Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “hand”

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  1. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  2. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  3. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
  4. p. 29, line 4O hand in hand—O wholesome pleasure—O one more desirer and lover!
  5. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  6. p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
  7. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  8. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
  9. p. 37, line 14An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
  10. p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
  11. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  12. p. 61, line 6Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general, he furiously waves with his hand,
  13. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  14. p. 73, line 22My left hand hooking you round the waist,
  15. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
  16. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  17. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
  18. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  19. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  20. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  21. p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
  22. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  23. p. 97, line 20WHOEVER you are holding me now in hand,
  24. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  25. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  26. p. 101, line 16He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
  27. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  28. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  29. p. 109, line 6A LEAF for hand in hand;
  30. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  31. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
  32. p. 112, line 7O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman!
  33. p. 120, line 20I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal,
  34. p. 122, line 8The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
  35. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
  36. p. 129, line 5Camerado, I give you my hand!
  37. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  38. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  39. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,
  40. p. 153, line 28What always served and always serves is at hand.
  41. p. 157, line 1The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd crowd, the dangling of the rope.
  42. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  43. p. 163, line 15With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law;
  44. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  45. p. 177, line 29Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
  46. p. 178, line 1Seen at hand or seen at a distance,
  47. p. 186, line 14Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
  48. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  49. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
  50. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  51. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  52. p. 206, line 7From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
  53. 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,
  54. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
  55. p. 219, line 22Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.
  56. p. 230, line 14I saw with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,
  57. p. 231, line 15GIVE me your hand old Revolutionary,
  58. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
  59. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  60. p. 232, line 6When I clutch'd your hand it was not with terror,
  61. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  62. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  63. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
  64. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  65. p. 243, line 9From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand,
  66. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
  67. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
  68. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  69. p. 258, line 17And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,
  70. p. 262, line 16With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,
  71. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
  72. p. 268, line 22Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
  73. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  74. p. 273, line 14This arm, this hand, this voice, have nourish'd, rais'd, restored,
  75. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,
  76. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  77. p. 292, line 23Nor hand of friend, nor loving face,
  78. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,
  79. p. 312, line 26Stalks Norma brandishing the dagger in her hand.
  80. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
  81. p. 319, line 17As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.
  82. p. 325, line 8As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal'd my eyes,
  83. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  84. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,
  85. p. 331, line 21Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand,
  86. p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  87. p. 338, line 5Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
  88. p. 339, line 14With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
  89. p. 344, line 10Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,
  90. p. 348, line 5By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
  91. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  92. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.
  93. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  94. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!
  95. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  96. p. 389, line 7Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.
  97. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,
  98. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  99. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  100. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  101. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  102. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!
  103. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  104. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,
  105. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
  106. p. 429, line 28[…] song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand, what may be call'd the negative and lack of it […]