Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

Concordance

The 14,148 different words in the final 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.

A

a – Asiatic · aside – aye

a 1,343

See the 1,180 lines it’s in

abandon 1

  1. p. 382, line 5My songs cease, I abandon them,

abandon'd 3 today: abandoned

  1. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  2. p. 230, line 4The cities I loved so well I abandon'd and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,
  3. p. 427, line 20[…] for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none […]

abandoned see abandon'd

abandoning 1

  1. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,

abandonment 2

  1. p. 21, line 27I will give them complete abandonment,
  2. p. 80, line 17The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,

abase 1

  1. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,

abased 1

  1. p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.

abash'd 1 today: abashed

  1. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)

abashed see abash'd

abdicate 1

  1. p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!

abdomen 2

  1. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
  2. p. 243, line 21The fractur'd thigh, the knee, the wound in the abdomen,

abeyance 3

  1. p. 29, line 15Creeds and schools in abeyance,
  2. p. 230, line 15(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)

abiding-temper'd 1

  1. p. 250, line 3(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race,)

ability 1

  1. p. 153, line 16A strong being is the proof of the race and of the ability of the universe,

abject 1

  1. p. 353, line 18Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,

ablaze 2

  1. p. 305, line 20Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
  2. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,

able 7

  1. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  2. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  3. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
  4. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  5. p. 213, line 17Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving,
  6. p. 407, line 29[…] well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they […]
  7. p. 413, line 44[…] make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united […]

aboard 5

  1. p. 130, line 24Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
  2. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
  3. p. 205, line 15ABOARD at a ship's helm,
  4. p. 205, line 24But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard the ship!
  5. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,

abomination 1

  1. p. 213, line 7Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination,

aboriginal 2

  1. p. 360, line 19Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
  2. p. 385, line 2Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,

aborigines 4

  1. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  2. p. 27, line 21The red aborigines,
  3. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  4. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,

about 35

  1. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  2. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  3. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)
  4. p. 45, line 22We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  5. p. 46, line 30What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
27 more lines
  1. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  2. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  3. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  4. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  5. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  6. p. 76, line 16For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  7. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  8. p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
  9. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  10. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  11. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
  12. p. 153, line 24Where are your cavils about the soul now?
  13. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  14. p. 171, line 11You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
  15. p. 171, line 12You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  16. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  17. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  18. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  19. p. 232, line 7But suddenly pouring about me here on every side,
  20. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  21. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  22. p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
  23. p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
  24. p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
  25. p. 408, line 8[…] there are too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are […]
  26. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
  27. p. 431, line 33[…] types of song they belong in America just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True […]

above 37

  1. p. 10, line 4I above all promote brave soldiers.
  2. p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
  3. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  4. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
  5. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
31 more lines
  1. p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
  2. p. 96, line 12Tomb-leaves, body-leaves growing up above me above death,
  3. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  4. p. 107, line 5And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,
  5. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  6. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  7. p. 181, line 13Yet again, lo! the soul, above all science,
  8. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
  9. p. 204, line 28(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st,
  10. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  11. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  12. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  13. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
  14. p. 227, line 19I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,
  15. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  16. p. 237, line 1Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
  17. p. 260, line 24Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
  18. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
  19. p. 292, line 4Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
  20. p. 294, line 3Shimmer of waters with fish in them, the cerulean above,
  21. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  22. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,
  23. p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
  24. p. 334, line 16The mound above is flatted with the spades—silence,
  25. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,
  26. p. 349, line 1Emblem of general maternity lifted above all,
  27. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,
  28. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  29. p. 385, line 18High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,
  30. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  31. p. 427, line 35[…] his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic […]

Abraham 1

  1. p. 384, line 18[…] To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days […]

abreast 3

  1. p. 275, line 4I am for those who walk abreast with the whole earth,
  2. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  3. p. 291, line 14Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,

abroad 2

  1. p. 225, line 14I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
  2. p. 431, line 13[…] a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America […]

abrupt 3

  1. p. 131, line 18I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
  2. p. 235, line 19Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
  3. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,

abruptly 2

  1. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
  2. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,

absence 3

  1. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  2. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  3. p. 429, line 20[…] matter how great their genius. Think of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality […]

absent 2

  1. p. 93, line 3We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
  2. p. 201, line 4Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,

absolute 9

  1. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
  2. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  3. p. 164, line 25Protectress absolute, thou! bulwark of all!
  4. p. 181, line 12Successive absolute fiats issuing.
  5. p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
4 more lines
  1. p. 348, line 6To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
  2. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  3. p. 429, line 25[…] before. It is certain that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses […]
  4. p. 429, line 38[…] other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]

absolutely 5

  1. p. 47, line 15Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  2. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
  3. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  4. p. 426, line 18[…] at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or any results.) In the second […]
  5. p. 428, line 30[…] nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and […]

absolv'd 1 today: absolved

  1. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!

absolve 1

  1. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,

absolved see absolv'd

absorb 13

  1. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  2. p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
  3. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  4. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  5. p. 275, line 21Copious as you are I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself,
6 more lines
  1. p. 339, line 17All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself,
  2. p. 345, line 1Now I absorb immortality and peace,
  3. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  4. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  5. p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
  6. p. 438, line 23[…] further, as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old World […]

absorb'd 4 today: absorbed

  1. p. 167, line 6To be in them absorb'd, assimilated.
  2. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
  3. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  4. p. 433, line 1[…] over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library […]

absorbed see absorb'd

absorbing 12

  1. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  2. p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
  3. p. 163, line 16Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all,
  4. p. 182, line 22Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
  5. p. 197, line 21Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
7 more lines
  1. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
  2. p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
  3. p. 381, line 19At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
  4. p. 385, line 10Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)
  5. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  6. p. 395, line 20How through those strains distill'd—how the rapt ears, the soul of me, absorbing
  7. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,

absorbs 2

  1. p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,
  2. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)

abstinence 1

  1. p. 419, line 14Abstinence, no falsehood, no gluttony, lust;

abstracted 1

  1. p. 304, line 17I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,

abstracting 2

  1. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,

abysmic 1

  1. p. 277, line 20Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?

abysms 3

  1. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  2. p. 392, line 21Outsurging, muttering from thy soul's abysms,
  3. p. 435, line 28[…] and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty […]

Abyssinia 1

  1. p. 116, line 21I see the highlands of Abyssinia,

academy 1

  1. p. 155, line 13Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition-house, library,

acceding 1

  1. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,

accents 1

  1. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,

accept 12

  1. p. 47, line 15Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  2. p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
  3. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  4. p. 54, line 28So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
  5. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
7 more lines
  1. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  2. p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
  3. p. 216, line 4WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept,
  4. p. 264, line 11I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
  5. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  6. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,
  7. p. 426, line 29[…] I feel that they were creditable—and I accept the result, whatever it may be […]

acceptable 1

  1. p. 299, line 6Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me,

acceptance 3

  1. p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
  2. p. 425, line 28[…] say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back on fond […]
  3. p. 437, line 4[…] some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is Milton's […]

acceptances 1

  1. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

acceptation 1

  1. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,

accepted 7

  1. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  2. p. 121, line 21None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
  3. p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
  4. p. 133, line 5What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
  5. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  6. p. 251, line 20I am more resolute because all have denied me than I could ever have been had all accepted me,
  7. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,

accepting 7

  1. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  2. p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  3. p. 324, line 2Accepting all from Thee, as duly come from Thee.
  4. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,
  5. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  6. p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,

accepts 3

  1. p. 123, line 11Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
  2. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
  3. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.

accessions 1

  1. p. 184, line 22With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,

accidents 1

  1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

accompanies 1

  1. p. 435, line 27[…] fraternity's doctrines and popular education, a certain liability accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something […]

accompaniment 1

  1. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,

accompanying 1

  1. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,

accomplish 2

  1. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
  2. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.

accomplish'd 11 today: accomplished

  1. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
  2. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  3. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
  4. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,
  5. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
6 more lines
  1. p. 318, line 5Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'd.
  2. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  3. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  4. p. 319, line 11Year of the purpose accomplish'd!
  5. p. 324, line 12By me and these the work so far accomplish'd,
  6. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.

accomplished see accomplish'd

accord 1

  1. p. 97, line 9Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,

according 5

  1. p. 133, line 17Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!
  2. p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,
  3. p. 176, line 1A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according,
  4. p. 217, line 19As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
  5. p. 346, line 14(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

accosted 1

  1. p. 264, line 3A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern visage accosted me,

accouche 1

  1. p. 177, line 6(Accouche! accouchez!

accouchement 1

  1. p. 333, line 11Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement,

accoucheur 1

  1. p. 77, line 2To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,

accouchez 1

  1. p. 177, line 6(Accouche! accouchez!

account 18

  1. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  2. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  3. p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
  4. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
  5. p. 81, line 26The expression of the face balks account,
10 more lines
  1. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  2. p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
  3. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  4. p. 189, line 21Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
  5. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  6. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  7. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  8. p. 336, line 20But there is more account than that, there is strict account of all.
  9. p. 420, line 5(Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true,
  10. p. 426, line 27[…] waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that […]

accounts 4

  1. p. 158, line 12Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,
  2. p. 171, line 14Or in the census or revenue returns, prices current, or any accounts of stock.
  3. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  4. p. 192, line 25I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,

accoutrements 2

  1. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  2. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.

accretion 1

  1. p. 48, line 19Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,

accrue 1

  1. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.

accrued 2

  1. p. 25, line 14Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
  2. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,

accruing 1

  1. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,

accumulate 1

  1. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,

accumulated 2

  1. p. 89, line 11I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
  2. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,

accumulating 1

  1. p. 265, line 21Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating undirected materials,

accumulations 3

  1. p. 191, line 21With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
  2. p. 310, line 11The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
  3. p. 412, line 23Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought,

accurate 1

  1. p. 428, line 27[…] are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has […]

accused 1

  1. p. 420, line 11Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,

accuses 1

  1. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

accustom'd 1 today: accustomed

  1. p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,

accustomed see accustom'd

ache 3

  1. p. 53, line 5Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
  2. p. 125, line 3Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
  3. p. 278, line 29Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions,

aches 3

  1. p. 93, line 24I AM he that aches with amorous love;
  2. p. 184, line 10O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
  3. p. 386, line 20Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,

achiev'd 3 today: achieved

  1. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  2. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
  3. p. 426, line 26[…] the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks […]

achieve 4

  1. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
  2. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?
  3. p. 289, line 11Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves?
  4. p. 436, line 21[…] it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the […]

achieved see achiev'd

achievements 1

  1. p. 315, line 19Singing the great achievements of the present,

Achilles 3

  1. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,
  2. p. 387, line 7Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses,
  3. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,

aching 5

  1. p. 79, line 18FROM pent-up aching rivers,
  2. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
  3. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  4. p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
  5. p. 211, line 16O aching close of exiled patriots' lives!

achings 1

  1. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,

acknowledg'd 1 today: acknowledged

  1. p. 434, line 26[…] all lands, and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content […]

acknowledge 4

  1. p. 21, line 18I will acknowledge contemporary lands,
  2. p. 38, line 16And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,
  3. p. 69, line 2I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
  4. p. 299, line 1O culpable! I acknowledge—I exposé!

acknowledged see acknowledg'd

acknowledges 2

  1. p. 136, line 19The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,
  2. p. 255, line 3The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely,

acknowledging 2

  1. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  2. p. 309, line 22Acknowledging rapport however far remov'd,

acme 1

  1. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

acquaintance 1

  1. p. 432, line 26[…] after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had […]

acquire 2

  1. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
  2. p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,

acquirer 1

  1. p. 376, line 23THE business man the acquirer vast,

acquisitive 1

  1. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

acres 1

  1. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?

acrid 2

  1. p. 89, line 7I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
  2. p. 431, line 12[…] west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from […]

across 17

  1. p. 13, line 2Of vanish'd lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,
  2. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  3. p. 48, line 27I do not press my fingers across my mouth,
  4. p. 69, line 14The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way?
  5. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
12 more lines
  1. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.
  2. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  3. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  4. p. 232, line 10Over hills, across lowlands, and in the skirts of woods,
  5. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
  6. p. 263, line 21Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.
  7. p. 305, line 19The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
  8. p. 310, line 14Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies,
  9. p. 312, line 25Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
  10. p. 359, line 21Launch'd o'er the prairies wide, across the lakes,
  11. p. 412, line 1FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,
  12. p. 437, line 44[…] wanderings through the galleries of old convents, came across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a […]

a-crowding 1

  1. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,

act 7

  1. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  2. p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
  3. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
  4. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  5. p. 291, line 19Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
  6. p. 391, line 17(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
  7. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,

acted 1

  1. p. 278, line 14Is acted God's calm annual drama,

acting 1

  1. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,

action 13

  1. p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
  2. p. 63, line 5They hold out bravely during the whole of the action.
  3. p. 84, line 20He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
  4. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  5. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
8 more lines
  1. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  2. p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
  3. p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
  4. p. 320, line 17(History's type of courage, action, faith,)
  5. p. 408, line 20[…] too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded […]
  6. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!
  7. p. 428, line 15[…] future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change of army front along the whole line […]
  8. p. 430, line 39[…] root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of the modern time, and dominate all that precedes or […]

actions 3

  1. p. 109, line 22It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
  2. p. 149, line 25The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves,
  3. p. 290, line 16All the brave actions of war and peace,

active 4

  1. p. 84, line 14She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
  2. p. 128, line 23My call is the call of battle, I nourish active rebellion,
  3. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
  4. p. 323, line 26My long and crowded life of active work, not adoration merely;

activity's 1

  1. p. 159, line 1The same undying soul of earth's, activity's, beauty's, heroism's expression,

actor 6

  1. p. 132, line 17Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
  2. p. 133, line 16Live, old life! play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
  3. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  4. p. 326, line 28I am the actor, the actress, the voter, the politician,
  5. p. 330, line 18The actor and actress, those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  6. p. 362, line 19Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd,

actors 1

  1. p. 392, line 24As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,

act-poems 1

  1. p. 81, line 6From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,

actress 5

  1. p. 132, line 17Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
  2. p. 133, line 16Live, old life! play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
  3. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  4. p. 326, line 28I am the actor, the actress, the voter, the politician,
  5. p. 330, line 18The actor and actress, those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,

acts 5

  1. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  2. p. 27, line 8Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
  3. p. 107, line 11Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
  4. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  5. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)

actual 3

  1. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  2. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  3. p. 428, line 34[…] They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources […]

actualities 1

  1. p. 425, line 7[…] any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How […]

adages 1

  1. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.

Adam 3

  1. p. 95, line 12AS Adam early in the morning,
  2. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  3. p. 403, line 10Or "Paumanok, " "Song of Myself," "Calamus," or "Adam,"

adamant 1

  1. p. 387, line 21Chair'd in the adamant of Time.

Adamic 2

  1. p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
  2. p. 92, line 28I, chanter of Adamic songs,

adapted 1

  1. p. 431, line 21[…] and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages […]

add 5

  1. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  2. p. 172, line 20The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are,
  3. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  4. p. 413, line 1ADD to your show, before you close it, France,
  5. p. 420, line 18But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.

added 2

  1. p. 12, line 27The whole or large or small summ'd, added up,
  2. p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,

adding 1

  1. p. 206, line 22(With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,

additional 1

  1. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,

Adelaide 1

  1. p. 117, line 14I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,

adhere 3

  1. p. 27, line 10For your life adhere to me,
  2. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  3. p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,

adheres 1

  1. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;

adhesiveness 4

  1. p. 100, line 29Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
  2. p. 124, line 7Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos;
  3. p. 217, line 12OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
  4. p. 381, line 4I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd,

adieu 2

  1. p. 253, line 19ADIEU O soldier,
  2. p. 253, line 26Adieu dear comrade,

Adirondacks 1

  1. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,

adjoining 1

  1. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,

adjunct 1

  1. p. 34, line 15I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,

adjuncts 1

  1. p. 34, line 14The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.

adjust 1

  1. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

adjusted 1

  1. p. 427, line 10[…] of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of […]

adjusting 1

  1. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,

adjustment 1

  1. p. 408, line 11[…] kid or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it […]

adjustments 1

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,

adjutant 1

  1. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,

admirable 3

  1. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  2. p. 67, line 27Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
  3. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?

Admiral 1

  1. p. 320, line 16Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself,

admirant 2

  1. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
  2. p. 69, line 26Drinking mead from the skull-cup, to Shastas and Vedas admirant, minding the Koran,

admiration 1

  1. p. 393, line 3To admiration has it been enacted!

admire 3

  1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  3. p. 345, line 2I admire death and test propositions.

admired 1

  1. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?

admirer 1

  1. p. 433, line 16[…] Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that beyond their limited range of […]

admirers 2

  1. p. 272, line 9Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make but the soil of literature,
  2. p. 299, line 2(O admirers, praise not me—compliment not me—you make me wince,

admissions 1

  1. p. 431, line 39[…] pictures of the past. I willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith […]

admits 1

  1. p. 157, line 5The door that admits good news and bad news,

admitted 1

  1. p. 413, line 41[…] of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and […]

admitting 2

  1. p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
  2. p. 372, line 8Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,

admonition 1

  1. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,

adobie 3

  1. p. 26, line 7Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
  2. p. 27, line 1Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,
  3. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,

adopt 1

  1. p. 192, line 24I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,

adopted 2

  1. p. 231, line 10I have rejected nothing you offer'd me—whom you adopted I have adopted,

adoration 5

  1. p. 311, line 25The solemn hymns and masses rousing adoration,
  2. p. 323, line 26My long and crowded life of active work, not adoration merely;
  3. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
  4. p. 421, line 5All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,
  5. p. 428, line 39[…] the past—in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other […]

adored 1

  1. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,

adorn 4

  1. p. 54, line 2And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  2. p. 258, line 10To adorn the burial-house of him I love?
  3. p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,

adorn'd 1 today: adorned

  1. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,

adorned see adorn'd

adorning 1

  1. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,

adornments 1

  1. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,

Adriatic 1

  1. p. 319, line 13(No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)

adulation 1

  1. p. 15, line 6How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,

adulterous 3

  1. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
  2. p. 132, line 10The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,
  3. p. 156, line 23The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,

advance 28

  1. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
  2. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
  3. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
  4. p. 22, line 2I advance from the people in their own spirit,
  5. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
21 more lines
  1. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  2. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
  3. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  4. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  5. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
  6. p. 151, line 29And the dead advance as much as the living advance,
  7. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  8. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  9. p. 236, line 1WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance,
  10. p. 270, line 4For that, the bard walks in advance, leader of leaders,
  11. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  12. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  13. p. 276, line 22Let that which was behind advance to the front,
  14. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,
  15. p. 357, line 7Lo, where the monks walk in advance, bearing the cross on high.
  16. p. 371, line 15The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
  17. p. 371, line 19And again the advance of the armies.
  18. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.
  19. p. 430, line 41[…] or opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the best […]
  20. p. 431, line 39[…] those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]
  21. p. 438, line 15[…] specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists […]

advanced 6

  1. p. 160, line 31Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited.
  2. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  3. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
  4. p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
  5. p. 426, line 38[…] on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else […]
  6. p. 431, line 24[…] that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]

advances 5

  1. p. 39, line 23The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  2. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
  3. p. 236, line 7As the army corps advances.
  4. p. 354, line 21The Lord advances, and yet advances,

advancing 21

  1. p. 21, line 3The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing,
  2. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  3. p. 184, line 25O to die advancing on!
  4. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,
  5. p. 218, line 3As a ship on the waters advancing,
16 more lines
  1. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  2. p. 221, line 2War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
  3. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  4. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  5. p. 229, line 17Manhattan rising, advancing with menacing front—Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain'd;
  6. p. 230, line 17The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
  7. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,
  8. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  9. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  10. p. 265, line 19Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature,
  11. p. 339, line 1CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
  12. p. 339, line 13Consolator most mild, the promis'd one advancing,
  13. p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
  14. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  15. p. 390, line 20Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing,
  16. p. 432, line 19[…] once suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves […]

advantage 3

  1. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  2. p. 433, line 2[…] and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library or indoor room—it […]
  3. p. 437, line 33[…] Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences […]

advantages 1

  1. p. 437, line 29Isolated advantages in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct or […]

advent 1

  1. p. 430, line 6[…] in the lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the […]

adventur'd 1 today: adventured

  1. p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,

adventure 1

  1. p. 58, line 8Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,

adventured see adventur'd

adventurous 1

  1. p. 149, line 23The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,

advertise 1

  1. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?

advice 1

  1. p. 409, line 29[…] folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those last words are not samples […]

advise 1

  1. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,

adze 1

  1. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.

Æneas 1

  1. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,

aerial 1

  1. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)

æsthetes 1

  1. p. 434, line 35[…] value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle […]

æsthetic 4

  1. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
  2. p. 426, line 42[…] uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit […]
  3. p. 430, line 16[…] to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and […]
  4. p. 431, line 35[…] it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these […]

æstheticism 2

  1. p. 430, line 1[…] as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve […]
  2. p. 438, line 18[…] performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

afar 13

  1. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  2. p. 95, line 3I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
  3. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  4. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
  5. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
8 more lines
  1. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  2. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  3. p. 283, line 25The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between,
  4. p. 289, line 2Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand,
  5. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  6. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,
  7. p. 360, line 9The range afar, the richness and barrenness, the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss,
  8. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)

affair 1

  1. p. 438, line 6[…] but this one picture, which is a personal affair—a piece out of a man's life […]

affairs 4

  1. p. 153, line 4Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs,
  2. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  3. p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
  4. p. 432, line 11[…] caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the […]

affect 4

  1. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
  2. p. 302, line 3The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me,
  3. p. 305, line 7And 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.

affectations 1

  1. p. 412, line 11For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?

affected 2

  1. p. 70, line 7Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,
  2. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,

affecting 1

  1. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.

affection 7

  1. p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
  2. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  3. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  4. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  5. p. 339, line 20Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of affection,
  6. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  7. p. 381, line 26To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,

affectionate 7

  1. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  2. p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
  3. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
  4. p. 107, line 22Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were,
  5. p. 307, line 16They all know him, all are affectionate to him;
  6. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,
  7. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.

affectionately 1

  1. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)

affections 4

  1. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  2. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
  3. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  4. p. 321, line 24Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection's source—thou reservoir,

affects 3

  1. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  2. p. 290, line 3But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime.
  3. p. 339, line 5Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any,

affettuoso 1

  1. p. 27, line 13No dainty dolce affettuoso I,

affirm 1

  1. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,

afflatus 1

  1. p. 48, line 13Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.

affluents 1

  1. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,

afford 2

  1. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
  2. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?

affording 1

  1. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?

a-flapping 2

  1. p. 223, line 20With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
  2. p. 223, line 28With the banner and pennant a-flapping.

afoot 2

  1. p. 55, line 21I am afoot with my vision.
  2. p. 120, line 23AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,

afraid 5

  1. p. 95, line 16Be not afraid of my body.
  2. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  3. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  4. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  5. p. 407, line 6[…] it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now […]

afresh 1

  1. p. 211, line 18Turn back unto this day and make yourselves afresh.

