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.

B

b – breastworks · breath – Byzantium

breath 32

  1. p. 30, line 1The smoke of my own breath,
  2. p. 51, line 26I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
  3. p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
  4. p. 65, line 21They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  5. p. 66, line 23I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,
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  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,
  2. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  3. p. 87, line 29The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,
  4. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  5. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  6. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  7. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  8. p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
  9. p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
  10. p. 213, line 5A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh,
  11. p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,
  12. p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
  13. p. 258, line 6These and with these and the breath of my chant,
  14. p. 285, line 10Unclaim'd, avoided house—take one breath from my tremulous lips,
  15. p. 321, line 21Nameless, the fibre and the breath,
  16. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  17. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,
  18. p. 333, line 20The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  19. p. 340, line 20Breathe my breath also through these songs.
  20. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  21. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  22. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
  23. p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,
  24. p. 389, line 15Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
  25. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,
  26. p. 436, line 18[…] the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of […]

breathe 18

  1. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  2. p. 42, line 23Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
  3. p. 145, line 20Again I see him rise to breathe, we row close again,
  4. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  5. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
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  1. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;
  2. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  3. p. 291, line 14Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
  4. p. 321, line 17Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,
  5. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  6. p. 323, line 23Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee, commune with Thee,
  7. p. 325, line 18How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  8. p. 340, line 20Breathe my breath also through these songs.
  9. p. 358, line 26Enough to merely be! enough to breathe!
  10. p. 375, line 9To breathe the air, how delicious!
  11. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  12. p. 389, line 15Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
  13. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,

breathed 3

breathed 2 · breath'd 1

  1. p. 26, line 17Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the compact!
  2. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  3. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,

breather 1

  1. p. 340, line 11Santa Spirita, breather, life,

breathest 1

  1. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,

breathing 9

  1. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
  2. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  3. p. 87, line 29The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,
  4. p. 107, line 8THE prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,
  5. p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
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  1. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  2. p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
  3. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  4. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,

breathings 1

  1. p. 293, line 15And youth's convulsive breathings, memories of home,

breaths 5

  1. 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,
  2. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
  3. p. 158, line 22I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance,
  4. p. 362, line 30Two little breaths of words comprising it,
  5. p. 428, line 22[…] own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the future […]

breed 4

  1. p. 31, line 2Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
  2. p. 152, line 18Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
  3. p. 264, line 12A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
  4. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,

breeding 1

  1. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,

breeds 2

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,
  2. p. 380, line 17When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,

breez'd 1 today: breezed

  1. p. 26, line 17Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the compact!

breeze 8

  1. p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  2. p. 162, line 8Thy pennants labor, loosen'd to the breeze,
  3. p. 231, line 30Green the midsummer verdure and fresh blows the dallying breeze,
  4. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  5. p. 312, line 13The rain, the growing corn, the breeze among the long-leav'd corn,
  6. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
  7. p. 395, line 10At last at nightfall strikes the breeze aright, her whole luck veering,
  8. p. 406, line 20[…] Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A […]

breezed see breez'd

breezes 6

  1. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  2. p. 145, line 13I feel the ship's motion under me, I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,
  3. p. 202, line 20As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
  4. p. 258, line 24The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,
  5. p. 281, line 18And healthy uplands with herby-perfumed breezes,
  6. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,

Bremen 1

  1. p. 115, line 7Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen,

brethren 4

  1. p. 106, line 24O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
  2. p. 166, line 1Farewell my brethren,
  3. p. 270, line 10That, O my brethren, that is the mission of poets.
  4. 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.

brevier 1

  1. p. 386, line 14(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,)

brew'd 1 today: brewed

  1. p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,

brewed see brew'd

brewers 1

  1. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,

brewery 1

  1. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,

brewing 1

  1. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,

bribed 1

  1. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,

brick 2

  1. p. 285, line 1Her corpse they deposit unclaim'd, it lies on the damp brick pavement,
  2. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?

brick-kiln 1

  1. p. 173, line 20The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brick-kiln,

bricks 2

  1. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
  2. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,

bridal 1

  1. p. 312, line 29I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,

bride 9

  1. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
  3. p. 41, line 1The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute-hand of the clock moves slowly,
  4. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  5. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
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  1. p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
  2. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  3. p. 311, line 2The duet of the bridegroom and the bride, a marriage-march,
  4. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,

bridegroom 5

  1. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  2. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  3. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  4. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  5. p. 311, line 2The duet of the bridegroom and the bride, a marriage-march,

bridegrooms 1

  1. p. 319, line 17As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.

brides 3

  1. p. 126, line 19Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
  2. p. 156, line 13The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride's bed,
  3. p. 319, line 17As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.

bridge 3

  1. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
  2. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  3. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,

bridges 3

  1. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
  2. p. 156, line 4Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,
  3. p. 420, line 12Contestants, battles, crowds, bridges, wharves,

bridging 2

  1. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  2. p. 317, line 15Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,

brief 6

  1. p. 92, line 11With one brief hour of madness and joy.
  2. p. 207, line 23TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,
  3. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  4. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches
  5. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,
  6. p. 427, line 3Perhaps this is in brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the […]

brier 2

  1. p. 198, line 2Or flitting from brier to brier by day,

briers 3

  1. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  2. p. 196, line 19Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
  3. p. 197, line 15Up this seashore in some briers,

brig 2

  1. p. 56, line 21Where the half-burn'd brig is riding on unknown currents,
  2. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,

brigade 8

  1. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  2. p. 233, line 3Of that brigade I tell, and how steadily it march'd,
  3. p. 233, line 6It was the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  4. p. 233, line 11That brigade of the youngest was cut off and at the enemy's mercy.
  5. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  6. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  7. p. 235, line 9Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade.
  8. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;

brigades 2

  1. p. 236, line 3The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press on,
  2. p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,

brigands 2

  1. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  2. p. 357, line 26The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!

bright 20

  1. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
  2. p. 50, line 4Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  3. p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
  4. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  5. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
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  1. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  2. p. 210, line 1How bright shine the cutlasses of the foremost troops!
  3. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  4. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  5. p. 229, line 20How the true thunder bellows after the lightning—how bright the flashes of lightning!
  6. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  7. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  8. p. 307, line 6In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever,
  9. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  10. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;
  11. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  12. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
  13. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  14. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  15. p. 413, line 36[…] beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example […]

brighten'd 1 today: brightened

  1. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,

brightened see brighten'd

brighter 2

  1. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  2. p. 246, line 28In heaven brighter growing.)

bright-eyed 1

  1. p. 294, line 6The robin where he hops, bright-eyed, brown-breasted,

brightness 2

  1. p. 280, line 1But on these days of brightness,
  2. p. 306, line 2The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,

brilliant 1

  1. p. 415, line 20Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,

brim 1

  1. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,

brindled 1

  1. p. 307, line 18Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white line running along his back, some are brindled,

brine 4

  1. p. 46, line 22Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
  2. p. 206, line 29THE world below the brine,
  3. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  4. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

bring 38

  1. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
  2. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  3. p. 58, line 27My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  4. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  5. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
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  1. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
  2. p. 71, line 10And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  3. p. 73, line 6We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  4. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  5. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  6. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
  7. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  8. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
  9. p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
  10. p. 163, line 12Our own rondure, the current globe I bring.
  11. p. 171, line 3I bring what you much need yet always have,
  12. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  13. p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
  14. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  15. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  16. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
  17. p. 257, line 5Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,
  18. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  19. p. 271, line 15What is this you bring my America?
  20. p. 277, line 22Or from the sea of Time, collecting vasting all, I bring,
  21. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  22. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,
  23. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
  24. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
  25. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  26. p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
  27. p. 356, line 27Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.
  28. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)
  29. p. 434, line 23[…] display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought […]
  30. p. 435, line 22[…] its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While […]

bringer 1

  1. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,

bringest 1

  1. p. 387, line 2Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?

bringing 7

  1. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  2. p. 150, line 12Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,
  3. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
  4. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
  5. p. 228, line 3Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, (ever-enlarging stars,)
  6. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.
  7. p. 425, line 22[…] with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]

brings 8

  1. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  2. p. 189, line 7O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
  3. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
  4. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,
  5. p. 394, line 26Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
  6. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
  7. p. 434, line 29[…] any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out […]

briny 3

  1. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  2. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  3. p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,

brisk 1

  1. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,

bristling 1

  1. p. 253, line 10As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders,

Bristol 1

  1. p. 117, line 15I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,

Britain 1

  1. p. 115, line 10I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,

British 4

  1. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,
  2. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,
  3. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
  4. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,

brittle 1

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

broad 31

  1. p. 33, line 11And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  2. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
  3. p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
  4. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  5. p. 87, line 11Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
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  1. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  2. p. 126, line 27Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
  3. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  4. p. 162, line 30All occupations, duties broad and close,
  5. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  6. p. 181, line 4In this broad earth of ours,
  7. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  8. p. 183, line 31We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
  9. p. 224, line 29It is so broad it covers the whole sky.
  10. p. 226, line 2Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner,
  11. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  12. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  13. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  14. p. 297, line 7Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
  15. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  16. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,
  17. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
  18. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  19. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  20. p. 366, line 6BY broad Potomac's shore, again old tongue,
  21. p. 369, line 1AS I walk these broad majestic days of peace,
  22. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
  23. p. 390, line 21Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling,
  24. p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
  25. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:

broadcast 1

  1. p. 266, line 11Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night,

broadcloth 3

  1. p. 34, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  2. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  3. p. 128, line 15Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,

broader 2

  1. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  2. p. 427, line 41[…] anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to […]

broadest 1

  1. p. 427, line 25[…] or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening […]

Broadway 6

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  2. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
  3. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
  4. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
  5. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,
  6. p. 384, line 38[…] Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone […]

broiling 1

  1. p. 36, line 4Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,

broke 2

  1. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  2. p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,

broken 14

  1. p. 60, line 12I am the mash'd fireman with breast-bone broken,
  2. p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
  3. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  4. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  5. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
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  1. p. 235, line 20Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
  2. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
  3. p. 261, line 22And the staffs all splinter'd and broken.
  4. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  5. 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,
  6. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!
  7. p. 370, line 19I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,
  8. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,

broken-lipp'd 1

  1. p. 159, line 5Silent the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century-baffling tombs,

brokers 2

  1. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
  2. p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,

bronze 1

  1. p. 160, line 26Bronze, lilac, robin's-egg, marine and crimson,

brood 14

  1. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  2. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  3. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
  4. p. 39, line 3The brood of the turkey-hen and she with her half-spread wings,
  5. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,
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  1. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  2. p. 160, line 29A brood of lofty, fair, but lesser palaces shall cluster.
  3. p. 194, line 26The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,
  4. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,
  5. p. 320, line 29The young maturity of brood and bloom,
  6. p. 346, line 20THOU Mother with thy equal brood,
  7. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  8. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  9. p. 403, line 13"Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,

brood-cow 1

  1. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,

brooding 5

  1. p. 190, line 20YEAR of meteors! brooding year!
  2. p. 312, line 7This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.)
  3. p. 340, line 6Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles,
  4. p. 388, line 25The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
  5. p. 392, line 7Thy brooding scowl and murk—thy unloos'd hurricanes,

broods 1

  1. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,

brook 3

  1. p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  2. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  3. p. 320, line 4Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.

Brooklyn 8

  1. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  2. p. 131, line 16I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine,
  3. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
  4. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
  5. p. 233, line 26Few return'd, nearly all remain in Brooklyn.
  6. p. 234, line 27I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.
  7. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  8. p. 328, line 21Now of the older war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,

brooks 5

  1. p. 49, line 19You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
  2. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,
  3. p. 277, line 3Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations,
  4. p. 294, line 4All that is jocund and sparkling, the brooks running,
  5. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!

bro't 1

  1. p. 404, line 7Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;

brother 26

  1. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  2. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  3. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  4. p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
  5. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
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  1. p. 134, line 16A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
  2. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  3. 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.
  4. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
  5. p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  6. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  7. p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
  8. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
  9. p. 198, line 14Yes my brother I know,
  10. p. 198, line 23Following you my brother.
  11. p. 201, line 26But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
  12. p. 240, line 15Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.
  13. p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
  14. p. 259, line 7Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
  15. p. 287, line 7COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!
  16. p. 298, line 4MY spirit to yours dear brother,
  17. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  18. p. 340, line 2Comrade of criminals, brother of slaves,
  19. p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
  20. p. 415, line 15WELCOME, Brazilian brother—thy ample place is ready;

brotherhood 4

  1. p. 107, line 20But when I hear of the brotherhood of lovers, how it was with them,
  2. p. 118, line 12I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
  3. p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,
  4. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;

brotherly 1

  1. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.

brothers 13

  1. p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
  2. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  3. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  4. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  5. p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  3. p. 166, line 26Joys of the life befitting me and brothers mine,
  4. p. 166, line 28Nor yield we mournfully majestic brothers,
  5. p. 212, line 18They live in brothers again ready to defy you,
  6. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  7. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  8. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)

brought 20

  1. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  2. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  3. p. 71, line 9Births have brought us richness and variety,
  4. p. 79, line 11The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
  5. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
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  1. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
  2. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,
  3. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  4. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
  5. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  6. p. 232, line 30Twenty thousand were brought against us,
  7. p. 240, line 4Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
  8. p. 242, line 20Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in,
  9. p. 246, line 17For the son is brought with the father,
  10. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
  11. p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
  12. p. 316, line 21The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
  13. p. 319, line 21Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward,
  14. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  15. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,

brow 3

  1. p. 252, line 20Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world,
  2. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
  3. p. 389, line 7Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.

brown 17

  1. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  2. p. 33, line 1And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  3. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  4. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,
  5. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,
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  1. p. 105, line 16My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
  2. p. 120, line 25The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
  3. p. 172, line 6Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  4. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
  5. p. 199, line 5What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
  6. p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
  7. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
  8. p. 226, line 9But these and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours,
  9. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,
  10. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
  11. 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,
  12. p. 339, line 7As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws,

brown-breasted 1

  1. p. 294, line 6The robin where he hops, bright-eyed, brown-breasted,

brown-faced 3

  1. p. 144, line 12Another time fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake bay, I one of the brown-faced crew;
  2. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  3. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,

brownish 1

  1. p. 240, line 5Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,

brows 2

  1. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
  2. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,

browse 3

  1. p. 57, line 8Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
  2. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  3. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,

bruis'd 3 today: bruised

  1. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  2. p. 328, line 8He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out,
  3. p. 328, line 10His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruis'd on rocks,

bruised see bruis'd

bruises 1

  1. p. 437, line 39[…] its own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]

brunt 1

  1. p. 183, line 10We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,

brush 2

  1. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,

brushes 1

  1. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,

brush-making 1

  1. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,

Brussels 1

  1. p. 117, line 16I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

brutal 1

  1. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,

brutes 4

  1. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
  2. p. 207, line 17All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
  3. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
  4. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?

brutish 3

  1. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  2. p. 288, line 22Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and undevelop'd,
  3. p. 324, line 17Haply the brutish measureless human undergrowth I know,

bubbled 1

  1. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,

bubbles 3

  1. p. 203, line 27Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
  2. p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
  3. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,

bubbling 1

  1. p. 209, line 10Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

buck 2

  1. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,

bucke 2

  1. p. 426, line 14In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am. Behind all else […]
  2. p. 432, line 21[…] and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the […]

Buckeye 1

  1. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;

buckle 1

  1. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,

buckley's 1

  1. p. 433, line 8[…] latter mostly in an old wood. The Iliad (Buckley's prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula of […]

buckshot 1

  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,

buckwheat 4

  1. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,
  2. p. 236, line 25Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
  3. p. 245, line 9Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;
  4. p. 282, line 10Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs;

bud 1

  1. p. 324, line 20Haply the lifeless cross I know, Europe's dead cross, may bud and blossom there.

Buddha 2

  1. p. 67, line 8Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha,
  2. p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,

budding 2

  1. p. 320, line 30To realms of budding bibles.
  2. p. 437, line 2[…] since what might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had […]

buds 6

  1. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  2. p. 104, line 6Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
  3. p. 384, line 61[…] Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of […]
  4. p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.
  5. p. 406, line 38[…] Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my Fancy […]
  6. p. 421, line 19UNSEEN buds, infinite, hidden well,

buffalo 3

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,

buff-color'd 1

  1. p. 307, line 18Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white line running along his back, some are brindled,

buffet 1

  1. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,

buffeting 1

  1. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,

buffetings 1

  1. p. 426, line 3[…] of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought to have […]

bug 1

  1. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,

bugle 3

  1. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
  2. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
  3. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;

bugle-calls 2

  1. p. 310, line 23Echoes of camps with all the different bugle-calls,
  2. p. 315, line 14Nor flutes, nor harps, nor the bugle-calls of camps,

