Concordance
The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.
K
K 1
kaleidoscope 1
Kalmucks 1
Kamtschatkan 1
Kanada 7
- p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
- p. 16, line 11A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
- p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
- p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
- p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
- p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
Kanada's 2
Kanadian 5
- p. 27, line 3Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
- p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
- p. 65, line 13Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian?
- p. 110, line 10To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
- p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
Kanadian's 1
Kansas 5
- p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
- p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
- p. 227, line 8And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
- p. 264, line 19From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
- p. 368, line 14Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Kansian's 1
kant 1
kanuck 1 today: Canuck
Kaqueta 1
Karnac 1
Kashmere 1
katy-did 1
Kaubul 1
Kaw 1
Kazbek 1
keel 4
- p. 107, line 5And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,
- p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
- p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
- p. 401, line 8I hear the slapping waves, the restless keel, the rocking in the sand,
keelson see kelson
keen 2
keen-eyed 1
keep 28
- p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
- p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
- p. 66, line 26Sleep—I and they keep guard all night,
- p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
- p. 75, line 6And those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun.
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- p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
- p. 125, line 8Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
- p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
- p. 160, line 18A keep for life for practical invention.
- p. 197, line 30While we two keep together.
- p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
- p. 199, line 7O moon do not keep her from me any longer.
- p. 245, line 6Keep your splendid silent sun,
- p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
- p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,
- p. 245, line 9Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;
- p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;
- p. 262, line 12Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,
- p. 262, line 17Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
- p. 287, line 8Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs;
- p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
- p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
- p. 346, line 3From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,
- p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,
- p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
- p. 409, line 18I keep mine till the last.)
- p. 415, line 30Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.
keeper 1
keepers 3
keeping 2
keeps 2
kelson 1 today: keelson
kelsons 1
Kelt 2
Kennebec 1
Kentuckian 1
Kentucky 5
- p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
- p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
- p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,
- p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;
- p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
kept 7
- p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,
- p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
- p. 238, line 1VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night;
- p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
- p. 261, line 10Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,
- p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
- p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
kept-woman 1
kernel 1
kettle 3
key 4
key'd 1 today: keyed
keyed see key'd
keys 2
Khiva 1
kick'd 1 today: kicked
kicked see kick'd
kid 1
kill 6
- p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
- p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
- p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
- p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
- p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
kill'd 2 today: killed
killed see kill'd
killing 1
killing-clothes 2
killing-hammer 1
kind 9
- p. 23, line 9The following chants each for its kind I sing.
- p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
- p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
- p. 148, line 25Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind,
- p. 169, line 4Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race.
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- p. 334, line 9Each after his kind.
- p. 407, line 13In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion […]
- p. 429, line 5[…] all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves […]
- p. 434, line 31[…] out of which he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of faith report these things […]
kindled 2
kindling 1
kindred 3
kine 1
king 2
king-bird 1
kingdoms 1
king-pin 1
kings 18
- p. 13, line 2Of vanish'd lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,
- p. 118, line 2I look on chisell'd histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,
- p. 154, line 23Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown'd ladies, impeach'd ministers, rejected kings,
- p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
- p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,
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- p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
- p. 192, line 5With the fading kingdoms and kings over there,
- p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
- p. 212, line 2The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings.
- p. 212, line 17They live in other young men O kings!