Africa 6

  1. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  2. p. 115, line 11I see them in Asia and in Africa.
  3. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
  4. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,
  5. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  6. p. 336, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,

African 3

  1. p. 117, line 21I see African and Asiatic towns,
  2. p. 118, line 20You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms with me!
  3. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,

African's 1

  1. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,

Africa's 1

  1. p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,

aft 2

  1. p. 37, line 5She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 389, line 6Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman

after 141

See the 133 lines it’s in

after-hold 1

  1. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.

afternoon 11

  1. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
  3. p. 96, line 6Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,
  4. p. 140, line 6Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp,
  5. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,
6 more lines
  1. p. 197, line 34Nor return'd that afternoon, nor the next,
  2. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  3. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  4. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  5. p. 352, line 24Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my lengthening shadows,
  6. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;

afternoons 2

  1. p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
  2. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,

afterward 14

  1. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  2. p. 53, line 7Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
  3. p. 70, line 14And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely the same.
  4. p. 70, line 15I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  5. p. 92, line 16For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.
9 more lines
  1. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  2. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  3. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  4. p. 283, line 5And the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road,
  5. p. 283, line 13They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
  6. p. 290, line 3But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime.
  7. p. 382, line 1Afterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)
  8. p. 407, line 5[…] follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches […]
  9. p. 434, line 8[…] saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd […]

afterwards 4

  1. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  2. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
  3. p. 425, line 6[…] résumé of them, or any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their […]
  4. p. 425, line 22[…] and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]

again 161

See the 152 lines it’s in

against 34

  1. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  2. p. 49, line 12Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you!
  3. p. 49, line 20Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!
  4. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  5. p. 54, line 11In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
29 more lines
  1. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
  2. p. 107, line 1I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
  3. p. 107, line 2But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
  4. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  5. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  6. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  7. p. 148, line 1O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!
  8. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
  9. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,
  10. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
  11. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  12. p. 217, line 3As contending against some being or influence.
  13. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  14. p. 232, line 30Twenty thousand were brought against us,
  15. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
  16. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
  17. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
  18. p. 252, line 21(The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,)
  19. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  20. p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
  21. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  22. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
  23. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
  24. p. 351, line 25The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
  25. p. 368, line 25Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
  26. p. 369, line 3Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,
  27. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
  28. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  29. p. 413, line 45[…] the whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]

age 46

  1. p. 9, line 12Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
  2. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  3. p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
  4. p. 31, line 10Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
  5. p. 61, line 21Not a single one over thirty years of age.
38 more lines
  1. p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
  2. p. 107, line 22Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were,
  3. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  4. p. 126, line 26Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
  5. p. 126, line 27Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
  6. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  7. p. 146, line 1I am more than eighty years of age, I am the most venerable mother,
  8. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  9. p. 177, line 27With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age,
  10. p. 180, line 16Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
  11. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  12. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  13. p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
  14. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!
  15. p. 269, line 14He is the equalizer of his age and land,
  16. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  17. p. 296, line 25Of youth long sped and middle age declining,
  18. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
  19. p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  20. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  21. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;
  22. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
  23. p. 375, line 4In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age,
  24. p. 384, line 51[…] The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death, 398 The Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall […]
  25. p. 388, line 19Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war;
  26. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,
  27. p. 394, line 4Old age land-lock'd within its winter bay—(cold, cold, O cold!)
  28. p. 394, line 26Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
  29. p. 398, line 10Thanks in old age—thanks ere I go,
  30. p. 398, line 26By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,
  31. p. 407, line 3HAD I not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe […]
  32. p. 407, line 18[…] den—by putting in shape this small old age collation […]
  33. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  34. p. 420, line 25I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.
  35. p. 425, line 10[…] sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd […]
  36. p. 426, line 35[…] pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction […]
  37. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far than the material or inventive […]
  38. p. 432, line 19[…] suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of […]

aged 5

  1. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  2. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  3. p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.
  4. p. 339, line 8Aged beyond computation, yet ever new, ever with those mighty laws rolling,
  5. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,

agent 1

  1. p. 171, line 5I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.

agents 2

  1. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  2. p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,

ages 43

  1. p. 11, line 14Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands,
  2. p. 22, line 1I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races,
  3. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
  4. p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  5. p. 47, line 12Endless unfolding of words of ages!
34 more lines
  1. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  2. p. 92, line 25AGES and ages returning at intervals,
  3. p. 102, line 9RECORDERS ages hence,
  4. p. 154, line 14For the mediæval ages and before the mediæval ages,
  5. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  6. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  7. p. 182, line 27The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain,
  8. p. 184, line 19Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
  9. p. 191, line 21With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
  10. p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
  11. p. 196, line 9Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
  12. p. 265, line 21Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating undirected materials,
  13. p. 276, line 6The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
  14. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  15. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  16. p. 311, line 15I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the middle ages.
  17. p. 311, line 27The measureless sweet vocalists of ages,
  18. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.
  19. p. 354, line 19And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  20. p. 358, line 7Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feuds and hatreds,
  21. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  22. p. 381, line 24To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
  23. p. 384, line 74[…] Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  24. p. 390, line 8Love's unresponse—a chorus of age's complaints—hope's last words,
  25. p. 396, line 25Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
  26. p. 404, line 8The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.
  27. p. 406, line 13[…] Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long […]
  28. p. 412, line 25Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations,
  29. p. 413, line 34[…] under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession […]
  30. p. 421, line 6All ages' plummets dropt to their utmost depths,
  31. p. 431, line 10[…] to current American civilization from all the hitherto ages, I am not sure but I would name those old […]
  32. p. 431, line 14[…] great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that […]
  33. p. 431, line 22[…] our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight […]
  34. p. 434, line 44[…] have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all. Fortunately […]

aggregate 5

  1. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
  2. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,
  3. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  4. p. 389, line 21What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all?
  5. p. 435, line 24[…] is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads […]

aggregates 2

  1. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  2. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.

agitation 1

  1. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,

Agnus 1

  1. p. 314, line 12The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis.

ago 9

  1. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,
  2. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  3. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  4. p. 95, line 10(But where is what I started for so long ago?
  5. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
4 more lines
  1. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  2. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  3. p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
  4. p. 427, line 38[…] current English magazines, the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to the special […]

a-gone 1

  1. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,

agonies 2

  1. p. 60, line 9Agonies are one of my changes of garments,
  2. p. 211, line 20Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,

agonistic 2

  1. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  2. p. 434, line 10[…] risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than […]

agony 2

  1. p. 216, line 2All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
  2. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,

agreement 1

  1. p. 247, line 21Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?

agricultural 1

  1. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?

agriculture 3

  1. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  2. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,
  3. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,

a-growing 1

  1. p. 348, line 12Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing,

ague 1

  1. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?

ah 31

  1. p. 37, line 7Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  2. p. 51, line 19Ah this indeed is music—this suits me.
  3. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  4. p. 111, line 11Ah lover and perfect equal,
  5. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
25 more lines
  1. p. 157, line 24(AH little recks the laborer,
  2. p. 224, line 9These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!
  3. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  4. p. 237, line 14Ah now the single figure to me,
  5. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  6. p. 252, line 6Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson!
  7. p. 252, line 7Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
  8. p. 269, line 8Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
  9. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
  10. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  11. p. 308, line 13Ah more, infinitely more;
  12. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,
  13. p. 312, line 8Ah from a little child,
  14. p. 317, line 18(Ah Genoese thy dream! thy dream!
  15. p. 318, line 18Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
  16. p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
  17. p. 364, line 1AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,
  18. p. 364, line 2Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
  19. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)
  20. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  21. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  22. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!
  23. p. 372, line 17But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead with their silent eyes.
  24. p. 393, line 12Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
  25. p. 414, line 1AH, whispering, something again, unseen,

ahead 17

  1. p. 29, line 1O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
  2. p. 31, line 20Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
  3. p. 71, line 8There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  4. p. 139, line 8White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,
  5. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
11 more lines
  1. p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
  2. p. 248, line 8The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hear the irregular snap! snap!
  3. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
  4. p. 326, line 25And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  5. p. 344, line 3O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;
  6. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
  7. p. 371, line 5What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
  8. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  9. p. 400, line 12To the scouts ahead reconnoitering,
  10. p. 413, line 40[…] earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead of all other known in points of quality and limitlessness […]
  11. p. 429, line 44[…] not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of […]

ahold 2

  1. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  2. p. 101, line 16He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Ahoy 1

  1. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,

aid 4

  1. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,
  2. p. 168, line 5To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last,
  3. p. 328, line 17I cannot aid with my wringing fingers,
  4. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;

aide-de-camps 1

  1. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,

aids 2

  1. p. 400, line 14To the galloping aids, carrying orders,
  2. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;

aim 6

  1. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
  2. p. 300, line 9It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
  3. p. 322, line 13Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd,
  4. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,
  5. p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
  6. p. 426, line 20[…] to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years […]

aim'd 1 today: aimed

  1. p. 275, line 10(Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast,

aimed see aim'd

aimedst 1

  1. p. 306, line 18In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly,

aiming 1

  1. p. 438, line 18[…] performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

aims 4

  1. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
  2. p. 379, line 2Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them,
  3. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,
  4. p. 426, line 34[…] to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age […]

air 103

See the 102 lines it’s in

airs 9

  1. p. 90, line 7Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
  2. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  3. p. 311, line 12Now airs antique and mediæval fill me,
  4. p. 312, line 21The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
  5. p. 319, line 19Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
4 more lines
  1. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,
  2. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  3. p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
  4. p. 416, line 3Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and sea's—the unreturn'd,

air-sweetness 1

  1. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.

airy 1

  1. p. 404, line 3The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,

aisle 4

  1. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  2. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  3. p. 293, line 20Resumed, the large calm lady walks the narrow aisle,
  4. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,

Ajax 1

  1. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,

Alabama 5

  1. p. 24, line 1As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
  2. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  3. p. 197, line 16Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
  4. p. 198, line 4The solitary guest from Alabama.
  5. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,

Alamo 3

  1. p. 61, line 9(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
  2. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  3. p. 61, line 11The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)

alarm 3

  1. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  2. p. 143, line 7I hear the alarm at dead of night,
  3. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,

alarm-bells 1

  1. p. 51, line 11The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,

alarm'd 3 today: alarmed

  1. p. 254, line 16Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad—turn your undying face,
  2. p. 341, line 13The call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarm'd, uncertain,
  3. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;

alarmed see alarm'd

alarming 2

  1. p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
  2. p. 372, line 5Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for a burial,

alarmist 1

  1. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?

alarum 2

  1. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  2. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,

alarums 1

  1. p. 357, line 21Blow again trumpeter—conjure war's alarums.

alas 2

  1. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  2. p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.

Alb 1

  1. p. 191, line 24With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon,

albescent 1

  1. p. 355, line 16Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,

Albic 1

  1. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,

Alboni's 1

  1. p. 313, line 9Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.)

alembic 1

  1. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,

Aleppo 1

  1. p. 117, line 25I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,

alert 7

  1. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  2. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  3. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,
  4. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  5. p. 310, line 17You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert,
  6. p. 356, line 8I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
  7. p. 378, line 1Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,

alerted 1

  1. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,

alertness 1

  1. p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)

Alexander 2

  1. p. 319, line 25The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
  2. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,

Alexandrian 1

  1. p. 161, line 18Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon,

Algiers 1

  1. p. 117, line 22I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,

Aliaska 1

  1. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)

alight 1

  1. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,

alighting 2

  1. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  2. p. 381, line 20Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,

alike 8

  1. p. 33, line 11And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  2. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
  3. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  4. p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
  5. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  6. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  7. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  8. p. 387, line 17All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,

aliment 2

  1. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  2. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,

alimentive 1

  1. p. 365, line 1They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,

alive 18

  1. p. 34, line 4They are alive and well somewhere,
  2. p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
  3. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  4. p. 122, line 9The picture alive, every part in its best light,
  5. p. 127, line 19Forever alive, forever forward,
11 more lines
  1. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  2. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  3. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
  4. p. 224, line 25O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
  5. p. 285, line 21How can you be alive you growths of spring?
  6. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  7. p. 328, line 19I search with the crowd, not one of the company is wash'd to us alive,
  8. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  9. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
  10. p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
  11. p. 375, line 19How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)

alkaline 1

  1. p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,

all 1,120

See the 985 lines it’s in

all-acceptress 1

  1. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)

Allah 5

  1. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,
  2. p. 419, line 2Allah is all, all, all—is immanent in every life and object,
  3. p. 419, line 3May-be at many and many-a-more removes—yet Allah, Allah, Allah is there.

all-alike 1

  1. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!

all-baffling 1

  1. p. 85, line 21In this head the all-baffling brain,

all-devouring 1

  1. p. 427, line 40[…] the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years […]

all-diffused 1

  1. p. 361, line 20Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,

all-diffusing 1

  1. p. 357, line 12No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.

