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- p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
- p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
- p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
- p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
- p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
- p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
- p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
- p. 43, line 3If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
- p. 43, line 4If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
- p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
- p. 45, line 8And if each and all be aware I sit content.
- p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
- p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,
- p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
- p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
- p. 62, line 23The other asks if we demand quarter?
- p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
- p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
- p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
- p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
- p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
- p. 78, line 25If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
- p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
- p. 80, line 25O let me be lost if it must be so!
- p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
- p. 81, line 21And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
- p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
- p. 81, line 23And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
- p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
- p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
- p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
- p. 88, line 7Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.
- p. 92, line 9To be lost if it must be so!
- p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
- p. 98, line 12Or if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,
- p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
- p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
- p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
- p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
- p. 110, line 19Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins,
- p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
- p. 112, line 5Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;
- p. 112, line 6Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)
- p. 122, line 13Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
- p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
- p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
- p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
- p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
- p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
- p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
- p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
- p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
- p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
- p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
- p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
- p. 167, line 9As if the heirs, the deities of the West,
- p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
- p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
- p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
- p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
- p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
- p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
- 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.
- p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
- p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
- p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
- p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
- p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
- p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
- p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
- p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
- p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
- p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
- p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
- p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
- p. 201, line 10O if I am to have so much, let me have more!
- p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
- p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
- p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
- p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
- p. 217, line 19As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
- p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
- p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
- p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
- p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
- p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
- p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
- p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
- p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
- p. 264, line 23If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
- p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
- p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
- p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
- p. 275, line 14I will know if I am to be less than they,
- p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
- p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
- p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,
- p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
- p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
- p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
- p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
- p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
- p. 294, line 13O if one could but fly like a bird!
- 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,
- p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
- p. 309, line 3If vermin so transposed, so used and bless'd may be,
- p. 309, line 13Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
- p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
- p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
- p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
- p. 325, line 8As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal'd my eyes,
- p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
- p. 333, line 7If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
- p. 337, line 6If all came but to ashes of dung,
- p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
- p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
- p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
- p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
- p. 341, line 7Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.
- p. 341, line 21AS if a phantom caress'd me,
- p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
- p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
- p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
- p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
- p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
- p. 408, line 3[…] while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch […]
- p. 413, line 37[…] passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time these States, in […]
- p. 420, line 14(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,)
- p. 422, line 13Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
- p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
- p. 425, line 27[…] to the coming generations of the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I have not […]
- p. 428, line 21[…] in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we have cull'd enough of that period in its own […]
- p. 429, line 23[…] of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and […]
- p. 429, line 29[…] case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little […]
- p. 430, line 26[…] it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if […]
- p. 430, line 27[…] must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of […]
- p. 431, line 8[…] World or New, are from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to […]
- p. 431, line 44[…] and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head […]
- p. 433, line 40[…] naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new […]
- p. 434, line 20[…] the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader […]
- p. 436, line 9[…] songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live and are read, it must be just as […]
- p. 436, line 38[…] of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm […]