Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “day”

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  1. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  2. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
  3. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  4. p. 20, line 26I stand in my place with my own day here.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  7. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  8. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  9. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  10. p. 36, line 10You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  11. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  12. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  13. p. 51, line 6Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
  14. p. 58, line 4Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,)
  15. p. 58, line 19I tread day and night such roads.
  16. p. 66, line 16(This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.)
  17. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  18. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,
  19. p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
  20. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  21. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  22. p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  23. p. 78, line 19The last scud of day holds back for me,
  24. p. 80, line 2From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
  25. p. 84, line 6Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  26. p. 84, line 7Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.
  27. p. 89, line 22The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,
  28. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  29. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  30. p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
  31. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  32. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
  33. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
  34. p. 100, line 27Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
  35. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  36. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  37. 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,
  38. 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,
  39. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  40. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
  41. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  42. p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
  43. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  44. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  45. p. 129, line 15The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,
  46. p. 131, line 19In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me,
  47. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  48. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  49. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  50. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  51. 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,
  52. 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,
  53. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  54. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  55. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  56. p. 147, line 7Joy of the glad light-beaming day, joy of the wide-breath'd games?
  57. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  58. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  59. p. 164, line 3Wielding all day their axes.
  60. p. 164, line 28Nor ship, nor mine, nor any here this day secure,
  61. p. 164, line 29Nor aught, nor any day secure.
  62. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  63. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  64. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  65. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  66. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  67. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  68. p. 178, line 2Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
  69. p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
  70. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  71. p. 193, line 6And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
  72. p. 195, line 23Commencing from this day surrounded by the world.
  73. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  74. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
  75. p. 197, line 20And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
  76. p. 197, line 27Day come white, or night come black,
  77. p. 198, line 2Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
  78. p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
  79. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,
  80. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  81. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,
  82. p. 211, line 18Turn back unto this day and make yourselves afresh.
  83. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
  84. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
  85. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  86. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  87. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
  88. p. 234, line 8So dull and damp and another day,
  89. p. 235, line 5Baptized that day in many a young man's bloody wounds,
  90. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  91. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  92. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  93. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  94. p. 245, line 1Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,
  95. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  96. p. 249, line 14No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
  97. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  98. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  99. p. 256, line 18Night and day journeys a coffin.
  100. p. 256, line 20Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,
  101. p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
  102. p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
  103. p. 260, line 16In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
  104. p. 266, line 11Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night,
  105. p. 268, line 5(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
  106. 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?
  107. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  108. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,
  109. p. 280, line 11I saw the day the return of the heroes,
  110. p. 280, line 13Them that day I saw not.)
  111. p. 282, line 17THERE was a child went forth every day,
  112. p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
  113. p. 283, line 13They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
  114. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  115. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  116. 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,
  117. p. 292, line 8The sun was low in the west one winter day,
  118. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  119. p. 301, line 24WHERE the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day,
  120. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  121. p. 315, line 5Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
  122. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  123. p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
  124. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  125. p. 323, line 20Haply I may not live another day;
  126. p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
  127. p. 326, line 7The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
  128. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  129. p. 332, line 15I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
  130. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  131. p. 333, line 11Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement,
  132. p. 333, line 12Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse.
  133. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  134. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  135. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  136. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
  137. p. 348, line 23Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee,
  138. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,
  139. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  140. p. 359, line 13By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
  141. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  142. p. 369, line 23Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
  143. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  144. p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
  145. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  146. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  147. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,
  148. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  149. p. 384, line 17[…] Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon […]
  150. p. 384, line 30[…] Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant […]
  151. p. 388, line 7After the dazzle of day is gone,
  152. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  153. p. 392, line 2Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore,
  154. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,
  155. p. 394, line 10What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
  156. p. 395, line 7(Sometimes, indeed, through half the day,)
  157. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,
  158. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  159. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  160. p. 403, line 22Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on,
  161. p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,
  162. p. 406, line 12[…] st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's […]
  163. p. 411, line 35[…] or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting those at that time populous wards of […]
  164. p. 414, line 2Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door,
  165. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  166. p. 418, line 6A day—a passing moment or an hour—America itself bends low,
  167. p. 419, line 17The common day and night—the common earth and waters,
  168. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,
  169. p. 430, line 30[…] it: Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song […]
  170. p. 432, line 32[…] for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
  171. p. 433, line 23[…] that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem […]
  172. p. 434, line 36[…] present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such […]
  173. p. 438, line 29In the free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts […]