Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “go”

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  1. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  2. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  3. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  4. p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  5. p. 38, line 7I go with the team also.
  6. p. 41, line 18Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain'd by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  7. p. 46, line 16I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
  8. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
  9. p. 52, line 5(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
  10. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
  11. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  12. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  13. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  14. p. 65, line 6Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  15. p. 66, line 19Let the physician and the priest go home.
  16. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  17. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  18. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  19. p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  20. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  21. p. 76, line 24And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
  22. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  23. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  24. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  25. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
  26. 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,
  27. p. 89, line 2I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
  28. p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,
  29. p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
  30. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  31. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
  32. p. 99, line 19Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go,
  33. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  34. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,
  35. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
  36. p. 121, line 10I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
  37. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  38. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  39. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  40. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  41. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  42. p. 127, line 22They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
  43. p. 127, line 23But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
  44. p. 128, line 24He going with me must go well arm'd,
  45. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  46. p. 142, line 19O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!
  47. p. 143, line 16O to go back to the place where I was born,
  48. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  49. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
  50. p. 165, line 10Many a good man have I seen go under.
  51. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  52. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  53. p. 183, line 27Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
  54. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
  55. p. 213, line 11Such from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
  56. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
  57. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  58. p. 229, line 10Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities,
  59. p. 240, line 23Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,
  60. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  61. p. 242, line 27I onward go, I stop,
  62. p. 243, line 3On, on I go, (open doors of time! open hospital doors!)
  63. p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
  64. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  65. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  66. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  67. p. 276, line 21LET that which stood in front go behind,
  68. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  69. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  70. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
  71. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  72. p. 288, line 2It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.
  73. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  74. 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,
  75. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  76. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  77. p. 315, line 5Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
  78. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  79. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
  80. p. 326, line 15I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers each in turn,
  81. p. 327, line 4Receive me and my lover too, he will not let me go without him.
  82. p. 329, line 22O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  83. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.
  84. p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
  85. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  86. p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
  87. p. 336, line 15Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  88. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  89. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  90. p. 341, line 18Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me;
  91. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  92. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.
  93. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  94. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  95. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  96. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  97. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
  98. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  99. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  100. p. 370, line 3I shall go forth,
  101. p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
  102. p. 376, line 21I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,
  103. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  104. p. 398, line 10Thanks in old age—thanks ere I go,
  105. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
  106. p. 411, line 1SOMEHOW I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
  107. p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
  108. p. 432, line 33[…] at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in […]
  109. p. 436, line 15[…] even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those words are behind all, and will duly […]