  7. p. 95, line 17Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,

whole 16

  1. p. vii, line 118[…] resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was […]
  2. p. ix, line 78[…] wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be […]
  3. p. x, line 73[…] unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is […]
  4. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  2. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.
  3. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  4. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  5. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  6. p. 61, line 6Will the whole come back then?
  7. 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.
  8. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  9. p. 69, line 17The whole universe indicates that it is good,
  10. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  11. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

wholesome 1

  1. 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:

wholly 1

  1. p. x, line 109[…] are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure […]

whom 6

  1. p. ix, line 34[…] of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward […]
  2. p. xi, line 78[…] ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live […]
  3. p. 20, line 2They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  4. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  5. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  6. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:

whoops 1

  1. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,

whose 8

  1. p. viii, line 61[…] American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures […]
  2. p. ix, line 93[…] process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  3. p. x, line 96[…] grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of […]
  4. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  5. 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,
  6. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
  7. p. 55, line 10To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  8. p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,

why 5

  1. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  2. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  3. p. 58, line 6Why what have you thought of yourself?
  4. p. 77, line 1Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  5. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,

wicked 4

  1. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  2. p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
  3. p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
  4. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,

wickedness 3

  1. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  2. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
  3. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

wide 2

  1. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  2. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;

wider 4

  1. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  2. p. 51, line 9Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding,
  3. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,

widow 2

  1. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  2. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

widows 1

  1. p. x, line 82[…] and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance […]

width 1

  1. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,

wielders 1

  1. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,

wife 12

  1. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  2. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  3. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  4. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  5. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
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  1. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  2. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  3. 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,
  4. 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?
  5. 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,
  6. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,

wife's 1

  1. p. 38, line 25My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,

wild 5

  1. p. iv, line 61[…] the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries […]
  2. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  3. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  4. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  5. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,

wildcherry 1

  1. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.

wildest 2

  1. p. vii, line 62[…] and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea […]
  2. p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.

wild-flapping 1

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

wildly 1

  1. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,

wildpigeon 1

  1. p. iv, line 40[…] songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk […]

wilds 2

  1. p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  2. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,

wildvine 1

  1. p. iv, line 33[…] limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any […]

wiles 1

  1. p. x, line 59[…] looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can […]

will 86

  1. p. iv, line 94[…] full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their […]
  2. p. v, line 113[…] man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of […]
  3. p. v, line 116[…] the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency […]
  4. p. vii, line 21[…] of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing […]
  5. p. vii, line 22[…] his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or […]
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  1. p. vii, line 24[…] between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains […]
  2. p. vii, line 27[…] exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and […]
  3. p. vii, line 36[…] red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at […]
  4. p. ix, line 57[…] Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are […]
  5. p. x, line 79[…] it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round. All the best actions of war and peace […]
  6. p. x, line 110[…] inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or […]
  7. p. xi, line 52[…] through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar […]
  8. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They […]
  9. p. xii, line 38[…] set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a […]
  10. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The […]
  11. p. xii, line 51[…] other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great […]
  12. p. xii, line 65[…] as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a […]
  13. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  14. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  15. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
  16. p. 16, line 19Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  17. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  18. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  19. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  20. p. 25, line 19I might not tell everybody but I will tell you.
  21. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  22. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  23. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.
  24. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  25. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  26. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  27. p. 45, line 2You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  28. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  29. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.
  30. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  31. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  32. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  33. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  34. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  35. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
  36. 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.
  37. p. 52, line 26Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  38. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  39. 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.
  40. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  41. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  42. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  43. p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  44. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  45. p. 57, line 15I will be even with you, and you shall be even with me.
  46. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  47. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  48. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  49. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  50. p. 61, line 6Will the whole come back then?
  51. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  52. 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;
  53. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  54. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  55. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  56. p. 67, line 16What will be will be well—for what is is well,
  57. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  58. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  59. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  60. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  61. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
  62. p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,
  63. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  64. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  65. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  66. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  67. p. 84, line 2You'll be unmuzzled . . . . you certainly will.
  68. p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,
  69. p. 88, line 31He will soon return . . . . his messengers come anon.
  70. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  71. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  72. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,
  73. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
  74. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  75. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,
  76. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.

