Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “down”

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  1. p. 20, line 5Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea,
  2. p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,
  3. p. 31, line 18That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  4. p. 32, line 9Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  5. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  6. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  7. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  8. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  9. p. 48, line 21And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  10. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  11. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)
  12. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
  13. 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,
  14. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  15. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  16. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  17. p. 76, line 1My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  18. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
  19. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  20. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  21. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
  22. p. 97, line 1Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
  23. p. 98, line 2Put me down and depart on your way.
  24. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  25. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  26. p. 105, line 22All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
  27. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
  28. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,
  29. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  30. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  31. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  32. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
  33. p. 131, line 25The dark threw its patches down upon me also,
  34. p. 133, line 23Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters!
  35. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  36. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  37. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;
  38. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  39. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
  40. p. 145, line 14I hear the cry again sent down from the mast-head, There—she blows!
  41. p. 149, line 14The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,
  42. p. 155, line 23Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec,
  43. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  44. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  45. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  46. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  47. p. 183, line 26Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
  48. p. 196, line 17Down from the shower'd halo,
  49. p. 197, line 23Pour down your warmth, great sun!
  50. p. 198, line 10Down almost amid the slapping waves,
  51. p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
  52. p. 199, line 21O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
  53. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
  54. p. 200, line 23The strange tears down the cheeks coursing,
  55. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  56. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  57. p. 208, line 18And all that went down doing their duty,
  58. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  59. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
  60. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  61. p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
  62. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,
  63. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  64. p. 232, line 27We could watch down the lower bay where they lay at anchor,
  65. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
  66. p. 237, line 3Down in the fields all prospers well,
  67. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  68. p. 242, line 23To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return,
  69. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  70. p. 246, line 4Down a new-made double grave.
  71. p. 250, line 16LOOK down fair moon and bathe this scene,
  72. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  73. p. 250, line 19Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.
  74. p. 251, line 3Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
  75. p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
  76. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  77. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  78. p. 275, line 26(Mother, bend down, bend close to me your face,
  79. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
  80. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
  81. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  82. p. 293, line 13A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute,
  83. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
  84. p. 304, line 12It is no lesson—it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
  85. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  86. p. 312, line 28Her hair down her back falls loose and dishevel'd.
  87. p. 317, line 25Along all history, down the slopes,
  88. p. 318, line 13Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,
  89. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,
  90. 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,
  91. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  92. p. 354, line 2Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  93. p. 355, line 16Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,
  94. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,
  95. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
  96. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
  97. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,
  98. p. 375, line 29As I steam'd down the Mississippi,
  99. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  100. p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
  101. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
  102. p. 390, line 6How they sweep down and out! how they mutter!
  103. p. 393, line 11Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.
  104. p. 395, line 14As down the stage again,
  105. p. 401, line 1Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
  106. p. 408, line 5[…] of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you […]
  107. p. 412, line 13Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking thee;
  108. p. 417, line 6Put the scalp-knife carefully in his belt—then lying down, resting a moment,
  109. p. 425, line 15[…] had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in a sufficient way through all discomfitures […]
  110. p. 432, line 34[…] off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores—there, in […]
  111. p. 434, line 6I went down to the war fields in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward […]
  112. p. 436, line 11[…] of the Mississippi, in Canada, up in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]
  113. p. 438, line 1As idly drifting down the ebb,