Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “do”

do 260 Back to D

  1. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  2. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  3. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  4. p. 23, line 2What do you need camerado?
  5. p. 23, line 3Dear son do you think it is love?
  6. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  7. p. 30, line 19But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  8. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  9. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  10. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  11. p. 34, line 3And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  12. p. 34, line 17(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)
  13. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  14. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  15. p. 37, line 18They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  16. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  17. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  18. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  19. p. 39, line 6They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  20. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  21. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)
  22. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  23. p. 44, line 3Do you take it I would astonish?
  24. p. 44, line 5Do I astonish more than they?
  25. p. 44, line 13I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  26. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  27. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  28. p. 48, line 27I do not press my fingers across my mouth,
  29. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  30. p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
  31. p. 51, line 1Now I will do nothing but listen,
  32. p. 53, line 12They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  33. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  34. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  35. p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  36. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  37. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
  38. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  39. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  40. p. 65, line 25Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
  41. p. 66, line 3Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  42. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  43. p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  44. p. 66, line 24Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
  45. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  46. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
  47. p. 69, line 18I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over,
  48. p. 70, line 15I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  49. p. 71, line 11I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  50. p. 71, line 16(What have I to do with lamentation?)
  51. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  52. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  53. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  54. p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  55. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  56. p. 77, line 21There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.
  57. p. 77, line 24I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
  58. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  59. p. 78, line 9Do I contradict myself?
  60. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  61. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  62. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  63. p. 85, line 10Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
  64. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  65. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  66. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)
  67. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  68. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  69. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  70. p. 88, line 18I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
  71. p. 89, line 2I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
  72. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  73. p. 91, line 14What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
  74. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
  75. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
  76. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
  77. 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;
  78. p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
  79. p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
  80. p. 97, line 1Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
  81. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  82. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  83. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  84. p. 103, line 15Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
  85. p. 103, line 16Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
  86. p. 103, line 17Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
  87. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  88. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  89. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  90. p. 106, line 17I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
  91. p. 106, line 18I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
  92. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  93. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  94. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  95. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  96. p. 113, line 1What do you hear Walt Whitman?
  97. p. 113, line 20What do you see Walt Whitman?
  98. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  99. p. 120, line 5I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
  100. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  101. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
  102. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
  103. p. 122, line 13Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
  104. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  105. p. 122, line 19I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
  106. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  107. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  108. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
  109. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  110. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
  111. p. 126, line 4I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
  112. p. 133, line 4We understand then do we not?
  113. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  114. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  115. p. 137, line 7The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
  116. p. 137, line 13The words of true poems do not merely please,
  117. p. 138, line 1They do not seek beauty, they are sought,
  118. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  119. p. 152, line 3What do you think endures?
  120. p. 152, line 4Do you think a great city endures?
  121. p. 153, line 20What is your money-making now? what can it do now?
  122. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  123. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  124. p. 157, line 15She is silent, she is possess'd of herself, they do not offend her,
  125. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  126. 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,)
  127. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  128. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  129. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  130. p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
  131. p. 170, line 15Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
  132. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  133. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  134. p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
  135. p. 173, line 7All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
  136. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  137. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  138. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  139. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  140. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  141. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  142. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  143. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  144. p. 183, line 18Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
  145. p. 185, line 33Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
  146. p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
  147. p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
  148. p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
  149. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
  150. p. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
  151. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  152. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  153. p. 193, line 12Libertad! I do not know whether others behold what I behold,
  154. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  155. p. 199, line 7O moon do not keep her from me any longer.
  156. p. 199, line 25And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,
  157. p. 199, line 33Do not be decoy'd elsewhere,
  158. p. 201, line 25Which I do not forget,
  159. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  160. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  161. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
  162. p. 210, line 21I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  163. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  164. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
  165. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  166. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  167. p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
  168. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  169. p. 231, line 23Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
  170. p. 231, line 24Do you hear the clank of the muskets?
  171. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
  172. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  173. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  174. p. 243, line 20I am faithful, I do not give out,
  175. p. 249, line 7Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
  176. p. 268, line 14The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much,
  177. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  178. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  179. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  180. p. 280, line 7Nor do I forget you Departed,
  181. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  182. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
  183. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,
  184. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  185. p. 289, line 10Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
  186. p. 297, line 7Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
  187. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  188. p. 298, line 6I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
  189. p. 299, line 3I see what you do not—I know what you do not.)
  190. p. 299, line 15What do you suppose creation is?
  191. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  192. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  193. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  194. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  195. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  196. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  197. 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?
  198. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  199. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  200. p. 305, line 1I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  201. p. 308, line 3Now only do I know you,
  202. p. 310, line 5Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
  203. p. 325, line 2What do I know of life? what of myself?
  204. p. 326, line 22Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine,
  205. p. 328, line 12I turn but do not extricate myself,
  206. p. 332, line 15I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
  207. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  208. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  209. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  210. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  211. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
  212. p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
  213. 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,
  214. p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
  215. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  216. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  217. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  218. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  219. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  220. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  221. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  222. p. 344, line 19You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,
  223. p. 344, line 21I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.
  224. p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
  225. p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
  226. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  227. p. 355, line 9Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  228. 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,
  229. p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
  230. p. 376, line 9For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
  231. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
  232. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  233. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
  234. p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)
  235. p. 409, line 29Why do folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance […]
  236. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  237. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)
  238. p. 426, line 33[…] mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I […]
  239. p. 427, line 3[…] brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and what […]
  240. p. 427, line 18[…] statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]
  241. p. 427, line 21[…] a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation, or […]
  242. p. 428, line 33[…] shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The […]
  243. p. 429, line 45[…] immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could do. But it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature […]
  244. p. 430, line 17[…] passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than […]
  245. p. 434, line 22[…] will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek […]
  246. p. 434, line 38[…] service that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect […]
  247. p. 436, line 15[…] and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those words are behind all […]
  248. p. 436, line 41[…] prohibit, as far as word of mine can do so, any elision of them […]
  249. p. 437, line 7[…] positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose […]
  250. p. 438, line 3[…] what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living […]