Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “body”

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  1. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  2. p. 14, line 5Thy body permanent,
  3. p. 14, line 6The body lurking there within thy body,
  4. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  5. p. 21, line 8And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
  6. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  7. p. 25, line 11How can the real body ever die and be buried?
  8. p. 25, line 12Of your real body and any man's or woman's real body,
  9. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  10. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;
  11. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
  12. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  13. p. 45, line 15I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
  14. 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,
  15. p. 59, line 14They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.
  16. p. 65, line 21They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  17. p. 72, line 20Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,
  18. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  19. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  20. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
  21. p. 79, line 26O for any and each the body correlative attracting!
  22. p. 80, line 1O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
  23. p. 80, line 12The welcome nearness, the sight of the perfect body,
  24. p. 81, line 16I SING the body electric,
  25. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  26. p. 81, line 23And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
  27. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
  28. p. 84, line 11You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
  29. p. 85, line 3The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred,
  30. p. 85, line 14A man's body at auction,
  31. p. 86, line 10A woman's body at auction,
  32. p. 86, line 13Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
  33. p. 86, line 14Have you ever loved the body of a man?
  34. p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
  35. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.
  36. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  37. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  38. p. 87, line 17All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one's body, male or female,
  39. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  40. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  41. p. 90, line 6The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body of the man, the body of the earth,
  42. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  43. p. 93, line 26So the body of me to all I meet or know.
  44. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  45. p. 95, line 16Be not afraid of my body.
  46. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  47. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  48. p. 131, line 22I too had receiv'd identity by my body,
  49. p. 131, line 23That I was I knew was of my body, and what I should be I knew I should be of my body.
  50. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  51. p. 137, line 17Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
  52. 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,
  53. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  54. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
  55. p. 146, line 12My body done with materials, my sight done with my material eyes,
  56. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
  57. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
  58. p. 147, line 26My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
  59. p. 147, line 27My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
  60. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  61. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  62. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  63. p. 176, line 8(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,
  64. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  65. p. 185, line 9I too with my soul and body,
  66. p. 186, line 12Your true soul and body appear before me,
  67. p. 205, line 25Ship of the body, ship of the soul, voyaging, voyaging, voyaging.
  68. p. 213, line 18Complete in body and dilate in spirit,
  69. p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
  70. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  71. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  72. p. 258, line 19Lo, body and soul—this land,
  73. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
  74. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
  75. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  76. 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.
  77. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  78. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  79. p. 273, line 10Dismiss'd whatever insulted my own soul or defiled my body,
  80. p. 285, line 2The divine woman, her body, I see the body, I look on it alone,
  81. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
  82. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  83. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  84. p. 291, line 24Who favors body and soul the same,
  85. p. 292, line 26The ruthless body dragg'd me in;
  86. p. 292, line 28The body was too much for me.
  87. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  88. p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
  89. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
  90. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  91. p. 327, line 21A shroud I see and I am the shroud, I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,
  92. p. 328, line 3I see his white body, I see his undaunted eyes,
  93. p. 328, line 10His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruis'd on rocks,
  94. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
  95. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  96. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  97. p. 359, line 1Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
  98. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  99. p. 374, line 25Illustrious the attribute of speech, the senses, the body,
  100. p. 375, line 12To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large!
  101. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  102. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
  103. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,
  104. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  105. p. 433, line 33[…] however far a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and […]
  106. p. 436, line 29[…] stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]