- p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
- p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,
- p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
- p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
- p. 368, line 12Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
- p. 368, line 13But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings,
- p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,
- p. 370, line 20I see the landmarks of European kings removed,
kiss 15
- p. 23, line 19Not he with a daily kiss onward from childhood kissing me,
- p. 66, line 13On his right cheek I put the family kiss,
- p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
- p. 81, line 2From the long sustain'd kiss upon the mouth or bosom,
- p. 98, line 10With the comrade's long-dwelling kiss or the new husband's kiss,
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- p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
- p. 203, line 17Kiss me my father,
- p. 244, line 3Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
- p. 321, line 8With laugh and many a kiss,
- p. 339, line 20Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of affection,
- p. 376, line 19I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks, the closed eyes in the coffin;)
- p. 382, line 18Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
kiss'd 3 today: kissed
- p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
- p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
- p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
kissed see kiss'd
kissers 1
kisses 14
- p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
- p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
- p. 105, line 17Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,
- p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
- p. 206, line 12With these kisses let me remove your tears,
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- p. 220, line 18The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother,
- p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
- p. 238, line 23Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
- p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
- p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
- p. 332, line 3The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong'd is made right,
- p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
kissing 1
kit 1
kitchen 3
kitten 1
knapsack 2
knapsacks 2
knee 3
kneel 1
kneeling 2
kneels 1
knee-pan 1
knees 9
- p. 66, line 5You there, impotent, loose in the knees,
- 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,
- p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
- p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
- p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
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knee-strap 1
Kneph 1
knew 18
- p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
- p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
- p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
- p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
- p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
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- p. 131, line 23That I was I knew was of my body, and what I should be I knew I should be of my body.
- p. 132, line 4I am he who knew what it was to be evil,
- p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
- p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
- p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
- p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
- p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
- p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!
- p. 354, line 16And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
- p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
- p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
knife 10
- p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
- p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
- p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
- p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
- p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
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- p. 230, line 16The insane knife toward the Mother of All.
- p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
- p. 301, line 27A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,
- p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
- p. 354, line 6And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pull'd scabbard.
knife-grinder 1
knight 1
knights 3
- p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;
- p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
- p. 435, line 8[…] States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the centuries of […]
knit 1
knitted 3
knitting 1
knives 1
knob 2
knobs 1
knock 1
knoll 2
knot 2
knots 2
know 179
knowers 1
knowest 7
- p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
- p. 323, line 25Thou knowest my years entire, my life,
- p. 323, line 27Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth,
- p. 323, line 28Thou knowest my manhood's solemn and visionary meditations,
- p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
- p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
- p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
knowing 5
- p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
- p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
- p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
- p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
- p. 427, line 19[…] I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]
knowledge 13
- p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
- p. 50, line 22My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,
- p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
- p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
- p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
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- p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
- p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
- p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
- p. 259, line 25Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,
- p. 260, line 19For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
- p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
- p. 318, line 2Again the knowledge gain'd, the mariner's compass,
- p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,
known 29
- p. 12, line 18Or woman, man, or state, known or unknown,
- p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
- p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
- p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
- p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
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- p. 71, line 2Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
- p. 71, line 4What is known I strip away,
- p. 84, line 21The flush of the known universe is in him,
- 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,
- p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
- p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
- p. 172, line 20The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are,
- p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
- p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,
- p. 214, line 2The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
- p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
- p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
- p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
- p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
- p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
- p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
- p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
- p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,
- p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
- p. 379, line 24WHAT are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
- p. 413, line 40[…] a rank and file ahead of all other known in points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily […]
- p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
- p. 430, line 34[…] already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what they prelude and […]
knows 23
- p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
- p. 75, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me, he knows me well,
- p. 81, line 4From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
- p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
- p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
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- p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
- p. 111, line 10Some are baffled, but that one is not—that one knows me.
- p. 132, line 24Who knows but I am enjoying this?
- p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
- p. 157, line 11She knows the thoughts as she passes, nothing is conceal'd from her,
- p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
- p. 277, line 20Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?
- p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
- p. 291, line 20Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,
- 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,
- p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
- p. 309, line 5Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?
- p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
- p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
- p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
- p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
- p. 421, line 10(Who knows? the best yet unexpress'd and lacking.)
- p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
know'st 3
knuckled 1
knuckles 1
koboo 2
Koosa 1
Koran 1
kosmic 1
kosmos 5 today: cosmos
- p. 19, line 9Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
- p. 48, line 5Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
- p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
- p. 364, line 25They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
- p. 403, line 12Or " Captain! My Captain! " " Kosmos," "Quicksand Years," or "Thoughts,"
Kossabone 3
- p. 384, line 40[…] Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the […]
- p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
- p. 395, line 13Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my mother's side, far back.