Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  2. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  3. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
  4. p. 15, line 12(Ay through the world, urged by these songs,
  5. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  6. p. 18, line 15Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother,
  7. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  8. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  9. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  10. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  11. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
  12. p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
  13. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  14. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  15. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  16. p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  17. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
  18. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  19. 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,
  20. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  21. p. 37, line 4She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  22. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  23. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  24. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
  25. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
  26. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  27. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  28. 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,
  29. p. 41, line 24The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  30. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  31. p. 44, line 26I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
  32. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  33. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  34. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  35. p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
  36. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  37. p. 48, line 26Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd.
  38. p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
  39. p. 50, line 19Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,
  40. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
  41. p. 51, line 10The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters,
  42. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
  43. p. 51, line 26I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
  44. p. 52, line 20Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
  45. p. 52, line 30I am given up by traitors,
  46. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
  47. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  48. p. 55, line 22By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen,
  49. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  50. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
  51. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,
  52. p. 56, line 24Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
  53. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,
  54. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  55. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  56. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
  57. p. 59, line 8Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,
  58. p. 59, line 10I am a free companion, I bivouac by invading watchfires,
  59. p. 59, line 13My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,
  60. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  61. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  62. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  63. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
  64. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
  65. p. 63, line 17Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,
  66. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  67. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  68. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  69. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  70. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,
  71. 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;
  72. p. 68, line 1By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator,
  73. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  74. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  75. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,
  76. p. 74, line 5For after we start we never lie by again.
  77. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
  78. p. 74, line 21He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  79. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  80. p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
  81. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  82. p. 79, line 16By my side or back of me Eve following,
  83. p. 81, line 9From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing,
  84. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
  85. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  86. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  87. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  88. 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,
  89. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  90. p. 88, line 21They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
  91. p. 93, line 6We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
  92. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
  93. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  94. p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
  95. p. 95, line 18In the growth by margins of pond-waters,
  96. p. 95, line 24Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
  97. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  98. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  99. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  100. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
  101. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
  102. p. 99, line 8By the love of comrades,
  103. p. 99, line 9By the manly love of comrades.
  104. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  105. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  106. p. 100, line 9These I compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits,
  107. p. 100, line 12But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,
  108. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  109. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  110. p. 103, line 9For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
  111. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
  112. 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,
  113. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  114. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  115. p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
  116. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  117. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  118. 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,
  119. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  120. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
  121. 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.
  122. p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,
  123. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  124. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  125. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  126. p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
  127. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  128. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  129. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
  130. p. 126, line 2We convince by our presence.)
  131. 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,
  132. p. 126, line 20Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,
  133. p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
  134. p. 129, line 9Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
  135. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  136. p. 130, line 19Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
  137. p. 131, line 1The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,
  138. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  139. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
  140. p. 131, line 22I too had receiv'd identity by my body,
  141. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  142. 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?
  143. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  144. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  145. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  146. 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,
  147. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  148. p. 139, line 2Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valleys of the Potomac and Rappahannock, and the valleys of the Roanoke and Delaware,
  149. p. 139, line 15The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind,
  150. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  151. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  152. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  153. 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,
  154. 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;
  155. 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,
  156. 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,
  157. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  158. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
  159. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  160. p. 147, line 28O to attract by more than attraction!
  161. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,
  162. p. 149, line 12The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it,
  163. p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,
  164. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
  165. p. 150, line 19The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod-men;
  166. p. 152, line 19Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in return and understands them,
  167. p. 153, line 15All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears;
  168. p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
  169. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  170. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  171. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
  172. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  173. p. 159, line 3Hidden and cover'd by to-day's, foundation of to-day's,
  174. p. 159, line 4Ended, deceas'd through time, her voice by Castaly's fountain,
  175. p. 159, line 9Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind, extinct,
  176. p. 159, line 19And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.
  177. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
  178. p. 159, line 23Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers, artificial fertilizers,
  179. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
  180. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  181. p. 163, line 20Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language,
  182. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
  183. p. 164, line 6There by the furnace, and there by the anvil,
  184. p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
  185. p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
  186. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  187. p. 167, line 25Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
  188. p. 168, line 2Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof,
  189. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  190. p. 171, line 10It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
  191. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  192. p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  193. p. 173, line 13Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
  194. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,
  195. 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,
  196. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,
  197. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  198. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  199. p. 176, line 15The workmanship of souls is by those inaudible words of the earth,
  200. p. 177, line 1They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
  201. p. 181, line 8By every life a share or more or less,
  202. p. 181, line 16In spiral routes by long detours,
  203. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  204. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
  205. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  206. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
  207. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  208. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  209. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  210. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  211. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,
  212. p. 195, line 23Commencing from this day surrounded by the world.
  213. p. 197, line 8A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
  214. p. 198, line 2Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
  215. p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
  216. p. 201, line 6By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,
  217. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  218. p. 202, line 8Was seiz'd by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
  219. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
  220. p. 203, line 24I mean tenderly by you and all,
  221. p. 204, line 15On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
  222. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,
  223. p. 205, line 18An ocean-bell—O a warning bell, rock'd by the waves.
  224. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
  225. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  226. p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
  227. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
  228. p. 208, line 11(Ever the heroes on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
  229. p. 209, line 3Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
  230. p. 210, line 7Phantoms! phantoms countless by flank and rear!
  231. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
  232. p. 212, line 9Out of its robes only this, the red robes lifted by the arm,
  233. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,
  234. p. 212, line 19They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.
  235. p. 213, line 32Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
  236. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  237. p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
  238. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  239. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  240. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  241. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  242. p. 222, line 2Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp'd cannon,
  243. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
  244. p. 223, line 10Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
  245. p. 223, line 11By the wind's voice and that of the drum,
  246. p. 223, line 12By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
  247. p. 224, line 10How envied by all the earth.
  248. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  249. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
  250. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  251. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  252. p. 228, line 19I sail'd through the storm, I was refresh'd by the storm,
  253. p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
  254. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
  255. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  256. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
  257. p. 236, line 8BY the bivouac's fitful flame,
  258. p. 236, line 11The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
  259. p. 236, line 17By the bivouac's fitful flame.
  260. p. 237, line 17By the jamb of a door leans.
  261. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  262. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  263. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
  264. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  265. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
  266. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  267. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  268. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  269. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
  270. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
  271. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,
  272. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  273. p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
  274. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  275. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  276. p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
  277. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  278. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  279. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
  280. p. 247, line 21Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
  281. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  282. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,
  283. p. 249, line 7Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
  284. p. 249, line 16And courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by.
  285. p. 251, line 4HOW solemn as one by one,
  286. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  287. p. 256, line 8Sings by himself a song.
  288. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  289. p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
  290. p. 264, line 1BY blue Ontario's shore,
  291. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
  292. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  293. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
  294. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
  295. p. 268, line 25I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
  296. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  297. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  298. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  299. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  300. 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?
  301. p. 272, line 6By the roadside others disdainfully toss'd.
  302. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  303. p. 273, line 16I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
  304. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  305. p. 275, line 6I will not be outfaced by irrational things,
  306. p. 276, line 1Thus by blue Ontario's shore,
  307. p. 276, line 10Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
  308. p. 276, line 20You by my charm I invoke.
  309. p. 279, line 7Dispensatress, that by a word givest a thousand miles, a million farms, and missest nothing,
  310. p. 280, line 10Your memories rising glide silently by me.
  311. p. 280, line 15I saw them approaching, defiling by with divisions,
  312. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,
  313. 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,
  314. p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
  315. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
  316. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  317. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  318. p. 284, line 25BY the city dead-house by the gate,
  319. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  320. p. 287, line 10Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,
  321. p. 290, line 20All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,
  322. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  323. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  324. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  325. p. 291, line 19Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
  326. p. 292, line 10(There by the hundreds seated, sear-faced murderers, wily counterfeiters,
  327. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  328. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,
  329. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)
  330. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  331. p. 296, line 3Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
  332. p. 296, line 4By you, your banks Connecticut,
  333. p. 296, line 5By you and all your teeming life old Thames,
  334. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
  335. p. 297, line 1As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
  336. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
  337. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  338. p. 301, line 26By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
  339. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  340. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  341. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  342. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,
  343. p. 306, line 12Star crucified—by traitors sold,
  344. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,
  345. p. 310, line 19You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses,
  346. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
  347. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,
  348. p. 315, line 7Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.