Alleghanian 1

  1. p. 254, line 24To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,

Alleghanies 2

  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  2. p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,

allegiance 1

  1. p. 265, line 7Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like,

all-enclosing 2

  1. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  2. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,

alligator 2

  1. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
  2. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

all-mother 1

  1. p. 196, line 4Young Libertad! with the venerable Asia, the all-mother,

allons 10

  1. p. 125, line 4Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!
  2. p. 125, line 10Allons! we must not stop here,
  3. p. 125, line 14Allons! the inducements shall be greater,
  4. p. 125, line 17Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements,
  5. p. 125, line 19Allons! from all formules!
5 more lines
  1. p. 125, line 22Allons! yet take warning!
  2. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  3. p. 127, line 1Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
  4. p. 128, line 18Allons! through struggles and wars!
  5. p. 128, line 26Allons! the road is before us!

allow 6

  1. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  2. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  3. p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
  4. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  5. p. 408, line 6[…] within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are too […]
  6. p. 437, line 41[…] attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from […]

allowance 1

  1. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,

allow'd 2 today: allowed

  1. p. 119, line 20Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
  2. p. 435, line 10[…] feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning to end to […]

allowed see allow'd

allowers 1

  1. p. 298, line 10We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,

all-supplying 1

  1. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,

allude 1

  1. p. 436, line 27[…] a symphony. At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate […]

Almighty 1

  1. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)

almost 11

  1. p. 95, line 4Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
  2. p. 161, line 4The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
  3. p. 198, line 10Down almost amid the slapping waves,
  4. p. 199, line 10For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
  5. p. 199, line 21O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
6 more lines
  1. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
  2. p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
  3. p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,
  4. p. 408, line 10[…] And old as I am I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet […]
  5. p. 429, line 22[…] the unprecedented stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features […]
  6. p. 433, line 40[…] might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast […]

alms 1

  1. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,

aloft 13

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  3. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)
  4. p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
  5. p. 224, line 24Aloft there flapping and flapping.
8 more lines
  1. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  2. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  3. p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
  4. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  5. p. 384, line 34[…] Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway […]
  6. p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
  7. p. 402, line 20So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship-fringed shore,
  8. p. 420, line 15Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,

alone 88

  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  3. p. 10, line 22You not a reminiscence of the land alone,
  4. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,
  5. p. 21, line 23I will show what alone must finally compact these,
76 more lines
  1. p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  2. p. 36, line 1Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  3. p. 47, line 16It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
  4. p. 47, line 17That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
  5. p. 55, line 17What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
  6. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  7. p. 76, line 1My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  8. p. 80, line 32From privacy, from frequent repinings alone,
  9. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  10. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
  11. p. 100, line 23Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,
  12. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
  13. p. 103, line 21ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these,
  14. p. 105, line 22All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
  15. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  16. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  17. p. 106, line 19THIS moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone,
  18. p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
  19. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  20. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  21. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  22. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
  23. p. 206, line 20Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
  24. p. 207, line 9ON the beach at night alone,
  25. p. 218, line 4The voyage of the soul—not life alone,
  26. p. 225, line 10I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,
  27. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  28. p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
  29. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  30. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  31. p. 257, line 4(Nor for you, for one alone,
  32. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  33. p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
  34. p. 281, line 21Not alone on those warlike fields the Mother of All,
  35. p. 285, line 2The divine woman, her body, I see the body, I look on it alone,
  36. p. 285, line 5But the house alone—that wondrous house—that delicate fair house—that ruin!
  37. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  38. p. 287, line 15(Not songs of loyalty alone are these,
  39. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  40. p. 296, line 3Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
  41. p. 296, line 7You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone,
  42. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  43. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
  44. p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,
  45. p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
  46. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
  47. p. 341, line 22I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;
  48. p. 348, line 17Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone,
  49. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  50. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,
  51. p. 350, line 22Not for success alone,
  52. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  53. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,
  54. p. 377, line 23NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars,
  55. p. 382, line 9(Is it night? are we here together alone?)
  56. p. 384, line 26[…] Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan of […]
  57. p. 384, line 66[…] Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled […]
  58. p. 388, line 18Not from successful love alone,
  59. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  60. p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
  61. p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
  62. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  63. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,
  64. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  65. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  66. p. 398, line 13For all my days—not those of peace alone—the days of war the same,
  67. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  68. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  69. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)
  70. p. 404, line 7Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
  71. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,
  72. p. 414, line 4Me, old, alone, sick, weak-down, melted-worn with sweat;
  73. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  74. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
  75. p. 428, line 4[…] ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and […]
  76. p. 430, line 21[…] and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything […]

along 64

  1. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  2. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  3. p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  4. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  5. p. 40, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut eyes bent sideways,
57 more lines
  1. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;
  2. p. 55, line 23Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  3. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
  4. p. 62, line 12Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.
  5. p. 96, line 4Projecting them along that substantial life,
  6. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  7. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
  8. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  9. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  10. p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
  11. p. 114, line 25Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay,
  12. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,
  13. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  14. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
  15. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  16. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  17. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  18. p. 143, line 19And through the orchard and along the old lanes once more.
  19. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,
  20. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,
  21. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.
  22. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  23. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
  24. p. 166, line 4Along the northern coast,
  25. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  26. p. 182, line 13Along the mighty labyrinth.
  27. p. 193, line 13In the procession along with the nobles of Niphon, the errand-bearers,
  28. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
  29. p. 198, line 6Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
  30. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!
  31. p. 209, line 3Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
  32. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  33. p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
  34. p. 221, line 24Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top,
  35. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  36. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  37. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  38. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
  39. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  40. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  41. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
  42. p. 292, line 3RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,
  43. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  44. p. 295, line 18In one, along a suite of noble rooms,
  45. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  46. p. 307, line 18Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white line running along his back, some are brindled,
  47. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
  48. p. 317, line 25Along all history, down the slopes,
  49. p. 323, line 17I take my way along the island's edge,
  50. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  51. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,
  52. p. 408, line 18[…] indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action […]
  53. p. 428, line 16[…] of action—never completer change of army front along the whole line, the whole civilized world. For all these […]
  54. p. 432, line 27[…] I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor of a […]
  55. p. 434, line 10[…] courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real […]
  56. p. 436, line 10[…] as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the valley of the Mississippi […]
  57. p. 436, line 15[…] Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those words are behind all, and will duly emerge […]

aloof 4

  1. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  2. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  3. p. 340, line 1Aloof, dissatisfied, plotting revolt,
  4. p. 361, line 19Standing aloof, denying portions so long,

aloud 3

  1. p. 87, line 23The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
  2. p. 195, line 13I am the chanter, I chant aloud over the pageant,
  3. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,

Alps 2

  1. p. 114, line 8I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,

already 21

  1. p. 68, line 1By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator,
  2. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
  3. p. 98, line 21Already you see I have escaped from you.
  4. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  5. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
16 more lines
  1. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
  2. p. 187, line 8What you have done returns already in mockeries,
  3. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
  4. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  5. p. 237, line 22While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
  6. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
  7. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,
  8. p. 318, line 26After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,)
  9. p. 324, line 29The clouds already closing in upon me,
  10. p. 327, line 12Be careful darkness! already what was it touch'd me?
  11. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  12. p. 427, line 41[…] broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may […]
  13. p. 430, line 18[…] probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests of the past, it still remains […]
  14. p. 430, line 33[…] the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and […]
  15. p. 432, line 22[…] upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field […]
  16. p. 437, line 33[…] have the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds […]

also 69

  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
  3. p. 22, line 5I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also,
  4. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  5. p. 24, line 3I have seen the he-bird also,
63 more lines
  1. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  2. p. 29, line 21The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  3. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  4. p. 37, line 14An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
  5. p. 38, line 7I go with the team also.
  6. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  7. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  8. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  9. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  10. p. 64, line 13Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,
  11. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  12. p. 74, line 9You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
  13. p. 82, line 1It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  14. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  15. p. 93, line 10We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,
  16. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  17. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  18. p. 121, line 14I believe that much unseen is also here.
  19. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  20. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  21. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  22. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  23. p. 131, line 25The dark threw its patches down upon me also,
  24. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
  25. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  26. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  27. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,
  28. p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
  29. p. 151, line 10The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
  30. p. 158, line 6These also are the lessons of our New World;
  31. p. 163, line 18Thou, also thou, a World,
  32. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  33. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  34. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  35. p. 180, line 6But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
  36. p. 181, line 21Not the right only justified, what we call evil also justified.
  37. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
  38. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  39. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  40. p. 205, line 6Thou also re-appearest.
  41. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
  42. p. 232, line 21Here we lay encamp'd, it was this time in summer also.
  43. p. 239, line 16The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
  44. p. 246, line 32What I have I also give you.
  45. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  46. p. 287, line 16But songs of insurrection also,
  47. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  48. p. 303, line 11To you your name also;
  49. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  50. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,
  51. p. 314, line 25Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
  52. p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
  53. p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
  54. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  55. p. 340, line 20Breathe my breath also through these songs.
  56. p. 341, line 8YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also,
  57. p. 348, line 16The Past is also stored in thee,
  58. p. 376, line 13AS at thy portals also death,
  59. p. 394, line 9These with gay heart I also sing.
  60. p. 428, line 32Also it must be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not […]
  61. p. 433, line 35[…] myself—indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that […]
  62. p. 434, line 15But I set out with the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see […]
  63. p. 436, line 3[…] than any times of old were. I will also want my utterances (I said to myself before beginning) to […]

Altamahaw 2

  1. p. 41, line 19Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw,
  2. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

altar 2

  1. p. 39, line 22The deacons are ordain'd with cross'd hands at the altar,
  2. p. 324, line 21One effort more, my altar this bleak sand;

altars 1

  1. p. 113, line 13I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear the responsive base and soprano,

Altay 1

  1. p. 195, line 6Trooping up, crowding from all directions, from the Altay mountains,

Altays 1

  1. p. 114, line 6I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,

alternate 1

  1. p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,

although 3

  1. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  2. p. 417, line 17Although I come and unannounc'd, in horror and in pang,
  3. p. 433, line 43[…] to me. It is certain, I say, that, although I had made a start before, only from the occurrence […]

altogether 7

  1. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  2. p. 202, line 28But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch'd, untold, altogether unreach'd,
  3. p. 273, line 27The American compact is altogether with individuals,
  4. p. 337, line 24And all preparation is for it—and identity is for it—and life and materials are altogether for it!
  5. p. 399, line 5Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
  6. p. 435, line 24[…] of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing […]
  7. p. 436, line 25[…] stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether in its relations, bearings, significance—like the clef of a […]

always 79

  1. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  2. p. 30, line 25Always the procreant urge of the world.
  3. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  4. p. 31, line 2Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
  5. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
62 more lines
  1. p. 47, line 11The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  2. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  3. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  4. p. 55, line 2Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  5. p. 71, line 23I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
  6. p. 72, line 27Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding,
  7. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  8. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
  9. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
  10. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  11. p. 134, line 7You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
  12. p. 137, line 1Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
  13. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  14. p. 138, line 7ALWAYS our old feuillage!
  15. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  16. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  17. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  18. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  19. p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
  20. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
  21. p. 138, line 16Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
  22. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  23. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
  24. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  25. p. 153, line 28What always served and always serves is at hand.
  26. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  27. p. 171, line 3I bring what you much need yet always have,
  28. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  29. p. 179, line 20It is always to leave the best untold.
  30. p. 182, line 5Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
  31. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
  32. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
  33. p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
  34. p. 267, line 12The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
  35. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  36. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  37. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  38. p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
  39. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  40. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  41. p. 331, line 4Peace is always beautiful,
  42. p. 331, line 7The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind,
  43. p. 331, line 11The soul is always beautiful,
  44. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
  45. p. 343, line 1THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear,
  46. p. 344, line 1O LIVING always, always dying!
  47. p. 344, line 6To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
  48. p. 350, line 23Not to fair-sail unintermitted always,
  49. p. 352, line 7Thy lover me, for always I have loved thee,
  50. p. 353, line 3The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
  51. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.
  52. p. 411, line 39[…] natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then […]
  53. p. 425, line 22[…] speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]
  54. p. 428, line 35[…] and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and […]
  55. p. 428, line 39[…] past—in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion […]
  56. p. 429, line 30[…] sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to […]
  57. p. 433, line 16[…] which I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that beyond their limited range of melody (like perpetual […]
  58. p. 434, line 21[…] not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much […]
  59. p. 434, line 29The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and […]
  60. p. 436, line 34[…] and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always […]
  61. p. 436, line 35[…] in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic […]
  62. p. 438, line 35[…] the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a […]

always-ready 1

  1. p. 46, line 22Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,

am 247

See the 229 lines it’s in

Amadis 1

  1. p. 159, line 11Amadis, Tancred, utterly gone, Charlemagne, Roland, Oliver gone,

amanuenses 1

  1. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?

a-march 1

  1. p. 221, line 3Mannahatta a-march—and it's O to sing it well!

amative 1

  1. p. 365, line 1They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,

amativeness 3

  1. p. 267, line 21The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness,
  2. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  3. p. 436, line 14[…] Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go […]

amaze 2

  1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  2. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,

amazed 2

  1. p. 36, line 2Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  2. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,

amazement 3

  1. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  2. p. 329, line 15My mother look'd in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  3. p. 375, line 22O amazement of things—even the least particle!

Amazon 1

  1. p. 115, line 15I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,

Amazonia 1

  1. p. 120, line 4You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Feejeeman!

ambition 5

  1. p. 22, line 23Your ambition or business whatever it may be?
  2. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  3. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
  4. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the […]
  5. p. 426, line 40[…] dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form […]

ambitious 2

  1. p. 435, line 23[…] reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of […]
  2. p. 437, line 6[…] of God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I felt […]

ambulanza 1

  1. p. 61, line 2The ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip,

ambuscade 1

  1. p. 366, line 22The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment,

ambush'd 1 today: ambushed

  1. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.

ambushed see ambush'd

ambushes 1

  1. p. 254, line 3Through untried roads with ambushes opponents lined,

amelioration 2

  1. p. 176, line 17Amelioration is one of the earth's words,
  2. p. 182, line 26Nature's amelioration blessing all,

America 85

  1. p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
  2. p. 17, line 1I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear,
  3. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  4. p. 23, line 4Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son,
  5. p. 27, line 18Here for you! and here for America!
79 more lines
  1. p. 89, line 14On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
  2. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  3. p. 107, line 17Those of inland America.
  4. p. 108, line 21Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
  5. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  6. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  7. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  8. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.
  9. p. 154, line 5Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi, served those whose relics remain in Central America,
  10. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  11. p. 161, line 17(This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks,
  12. p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
  13. p. 163, line 13And thou America,
  14. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  15. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  16. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  17. p. 182, line 14And thou America,
  18. p. 192, line 9You and me arrived—America arrived and making this year,
  19. p. 192, line 28And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is,
  20. p. 192, line 29And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
  21. p. 195, line 17I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy,
  22. p. 205, line 11At dusk that look'st on Senegal, at morn America,
  23. p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
  24. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  25. p. 244, line 4LONG, too long America,
  26. p. 264, line 4Chant me the poem, it said, that comes from the soul of America, chant me the carol of victory,
  27. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
  28. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
  29. p. 268, line 20O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
  30. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  31. p. 271, line 15What is this you bring my America?
  32. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  33. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  34. p. 273, line 21It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great,
  35. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  36. p. 274, line 24Not any part of America good or bad,
  37. p. 275, line 9This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.
  38. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?
  39. p. 278, line 26Fecund America—to-day,
  40. p. 281, line 25Well-pleased America thou beholdest,
  41. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  42. p. 308, line 16And you America,
  43. p. 309, line 25WITH all thy gifts America,
  44. p. 318, line 3Lands found and nations born, thou born America,
  45. p. 319, line 24(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
  46. p. 347, line 12Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
  47. p. 351, line 13In thee America, the soul, its destinies,
  48. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  49. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
  50. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  51. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,
  52. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,
  53. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  54. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  55. p. 380, line 14When America does what was promis'd,
  56. p. 380, line 17When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
  57. p. 384, line 14[…] Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham […]
  58. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.
  59. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  60. p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
  61. p. 408, line 28[…] heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the future—will this vast rich Union ever realize […]
  62. p. 414, line 24Ever so far back, preluding thee, America,
  63. p. 416, line 5Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,
  64. p. 418, line 6A day—a passing moment or an hour—America itself bends low,
  65. p. 418, line 8War, death, cataclysm like this, America,
  66. p. 426, line 44[…] facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date […]
  67. p. 427, line 13[…] or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing […]
  68. p. 427, line 35[…] towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and […]
  69. p. 428, line 20[…] to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we […]
  70. p. 429, line 38[…] Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]
  71. p. 430, line 6[…] lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of […]
  72. p. 431, line 14[…] from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent with these United States […]
  73. p. 431, line 33[…] As authoritative types of song they belong in America just about as much as the persons and institutes they […]
  74. p. 431, line 43[…] bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If […]
  75. p. 432, line 6[…] else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary […]
  76. p. 433, line 30[…] I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer was […]
  77. p. 436, line 1[…] I was to endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show that we, here and to-day, are […]
  78. p. 437, line 6[…] ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I felt it all as positively then in my young […]
  79. p. 438, line 12[…] the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find […]

American 19

  1. p. 21, line 21And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
  2. p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
  3. p. 105, line 19We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
  4. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  5. p. 140, line 6Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp,
14 more lines
  1. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  2. p. 141, line 8The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners,
  3. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
  4. p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
  5. p. 273, line 27The American compact is altogether with individuals,
  6. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,
  7. p. 360, line 12The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon, singing through the moon-lit night,
  8. p. 413, line 43[…] These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only […]
  9. p. 426, line 16[…] as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I think I […]
  10. p. 429, line 17[…] lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts […]
  11. p. 431, line 9[…] to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization from all the hitherto ages, I am not sure […]
  12. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale […]
  13. p. 435, line 11[…] poems from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a […]
  14. p. 435, line 18[…] verse. I think this pride indispensable to an American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and […]

Americanos 3

  1. p. 19, line 24Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
  2. p. 20, line 1Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian!
  3. p. 194, line 7Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes.

America's 9

  1. p. 12, line 34America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
  2. p. 120, line 19Toward you all, in America's name,
  3. p. 278, line 3Wash'd on America's shores?
  4. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  5. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
4 more lines
  1. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,
  2. p. 413, line 6America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
  3. p. 430, line 11[…] illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature. Not to carry out, in the approved […]
  4. p. 430, line 26[…] if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a […]

amicable 1

  1. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.

amid 54

  1. p. 52, line 1Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death,
  2. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
  3. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  4. p. 91, line 14What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
  5. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
47 more lines
  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  2. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  3. p. 148, line 20Resting the grass amid and upon,
  4. p. 159, line 25She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!
  5. p. 181, line 5Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
  6. p. 185, line 11Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
  7. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  8. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  9. p. 192, line 14We stand amid time beginningless and endless, we stand amid evil and good,
  10. p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
  11. p. 198, line 10Down almost amid the slapping waves,
  12. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  13. p. 205, line 12That sport'st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud,
  14. p. 206, line 3Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
  15. p. 215, line 7The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
  16. p. 219, line 19Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
  17. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
  18. p. 221, line 19Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,
  19. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  20. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  21. p. 237, line 15Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
  22. p. 256, line 12Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,
  23. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
  24. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  25. p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
  26. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,
  27. p. 284, line 7FAR hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
  28. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  29. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  30. p. 306, line 18In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly,
  31. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
  32. p. 315, line 5Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
  33. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
  34. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,
  35. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
  36. p. 376, line 3Or cities or silent woods, or even amid the sights of war,
  37. p. 376, line 21I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,
  38. p. 393, line 17Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruins;
  39. p. 396, line 12Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night,
  40. p. 398, line 7Amid the changing schools, theologies, philosophies,
  41. p. 398, line 8Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
  42. p. 400, line 1Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
  43. p. 400, line 2Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decorum,
  44. p. 407, line 11[…] full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my sort of poetic […]
  45. p. 417, line 15(Amid the rest, amid the rushing, whirling, wild debris,
  46. p. 425, line 8[…] excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]
  47. p. 435, line 12[…] because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling […]

amies 1

  1. p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.

Amina 1

  1. p. 313, line 5Awaking from her woes at last retriev'd Amina sings,

amity 1

  1. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

ammunition 1

  1. p. 61, line 15Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,

among 45

  1. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  2. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  3. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  4. p. 33, line 12Growing among black folks as among white,
  5. p. 39, line 8Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
38 more lines
  1. p. 55, line 3Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
  2. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  3. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  4. p. 80, line 6Renascent with grossest Nature or among animals,
  5. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  6. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  7. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  8. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  9. p. 111, line 7AMONG the men and women the multitude,
  10. p. 111, line 20But among my lovers and caroling these songs,
  11. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
  12. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  13. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  14. p. 131, line 19In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me,
  15. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  16. p. 136, line 23Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
  17. p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
  18. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  19. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  20. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  21. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  22. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,
  23. p. 241, line 15AN old man bending I come among new faces,
  24. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  25. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  26. p. 266, line 16Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face,
  27. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  28. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,
  29. p. 295, line 5In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
  30. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  31. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
  32. p. 312, line 13The rain, the growing corn, the breeze among the long-leav'd corn,
  33. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  34. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  35. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  36. p. 415, line 29An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
  37. p. 433, line 7[…] poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter mostly in […]
  38. p. 433, line 15Toward the last I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I […]

amorous 8

  1. p. 46, line 19Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
  2. p. 79, line 12Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
  3. p. 80, line 17The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,
  4. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  5. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
  6. p. 93, line 24I AM he that aches with amorous love;
  7. p. 216, line 11The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
  8. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,

amount 7

  1. p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?
  2. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  3. p. 275, line 9This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.
  4. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;
  5. p. 370, line 6O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
  6. p. 421, line 16(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)
  7. p. 434, line 32[…] his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of faith report these things? Up to how recent a […]

amour 3

  1. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
  2. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  3. p. 353, line 9The face of an amour, the face of veneration,

amours 4

  1. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  2. p. 162, line 12Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,
  3. p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
  4. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,

ample 22

  1. p. 38, line 3His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip-band,
  2. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
  3. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
  4. p. 126, line 25Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass'd, content,
  5. p. 131, line 16I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine,
16 more lines
  1. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
  2. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
  3. p. 168, line 18The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,
  4. p. 177, line 26With her ample back towards every beholder,
  5. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  6. p. 216, line 21THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
  7. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  8. p. 240, line 5Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
  9. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  10. p. 276, line 19Ample Ohio's, Kanada's bards—bards of California! inland bards—bards of the war!
  11. p. 356, line 1Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen,
  12. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  13. p. 387, line 18Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
  14. p. 392, line 6Thy ample, smiling face, dash'd with the sparkling dimples of the sun,
  15. p. 396, line 5Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
  16. p. 415, line 15WELCOME, Brazilian brother—thy ample place is ready;

ampler 2

  1. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
  2. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,

amplest 4

  1. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  2. p. 266, line 9These States are the amplest poem,
  3. p. 347, line 11Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
  4. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,

amplify 1

  1. p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?

amplitude 6

  1. p. 45, line 14And I know the amplitude of time.
  2. p. 167, line 5These huge precipitous cliffs, this amplitude, these valleys, far Yosemite,
  3. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  4. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  5. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  6. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;

amplitudes 1

  1. p. 182, line 22Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,

amply 1

  1. p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,

amputated 1

  1. p. 243, line 9From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand,

amused 1

  1. p. 32, line 8Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,

amusement 2

  1. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  2. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,

an 152

See the 143 lines it’s in

Anahuacs 1

  1. p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,

analogies 2

  1. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  2. p. 346, line 13I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;

analogy 1

  1. p. 436, line 27[…] like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in which […]

analysis 1

  1. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,

analyzed 1

  1. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,

anatomist 1

  1. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.

anatomy 1

  1. p. 13, line 27Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry,

ancestor-continents 1

  1. p. 19, line 15The ancestor-continents away group'd together,

anchor 9

  1. p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  2. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  3. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  4. p. 178, line 16No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,
  5. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
4 more lines
  1. p. 232, line 27We could watch down the lower bay where they lay at anchor,
  2. p. 322, line 35Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
  3. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  4. p. 409, line 1HEAVE the anchor short!

anchorage 2

  1. p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)
  2. p. 379, line 18The long, long anchorage we leave,

anchor'd 2 today: anchored

  1. p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
  2. p. 403, line 2On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,

anchored see anchor'd

anchoring 1

  1. p. 178, line 16No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,

anchor-lifters 2

  1. p. 51, line 10The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters,
  2. p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,

anchors 1

  1. p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!

ancient 22

  1. p. 12, line 30Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
  2. p. 69, line 20Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,
  3. p. 116, line 9I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
  4. p. 154, line 4Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,
  5. p. 158, line 26Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?
16 more lines
  1. p. 168, line 10Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling,
  2. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,
  3. p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
  4. p. 284, line 8Crouching over a grave an ancient sorrowful mother,
  5. p. 284, line 14Yet a word ancient mother,
  6. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
  7. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  8. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
  9. p. 366, line 28The ancient banner perfectly maintain'd,
  10. p. 401, line 1Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
  11. p. 407, line 35[…] stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up […]
  12. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,
  13. p. 414, line 17AN ancient song, reciting, ending,
  14. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  15. p. 418, line 30Under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spreading its branches,
  16. p. 433, line 5[…] Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among […]

ancients 1

  1. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,

and 5,682

See the 4,428 lines it’s in

Andes 1

  1. p. 114, line 5I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,

andirons 1

  1. p. 56, line 13Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

anecdote 1

  1. p. 437, line 42[…] myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me […]

anew 1

  1. p. 79, line 7TO the garden the world anew ascending,

angels 1

  1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,

anger 3

  1. p. 52, line 24No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  2. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  3. p. 425, line 33[…] myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid […]

anger'd 1 today: angered

  1. p. 283, line 16The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,

angered see anger'd

angers 3

  1. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
  2. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  3. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!

angles 1

  1. p. 176, line 2Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?

angry 14

  1. p. 11, line 23With all its angry and vehement play of causes,
  2. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
  3. p. 51, line 26I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
  4. p. 70, line 7Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,
  5. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
9 more lines
  1. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  2. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  3. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  4. p. 200, line 17With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning,
  5. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  6. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  7. p. 270, line 15(Angry cloth I saw there leaping!
  8. p. 270, line 23Angry cloth I saw there leaping.)
  9. p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,

anguish 9

  1. p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
  2. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  3. p. 226, line 22Child of mine you fill me with anguish,
  4. p. 233, line 18I saw how he wrung his hands in anguish.
  5. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
4 more lines
  1. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,
  2. p. 341, line 16I understand your anguish, but I cannot help you,
  3. p. 367, line 15IN midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
  4. p. 403, line 20After a week of physical anguish,

animal 3

  1. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
  2. p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  3. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.

Animality 1

  1. p. 436, line 14[…] the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those […]

animals 29

  1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  2. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  3. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  4. p. 54, line 20I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
  5. p. 58, line 5Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print,
24 more lines
  1. p. 80, line 6Renascent with grossest Nature or among animals,
  2. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
  3. p. 91, line 4The continence of vegetables, birds, animals,
  4. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  5. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  6. p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
  7. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
  8. p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
  9. p. 142, line 13O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
  10. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  11. p. 178, line 6From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things,
  12. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
  13. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  14. p. 267, line 13The unsurvey'd interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers,
  15. p. 273, line 5I have loved the earth, sun, animals, I have despised riches,
  16. p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
  17. p. 301, line 11Or animals feeding in the fields,
  18. p. 307, line 17See you! some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking;
  19. p. 318, line 10Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
  20. p. 337, line 15How beautiful and perfect are the animals!
  21. p. 337, line 21The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
  22. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
  23. p. 374, line 29In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,
  24. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,

animating 1

  1. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?

ankle-chains 1

  1. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,

ankle-deep 3

  1. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  2. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.
  3. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,

ankles 6

  1. p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  2. p. 49, line 25I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  3. p. 87, line 16Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;
  4. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,
  5. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  6. p. 341, line 9Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles,

annals 1

  1. p. 437, line 42[…] to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the […]

annex 2

  1. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  2. p. 406, line 2Preface Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye […]

annihilation 1

  1. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?

annotations 1

  1. p. 65, line 10Continue your annotations, continue your questionings.

announce 17

  1. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
  2. p. 369, line 13But I too announce solid things,
  3. p. 380, line 11TO conclude, I announce what comes after me.
  4. p. 380, line 25I announce natural persons to arise,
  5. p. 380, line 26I announce justice triumphant,
12 more lines
  1. p. 380, line 27I announce uncompromising liberty and equality,
  2. p. 380, line 28I announce the justification of candor and the justification of pride.
  3. p. 381, line 1I announce that the identity of these States is a single identity only,
  4. p. 381, line 2I announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble,
  5. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
  6. p. 381, line 4I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd,
  7. p. 381, line 6I announce a man or woman coming, perhaps you are the one, (So long!)
  8. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  9. p. 381, line 8I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
  10. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
  11. p. 381, line 10I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,
  12. p. 381, line 11I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.

announcements 3

  1. p. 25, line 20Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!
  2. p. 369, line 8The announcements of recognized things, science,
  3. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.

announcing 2

  1. p. 28, line 6These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise,
  2. p. 264, line 9A Nation announcing itself,

annual 6

  1. p. 234, line 28See—as the annual round returns the phantoms return,
  2. p. 278, line 14Is acted God's calm annual drama,
  3. p. 287, line 5It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
  4. p. 314, line 20I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,
  5. p. 375, line 1In the annual return of the seasons,
  6. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.

anon 1

  1. p. 212, line 27He will soon return, his messengers come anon.

another 59

  1. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  2. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  3. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  4. p. 48, line 11Whoever degrades another degrades me,
  5. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
47 more lines
  1. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  2. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  3. p. 79, line 5Missing me one place search another,
  4. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  5. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  6. p. 110, line 15But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
  7. p. 111, line 3Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
  8. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
  9. p. 114, line 17The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
  10. p. 123, line 21Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
  11. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
  12. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
  13. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  14. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  15. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  16. p. 144, line 10Another time mackerel-taking,
  17. p. 144, line 12Another time fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake bay, I one of the brown-faced crew;
  18. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
  19. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
  20. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  21. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  22. p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,
  23. p. 178, line 28Not one can grow for another—not one.
  24. p. 198, line 26And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,
  25. p. 204, line 3Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
  26. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  27. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
  28. p. 234, line 8So dull and damp and another day,
  29. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  30. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  31. p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
  32. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,
  33. p. 284, line 19The Lord is not dead, he is risen again young and strong in another country,
  34. p. 304, line 13And that to another, and every one to another still.
  35. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  36. p. 323, line 20Haply I may not live another day;
  37. p. 328, line 13Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.
  38. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  39. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  40. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  41. p. 408, line 8[…] the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as […]
  42. p. 411, line 30ANOTHER NOTE.—" He went out with the tide and the sunset […]
  43. p. 427, line 11[…] matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and […]
  44. p. 431, line 43[…] and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I […]
  45. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I […]
  46. p. 434, line 25[…] or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a […]
  47. p. 436, line 13From another point of view "Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song […]

answer 24

  1. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  2. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  3. p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
  4. p. 101, line 14I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave,
  5. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
17 more lines
  1. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  2. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
  3. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  4. p. 241, line 16Years looking backward resuming in answer to children,
  5. p. 255, line 2And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
  6. p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
  7. p. 264, line 13What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
  8. p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?
  9. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  10. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  11. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  12. p. 407, line 13In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here […]
  13. p. 409, line 11We know not whence, (was the answer,)
  14. p. 426, line 22[…] than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a […]
  15. p. 428, line 25[…] purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while […]
  16. p. 433, line 31[…] Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from […]
  17. p. 438, line 2[…] of students, he said to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to what school the work implied […]

answer'd 5 today: answered

  1. p. 9, line 20Be it so, then I answer'd,
  2. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  3. p. 135, line 12What can be answer'd he answers, and what cannot be answer'd he shows how it cannot be answer'd.

answered see answer'd

Answerer 5

  1. p. 134, line 14NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
  2. p. 135, line 11He is the Answerer,
  3. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  4. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  5. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.

answering 8

  1. p. 112, line 10Each answering all, each sharing the earth with all.
  2. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  3. p. 201, line 16Whereto answering, the sea,
  4. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
  5. p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
  6. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  7. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  8. p. 410, line 19To-day at twilight, hobbling, answering company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,

answers 6

  1. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
  2. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  3. p. 135, line 12What can be answer'd he answers, and what cannot be answer'd he shows how it cannot be answer'd.
  4. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
  5. p. 291, line 15That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
  6. p. 327, line 6He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,

Antarctic 1

  1. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,

antecedent 1

  1. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,

antecedents 2

  1. p. 191, line 20WITH antecedents,
  2. p. 192, line 12We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,

antelope 1

  1. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.

anthems 1

  1. p. 325, line 11And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.

anticipate 1

  1. p. 427, line 41[…] to be read in fifty years." But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area […]

anticipated 1

  1. p. 180, line 2It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,

anticipating 1

  1. p. 80, line 11The overture lightly sounding, the strain anticipating,

anticipations 1

  1. p. 425, line 30[…] fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a […]

antipodal 1

  1. p. 47, line 5I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,

antipodes 2

  1. p. 194, line 10To-day our Antipodes comes.
  2. p. 330, line 25The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,

antique 11

  1. p. 20, line 16In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
  2. p. 20, line 17Why these are the children of the antique to justify it.
  3. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  4. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  5. p. 151, line 14The antique European warrior with his axe in combat,
6 more lines
  1. p. 192, line 1With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,
  2. p. 311, line 12Now airs antique and mediæval fill me,
  3. p. 315, line 21Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)
  4. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,
  5. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
  6. p. 431, line 1[…] World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks […]

antiques 1

  1. p. 210, line 3A fog follows, antiques of the same come limping,

antiquities 1

  1. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

antiseptic 1

  1. p. 181, line 27Electric, antiseptic yet, cleaving, suffusing all,

ants 1

  1. p. 33, line 1And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

anvil 2

  1. p. 37, line 21Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  2. p. 164, line 6There by the furnace, and there by the anvil,

any 243

See the 228 lines it’s in

anybody 2

  1. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  2. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.

anyhow 10

  1. p. 44, line 10What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
  2. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  3. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  4. p. 180, line 1The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best,
  5. p. 210, line 21I do not think you belong here anyhow.
5 more lines
  1. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  2. p. 408, line 13[…] I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow […]
  3. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when […]
  4. p. 431, line 18[…] insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this era of literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise […]
  5. p. 437, line 36[…] for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from […]

anything 11

  1. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
  2. p. 408, line 3[…] days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got […]
  3. p. 425, line 34[…] yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you […]
  4. p. 430, line 18[…] do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests of the […]
  5. p. 430, line 22[…] to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life […]
6 more lines
  1. p. 430, line 31[…] a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of […]
  2. p. 430, line 38[…] science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the emotional and […]
  3. p. 432, line 5[…] of the old works as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully […]
  4. p. 432, line 6[…] as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate […]
  5. p. 434, line 20[…] word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will […]
  6. p. 438, line 6[…] ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted anything but this one picture, which is a personal affair—a […]

anywhere 12

  1. p. 85, line 6Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
  2. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  3. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  4. p. 150, line 4The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,
  5. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
7 more lines
  1. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  2. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  3. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  4. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  5. p. 408, line 1[…] and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the […]
  6. p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
  7. p. 428, line 24Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the […]

apart 4

  1. p. 32, line 7Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  2. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  3. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  4. p. 303, line 10I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

apathy 1

  1. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?

apex 1

  1. p. 71, line 18My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,

apices 1

  1. p. 71, line 18My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,

aplomb 2

  1. p. 16, line 7Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
  2. p. 374, line 29In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,

apologize 1

  1. p. 45, line 4I see that the elementary laws never apologize,

apparel 1

  1. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.

apparent 3

  1. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  2. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
  3. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?

apparently 1

  1. p. 425, line 14[…] wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port […]

apparition 3

  1. p. 178, line 7From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,
  2. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  3. p. 346, line 19And I the apparition, I the spectre.)

apparitions 6

  1. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  2. p. 185, line 11Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
  3. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  4. p. 351, line 12(Purport of all these apparitions of the real;)
  5. p. 406, line 10[…] the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty […]
  6. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)

appeal'd 1 today: appealed

  1. p. 435, line 3[…] resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to and relied on […]

appealed see appeal'd

appealing 3

  1. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  2. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;
  3. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,

appeals 1

  1. p. 311, line 26All passionate heart-chants, sorrowful appeals,

appear 27

  1. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  2. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  3. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  4. p. 153, line 13How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
  5. p. 178, line 2Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
21 more lines
  1. p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
  2. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  3. p. 186, line 12Your true soul and body appear before me,
  4. p. 210, line 4Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless.
  5. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  6. p. 232, line 18Rude forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted,
  7. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,
  8. p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
  9. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  10. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  11. p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
  12. p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
  13. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  14. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  15. p. 326, line 12Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
  16. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
  17. p. 341, line 25And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.
  18. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  19. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  20. p. 427, line 21[…] I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation, or choice plots […]
  21. p. 435, line 32[…] principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance […]

appearance 6

  1. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  2. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,
  3. p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
  4. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  5. p. 409, line 29[…] dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those last words are not samples of […]
  6. p. 435, line 33[…] be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon […]

appearances 3

  1. p. 101, line 1OF the terrible doubt of appearances,
  2. p. 101, line 14I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave,
  3. p. 134, line 1Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are,

appear'd 10 today: appeared

  1. p. 34, line 7And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
  2. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  3. p. 197, line 35Nor ever appear'd again.
  4. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  5. p. 259, line 23Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail,
4 more lines
  1. p. 295, line 5In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
  2. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  3. p. 370, line 8O soul, we have positively appear'd—that is enough.
  4. p. 435, line 10[…] centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning […]

appeared see appear'd

appearing 9

  1. p. 15, line 1HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
  2. p. 58, line 18Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
  3. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  4. p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
  5. p. 208, line 11(Ever the heroes on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
4 more lines
  1. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  2. p. 338, line 24Appearing and disappearing.
  3. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  4. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

appears 18

  1. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  2. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  3. p. 81, line 27But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
  4. p. 153, line 15All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears;
  5. p. 153, line 17When he or she appears materials are overaw'd,
11 more lines
  1. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  2. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  3. p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
  4. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,
  5. p. 283, line 21Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
  6. p. 286, line 11The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
  7. p. 299, line 5Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell's tides continually run,
  8. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  9. p. 331, line 7The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind,
  10. p. 358, line 20A reborn race appears—a perfect world, all joy!
  11. p. 381, line 15It appears to me I am dying.

