Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “give”

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  1. p. 21, line 27I will give them complete abandonment,
  2. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  3. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  4. p. 33, line 13Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  5. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  6. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  7. p. 48, line 14I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,
  8. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  9. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  10. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  11. p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
  12. p. 66, line 3Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  13. p. 66, line 4When I give I give myself.
  14. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  15. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  16. p. 94, line 2Give me now libidinous joys only,
  17. p. 94, line 3Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,
  18. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  19. p. 97, line 9Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,
  20. 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,
  21. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
  22. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  23. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  24. p. 101, line 18A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,
  25. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  26. p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
  27. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  28. p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
  29. p. 129, line 5Camerado, I give you my hand!
  30. p. 129, line 6I give you my love more precious than money,
  31. p. 129, line 7I give you myself before preaching or law;
  32. p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
  33. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  34. p. 137, line 21The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
  35. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  36. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  37. p. 170, line 15Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
  38. p. 172, line 18It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life,
  39. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  40. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  41. p. 182, line 29Give me O God to sing that thought,
  42. p. 182, line 30Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
  43. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  44. p. 190, line 4I give nothing as duties,
  45. p. 190, line 5What others give as duties I give as living impulses,
  46. p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
  47. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
  48. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  49. p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
  50. p. 201, line 9O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere,)
  51. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
  52. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
  53. p. 216, line 4WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept,
  54. p. 231, line 15GIVE me your hand old Revolutionary,
  55. p. 243, line 20I am faithful, I do not give out,
  56. p. 244, line 9GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
  57. p. 244, line 10Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
  58. p. 244, line 11Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
  59. p. 244, line 12Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,
  60. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
  61. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  62. p. 244, line 15Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
  63. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
  64. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  65. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  66. p. 244, line 19Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
  67. p. 245, line 2Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,
  68. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  69. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  70. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  71. p. 245, line 13Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!
  72. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
  73. p. 245, line 17Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
  74. p. 246, line 32What I have I also give you.
  75. p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
  76. p. 250, line 14You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other,
  77. p. 254, line 6To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.
  78. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  79. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  80. p. 257, line 3I give you my sprig of lilac.
  81. p. 265, line 14These clamors wild to a race of pride I give.)
  82. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  83. p. 273, line 3Give me the pay I have served for,
  84. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  85. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  86. p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
  87. p. 280, line 29Resolve ye back again, give up for good your deadly arms,
  88. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  89. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
  90. p. 322, line 9What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?
  91. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  92. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,
  93. p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
  94. p. 358, line 14Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future,
  95. p. 358, line 15Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
  96. p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
  97. p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
  98. p. 372, line 22Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers,
  99. p. 372, line 27Give me exhaustless, make me a fountain,
  100. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  101. p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
  102. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  103. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  104. p. 400, line 18Give me my old wild battle-life again!"
  105. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)
  106. p. 415, line 29An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
  107. p. 427, line 44[…] the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives […]
  108. p. 428, line 4[…] which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself […]
  109. p. 428, line 27[…] while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no […]
  110. p. 434, line 42[…] him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The […]
  111. p. 438, line 25[…] unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and political success, and […]
  112. p. 438, line 29In the free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]