Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “earth”

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  1. p. 15, line 1HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
  2. p. 15, line 2How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
  3. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  4. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  5. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  6. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  7. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  8. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  9. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
  10. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  11. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  12. p. 34, line 14The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  13. p. 34, line 15I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  14. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  15. p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  16. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  17. p. 46, line 4Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
  18. p. 46, line 5Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  19. p. 46, line 6Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  20. p. 46, line 7Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  21. p. 46, line 8Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  22. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  23. p. 46, line 10Far-swooping elbow'd earth—rich apple-blossom'd earth!
  24. p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
  25. p. 54, line 27Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
  26. p. 65, line 7Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
  27. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  28. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  29. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  30. p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  31. p. 77, line 26Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  32. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  33. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  34. p. 88, line 11All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
  35. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
  36. p. 90, line 5Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
  37. p. 90, line 6The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body of the man, the body of the earth,
  38. p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
  39. p. 95, line 8Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,
  40. p. 109, line 12EARTH, my likeness,
  41. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  42. p. 112, line 10Each answering all, each sharing the earth with all.
  43. p. 112, line 22Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
  44. p. 115, line 9I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth,
  45. p. 115, line 12I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,
  46. p. 115, line 14I see the long river-stripes of the earth,
  47. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
  48. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  49. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
  50. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  51. p. 118, line 5I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,
  52. p. 118, line 7I see the defective human bodies of the earth,
  53. p. 118, line 9The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,
  54. p. 118, line 16And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
  55. p. 119, line 4You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
  56. p. 119, line 19Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
  57. p. 119, line 20Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
  58. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  59. p. 121, line 5The earth, that is sufficient,
  60. p. 122, line 8The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
  61. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  62. p. 125, line 6The earth never tires,
  63. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
  64. p. 125, line 17Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements,
  65. p. 135, line 2The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,)
  66. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  67. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  68. p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
  69. p. 147, line 4To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth.
  70. p. 147, line 27My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
  71. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  72. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  73. p. 157, line 22Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
  74. p. 157, line 23Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
  75. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  76. p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  77. p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,
  78. p. 166, line 25And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth,)
  79. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
  80. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  81. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  82. p. 176, line 1A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according,
  83. p. 176, line 15The workmanship of souls is by those inaudible words of the earth,
  84. p. 176, line 18The earth neither lags nor hastens,
  85. p. 176, line 21The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
  86. p. 176, line 22The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
  87. p. 177, line 9The earth does not argue,
  88. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  89. p. 178, line 22Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
  90. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  91. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  92. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  93. p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
  94. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  95. p. 179, line 12Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
  96. p. 179, line 16All merges toward the presentation of the unspoken meanings of the earth,
  97. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  98. p. 180, line 1The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best,
  99. p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
  100. p. 180, line 15Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth!
  101. p. 181, line 4In this broad earth of ours,
  102. p. 190, line 18I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
  103. p. 199, line 15Pierce the woods, the earth,
  104. p. 202, line 25O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth,
  105. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
  106. p. 210, line 5Why this is indeed a show—it has called the dead out of the earth!
  107. p. 212, line 23But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counseling, cautioning.
  108. p. 213, line 30Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
  109. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
  110. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  111. p. 224, line 10How envied by all the earth.
  112. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,
  113. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  114. p. 231, line 2All the lands of the earth make contributions here;)
  115. p. 232, line 19I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river to bay,
  116. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  117. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  118. p. 238, line 23Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  119. p. 242, line 2Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth,
  120. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
  121. p. 247, line 11More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.
  122. p. 255, line 3The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely,
  123. p. 262, line 5Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
  124. p. 263, line 25Sing—as they close the doors of earth upon him—one verse,
  125. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  126. p. 268, line 15To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
  127. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  128. p. 273, line 5I have loved the earth, sun, animals, I have despised riches,
  129. p. 273, line 21It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great,
  130. p. 275, line 4I am for those who walk abreast with the whole earth,
  131. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,
  132. p. 278, line 9O earth that hast no voice, confide to me a voice,
  133. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,
  134. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  135. p. 284, line 13Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love.
  136. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  137. p. 287, line 1Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
  138. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  139. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  140. p. 289, line 9Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
  141. p. 296, line 1Tallying the gifts of earth, large as the earth,
  142. p. 296, line 2Thy name an earth, with mountains, fields and tides.
  143. 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,
  144. p. 300, line 8It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
  145. p. 301, line 19Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
  146. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  147. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  148. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  149. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  150. p. 305, line 10And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth, is equally wonderful,
  151. p. 306, line 27Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself,
  152. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  153. p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
  154. p. 312, line 1Tutti! for earth and heaven;
  155. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
  156. p. 318, line 20Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
  157. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  158. p. 318, line 23Cold earth, the place of graves.)
  159. p. 319, line 4The whole earth, this cold, impassive, voiceless earth, shall be completely justified,
  160. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  161. p. 320, line 26And fills the earth with use and beauty.)
  162. p. 322, line 26O secret of the earth and sky!
  163. p. 326, line 13The earth recedes from me into the night,
  164. p. 326, line 14I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  165. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  166. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  167. p. 334, line 5Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth—they never cease—they are the burial lines,
  168. p. 334, line 15The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
  169. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  170. p. 336, line 15Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  171. p. 336, line 17And they between, and all through the Mississippi country, and all over the earth.
  172. p. 337, line 16How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  173. p. 339, line 7As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws,
  174. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,
  175. p. 341, line 10Earth to a chamber of mourning turns—I hear the o'erweening, mocking voice,
  176. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  177. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  178. p. 345, line 11Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
  179. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
  180. p. 356, line 3The melodious character of the earth,
  181. p. 357, line 17Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
  182. p. 358, line 5I see the enslaved, the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the whole earth,
  183. p. 358, line 23War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing but joy left!
  184. p. 361, line 22Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
  185. p. 363, line 8How, justified by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
  186. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  187. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.
  188. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
  189. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
  190. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  191. p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
  192. p. 375, line 27I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth,
  193. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  194. p. 377, line 9As she call'd to her earth with mournful voice while she stalk'd,
  195. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  196. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
  197. p. 387, line 19Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
  198. p. 389, line 19Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,
  199. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  200. p. 395, line 26A wafted autumn leaf, dropt in the closing grave, the shovel'd earth,
  201. p. 399, line 3I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
  202. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  203. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  204. p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;
  205. p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
  206. p. 413, line 39[…] military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead of all […]
  207. p. 419, line 17The common day and night—the common earth and waters,
  208. p. 421, line 12Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
  209. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
  210. p. 421, line 24(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in the heavens,)