appetite 1

  1. p. 84, line 22Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,

appetites 2

  1. p. 49, line 1I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  2. p. 364, line 4You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,

applause 8

  1. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  2. p. 214, line 16When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
  3. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,
  4. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  5. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  6. p. 396, line 26Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud applause;
  7. p. 402, line 17Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,
  8. p. 413, line 6America's applause, love, memories and good-will.

apple 3

  1. p. 26, line 5Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple and the grape!
  2. p. 388, line 13Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms;
  3. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,

apple-blossom'd 1

  1. p. 46, line 10Far-swooping elbow'd earth—rich apple-blossom'd earth!

apple-branches 1

  1. p. 286, line 10The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,

apple-buds 1

  1. p. 286, line 10The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,

apple-orchard 2

  1. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  2. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,

apple-peelings 1

  1. p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,

apples 10

  1. p. 80, line 8Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,
  2. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
  3. p. 90, line 11The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birchbark,
  4. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  5. p. 164, line 18The grapes that ripen on thy vines, the apples in thy orchards,
5 more lines
  1. p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
  2. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
  3. p. 348, line 12Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing,
  4. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  5. p. 415, line 27The whispering air—even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,

apple-shaped 1

  1. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,

apple-tree 1

  1. p. 256, line 16Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,

apple-trees 1

  1. p. 283, line 5And the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road,

applicable 1

  1. p. 431, line 16[…] is consistent with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be? Is […]

applied 1

  1. p. 163, line 3Food and its preservation, chemistry applied to it,

applies 1

  1. p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,

apply 1

  1. p. 431, line 36[…] radically changed—that in these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and […]

applying 2

  1. p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
  2. p. 67, line 4Magnifying and applying come I,

appoint 1

  1. p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,

appointed 4

  1. p. 73, line 12My rendezvous is appointed, it is certain,
  2. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  3. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  4. p. 388, line 1The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game;

appointment 1

  1. p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,

appointments 1

  1. p. 43, line 19It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appointments with all,

appreciate 1

  1. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far […]

appreciated 1

  1. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,

appreciation 1

  1. p. 398, line 15For shelter, wine and meat—for sweet appreciation,

apprentice 1

  1. p. 304, line 9Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist,

apprentice-boys 1

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

apprenticed 1

  1. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,

apprentices 1

  1. p. 150, line 20Spar-makers in the spar-yard, the swarming row of well-grown apprentices,

approach 14

  1. p. 54, line 11In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  2. p. 95, line 14Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,
  3. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  4. p. 130, line 24Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
  5. p. 132, line 20Closer yet I approach you,
9 more lines
  1. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  2. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
  3. p. 178, line 3Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companion,
  4. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  5. p. 260, line 26Approach strong deliveress,
  6. p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
  7. p. 341, line 17I approach, hear, behold, the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes, your mute inquiry,
  8. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  9. p. 370, line 17What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

approaches 1

  1. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,

approaching 10

  1. p. 51, line 12The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
  2. p. 56, line 24Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
  3. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  4. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
  5. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
5 more lines
  1. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  2. p. 259, line 19And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,
  3. p. 280, line 15I saw them approaching, defiling by with divisions,
  4. p. 311, line 6Now loud approaching drums,
  5. p. 387, line 1Approaching, nearing, curious,

approbation 1

  1. p. 426, line 6[…] for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd […]

appropriate 2

  1. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  2. p. 430, line 20[…] those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments […]

appropriated 1

  1. p. 428, line 37[…] I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in the […]

approval 1

  1. p. 232, line 2Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping!

approved 2

  1. p. 369, line 9The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
  2. p. 430, line 12[…] imaginative literature. Not to carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy […]

April 1

  1. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,

apron 1

  1. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,

apropos 1

  1. p. 124, line 7Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos;

aquatic 1

  1. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,

Arab 1

  1. p. 113, line 12I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque,

Arabia 1

  1. p. 319, line 26On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,

Arabian 1

  1. p. 114, line 11I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,

Arabs 3

  1. p. 313, line 21I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
  2. p. 319, line 32The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,
  3. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,

Ararat 1

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!

arbiter 1

  1. p. 269, line 13He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,

arbitration 1

  1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,

arbor 1

  1. p. 244, line 12Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,

arbutus 1

  1. p. 399, line 18The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming plum and cherry;

arch 2

  1. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  2. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?

arch'd 1 today: arched

  1. p. 57, line 15Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,

arched see arch'd

arches 3

  1. p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
  2. p. 156, line 4Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,
  3. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)

arching 1

  1. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,

archipelagoes 4

  1. p. 119, line 14All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
  2. p. 195, line 19My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
  3. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  4. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,

architect 1

  1. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.

architects 4

  1. p. 151, line 11The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
  2. p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
  3. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  4. p. 316, line 25You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,

architecture 3

  1. p. 59, line 9The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  2. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  3. p. 173, line 7All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,

arctic 10

  1. p. 26, line 17Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the compact!
  2. p. 59, line 2We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
  3. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
  4. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
  5. p. 155, line 27Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
5 more lines
  1. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)
  2. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  3. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  4. p. 353, line 22This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  5. p. 394, line 1Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank,

ardently 2

  1. p. 110, line 16(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
  2. p. 363, line 1How ardently for it!

ardor 2

  1. p. 267, line 21The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness,
  2. p. 324, line 8The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will,

ardors 3

  1. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  2. p. 394, line 11What passions, winnings, losses, ardors, swim thy waters!
  3. p. 427, line 7[…] all, it gives one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any […]

are 642

See the 571 lines it’s in

area 11

  1. p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
  2. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  3. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)
  4. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
  5. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
6 more lines
  1. p. 374, line 11Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,)
  2. p. 427, line 5[…] the United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks […]
  3. p. 427, line 41[…] very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the […]
  4. p. 429, line 19[…] in comparison, of the petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter […]
  5. p. 431, line 3[…] or displace those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But […]
  6. p. 433, line 21[…] certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for all—has so many […]

areas 2

  1. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  2. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,

arena 4

  1. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  2. p. 118, line 30You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
  3. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  4. p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!

arenas 2

  1. p. 281, line 5I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last,
  2. p. 281, line 6Man's innocent and strong arenas.

argue 5

  1. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  2. p. 177, line 9The earth does not argue,
  3. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  4. p. 436, line 24[…] theme in literature. I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself […]
  5. p. 437, line 13While I can not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose […]

argued 1

  1. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,

arguer 1

  1. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)

argument 8

  1. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  2. p. 107, line 6Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,
  3. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  4. p. 304, line 14The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  5. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
  6. p. 386, line 13Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,
  7. p. 430, line 29[…] question is important, and I may turn the argument over and repeat it: Does not the best thought of […]
  8. p. 433, line 25[…] had been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to […]

arguments 3

  1. p. 32, line 13I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
  2. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
  3. p. 153, line 13How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

aria 1

  1. p. 200, line 14The aria sinking,

aria's 1

  1. p. 200, line 22The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,

aright 1

  1. p. 395, line 10At last at nightfall strikes the breeze aright, her whole luck veering,

arise 12

  1. p. 28, line 6These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise,
  2. p. 155, line 21The shapes arise!
  3. p. 156, line 1The shapes arise!
  4. p. 156, line 10The shapes arise!
  5. p. 156, line 19The shapes arise!
7 more lines
  1. p. 157, line 2The shapes arise!
  2. p. 157, line 18The main shapes arise!
  3. p. 350, line 15(Lo, where arise three peerless stars,
  4. p. 364, line 23THEY shall arise in the States,
  5. p. 380, line 25I announce natural persons to arise,
  6. p. 398, line 4Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
  7. p. 428, line 31[…] so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it […]

arises 1

  1. p. 157, line 8Her shape arises,

arising 5

  1. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  2. p. 268, line 26I heard the voice arising demanding bards,
  3. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
  4. p. 372, line 20Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the fœtor arising.
  5. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,

aristocracies 1

  1. p. 370, line 19I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,

Arkansas 6

  1. p. 41, line 18Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain'd by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  2. p. 149, line 21The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette,
  3. p. 184, line 5From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
  4. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  5. p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
  6. p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,

Arkansaw 1

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,

Arkansian 1

  1. p. 26, line 29The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,

arm 30

  1. p. 32, line 9Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  2. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  3. p. 81, line 7From the cling of the trembling arm,
  4. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  5. p. 89, line 23The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
23 more lines
  1. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  2. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  3. p. 103, line 11And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
  4. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,
  5. p. 144, line 14My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope,
  6. p. 145, line 18I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;
  7. p. 150, line 10The hook'd arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,
  8. p. 151, line 15The uplifted arm, the clatter of blows on the helmeted head,
  9. p. 212, line 9Out of its robes only this, the red robes lifted by the arm,
  10. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  11. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  12. p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
  13. p. 243, line 9From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand,
  14. p. 263, line 4This arm beneath your head!
  15. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  16. p. 270, line 27He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,
  17. p. 273, line 14This arm, this hand, this voice, have nourish'd, rais'd, restored,
  18. p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  19. p. 331, line 22The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover, they press close without lust, his lips press her neck,
  20. p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,
  21. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,
  22. p. 395, line 6In his great arm chair by the window seated,
  23. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,

armaments 1

  1. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?

arm-bones 1

  1. p. 87, line 9Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,

armchair 1

  1. p. 355, line 28She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

arm-curving 1

  1. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,

arm'd 17 today: armed

arm'd 15 · armed 2

  1. p. 66, line 24Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
  2. p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
  3. p. 128, line 24He going with me must go well arm'd,
  4. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  5. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
11 more lines
  1. p. 220, line 16The blood of the city up—arm'd! arm'd! the cry everywhere,
  2. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  3. p. 221, line 2War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
  4. p. 221, line 13ARM'D year—year of the struggle,
  5. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
  6. p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,
  7. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  8. p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,
  9. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  10. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  11. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,

Armenian 1

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!

armfuls 1

  1. p. 35, line 23The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow.

