Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “death”

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  1. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  2. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  3. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  4. p. 25, line 14Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
  5. p. 25, line 17Indifferently before death and after death.
  6. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  7. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.
  8. p. 34, line 5The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  9. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
  10. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  11. p. 52, line 1Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death,
  12. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  13. p. 68, line 18Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death.
  14. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  15. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  16. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  17. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  18. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  19. p. 96, line 12Tomb-leaves, body-leaves growing up above me above death,
  20. p. 96, line 19Yet you are beautiful to me you faint tinged roots, you make me think of death,
  21. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  22. p. 96, line 21O I think it is not for life I am chanting here my chant of lovers, I think it must be for death,
  23. p. 96, line 23Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
  24. p. 96, line 24(I am not sure but the high soul of lovers welcomes death most,)
  25. p. 96, line 25Indeed O death, I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as you mean,
  26. p. 97, line 8Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
  27. p. 97, line 9Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,
  28. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  29. p. 113, line 18I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God the Christ,
  30. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  31. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
  32. p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
  33. p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
  34. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  35. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  36. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  37. p. 151, line 28What invigorates life invigorates death,
  38. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  39. p. 165, line 5Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,
  40. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  41. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  42. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.
  43. p. 188, line 5Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted,
  44. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.
  45. p. 201, line 19Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
  46. p. 201, line 20And again death, death, death, death,
  47. p. 201, line 24Death, death, death, death, death.
  48. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  49. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  50. p. 212, line 19They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.
  51. p. 213, line 20O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
  52. p. 218, line 5Death, many deaths I'll sing.
  53. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  54. p. 226, line 14The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
  55. p. 226, line 27With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
  56. p. 226, line 28Demons and death then I sing,
  57. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  58. p. 229, line 15Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
  59. p. 233, line 4And how long and well it stood confronting death.
  60. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  61. p. 235, line 6In death, defeat, and sisters', mothers' tears.
  62. p. 236, line 15Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that are far away;
  63. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  64. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  65. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  66. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
  67. p. 243, line 7(Come sweet death! be persuaded O beautiful death!
  68. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  69. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  70. p. 251, line 18I know my words are weapons full of danger, full of death,
  71. p. 252, line 3Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
  72. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  73. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  74. p. 257, line 8O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,
  75. p. 257, line 12For you and the coffins all of you O death.)
  76. p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
  77. p. 259, line 25Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,
  78. p. 259, line 26And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,
  79. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  80. p. 260, line 14Come lovely and soothing death,
  81. p. 260, line 17Sooner or later delicate death.
  82. p. 260, line 21For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
  83. p. 260, line 29Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
  84. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  85. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
  86. p. 263, line 18Our dear commander's death.
  87. p. 264, line 8And death and infidelity at every step.)
  88. p. 270, line 22Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
  89. p. 272, line 21Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies here,
  90. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  91. p. 277, line 7With the old streams of death.)
  92. p. 288, line 14And that death and dismay are great.
  93. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  94. 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,
  95. p. 290, line 8But has results beyond death as really as before death.
  96. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  97. p. 293, line 2The heavenly pardoner death shall come.
  98. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
  99. p. 306, line 13Star panting o'er a land of death, heroic land,
  100. p. 310, line 4Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
  101. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,
  102. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  103. p. 320, line 21Behold his dejection, poverty, death.
  104. p. 320, line 23Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?
  105. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  106. p. 321, line 33At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,
  107. p. 322, line 2Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,
  108. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  109. p. 332, line 21Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
  110. p. 333, line 25To think the thought of death merged in the thought of materials,
  111. p. 334, line 8A frequent sample of the life and death of workmen,
  112. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,
  113. p. 337, line 8Then indeed suspicion of death.
  114. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  115. p. 338, line 16WHISPERS of heavenly death murmur'd I hear,
  116. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  117. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  118. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  119. p. 342, line 9(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
  120. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  121. p. 345, line 2I admire death and test propositions.
  122. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  123. p. 346, line 13I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;
  124. p. 346, line 14(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
  125. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  126. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  127. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
  128. p. 366, line 27The loftiest of life upheld by death,
  129. p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
  130. p. 367, line 28Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death,
  131. p. 369, line 25Night, sleep, death and the stars.
  132. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  133. p. 375, line 5In the superb vistas of death.
  134. p. 376, line 13AS at thy portals also death,
  135. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
  136. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  137. p. 379, line 16(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
  138. p. 379, line 25And what are those of life but for Death?
  139. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  140. p. 382, line 1Afterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)
  141. p. 384, line 33[…] Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February […]
  142. p. 384, line 52[…] of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death, 398 The Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's Foil […]
  143. p. 385, line 20Quench'd by an early death.
  144. p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,
  145. p. 387, line 2Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?
  146. p. 390, line 18Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,
  147. p. 403, line 17Of life or death, or soldier's wound, of country's loss or safety,
  148. p. 406, line 29[…] the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death, 417. A Persian Lesson, 418. The Commonplace, 419. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete […]
  149. p. 408, line 8[…] are too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so […]
  150. p. 411, line 31[…] heard from a surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]
  151. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  152. p. 417, line 10(And here a line in memory of his name and death.)
  153. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,
  154. p. 417, line 20Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
  155. p. 418, line 8War, death, cataclysm like this, America,
  156. p. 418, line 10E'en as I chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime,
  157. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!
  158. p. 420, line 26I sing of life, yet mind me well of death:
  159. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
  160. p. 434, line 9[…] fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic […]