Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
  3. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
  4. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  5. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  6. p. 10, line 28This song for mariners and all their ships.
  7. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  8. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  9. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
  10. p. 11, line 17These chants for thee, the eternal march of thee.
  11. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,
  12. p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
  13. p. 11, line 25These recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,
  14. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
  15. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
  16. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  17. p. 14, line 13FOR him I sing,
  18. p. 14, line 24I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
  19. p. 15, line 1HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
  20. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  21. p. 16, line 2I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,
  22. p. 16, line 12Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
  23. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
  24. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
  25. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  26. p. 18, line 4Arouse! for you must justify me.
  27. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  28. p. 18, line 13Therefore for thee the following chants.
  29. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  30. p. 19, line 22For me an audience interminable.
  31. p. 20, line 3For you a programme of chants.
  32. p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
  33. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  34. p. 20, line 12And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
  35. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
  36. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  37. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  38. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  39. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  40. p. 22, line 11Each is not for its own sake,
  41. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  42. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
  43. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  44. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
  45. p. 23, line 9The following chants each for its kind I sing.
  46. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  47. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  48. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  49. p. 24, line 8A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.
  50. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
  51. p. 24, line 11For those who belong here and those to come,
  52. 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.
  53. p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
  54. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  55. 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,
  56. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  57. p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
  58. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
  59. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  60. p. 27, line 10For your life adhere to me,
  61. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
  62. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
  63. p. 27, line 18Here for you! and here for America!
  64. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  65. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  66. p. 29, line 8For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  67. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
  68. p. 29, line 23It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
  69. p. 29, line 25I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
  70. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  71. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
  72. p. 34, line 19For me those that have been boys and that love women,
  73. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  74. p. 34, line 21For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  75. p. 34, line 22For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  76. p. 34, line 23For me children and the begetters of children.
  77. p. 35, line 10The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous'd mobs,
  78. p. 36, line 8The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
  79. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  80. p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  81. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  82. p. 39, line 12Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  83. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
  84. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
  85. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  86. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  87. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  88. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,
  89. p. 41, line 23The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time,
  90. 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,
  91. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  92. p. 43, line 11I beat and pound for the dead,
  93. p. 43, line 12I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
  94. p. 43, line 18This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
  95. p. 43, line 19It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appointments with all,
  96. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  97. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
  98. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  99. p. 46, line 11Smile, for your lover comes.
  100. p. 47, line 20Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
  101. p. 52, line 13Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  102. p. 52, line 17Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  103. p. 52, line 19Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  104. p. 52, line 24No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  105. p. 53, line 3Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.
  106. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  107. p. 54, line 1And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest,
  108. p. 54, line 8And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  109. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  110. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;
  111. p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  112. p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  113. p. 59, line 27The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on,
  114. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  115. p. 61, line 1The cries, curses, roar, the plaudits for well-aim'd shots,
  116. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  117. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  118. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  119. p. 62, line 25Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
  120. p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  121. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  122. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  123. p. 65, line 12Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
  124. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  125. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  126. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  127. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  128. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  129. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  130. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
  131. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,
  132. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  133. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  134. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  135. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
  136. p. 70, line 14And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely the same.
  137. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  138. p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
  139. p. 71, line 26Immense have been the preparations for me,
  140. p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  141. p. 72, line 6For it the nebula cohered to an orb,
  142. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
  143. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  144. p. 73, line 25You must travel it for yourself.
  145. p. 74, line 5For after we start we never lie by again.
  146. p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
  147. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  148. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  149. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
  150. p. 76, line 16For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  151. p. 76, line 24And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
  152. p. 76, line 25Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
  153. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  154. p. 78, line 19The last scud of day holds back for me,
  155. p. 78, line 25If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
  156. p. 79, line 6I stop somewhere waiting for you.
  157. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  158. p. 79, line 26O for any and each the body correlative attracting!
  159. p. 80, line 1O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
  160. p. 80, line 15The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
  161. p. 80, line 24(O I willingly stake all for you,
  162. p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
  163. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  164. p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
  165. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  166. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
  167. p. 85, line 18Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
  168. p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  169. p. 85, line 20For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.
  170. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  171. p. 88, line 6A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
  172. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
  173. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  174. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  175. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  176. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  177. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  178. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  179. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
  180. p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
  181. p. 92, line 16For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.
  182. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  183. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
  184. p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
  185. p. 93, line 21O why sting me for a swift moment only?