bugles 12

  1. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
  2. p. 162, line 9Thy bugles sounding loud and clear.
  3. p. 222, line 4BEAT! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
  4. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
  5. p. 222, line 11Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
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  1. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
  2. p. 222, line 18Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
  3. p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
  4. p. 246, line 10And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
  5. p. 246, line 21Now nearer blow the bugles,
  6. p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
  7. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,

build 9

  1. p. 12, line 19We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
  2. p. 12, line 20But really build eidólons.
  3. p. 160, line 11We build to ours to-day.
  4. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  5. p. 169, line 11To build a grander future.
  6. p. 268, line 20O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
  7. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  8. p. 430, line 36[…] to be in future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd […]

builded 1

  1. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,

builder 1

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

builders 2

  1. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
  2. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.

building 14

  1. p. 135, line 5The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there,
  2. p. 150, line 13The echoes resounding through the vacant building;
  3. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  4. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  5. p. 239, line 4Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,
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  1. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,
  4. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
  5. p. 334, line 1To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  6. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  7. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  8. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  9. p. 398, line 3As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,

buildings 6

  1. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  2. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  3. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  4. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  5. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
  6. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,

builds 2

  1. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  2. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.

built 9

  1. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  2. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
  3. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  4. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  5. p. 285, line 6That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built!
  6. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  7. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,
  8. p. 436, line 37[…] a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in […]

Bulgarian 1

  1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!

bulge 2

  1. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 112, line 22Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,

bulged 1

  1. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,

bulging 1

  1. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,

bulk 4

  1. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  2. p. 181, line 25Out of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 436, line 19[…] of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten […]

bulk-heads 1

  1. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;

bull 3

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  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. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,

bull-dances 1

  1. p. 57, line 1At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,

bullet 3

  1. p. 243, line 5The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I examine,
  2. p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
  3. p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,

bullets 3

  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  2. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  3. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,

bullet-wound 1

  1. p. 243, line 17I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,

bullion 1

  1. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,

bullock 1

  1. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,

bullock's 1

  1. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,

bull's 1

  1. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,

bulwark 1

  1. p. 164, line 25Protectress absolute, thou! bulwark of all!

bunch 3

  1. p. 91, line 10And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself,
  2. p. 100, line 7And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut,
  3. p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.

bunches 4

  1. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  2. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  3. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,

bundle 2

  1. p. 329, line 12On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush-bottoming chairs,
  2. p. 377, line 5I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.

bunting 3

  1. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  2. p. 367, line 27THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! flag of stars!
  3. p. 368, line 6Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!

buoy 1

  1. p. 66, line 23I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,

buoyancy 2

  1. p. 435, line 2[…] Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd […]
  2. p. 437, line 17[…] materialism, through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of […]

buoyant 3

  1. p. 209, line 12Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
  2. p. 224, line 15Floating so buoyant with milk-white foam on the waters.
  3. p. 408, line 5[…] last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell […]

buoyantly 1

  1. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,

buoy'd 3 today: buoyed

  1. p. 10, line 8Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
  2. p. 204, line 3Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
  3. p. 418, line 26In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.

buoyed see buoy'd

buoys 2

  1. 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,)
  2. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,

Burampooter 1

  1. p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,

burden 2

  1. p. 183, line 19We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
  2. p. 386, line 19Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,

burdens 3

  1. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  2. p. 121, line 9(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
  3. p. 162, line 32The old, old practical burdens, interests, joys,

bureaus 1

  1. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,

Burg 1

  1. p. 314, line 9Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott,

burial 10

  1. p. 57, line 15Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,
  2. p. 125, line 21The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.
  3. p. 188, line 5Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted,
  4. p. 206, line 1While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
  5. p. 206, line 20Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
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  1. p. 246, line 31O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
  2. p. 334, line 5Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth—they never cease—they are the burial lines,
  3. p. 372, line 5Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for a burial,
  4. p. 399, line 14From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
  5. p. 413, line 7OVER and through the burial chant,

burial-cairns 1

  1. p. 116, line 14I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,

burial-clouds 1

  1. p. 206, line 8Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,

burial-house 1

  1. p. 258, line 10To adorn the burial-house of him I love?

burial-place 1

  1. p. 340, line 24And I found that every place was a burial-place;

burial-places 2

  1. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  2. p. 341, line 4And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them,

burials 2

  1. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  2. p. 344, line 2O the burials of me past and present,

burial-squads 1

  1. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches

buried 15

  1. p. 25, line 11How can the real body ever die and be buried?
  2. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
  3. p. 60, line 13Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  4. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  5. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
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  1. p. 238, line 26And buried him where he fell.
  2. p. 240, line 19Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand,)
  3. p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  4. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  5. p. 376, line 16To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
  6. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  7. p. 416, line 2Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,
  8. p. 431, line 26[…] grown out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important […]

burin'd 1 today: burined

  1. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,

burined see burin'd

burn 2

  1. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
  2. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!

burned see burnt

burning 10

  1. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  2. p. 62, line 5At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;
  3. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  4. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  5. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
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  1. p. 250, line 8Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
  2. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  3. p. 276, line 18Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!
  4. p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
  5. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,

burnish'd 1 today: burnished

  1. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!

burnished see burnish'd

burns 2

  1. p. 322, line 34Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
  2. p. 344, line 23The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,

burnt 4 today: burned

burnt 3 · burn'd 1

  1. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
  2. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  3. p. 59, line 27The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on,
  4. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,

burrowing 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.

burst 10

  1. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  2. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  3. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  4. p. 204, line 28(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st,
  5. p. 222, line 5Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
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  1. p. 227, line 17I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded,
  2. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  3. p. 233, line 13They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment,
  4. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  5. p. 338, line 13Then we burst forth, we float,

bursting 7

  1. p. 151, line 20The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly,
  2. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  3. p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
  4. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  5. p. 249, line 4And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
  6. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
  7. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,

bursts 3

  1. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
  2. p. 286, line 8The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
  3. p. 344, line 16The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,

burying 3

  1. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
  2. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  3. p. 418, line 4Then after burying, mourning the dead,

bush 3

  1. p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  2. p. 256, line 1With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard,
  3. p. 294, line 20To grace the bush I love—to sing with the birds,

bush-boy 1

  1. p. 58, line 4Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,)

bushes 4

  1. p. 257, line 10Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,
  2. p. 259, line 5Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
  3. p. 294, line 17The lilac-scent, the bushes with dark green heart-shaped leaves,
  4. p. 388, line 17The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.

bush-life 1

  1. p. 65, line 15The mountains? prairie-life, bush-life? or sailor from the sea?

bushy 1

  1. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,

busier 1

  1. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.

busiest 1

  1. p. 362, line 23Companion of the city's busiest streets, through the assemblage,

business 14

  1. p. 22, line 23Your ambition or business whatever it may be?
  2. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
  3. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  4. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
  5. p. 220, line 24Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business;)
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  1. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  2. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  3. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,
  4. p. 376, line 23THE business man the acquirer vast,
  5. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  6. p. 425, line 31[…] though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than […]
  7. p. 426, line 8[…] partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders […]
  8. p. 426, line 32[…] the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée […]

busses 1

  1. p. 72, line 20Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,

bussing 1

  1. p. 72, line 20Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,

bustard 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.

buster 1

  1. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.

bustle 2

  1. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
  2. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,

busy 11

  1. p. 12, line 34America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
  2. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  3. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  4. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  5. p. 161, line 2In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization,
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  1. p. 168, line 24A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere,
  2. p. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,
  3. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
  4. p. 259, line 19And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,
  5. p. 281, line 12Busy the far, the sunlit panorama,
  6. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,

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butcher 4

  1. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
  2. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
  3. p. 174, line 15Beef on the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes,

butcher-boy 1

  1. p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,

butcher's 1

  1. p. 174, line 15Beef on the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes,

butter-color'd 1

  1. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,

butterflies 2

  1. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  2. p. 293, line 28Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,

buttes 1

  1. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,

buy 2

  1. p. 135, line 3All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy,
  2. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.

buying 3

  1. p. 67, line 8Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha,
  2. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  3. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.

buzzard 2

  1. p. 54, line 15In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  2. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,

buzz'd 1 today: buzzed

  1. p. 30, line 2Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,

buzzed see buzz'd

buzzer 1

  1. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,

buzzing 1

  1. p. 236, line 25Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)

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bye-gone 1

  1. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,

by-gone 2

  1. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
  2. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,

bygones 1

  1. p. 11, line 4YOU who celebrate bygones,

by-place 1

  1. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,

by-road 1

  1. p. 353, line 1SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!

Byzantium 1

  1. p. 319, line 32The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,