armies 22

  1. p. 81, line 17The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  2. p. 162, line 7With thy undaunted armies, engineering,
  3. p. 225, line 11I hear the tramp of armies, I hear the challenging sentry,
  4. p. 242, line 2Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth,
  5. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
16 more lines
  1. p. 261, line 17And I saw askant the armies,
  2. p. 261, line 30And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.
  3. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
  4. p. 276, line 17Yet bards of latent armies, a million soldiers waiting ever-ready,
  5. p. 278, line 19The liliput countless armies of the grass,
  6. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?
  7. p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.
  8. p. 280, line 14I saw the interminable corps, I saw the processions of armies,
  9. p. 280, line 21A pause—the armies wait,
  10. p. 280, line 28Melt, melt away ye armies—disperse ye blue-clad soldiers,
  11. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  12. p. 357, line 6I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang,
  13. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
  14. p. 371, line 19And again the advance of the armies.
  15. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)
  16. p. 416, line 9Again I see the stalwart ranks on-filing, rising—I hear the rhythmic tramp of the armies;)

arming 8

  1. p. 220, line 2Leapt they tumultuous, and lo! Manhattan arming.
  2. p. 220, line 4The young men falling in and arming,
  3. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)
  4. p. 220, line 6The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
  5. p. 220, line 11Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
  6. p. 220, line 25All the mutter of preparation, all the determin'd arming,
  7. p. 270, line 12Songs of the rapid arming and the march,

armor 2

  1. p. 159, line 17Pass'd to its charnel vault, coffin'd with crown and armor on,
  2. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,

armpit 1

  1. p. 87, line 9Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,

arm-pits 1

  1. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,

arms 49

  1. p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
  2. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  3. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  4. p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
  5. p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
43 more lines
  1. p. 58, line 3My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
  2. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  3. p. 64, line 3You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
  4. p. 69, line 11The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  5. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  6. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  7. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  8. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  9. p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
  10. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  11. p. 110, line 7While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
  12. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  13. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  14. p. 150, line 24The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,
  15. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
  16. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  17. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  18. p. 164, line 5How the ash writhes under those muscular arms!
  19. p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
  20. p. 198, line 19The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing,
  21. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
  22. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  23. p. 217, line 7With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
  24. p. 219, line 9How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
  25. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
  26. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
  27. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  28. p. 247, line 21Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
  29. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)
  30. p. 250, line 18On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
  31. p. 257, line 11With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
  32. p. 260, line 21For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
  33. p. 280, line 29Resolve ye back again, give up for good your deadly arms,
  34. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  35. p. 322, line 15The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.
  36. p. 326, line 26To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way;
  37. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  38. p. 331, line 23The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  39. p. 367, line 17Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,
  40. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
  41. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.
  42. p. 413, line 43[…] equal to the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States […]
  43. p. 429, line 39[…] from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]

arm-sinews 1

  1. p. 87, line 9Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,

army 21

  1. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  2. p. 232, line 23It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here,
  3. p. 232, line 25It glitter'd in the sun in full sight of the army.
  4. p. 235, line 17I SEE before me now a traveling army halting,
  5. p. 236, line 7As the army corps advances.
15 more lines
  1. p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
  2. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  3. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  4. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
  5. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,
  6. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
  7. p. 279, line 27Lo, your pallid army follows.)
  8. p. 311, line 8Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?
  9. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  10. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
  11. p. 397, line 6"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,)
  12. p. 408, line 21[…] and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them […]
  13. p. 408, line 24[…] and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering […]
  14. p. 411, line 33During the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it […]
  15. p. 428, line 15[…] and din of action—never completer change of army front along the whole line, the whole civilized world. For […]

Arno 1

  1. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,

aroma 2

  1. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
  2. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!

aromas 2

  1. p. 90, line 11The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birchbark,
  2. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,

aromatic 2

  1. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  2. p. 100, line 8And stems of currants and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar,

arose 4

  1. p. 9, line 11A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,
  2. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  3. p. 36, line 8The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
  4. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)

around 85

  1. p. 11, line 22Around the idea of thee the war revolving,
  2. p. 11, line 28Around the idea of thee.
  3. p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
  4. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  5. p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
78 more lines
  1. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  2. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
  3. p. 38, line 14They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  4. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  5. p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  6. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  7. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
  8. p. 59, line 3Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  9. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  10. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  11. p. 68, line 11Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  12. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,
  13. p. 73, line 11Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.
  14. p. 87, line 26The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
  15. p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
  16. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  17. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  18. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  19. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
  20. p. 100, line 9These I compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits,
  21. p. 103, line 11And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
  22. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
  23. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  24. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  25. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
  26. p. 114, line 18The White sea, and the sea around Greenland.
  27. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  28. p. 121, line 13You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
  29. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,
  30. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
  31. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;
  32. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  33. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
  34. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  35. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
  36. p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
  37. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
  38. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  39. p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
  40. p. 192, line 15All swings around us, there is as much darkness as light,
  41. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  42. p. 192, line 17Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
  43. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
  44. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
  45. p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.
  46. p. 219, line 20With her million children around her, suddenly,
  47. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  48. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  49. p. 229, line 5All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me,
  50. p. 229, line 14What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?
  51. p. 231, line 20Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
  52. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  53. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  54. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
  55. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
  56. p. 252, line 23Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
  57. p. 256, line 27With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour'd around the coffin,
  58. p. 268, line 7I mark the new aureola around your head,
  59. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  60. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  61. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
  62. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  63. p. 317, line 10I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,
  64. p. 320, line 12Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
  65. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  66. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  67. p. 357, line 13O how the immortal phantoms crowd around me!
  68. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,
  69. p. 369, line 7Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,
  70. p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
  71. p. 372, line 8Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,
  72. p. 375, line 16How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
  73. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
  74. p. 411, line 33[…] the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the […]
  75. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;
  76. p. 415, line 9The great shadowy groups gathering around,
  77. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,
  78. p. 429, line 17[…] their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison […]

arousable 1

  1. p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,

arous'd 8 today: aroused

  1. p. 201, line 7The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,
  2. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  3. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  4. p. 262, line 14And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul,
  5. p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
  6. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  7. p. 434, line 1[…] lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my own heart only […]
  8. p. 434, line 9[…] of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and […]

arouse 5

  1. p. 18, line 4Arouse! for you must justify me.
  2. p. 190, line 7Let others dispose of questions, I dispose of nothing, I arouse unanswerable questions,
  3. p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,
  4. p. 223, line 25Crying with trumpet voice, Arouse and beware! Beware and arouse!)

aroused see arous'd

arouses 2

  1. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
  2. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,

arrangements 1

  1. p. 177, line 10Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,

array 2

  1. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  2. p. 235, line 10A LINE in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,

arrays 2

  1. p. 368, line 22These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,
  2. p. 368, line 24Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;

arrears 1

  1. p. 188, line 22Here too demanding full arrears of vengeance.

arrest 1

  1. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,

arrested 1

  1. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,

arrests 1

  1. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

arriere 4

  1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  2. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  3. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  4. p. 431, line 22[…] been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight dimness! What is there […]

arrive 7

  1. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  2. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  3. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
  4. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  5. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  6. p. 345, line 11Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
  7. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;

arrived 18

  1. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
  2. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  3. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  4. p. 192, line 8With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these years,
  5. p. 192, line 9You and me arrived—America arrived and making this year,
12 more lines
  1. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  2. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;
  3. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  4. p. 318, line 25Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
  5. p. 331, line 13What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place,
  6. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  7. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  8. p. 345, line 11Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
  9. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  10. p. 425, line 15[…] more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in […]
  11. p. 430, line 26[…] to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's […]
  12. p. 432, line 4[…] and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through the temper and inculcation of the old works […]

arrives 1

  1. p. 409, line 17Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,

arriving 10

  1. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
  2. p. 130, line 23Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving,
  3. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  4. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,
  5. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
4 more lines
  1. p. 256, line 25With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
  2. p. 260, line 15Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
  3. p. 361, line 9Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,
  4. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.

arrogant 8

  1. p. 66, line 16(This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.)
  2. p. 202, line 28But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch'd, untold, altogether unreach'd,
  3. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  4. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
  5. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
  6. p. 274, line 28Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn belov'd of time.
  7. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,

arrow 1

  1. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.

arrows 1

  1. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!

arsenals 1

  1. p. 156, line 2Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,

art 27

  1. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
  2. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
  3. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  4. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  5. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
22 more lines
  1. p. 205, line 7Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,)
  2. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
  3. p. 278, line 27Thou art all over set in births and joys!
  4. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)
  5. p. 304, line 5But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,
  6. p. 311, line 34And man and art with Nature fused again.
  7. p. 317, line 19Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,
  8. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  9. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
  10. p. 368, line 25Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
  11. p. 369, line 23Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
  12. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  13. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  14. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  15. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  16. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  17. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?
  18. p. 430, line 23[…] such conception of current or gone-by life and art is for us the only means of their assimilation consistent […]
  19. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of him […]
  20. p. 437, line 35[…] is a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can […]
  21. p. 437, line 36[…] says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise […]
  22. p. 438, line 18[…] at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

Arthur 2

  1. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;
  2. p. 415, line 2Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur,

article 1

  1. p. 427, line 37[…] changed. As I write, I see in an article on Wordsworth, in one of the current English magazines, the […]

articulate 2

  1. p. 305, line 6And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers and winters to articulate and walk—all this is equally wonderful.
  2. p. 426, line 40[…] else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly […]

articulation 3

  1. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  2. p. 87, line 23The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
  3. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,

articulations 1

  1. p. 364, line 6You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,

artifice 1

  1. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,

artificial 6

  1. p. 128, line 15Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
  2. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
  3. p. 159, line 23Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers, artificial fertilizers,
  4. p. 274, line 20Natural and artificial are you and me,
  5. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  6. p. 309, line 11Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,

artillerist 1

  1. p. 60, line 23I am an old artillerist, I tell of my fort's bombardment,

artillerists 1

  1. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)

artillery 9

  1. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
  2. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  3. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  4. p. 221, line 5And the sturdy artillery,
  5. p. 232, line 31A veteran force furnish'd with good artillery.
4 more lines
  1. p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
  2. p. 236, line 6With artillery interspers'd—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
  3. p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
  4. p. 400, line 13To the cannons, the grim artillery,

artillery-men 1

  1. p. 17, line 15And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

artisanship 1

  1. p. 192, line 1With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,

artist 6

  1. p. 42, line 20A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
  2. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  3. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.
  4. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;
  5. p. 428, line 4[…] that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy […]
  6. p. 438, line 3[…] implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the […]

artistic 1

  1. p. 434, line 35[…] his tinge of coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our […]

artists 8

  1. p. 12, line 22The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long,
  2. p. 20, line 19Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
  3. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  4. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  5. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  6. p. 349, line 27Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
  7. p. 353, line 6The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
  8. p. 390, line 7Poets unnamed—artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs,

artless 1

  1. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,

arts 13

  1. p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
  2. p. 26, line 25Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
  3. p. 28, line 5New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
  4. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  5. p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
8 more lines
  1. p. 167, line 26You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures,
  2. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  3. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  4. p. 288, line 19What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
  5. p. 289, line 10Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
  6. p. 300, line 11It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
  7. p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
  8. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,

as 891

See the 746 lines it’s in

ascend 11

  1. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  2. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  3. p. 58, line 29I ascend to the foretruck,
  4. p. 77, line 18I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night,
  5. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
5 more lines
  1. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  2. p. 111, line 5I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
  3. p. 115, line 4Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena,
  4. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  5. p. 379, line 24WHAT are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?

ascended 2

  1. p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
  2. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,

ascended'st 1

  1. p. 204, line 28(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st,

ascending 13

  1. p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  2. p. 79, line 7TO the garden the world anew ascending,
  3. p. 117, line 2I see the Bolivian ascending mount Sorata,
  4. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  5. p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
8 more lines
  1. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  2. p. 246, line 5LO, the moon ascending,
  3. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,
  4. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  5. p. 371, line 21From their graves in the trenches ascending,
  6. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
  7. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
  8. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,

ascends 2

  1. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;
  2. p. 206, line 4Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,

ash 2

  1. p. 89, line 24The hillside whiten'd with blossoms of the mountain ash,
  2. p. 164, line 5How the ash writhes under those muscular arms!

ashamed 5

  1. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  2. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  3. p. 97, line 1Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
  4. p. 105, line 2Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
  5. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?

Ashantee-man 1

  1. p. 117, line 24I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,

ash-color'd 1

  1. p. 64, line 14My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.

ashes 11

  1. p. 159, line 9Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind, extinct,
  2. p. 173, line 6The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
  3. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  4. p. 213, line 2Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth,
  5. p. 272, line 8The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes,
6 more lines
  1. p. 337, line 6If all came but to ashes of dung,
  2. p. 371, line 16ASHES of soldiers South or North,
  3. p. 372, line 25Make these ashes to nourish and blossom,
  4. p. 372, line 29For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
  5. p. 387, line 9Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones,
  6. p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,

ashore 1

  1. p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,

ashy 1

  1. p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,

Asia 15

  1. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  2. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  3. p. 115, line 11I see them in Asia and in Africa.
  4. p. 116, line 16I see the steppes of Asia,
  5. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
10 more lines
  1. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  2. p. 196, line 4Young Libertad! with the venerable Asia, the all-mother,
  3. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  4. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,
  5. p. 317, line 17The road between Europe and Asia.
  6. p. 318, line 13Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,
  7. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  8. p. 336, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  9. p. 348, line 23Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee,
  10. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,

Asia's 4

  1. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  2. p. 167, line 11Not wan from Asia's fetiches,
  3. p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,
  4. p. 393, line 17Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruins;

Asiatic 6

  1. p. 114, line 11I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,
  2. p. 117, line 21I see African and Asiatic towns,
  3. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  4. p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
  5. p. 316, line 4Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
  6. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,