  349. p. 315, line 23The New by its mighty railroad spann'd,
  350. p. 316, line 2So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)
  351. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  352. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
  353. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  354. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
  355. p. 324, line 12By me and these the work so far accomplish'd,
  356. p. 324, line 13By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,
  357. p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
  358. p. 325, line 23The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  359. p. 325, line 24The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  360. p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,
  361. p. 328, line 14The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,
  362. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  363. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,
  364. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,
  365. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  366. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
  367. p. 339, line 15Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems,
  368. p. 341, line 22I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;
  369. p. 341, line 23But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me,
  370. p. 343, line 7I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
  371. p. 344, line 12I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,
  372. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  373. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  374. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  375. p. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  376. p. 348, line 5By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
  377. p. 348, line 9Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it,
  378. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
  379. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  380. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
  381. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
  382. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  383. p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
  384. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  385. p. 353, line 12A wild hawk, his wings clipp'd by the clipper,
  386. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,
  387. p. 354, line 5This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
  388. p. 355, line 21It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  389. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
  390. p. 359, line 13By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
  391. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
  392. p. 359, line 20Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd,
  393. 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,
  394. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  395. p. 362, line 11Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,
  396. p. 362, line 27Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night,
  397. p. 363, line 8How, justified by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
  398. p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
  399. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  400. p. 364, line 22Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.
  401. p. 366, line 6BY broad Potomac's shore, again old tongue,
  402. p. 366, line 27The loftiest of life upheld by death,
  403. p. 368, line 9Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,
  404. p. 370, line 18I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,
  405. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!
  406. p. 372, line 8Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,
  407. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!
  408. p. 376, line 18I sit by the form in the coffin,
  409. p. 379, line 22THE untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
  410. p. 384, line 27[…] Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election […]
  411. p. 384, line 61[…] Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me […]
  412. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  413. p. 385, line 20Quench'd by an early death.
  414. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
  415. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
  416. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
  417. p. 390, line 26By that long scan of waves, myself call'd back, resumed upon myself,
  418. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,
  419. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  420. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,
  421. p. 392, line 24As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,
  422. p. 393, line 5Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
  423. p. 393, line 24Wherever Freedom, pois'd by Toleration, sway'd by Law,
  424. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
  425. p. 395, line 6In his great arm chair by the window seated,
  426. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  427. p. 398, line 26By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,
  428. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  429. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  430. p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.
  431. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
  432. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,
  433. p. 404, line 7Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
  434. p. 407, line 10[…] Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me […]
  435. p. 407, line 18[…] year—hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape this small old age collation […]
  436. p. 408, line 27[…] summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the future […]
  437. p. 408, line 32[…] indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you […]
  438. p. 413, line 39[…] proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and […]
  439. p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,
  440. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  441. p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,
  442. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  443. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,
  444. p. 417, line 14Dash'd pell-mell by the blow—yet usher'd life continuing on,
  445. p. 426, line 11[…] being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had […]
  446. p. 426, line 13[…] on record—the value thereof to be decided by time […]
  447. p. 427, line 32[…] God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the […]
  448. p. 427, line 43[…] may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times […]
  449. p. 428, line 33[…] carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They […]
  450. p. 429, line 6[…] on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and […]
  451. p. 430, line 6[…] and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes […]
  452. p. 430, line 37[…] concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse […]
  453. p. 431, line 21[…] adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at […]
  454. p. 433, line 11[…] have wonder'd since why I was not overwhelm'd by those mighty masters. Likely because I read them, as described […]
  455. p. 433, line 22[…] mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our […]
  456. p. 433, line 45[…] Secession War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and […]
  457. p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip […]
  458. p. 435, line 29[…] man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually […]
  459. p. 435, line 30[…] to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the […]
  460. p. 436, line 24[…] I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of […]
  461. p. 436, line 25[…] the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether in its relations […]
  462. p. 437, line 42[…] from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one of […]
  463. p. 438, line 24[…] the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old World, and remain unsupplied with […]