Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “come”

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  1. p. 10, line 3Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles,
  2. p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
  3. p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
  4. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  5. p. 24, line 11For those who belong here and those to come,
  6. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
  7. p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  8. p. 32, line 10Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
  9. p. 33, line 22Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  10. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  11. p. 35, line 19I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
  12. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  13. p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
  14. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  15. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  16. p. 52, line 5(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
  17. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  18. p. 65, line 9Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
  19. p. 67, line 4Magnifying and applying come I,
  20. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  21. p. 68, line 5Come my children,
  22. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
  23. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  24. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  25. p. 73, line 16I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)
  26. p. 76, line 25Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
  27. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  28. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  29. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  30. p. 94, line 11I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,
  31. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  32. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
  33. p. 99, line 1COME, I will make the continent indissoluble,
  34. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
  35. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  36. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  37. p. 111, line 14O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
  38. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  39. p. 125, line 4Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!
  40. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  41. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
  42. p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
  43. p. 128, line 1Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!
  44. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  45. p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
  46. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  47. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  48. p. 133, line 23Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters!
  49. p. 143, line 24I come with my clam-rake and spade, I come with my eel-spear,
  50. p. 158, line 11Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,
  51. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  52. p. 161, line 26Echoed through long, long centuries to come,
  53. p. 163, line 6For the eternal real life to come.
  54. p. 163, line 25For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands;
  55. p. 166, line 3My time has ended, my term has come.
  56. p. 166, line 27Our time, our term has come.
  57. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
  58. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  59. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  60. p. 173, line 12Will the whole come back then?
  61. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  62. p. 180, line 17It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
  63. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  64. p. 181, line 1COME said the Muse,
  65. p. 183, line 5COME my tan-faced children,
  66. p. 184, line 3From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
  67. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  68. p. 186, line 20I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
  69. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
  70. p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
  71. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  72. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  73. p. 193, line 8OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
  74. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  75. p. 197, line 27Day come white, or night come black,
  76. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  77. p. 204, line 9Just as much whence we come that blare of the cloud-trumpets,
  78. p. 210, line 3A fog follows, antiques of the same come limping,
  79. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  80. p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,
  81. p. 212, line 27He will soon return, his messengers come anon.
  82. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  83. p. 223, line 29Come up here, bard, bard,
  84. p. 223, line 30Come up here, soul, soul,
  85. p. 224, line 1Come up here, dear little child,
  86. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  87. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  88. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  89. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
  90. p. 237, line 4But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter's call,
  91. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
  92. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  93. p. 241, line 15AN old man bending I come among new faces,
  94. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  95. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,
  96. p. 243, line 7(Come sweet death! be persuaded O beautiful death!
  97. p. 243, line 8In mercy come quickly.)
  98. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  99. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  100. p. 254, line 14But what remains remains for singers for you—wars to come are for you,
  101. p. 257, line 11With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
  102. p. 257, line 26I hear, I come presently, I understand you,
  103. p. 260, line 14Come lovely and soothing death,
  104. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  105. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  106. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.
  107. p. 290, line 14The interest will come round—all will come round.
  108. p. 293, line 2The heavenly pardoner death shall come.
  109. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
  110. p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
  111. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  112. 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.
  113. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  114. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  115. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  116. p. 302, line 20Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man,
  117. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  118. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  119. p. 303, line 4Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient,
  120. p. 310, line 26Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
  121. p. 311, line 33The journey done, the journeyman come home,
  122. p. 312, line 20All songs of current lands come sounding round me,
  123. p. 315, line 4Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
  124. p. 317, line 23Over my mood stealing and spreading they come,
  125. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  126. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  127. p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
  128. p. 324, line 2Accepting all from Thee, as duly come from Thee.
  129. p. 327, line 2My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
  130. p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
  131. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  132. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
  133. p. 341, line 15Come tell me where I am speeding, tell me my destination.
  134. p. 341, line 18Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me;
  135. p. 347, line 5But leave to those to come the house itself.
  136. p. 347, line 8But greater still from what is yet to come,
  137. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  138. p. 350, line 11These! these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.
  139. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  140. p. 355, line 14Come here she blushingly cries, Come nigh to me limber-hipp'd man,
  141. p. 356, line 11Come nearer bodiless one, haply in thee resounds
  142. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  143. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  144. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,
  145. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  146. p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,
  147. p. 376, line 11O setting sun! though the time has come,
  148. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  149. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"
  150. p. 409, line 10AND whence and why come you?
  151. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  152. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  153. p. 417, line 17Although I come and unannounc'd, in horror and in pang,
  154. p. 430, line 5[…] of their point of view,* the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in […]
  155. p. 430, line 27[…] sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry […]
  156. p. 433, line 39[…] and much more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if […]
  157. p. 433, line 40[…] and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect […]
  158. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal type […]
  159. p. 436, line 38[…] editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now to […]