willing 2

  1. p. xi, line 58[…] tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for […]
  2. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,

wilt 1

  1. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,

wince 1

  1. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,

wind 4

  1. p. iv, line 37[…] hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and […]
  2. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
  3. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
  4. 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:

winders 1

  1. p. 48, line 21Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.

winding 2

  1. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
  2. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;

window 2

  1. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

windows 6

  1. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;
  2. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  3. p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  4. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  5. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.
  6. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,

windpipe 2

  1. p. x, line 69[…] or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a […]
  2. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,

winds 5

  1. 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,
  2. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
  3. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
  4. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  5. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.

winged 1

  1. p. 20, line 24. . . . I believe in those winged purposes,

wings 2

  1. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
  2. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,

wink 1

  1. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,

wins 1

  1. p. ix, line 73[…] us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no […]

winter 6

  1. p. iii, line 36[…] indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the […]
  2. p. vi, line 35[…] of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his […]
  3. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
  4. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  5. p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
  6. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,

wintergrain 2

  1. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  2. 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,

winters 2

  1. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  2. 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.

Wisconsin 1

  1. 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,

wisdom 2

  1. p. x, line 31[…] of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or […]
  2. p. x, line 33[…] a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain […]

wise 9

  1. p. x, line 74[…] it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is […]
  2. p. x, line 75[…] well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief […]
  3. p. x, line 76[…] same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer […]
  4. p. x, line 77[…] same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is […]
  5. p. x, line 78[…] no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come […]
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  1. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  2. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  3. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  4. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

wiser 1

  1. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?

wish 8

  1. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  2. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  3. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  4. p. 59, line 5None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.
  5. 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.
  6. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  7. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?

wished 1

  1. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?

wishes 2

  1. p. x, line 58[…] their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves […]
  2. p. 55, line 24Who wishes to walk with me?

wisp 1

  1. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.

wisps 2

  1. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  2. p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,

witch 1

  1. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;

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withdrawn 1

  1. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,

withheld 1

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

withholds 1

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

within 8

  1. p. vii, line 59[…] grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms […]
  2. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  3. p. 43, line 14The whirling and whirling is elemental within me.
  4. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  5. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  6. p. 52, line 6It is not far . . . . it is within reach,
  7. p. 81, line 11And wonders within there yet.
  8. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;

without 38

  1. p. iii, line 68[…] largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the […]
  2. p. v, line 72[…] things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
  3. p. vi, line 62[…] nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade […]
  4. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest […]
  5. p. vii, line 20[…] is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself […]
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  1. p. vii, line 30[…] experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition. You shall stand by my […]
  2. p. vii, line 72[…] and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any […]
  3. p. ix, line 1[…] largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against […]
  4. p. ix, line 56[…] of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and […]
  5. p. ix, line 82[…] fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid […]
  6. p. ix, line 109[…] and his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these […]
  7. p. x, line 19[…] desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death […]
  8. p. x, line 20[…] naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization […]
  9. p. xi, line 3[…] or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its […]
  10. p. xi, line 4[…] and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning […]
  11. p. xii, line 23[…] it uniform with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers […]
  12. p. xii, line 32[…] my materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of […]
  13. p. 27, line 22I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
  14. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  15. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  16. p. 54, line 17To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
  17. p. 55, line 7I do not know it . . . . it is without name . . . . it is a word unsaid,
  18. 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,
  19. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  20. p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
  21. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  22. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  23. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  24. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  25. 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,
  26. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  27. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  28. 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;
  29. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  30. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
  31. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

withoutthe 1

  1. p. xi, line 114[…] who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all […]

witness 2

  1. p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
  2. p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.

witnessed 1

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

witnesses 1

  1. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,

wits 1

  1. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,

witty 1

  1. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,

wives 3

  1. p. x, line 57[…] or sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or […]
  2. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
  3. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,

wobbling 1

  1. p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.

Wolverine 1

  1. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,

wolves 1

  1. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;

woman 34

  1. p. v, line 111[…] greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe […]
  2. p. vi, line 37[…] arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he […]
  3. p. vii, line 51[…] messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can […]
  4. p. x, line 40[…] consequence. Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or […]
  5. p. xi, line 62[…] man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the […]
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  1. p. xi, line 67[…] and all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and a man as much […]
  2. p. xi, line 69[…] man and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or […]
  3. p. xi, line 71[…] poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could […]
  4. p. xii, line 40[…] breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve […]
  5. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  6. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  7. p. 26, line 29And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  8. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  9. p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
  10. p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  11. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  12. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  13. p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  14. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
  15. 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.
  16. 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,
  17. p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  18. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  19. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
  20. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
  21. p. 81, line 20A woman at auction,
  22. p. 81, line 26Have you ever loved a woman?
  23. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  24. p. 85, line 7Behold a woman!
  25. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?
  26. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  27. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  28. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,

womanly 2

  1. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
  2. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?

woman's 3

  1. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;
  2. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  3. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,

womb 6

  1. p. ix, line 102[…] poet from his birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom […]
  2. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  3. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
  4. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,

wombs 1

  1. p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,

women 51

  1. p. iii, line 39[…] bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
  2. p. v, line 19[…] the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer […]
  3. p. v, line 27[…] and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or […]
  4. p. v, line 28[…] and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the […]
  5. p. v, line 81[…] path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he […]
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  1. p. v, line 85[…] and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the […]
  2. p. viii, line 8[…] and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all […]
  3. p. viii, line 13[…] the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  4. p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to […]
  5. p. viii, line 48[…] takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the […]
  6. p. ix, line 4[…] life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only […]
  7. p. ix, line 96[…] health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a […]
  8. p. x, line 16[…] sea and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in […]
  9. p. x, line 51[…] murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of […]
  10. p. x, line 52[…] that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not […]
  11. p. xi, line 100[…] umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the […]
  12. p. xi, line 102[…] breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their […]
  13. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  14. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  15. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  16. p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  17. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  18. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  19. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
  20. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
  21. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  22. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  23. p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  24. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  25. p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,
  26. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
  27. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
  28. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
  29. p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  30. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;
  31. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
  32. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
  33. 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;
  34. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,
  35. 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;
  36. p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
  37. 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;
  38. 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,
  39. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,
  40. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  41. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.
  42. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  43. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.
  44. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
  45. 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;

women's 1

  1. 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,

won 2

  1. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  2. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?

wonder 5

  1. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  2. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
  5. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

wonderful 21

  1. p. iii, line 55[…] curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have […]
  2. p. vi, line 97[…] moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash […]
  3. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  4. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  5. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
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  1. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  2. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
  3. p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.
  4. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,
  5. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  6. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.
  7. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;
  8. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  9. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  10. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
  11. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
  12. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  13. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  14. 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.

wondering 1

  1. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.

wonders 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
  3. p. 81, line 11And wonders within there yet.

wood 5

  1. p. ix, line 41[…] paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in […]
  2. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  3. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  4. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  5. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.

wood-berries 1

  1. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

wood-drake 1

  1. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,

wood-duck 1

  1. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,

wooden-legged 1

  1. p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

woodman 2

  1. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  2. 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,

woodmen 1

  1. p. v, line 83[…] well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the […]

woodpile 1

  1. p. 19, line 6I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,

woods 11

  1. p. vi, line 35[…] the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm […]
  2. p. vii, line 7[…] unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of […]
  3. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  4. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,
  5. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
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  1. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  2. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,
  3. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  4. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;
  5. p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:
  6. 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,

woolen 1

  1. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;

woollypates 1

  1. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;

word 13

  1. p. v, line 8[…] how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of […]
  2. p. viii, line 98[…] its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into […]
  3. p. x, line 46[…] gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the […]
  4. p. xii, line 57[…] and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that is to be their warrant […]
  5. p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.
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  1. p. 28, line 18A word of the faith that never balks,
  2. p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.
  3. p. 55, line 7I do not know it . . . . it is without name . . . . it is a word unsaid,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  6. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,
  7. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

wordless 1

  1. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

words 16

  1. p. vi, line 15[…] have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face […]
  2. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
  3. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  4. p. 28, line 16Endless unfolding of words of ages!
  5. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
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  1. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  2. p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,
  3. p. 47, line 26My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality;
  4. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  5. p. 53, line 17The maul the oar and the handsaw second my words.
  6. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
  7. 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:
  8. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
  9. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

work 20

  1. p. vi, line 19[…] poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed […]
  2. p. viii, line 73[…] anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with […]
  3. p. ix, line 51[…] never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be […]
  4. p. ix, line 54[…] that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the […]
  5. p. ix, line 55[…] and are necessary to the completion of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be […]
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  1. p. xi, line 48[…] final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges […]
  2. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or […]
  3. p. xii, line 61[…] they fall in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No […]
  4. p. xii, line 62[…] The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal […]
  5. 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,
  6. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  7. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  8. p. 54, line 17To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
  9. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  10. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
  11. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  12. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  13. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  14. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,

worked 1

  1. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?

working 5

  1. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;
  2. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  3. p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
  4. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

workingknife 1

  1. 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;

workingman's 1

  1. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;

workingmen 1

  1. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.

workman 1

  1. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,

workmen 2

  1. p. iv, line 68[…] the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the […]
  2. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,

workpeople 1

  1. 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,

works 6

  1. p. ix, line 56[…] necessary to the completion of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in […]
  2. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  3. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  4. p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  5. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  6. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,

workshop 1

  1. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

workwoman 1

  1. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,

workwomen 1

  1. p. iv, line 69[…] mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality […]

world 14

  1. p. v, line 65[…] own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of […]
  2. p. ix, line 73[…] seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never […]
  3. p. ix, line 100[…] of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet from his birth […]
  4. p. xi, line 1[…] any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so […]
  5. p. xi, line 89[…] shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the […]
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  1. p. 14, line 16Always the procreant urge of the world.
  2. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  3. p. 25, line 25I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  4. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  5. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  6. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
  7. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  8. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,
  9. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;

worlds 4

  1. p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  2. p. 31, line 16Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me,
  3. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,

wormfence 1

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

worming 1

  1. p. 88, line 4Worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages;

worms 2

  1. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
  2. p. 83, line 22This face is bitten by vermin and worms,

worn 1

  1. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;

worry 1

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

worse 4

  1. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  2. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  3. p. 89, line 23Worse and worse . . . . Can't you stand it? Are you retreating?

worship 2

  1. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  2. p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,

worshipped 1

  1. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,

worst 2

  1. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
  2. p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,

worstsuffering 1

  1. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,

worth 2

  1. p. xi, line 21[…] and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence […]
  2. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,

worthy 3

  1. p. iii, line 65[…] poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
  2. p. vii, line 49[…] cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
  3. p. viii, line 52[…] exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they […]

would 29

  1. p. viii, line 31[…] upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as […]
  2. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not […]
  3. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  4. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  5. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
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  1. p. 25, line 15Do you take it I would astonish?
  2. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  3. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  4. p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  7. p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
  8. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
  9. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  10. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  11. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  12. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
  13. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
  14. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  15. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  16. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  17. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  18. 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,
  19. 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.
  20. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?
  21. p. 87, line 16You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses,
  22. p. 87, line 17Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;

wound 1

  1. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,

wounded 3

  1. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  2. p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,

woven 2

  1. p. ix, line 43[…] or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or […]
  2. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

wrap 1

  1. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;

wrapped 2

wrapped 1 · wrapt 1

  1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
  2. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.

wreck 1

  1. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,

wrecked 1

  1. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,

wreck-guns 1

  1. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,

wrecks 2

  1. p. vii, line 61[…] storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power […]
  2. p. x, line 86[…] the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all […]

wren 1

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

wrenched 1

  1. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;

wrenches 1

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

wrestle 2

  1. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  2. 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.

wrestlers 2

  1. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  2. 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.

wrestling 1

  1. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!

wretched 1

  1. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

wrig 1

  1. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

wringing 1

  1. p. 73, line 19I cannot aid with my wringing fingers;

wrinkled 1

  1. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,

wrist 2

  1. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  2. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,

wristlet 1

  1. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

wrists 2

  1. p. viii, line 57[…] sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to […]
  2. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,

write 4

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

writer 2

  1. p. 87, line 16You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses,
  2. p. 87, line 17Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;

writers 1

  1. p. vii, line 39[…] not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent […]

writing 5

  1. p. vii, line 22[…] be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the […]
  2. p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  3. p. 31, line 18Writing and talk do not prove me,
  4. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  5. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:

writingpen 1

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

written 4

  1. p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  2. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.
  3. p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  4. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

wrong 1

  1. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,

wronged 3

  1. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,
  2. p. 75, line 20The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wronged,
  3. p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,