  186. p. 94, line 5I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,
  187. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  188. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
  189. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  190. p. 94, line 14Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,
  191. p. 95, line 5For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
  192. p. 95, line 10(But where is what I started for so long ago?
  193. p. 95, line 23That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
  194. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  195. p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
  196. 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,
  197. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  198. 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,
  199. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
  200. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  201. p. 97, line 18That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
  202. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
  203. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
  204. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  205. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  206. p. 98, line 11For I am the new husband and I am the comrade.
  207. p. 98, line 15For thus merely touching you is enough, is best,
  208. p. 98, line 18For these leaves and me you will not understand,
  209. p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
  210. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
  211. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  212. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
  213. p. 99, line 11For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
  214. p. 99, line 12THESE I singing in spring collect for lovers,
  215. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  216. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  217. p. 101, line 19As base and finalè too for all metaphysics.
  218. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  219. p. 102, line 8Of city for city and land for land.
  220. 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,
  221. p. 103, line 9For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
  222. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  223. p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
  224. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  225. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
  226. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  227. p. 107, line 2But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
  228. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  229. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  230. p. 108, line 21Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
  231. p. 108, line 22Nor literary success nor intellect, nor book for the book-shelf,
  232. p. 108, line 24For comrades and lovers.
  233. p. 109, line 6A LEAF for hand in hand;
  234. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  235. p. 109, line 16For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,
  236. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  237. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  238. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  239. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  240. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  241. p. 117, line 4I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
  242. p. 119, line 6You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
  243. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  244. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
  245. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  246. p. 120, line 22For all the haunts and homes of men.
  247. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
  248. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  249. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  250. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  251. p. 124, line 6Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?
  252. 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,
  253. p. 127, line 14To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
  254. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  255. p. 127, line 16All parts away for the progress of souls,
  256. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  257. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  258. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  259. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  260. p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
  261. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  262. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
  263. p. 136, line 8Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  264. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  265. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  266. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  267. p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
  268. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
  269. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  270. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  271. p. 142, line 13O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
  272. p. 142, line 14O for the dropping of raindrops in a song!
  273. p. 142, line 15O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song!
  274. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  275. p. 144, line 12Another time fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake bay, I one of the brown-faced crew;
  276. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
  277. p. 146, line 18To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
  278. p. 146, line 19To plough land in the spring for maize,
  279. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  280. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  281. p. 147, line 26My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
  282. p. 148, line 13To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
  283. p. 148, line 25Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind,
  284. p. 149, line 13The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for a garden,
  285. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
  286. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  287. p. 151, line 17The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty,
  288. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  289. p. 152, line 7Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
  290. p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
  291. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  292. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,
  293. p. 154, line 12Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,
  294. p. 154, line 14For the mediæval ages and before the mediæval ages,
  295. p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
  296. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  297. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  298. p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
  299. p. 156, line 12The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his shroud,
  300. p. 156, line 15The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,
  301. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  302. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.
  303. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  304. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  305. p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,
  306. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  307. p. 160, line 18A keep for life for practical invention.
  308. p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
  309. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  310. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
  311. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
  312. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
  313. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  314. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,
  315. p. 163, line 6For the eternal real life to come.
  316. p. 163, line 21One common indivisible destiny for All.
  317. p. 163, line 25For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands;
  318. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  319. p. 165, line 5Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,
  320. p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,
  321. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  322. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  323. p. 165, line 15(For the blood of the children, what is it, only the blood maternal?
  324. p. 165, line 17While we rehearse our measureless wealth, it is for thee, dear Mother,
  325. p. 165, line 19Think not our chant, our show, merely for products gross or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual!
  326. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,
  327. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
  328. p. 166, line 31We welcome what we wrought for through the past,
  329. p. 166, line 32And leave the field for them.
  330. p. 167, line 1For them predicted long,
  331. p. 167, line 2For a superber race, they too to grandly fill their time,
  332. p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
  333. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  334. p. 167, line 29For man of you, your characteristic race,
  335. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  336. p. 169, line 12A SONG for occupations!
  337. p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
  338. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  339. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  340. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
  341. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
  342. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  343. p. 172, line 6Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  344. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  345. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  346. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  347. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
  348. p. 172, line 23The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,
  349. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
  350. p. 174, line 1The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for railroads,
  351. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
  352. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
  353. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  354. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  355. p. 178, line 20Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you,
  356. p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
  357. p. 178, line 22Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
  358. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  359. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  360. p. 178, line 25For none more than you is immortality.
  361. p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,
  362. p. 178, line 28Not one can grow for another—not one.
  363. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  364. p. 181, line 15For it the entire star-myriads roll through the sky.
  365. p. 181, line 18For it the partial to the permanent flowing,
  366. p. 181, line 19For it the real to the ideal tends.
  367. p. 181, line 20For it the mystic evolution,
  368. p. 182, line 15For the scheme's culmination, its thought and its reality,
  369. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  370. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
  371. p. 182, line 24All, all for immortality,
  372. p. 183, line 9For we cannot tarry here,
  373. p. 184, line 10O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
  374. p. 184, line 11O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
  375. p. 184, line 30Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
  376. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  377. p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
  378. p. 185, line 19We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
  379. p. 185, line 29Not for delectations sweet,
  380. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  381. p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
  382. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  383. p. 188, line 18O Liberty! O mate for me!
  384. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,
  385. p. 189, line 5For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
  386. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
  387. p. 189, line 15Not for an embroiderer,
  388. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  389. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
  390. p. 190, line 22I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
  391. p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
  392. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
  393. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
  394. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  395. p. 195, line 12For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant,
  396. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,
  397. p. 196, line 7Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.
  398. p. 196, line 10Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
  399. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  400. p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
  401. p. 199, line 10For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
  402. p. 199, line 26For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
  403. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  404. p. 199, line 32This gentle call is for you my love, for you.
  405. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  406. p. 200, line 31Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,
  407. p. 201, line 11A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
  408. p. 201, line 22But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
  409. p. 202, line 5Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
  410. p. 202, line 9The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
  411. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  412. p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,
  413. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  414. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  415. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,
  416. p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
  417. p. 208, line 3And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations,
  418. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
  419. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  420. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  421. p. 209, line 21Way for the President's marshal—way for the government cannon!
  422. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  423. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
  424. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  425. p. 210, line 18Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  426. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
  427. p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
  428. p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
  429. p. 211, line 5This centre-piece for them;
  430. p. 211, line 20Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
  431. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
  432. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
  433. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  434. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  435. p. 213, line 20O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
  436. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  437. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  438. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  439. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  440. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  441. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  442. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  443. p. 219, line 7FIRST O songs for a prelude,
  444. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  445. p. 220, line 21The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites,
  446. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  447. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  448. p. 221, line 4It's O for a manly life in the camp.
  449. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  450. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  451. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
  452. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
  453. p. 222, line 19Make no parley—stop for no expostulation,
  454. p. 223, line 18Words no more, for hearken and see,
  455. p. 224, line 9These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!
  456. p. 225, line 8For what are we, mere strips of cloth profiting nothing,
  457. p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
  458. p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
  459. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
  460. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  461. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  462. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,
  463. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  464. p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,
  465. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
  466. p. 231, line 1City of the world! (for all races are here,
  467. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  468. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  469. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  470. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
  471. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  472. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  473. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  474. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  475. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  476. p. 238, line 23Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  477. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  478. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  479. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
  480. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  481. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
  482. p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
  483. p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
  484. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  485. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
  486. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
  487. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  488. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  489. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!
  490. p. 245, line 19The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!
  491. p. 245, line 20The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!
  492. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;
  493. p. 245, line 26Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  494. p. 246, line 17For the son is brought with the father,
  495. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  496. p. 247, line 26He call'd for volunteers to run the enemy's lines, a desperate emergency,
  497. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  498. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  499. p. 250, line 2Race of the soil, ready for conflict—race of the conquering march!
  500. p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,
  501. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  502. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  503. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
  504. p. 254, line 7TURN O Libertad, for the war is over,
  505. p. 254, line 14But what remains remains for singers for you—wars to come are for you,
  506. p. 254, line 18Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
  507. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  508. p. 254, line 20(Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)
  509. p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
  510. p. 257, line 4(Nor for you, for one alone,
  511. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  512. p. 257, line 11With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
  513. p. 257, line 12For you and the coffins all of you O death.)
  514. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  515. p. 257, line 27But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detain'd me,
  516. p. 258, line 1O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
  517. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  518. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  519. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  520. p. 260, line 19For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
  521. p. 260, line 20And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
  522. p. 260, line 21For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
  523. p. 260, line 23Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
  524. p. 260, line 24Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
  525. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
  526. p. 262, line 9I cease from my song for thee,
  527. p. 262, line 17Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
  528. p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
  529. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
  530. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
  531. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
  532. p. 263, line 19No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
  533. p. 263, line 26For the heavy hearts of soldiers.
  534. p. 265, line 2All is for individuals, all is for you,
  535. p. 265, line 9Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!
  536. p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
  537. p. 266, line 6And that he shall be fittest for his days.
  538. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  539. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
  540. p. 268, line 20O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
  541. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  542. p. 270, line 4For that, the bard walks in advance, leader of leaders,
  543. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  544. p. 270, line 9For the great Idea,
  545. p. 270, line 22Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
  546. 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?
  547. p. 273, line 3Give me the pay I have served for,
  548. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  549. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  550. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  551. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  552. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  553. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  554. p. 275, line 1I am for those that have never been master'd,
  555. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  556. p. 275, line 3For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.
  557. p. 275, line 4I am for those who walk abreast with the whole earth,
  558. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  559. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,
  560. p. 275, line 27I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for,
  561. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  562. p. 276, line 12Bards for my own land only I invoke,
  563. p. 276, line 13(For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,)
  564. p. 276, line 16Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!)
  565. p. 277, line 4Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,
  566. p. 277, line 16Currents for starting a continent new,
  567. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  568. p. 277, line 28Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding,
  569. p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
  570. p. 278, line 4FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
  571. p. 278, line 8Tuning a verse for thee.
  572. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,
  573. p. 280, line 29Resolve ye back again, give up for good your deadly arms,
  574. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  575. p. 281, line 3The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility.
  576. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  577. p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
  578. p. 282, line 20Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
  579. p. 284, line 17For know you the one you mourn is not in that grave,
  580. p. 284, line 21What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grave,
  581. p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
  582. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  583. p. 287, line 17For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,
  584. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  585. p. 288, line 2It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.
  586. p. 288, line 8For till all ceases neither must you cease.
  587. 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,)
  588. p. 288, line 10But I will search carefully for it even in being foil'd,
  589. p. 288, line 11In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment—for they too are great.
  590. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  591. p. 289, line 11Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves?
  592. p. 290, line 19All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
  593. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  594. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  595. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
  596. p. 292, line 28The body was too much for me.
  597. p. 292, line 30For soon or late the certain grace;
  598. p. 293, line 24WARBLE me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,)
  599. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  600. p. 294, line 10For spring-time is here! the summer is here! and what is this in it and from it?
  601. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  602. p. 294, line 21A warble for joy of lilac-time, returning in reminiscence.
  603. p. 294, line 23What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire?
  604. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
  605. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,
  606. p. 296, line 11This common curtain of the face contain'd in me for me, in you for you, in each for each,
  607. p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
  608. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  609. p. 297, line 20All waits for the right voices;
  610. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  611. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  612. p. 299, line 10LAWS for creations,
  613. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  614. p. 299, line 12For noble savans and coming musicians.
  615. 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.
  616. p. 300, line 4I WAS looking a long while for Intentions,
  617. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  618. p. 300, line 13All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.
  619. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  620. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  621. p. 304, line 15I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  622. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
  623. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  624. p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
  625. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  626. p. 308, line 17Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
  627. p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
  628. p. 309, line 5Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?
  629. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  630. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
  631. p. 309, line 31The mothers fit for thee?
  632. p. 310, line 3Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
  633. p. 310, line 29For thee they sing and dance O soul.
  634. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  635. p. 312, line 1Tutti! for earth and heaven;
  636. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)
  637. p. 314, line 27Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
  638. p. 315, line 4Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
  639. p. 315, line 15But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
  640. p. 315, line 30For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  641. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  642. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  643. p. 316, line 29Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
  644. p. 318, line 4For purpose vast, man's long probation fill'd,
  645. p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
  646. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,
  647. p. 321, line 9(Let others deprecate, let others weep for sin, remorse, humiliation,)
  648. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  649. p. 322, line 9What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?
  650. p. 322, line 10For others' sake to suffer all?
  651. p. 322, line 17Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?
  652. p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
  653. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
  654. p. 324, line 5Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
  655. p. 324, line 26For that O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees,
  656. p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
  657. p. 329, line 12On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush-bottoming chairs,
  658. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,
  659. p. 329, line 23All the week she thought of her, she watch'd for her many a month,
  660. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  661. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  662. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,
  663. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  664. p. 335, line 13What will be will be well, for what is is well,
  665. p. 335, line 20Yourself! yourself! yourself, for ever and ever!
  666. p. 337, line 3For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
  667. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  668. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
  669. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  670. p. 337, line 24And all preparation is for it—and identity is for it—and life and materials are altogether for it!
  671. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  672. p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
  673. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  674. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  675. p. 340, line 16Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were all? what were God?)
  676. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;
  677. 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,
  678. 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?)
  679. 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,
  680. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  681. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  682. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
  683. p. 344, line 4O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
  684. p. 344, line 7FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
  685. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  686. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  687. p. 346, line 17For living are the Dead,
  688. p. 346, line 23For thee, the future.
  689. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  690. p. 347, line 9Out of that formula for thee I sing.
  691. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
  692. p. 347, line 23And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,
  693. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  694. p. 349, line 23Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so long upon the mind of man,
  695. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,
  696. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
  697. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
  698. p. 350, line 22Not for success alone,
  699. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  700. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  701. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  702. p. 352, line 7Thy lover me, for always I have loved thee,
  703. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  704. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  705. p. 353, line 17This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
  706. p. 353, line 18Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,
  707. p. 353, line 20This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage,
  708. p. 354, line 16And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
  709. p. 355, line 3This face is flavor'd fruit ready for eating,
  710. p. 356, line 26Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes,
  711. p. 357, line 8Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme,
  712. p. 357, line 11The heart of man and woman all for love,
  713. p. 357, line 26The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!
  714. p. 358, line 11Now trumpeter for thy close,
  715. p. 358, line 15Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
  716. p. 358, line 28THEE for my recitative,
  717. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  718. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
  719. p. 362, line 20Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
  720. p. 363, line 1How ardently for it!
  721. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  722. p. 363, line 4How much of genius boldly staked and lost for it!
  723. p. 363, line 5What countless stores of beauty, love, ventur'd for it!
  724. p. 363, line 13The soul for it, and all the visible universe for it,
  725. p. 363, line 14And heaven at last for it.
  726. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
  727. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  728. p. 363, line 17And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious,
  729. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
  730. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
  731. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  732. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  733. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  734. 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,
  735. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
  736. 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.
  737. p. 364, line 3(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the old, the incessant war?)
  738. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  739. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
  740. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.
  741. p. 366, line 24In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses for breastworks,
  742. p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
  743. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)
  744. p. 368, line 1For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
  745. p. 368, line 22These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,
  746. p. 368, line 24Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;
  747. p. 369, line 2(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,
  748. p. 369, line 16They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
  749. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
  750. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
  751. p. 372, line 5Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for a burial,
  752. p. 372, line 29For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
  753. p. 373, line 4The vehement struggle so fierce for unity in one's-self;
  754. p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
  755. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  756. p. 374, line 3Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,
  757. p. 374, line 11Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,)
  758. p. 375, line 11To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh!
  759. p. 376, line 9For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
  760. p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,
  761. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  762. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
  763. p. 377, line 3Yet certain remembrances of the war for you, and after you,
  764. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  765. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  766. p. 378, line 2And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,
  767. p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
  768. p. 378, line 18But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
  769. p. 379, line 5(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)
  770. p. 379, line 25And what are those of life but for Death?
  771. p. 379, line 27For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.
  772. p. 380, line 3Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
  773. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  774. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  775. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  776. p. 382, line 1Afterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)
  777. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  778. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  779. p. 387, line 5Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
  780. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  781. p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
  782. p. 389, line 3Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)*
  783. p. 390, line 12On for your time, ye furious debouché!
  784. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,
  785. p. 392, line 19A phantom in the night thy confidant for once,)
  786. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  787. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
  788. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,
  789. p. 395, line 25From these, for these, with these, a hurried line, dead tenor,
  790. p. 396, line 8The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
  791. p. 396, line 21A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment,
  792. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  793. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  794. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  795. p. 398, line 11For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life,
  796. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)
  797. p. 398, line 13For all my days—not those of peace alone—the days of war the same,
  798. p. 398, line 14For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign lands,
  799. p. 398, line 15For shelter, wine and meat—for sweet appreciation,
  800. p. 398, line 18For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for colors, forms,
  801. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
  802. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
  803. p. 399, line 9(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
  804. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
  805. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,
  806. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  807. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  808. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  809. 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;)
  810. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
  811. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  812. p. 402, line 13Less for the mighty crown laid low in sorrow—less for the Emperor,
  813. p. 402, line 21Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
  814. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  815. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  816. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  817. p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
  818. p. 406, line 3Preface Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On […]
  819. p. 407, line 8[…] and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd […]
  820. p. 407, line 11[…] my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or […]
  821. p. 407, line 12[…] retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my sort of poetic utterance […]
  822. p. 407, line 29[…] in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my […]
  823. p. 408, line 3[…] yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at […]
  824. p. 408, line 7[…] Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are too many of the following poemets […]
  825. p. 408, line 8[…] of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old […]
  826. p. 408, line 10[…] almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten—probably a streak […]
  827. p. 408, line 15[…] glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain from […]
  828. p. 408, line 18[…] is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement […]
  829. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
  830. p. 409, line 9Sail out for good, eidólon yacht of me!
  831. p. 409, line 17Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,
  832. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;
  833. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  834. p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
  835. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  836. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  837. p. 412, line 11For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?
  838. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
  839. p. 413, line 34[…] names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of […]
  840. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  841. p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,
  842. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,
  843. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  844. p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,
  845. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,
  846. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
  847. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  848. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  849. p. 417, line 4Call'd for vermilion paint (his looking-glass was held before him,)
  850. p. 418, line 23For I too have forgotten,
  851. p. 418, line 27FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi,
  852. p. 419, line 19The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
  853. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;
  854. p. 420, line 5(Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true,
  855. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,
  856. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
  857. p. 422, line 6Now for my last—let me look back a moment;
  858. p. 426, line 2[…] W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it I have been the object of two or […]
  859. p. 426, line 5[…] my choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing […]
  860. p. 426, line 10[…] the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any […]
  861. p. 426, line 23[…] a hearing, to far more than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was […]
  862. p. 426, line 31[…] fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part […]
  863. p. 426, line 33[…] to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years […]
  864. p. 427, line 20For grounds for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional […]
  865. p. 427, line 24[…] of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism […]
  866. p. 427, line 35[…] and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope […]
  867. p. 427, line 36[…] scope and basic point of view of verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in […]
  868. p. 427, line 43[…] case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate […]
  869. p. 428, line 16[…] along the whole line, the whole civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic […]
  870. p. 428, line 24Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition […]
  871. p. 429, line 3[…] deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements of modern song […]
  872. p. 429, line 8[…] without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before a line was written […]
  873. p. 429, line 26[…] that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses never was […]
  874. p. 429, line 40And whether my friends claim it for me or not, I know well enough, too, that in […]
  875. p. 430, line 23[…] of current or gone-by life and art is for us the only means of their assimilation consistent with the […]
  876. p. 430, line 26[…] arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively […]
  877. p. 430, line 27[…] be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the […]
  878. p. 430, line 38[…] by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the emotional […]
  879. p. 431, line 5[…] the sun of literature is in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current […]
  880. p. 431, line 28[…] buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being the loftiest […]
  881. p. 431, line 42[…] put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms […]
  882. p. 431, line 43[…] poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated […]
  883. p. 432, line 8[…] the past, so I would dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old […]
  884. p. 432, line 25[…] rooted, and ready to start its own way for good or bad. Not till after all this, did I […]
  885. p. 432, line 31[…] jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
  886. p. 432, line 34[…] and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the country, or […]
  887. p. 433, line 2[…] New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library or indoor room—it makes […]
  888. p. 433, line 21[…] The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for all—has so many mansions!) But I was repaid in […]
  889. p. 433, line 22[…] prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing […]
  890. p. 433, line 41[…] a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to […]
  891. p. 434, line 19[…] the first. The word I myself put primarily for the description of them as they stand at last, is […]
  892. p. 434, line 26[…] your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense […]
  893. p. 434, line 38[…] that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or […]
  894. p. 434, line 44[…] to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all […]
  895. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a […]
  896. p. 435, line 14[…] counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I […]
  897. p. 435, line 35[…] upon the whole, are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is […]
  898. p. 436, line 34[…] recognizance. Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions […]
  899. p. 437, line 18[…] ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements, and has been […]
  900. p. 437, line 32[…] to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very […]
  901. p. 437, line 35[…] of men. But my volume is a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated […]
  902. p. 437, line 44[…] a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening to the criticisms of his […]
  903. p. 438, line 22[…] States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States continue […]
  904. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises […]