Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “him”

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  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  2. p. 14, line 13FOR him I sing,
  3. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
  4. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  5. p. 17, line 5The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
  6. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  7. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
  8. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
  9. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  10. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  11. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  12. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  13. p. 36, line 17Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,
  14. p. 36, line 18And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him,
  15. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  16. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
  17. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  18. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  19. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  20. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  21. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  22. p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
  23. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
  24. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  25. p. 62, line 13We closed with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch'd,
  26. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  27. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  28. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  29. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
  30. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
  31. 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;
  32. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  33. p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  34. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  35. p. 73, line 1My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels,
  36. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  37. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  38. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  39. p. 80, line 29The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking,
  40. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
  41. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  42. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  43. p. 83, line 5They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
  44. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
  45. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  46. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  47. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  48. p. 84, line 21The flush of the known universe is in him,
  49. p. 84, line 22Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
  50. p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
  51. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  52. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  53. p. 86, line 6In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  54. p. 86, line 7Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  55. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  56. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  57. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  58. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  59. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  60. p. 109, line 16For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,
  61. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  62. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  63. p. 124, line 2Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
  64. p. 134, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  65. 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.
  66. p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
  67. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  68. p. 134, line 23Him they immerse and he immerses them.
  69. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  70. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
  71. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  72. p. 136, line 5And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  73. p. 136, line 8Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  74. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  75. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  76. p. 136, line 16Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffee-house claims him,
  77. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
  78. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  79. p. 145, line 20Again I see him rise to breathe, we row close again,
  80. p. 145, line 22Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast,
  81. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
  82. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  83. p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
  84. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  85. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  86. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  87. p. 178, line 29The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
  88. p. 178, line 30The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
  89. p. 179, line 1The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him,
  90. p. 179, line 2The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
  91. p. 179, line 3The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
  92. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  93. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  94. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  95. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  96. p. 179, line 18Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
  97. p. 182, line 30Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
  98. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
  99. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
  100. p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
  101. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  102. p. 234, line 11I saw him at the river-side,
  103. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  104. p. 238, line 26And buried him where he fell.
  105. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  106. p. 255, line 12And thought of him I love.
  107. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  108. p. 258, line 7I'll perfume the grave of him I love.
  109. p. 258, line 10To adorn the burial-house of him I love?
  110. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  111. p. 263, line 19No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
  112. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  113. p. 263, line 25Sing—as they close the doors of earth upon him—one verse,
  114. p. 266, line 17To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,
  115. p. 266, line 23Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,
  116. p. 266, line 24Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him,
  117. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
  118. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
  119. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,
  120. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  121. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
  122. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  123. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  124. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
  125. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.
  126. 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.)
  127. p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
  128. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  129. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,
  130. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
  131. p. 283, line 13They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
  132. p. 287, line 18And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
  133. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  134. p. 290, line 3But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime.
  135. p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,
  136. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  137. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,
  138. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  139. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
  140. p. 307, line 16They all know him, all are affectionate to him;
  141. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  142. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,
  143. p. 320, line 20His misfortunes, calumniators, behold him a prisoner, chain'd,
  144. p. 327, line 4Receive me and my lover too, he will not let me go without him.
  145. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  146. p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.
  147. p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  148. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  149. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  150. p. 330, line 11They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,
  151. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  152. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  153. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  154. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  155. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  156. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  157. p. 388, line 12To memory of Him—to birth of Him.
  158. p. 400, line 8Lay dying—sons, daughters, church-deacons, lovingly tending him,
  159. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  160. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)
  161. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;
  162. p. 417, line 4Call'd for vermilion paint (his looking-glass was held before him,)
  163. p. 431, line 26[…] indeed have in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the […]
  164. p. 434, line 41[…] passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good […]
  165. p. 434, line 42[…] with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated […]
  166. p. 435, line 30[…] by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems […]