Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “last”

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  1. p. 10, line 1(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,
  2. p. 10, line 12In full rapport at last.
  3. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  4. p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
  5. p. 14, line 11But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating,
  6. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
  7. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  8. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
  9. p. 47, line 19Materialism first and last imbuing.
  10. p. 48, line 12And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
  11. p. 50, line 21I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  12. p. 59, line 21How he saved the drifting company at last,
  13. p. 64, line 13Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,
  14. p. 75, line 26On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
  15. p. 78, line 19The last scud of day holds back for me,
  16. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  17. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  18. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  19. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  20. p. 97, line 18That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
  21. p. 97, line 19But you will last very long.
  22. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  23. p. 111, line 4Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
  24. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  25. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  26. p. 145, line 28O ripen'd joy of womanhood! O happiness at last!
  27. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  28. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  29. p. 168, line 5To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last,
  30. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,
  31. p. 169, line 5The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,
  32. p. 174, line 1The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for railroads,
  33. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  34. p. 188, line 21Here too could rise at last murdering and ecstatic,
  35. p. 194, line 7Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes.
  36. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  37. p. 203, line 28(See, from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last,
  38. p. 227, line 15My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last,
  39. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  40. p. 238, line 6Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
  41. p. 246, line 1THE last sunbeam
  42. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  43. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  44. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  45. p. 255, line 7WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
  46. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
  47. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  48. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  49. p. 281, line 5I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last,
  50. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  51. p. 288, line 2It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.
  52. p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
  53. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  54. p. 306, line 30Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,
  55. p. 312, line 12Last miracle of all, O dearest mother's, sister's, voices;)
  56. p. 313, line 5Awaking from her woes at last retriev'd Amina sings,
  57. p. 318, line 5Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'd.
  58. p. 329, line 4The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  59. p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
  60. 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,
  61. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
  62. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  63. p. 342, line 17Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains?
  64. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  65. p. 346, line 1AT the last, tenderly,
  66. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  67. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
  68. p. 358, line 9(Yet 'mid the ruins Pride colossal stands unshaken to the last,
  69. p. 358, line 10Endurance, resolution to the last.)
  70. p. 358, line 18Marches of victory—man disenthral'd—the conqueror at last,
  71. p. 362, line 31Two words, yet all from first to last comprised in it.
  72. p. 363, line 14And heaven at last for it.
  73. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  74. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,
  75. p. 368, line 1For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
  76. p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
  77. p. 372, line 26O love, solve all, fructify all with the last chemistry.
  78. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  79. p. 374, line 27Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch, to the last.
  80. p. 376, line 5I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,
  81. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
  82. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)
  83. p. 378, line 12Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,
  84. p. 379, line 19The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
  85. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  86. p. 381, line 16Hasten throat and sound your last,
  87. p. 384, line 25[…] I the Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone […]
  88. p. 384, line 28[…] In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea […]
  89. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  90. p. 390, line 1Last of ebb, and daylight waning,
  91. p. 390, line 8Love's unresponse—a chorus of age's complaints—hope's last words,
  92. p. 391, line 8Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,
  93. p. 392, line 20The first and last confession of the globe,
  94. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  95. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
  96. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
  97. p. 395, line 10At last at nightfall strikes the breeze aright, her whole luck veering,
  98. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,
  99. p. 396, line 27Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unconvinced at last;
  100. 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.
  101. p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
  102. p. 402, line 6The faithfulest—hardiest—last.
  103. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  104. p. 404, line 1The touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,
  105. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,
  106. p. 404, line 20Garrulous to the very last.
  107. p. 406, line 5[…] Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund […]
  108. p. 407, line 1Last droplets of and after spontaneous rain,
  109. p. 407, line 26[…] improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of […]
  110. p. 408, line 4[…] grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down […]
  111. p. 409, line 13That we linger'd and lagg'd—but were wafted at last, and are now here,
  112. p. 409, line 18I keep mine till the last.)
  113. p. 409, line 29Why do folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those last words are […]
  114. p. 409, line 30[…] last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those last words are not samples of the best, which involve vitality […]
  115. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  116. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)
  117. p. 413, line 34[…] for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's […]
  118. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?
  119. p. 417, line 9Fix'd his look on wife and little children—the last:
  120. p. 418, line 27FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi,
  121. p. 422, line 6Now for my last—let me look back a moment;
  122. p. 425, line 14[…] some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down […]
  123. p. 425, line 16[…] in a sufficient way through all discomfitures at last)—After completing my poems, I am curious to review them […]
  124. p. 433, line 15Toward the last I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems […]
  125. p. 434, line 19[…] the description of them as they stand at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if […]
  126. p. 434, line 34[…] the singer—what his tinge of coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere […]
  127. p. 435, line 29[…] coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by […]
  128. p. 435, line 42[…] to be in my pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and […]
  129. p. 436, line 27[…] significance—like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in […]
  130. p. 437, line 25[…] when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity […]
  131. p. 438, line 10[…] other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the […]