Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  2. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  3. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  4. p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,
  5. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  6. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,
  7. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
  8. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  9. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  10. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  11. p. 25, line 14Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
  12. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  13. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  14. p. 34, line 3And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  15. p. 34, line 10Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  16. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
  17. p. 37, line 22Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire.
  18. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  19. p. 47, line 2I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
  20. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
  21. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
  22. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.
  23. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  24. p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
  25. p. 72, line 5My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
  26. p. 73, line 1My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels,
  27. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
  28. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  29. p. 85, line 7Each has his or her place in the procession.
  30. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  31. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  32. p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
  33. p. 89, line 11I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
  34. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
  35. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  36. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  37. p. 101, line 16He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
  38. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  39. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
  40. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  41. p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
  42. p. 120, line 14I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
  43. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  44. p. 123, line 16Here a great personal deed has room,
  45. p. 124, line 2Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
  46. 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.
  47. p. 128, line 21What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
  48. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  49. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,
  50. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  51. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  52. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  53. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  54. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  55. p. 154, line 1Than this nothing has better served, it has served all,
  56. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  57. p. 158, line 8Long and long has the grass been growing,
  58. p. 158, line 9Long and long has the rain been falling,
  59. p. 158, line 10Long has the globe been rolling round.
  60. p. 166, line 3My time has ended, my term has come.
  61. p. 166, line 27Our time, our term has come.
  62. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
  63. p. 177, line 10Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
  64. p. 177, line 12Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
  65. p. 177, line 29Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
  66. p. 180, line 7No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,
  67. p. 180, line 8Undeniable growth has establish'd it.
  68. p. 181, line 2Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
  69. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  70. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  71. p. 186, line 1Has the night descended?
  72. p. 186, line 21None has understood you, but I understand you,
  73. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  74. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  75. p. 187, line 12I pursue you where none else has pursued you,
  76. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  77. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
  78. p. 210, line 5Why this is indeed a show—it has called the dead out of the earth!
  79. p. 213, line 20O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
  80. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
  81. p. 224, line 25O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
  82. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  83. p. 243, line 13And has not yet look'd on it.
  84. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
  85. p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
  86. p. 257, line 27But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detain'd me,
  87. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  88. p. 262, line 22The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
  89. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  90. p. 264, line 23If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
  91. p. 265, line 15O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
  92. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  93. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
  94. p. 269, line 21As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
  95. p. 271, line 17Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
  96. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?
  97. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  98. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
  99. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  100. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  101. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  102. p. 289, line 24All verges to it, all has reference to what ensues,
  103. p. 290, line 8But has results beyond death as really as before death.
  104. p. 290, line 12Who has been wise receives interest,
  105. p. 291, line 13The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
  106. 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,
  107. 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,
  108. p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
  109. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  110. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
  111. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  112. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  113. 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,
  114. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,
  115. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  116. p. 307, line 18Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white line running along his back, some are brindled,
  117. p. 310, line 3Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
  118. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)
  119. p. 318, line 25Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
  120. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
  121. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  122. p. 327, line 2My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
  123. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  124. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,
  125. p. 331, line 13What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place,
  126. p. 333, line 17Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long pervaded the rooms,)
  127. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
  128. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  129. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  130. p. 341, line 24As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear'd,
  131. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  132. 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,
  133. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)
  134. p. 362, line 1Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
  135. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,
  136. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
  137. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  138. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  139. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
  140. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  141. 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,
  142. 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.
  143. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  144. p. 376, line 11O setting sun! though the time has come,
  145. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  146. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  147. p. 393, line 3To admiration has it been enacted!
  148. 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;)
  149. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  150. p. 419, line 4"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely hidden?
  151. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
  152. p. 425, line 32[…] and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on the […]
  153. p. 426, line 24[…] withholdings. Essentially, that was from the first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be […]
  154. p. 427, line 36[…] point of view of verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an article on […]
  155. p. 428, line 28[…] to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can […]
  156. p. 430, line 14[…] thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd […]
  157. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly […]
  158. p. 431, line 29[…] of being the loftiest of the singers life has yet given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest […]
  159. p. 432, line 9[…] stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic […]
  160. p. 432, line 21[…] especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation […]
  161. p. 432, line 31[…] especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so […]
  162. p. 433, line 21[…] human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for all—has so many mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose […]
  163. p. 435, line 9[…] ideals of the centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my […]
  164. p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its […]
  165. p. 436, line 20[…] lines omitted. Difficult as it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude […]
  166. p. 437, line 18[…] it was grown out of those elements, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally […]
  167. p. 438, line 4[…] artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school […]
  168. p. 438, line 8[…] of Grass" indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other […]