Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “little”

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  1. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  2. p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
  3. p. 15, line 8TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
  4. p. 33, line 1And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  5. p. 35, line 1The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  6. p. 37, line 13Little streams pass'd all over their bodies.
  7. p. 49, line 30The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  8. p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  9. p. 62, line 25Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
  10. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  11. p. 63, line 9Serene stands the little captain,
  12. p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
  13. p. 66, line 3Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  14. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,
  15. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  16. p. 75, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  17. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  18. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  19. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  20. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
  21. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  22. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
  23. p. 107, line 5And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,
  24. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  25. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  26. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  27. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  28. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  29. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,
  30. p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
  31. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  32. p. 156, line 14The shape of the little trough, the shape of the rockers beneath, the shape of the babe's cradle,
  33. p. 157, line 24(AH little recks the laborer,
  34. p. 158, line 7While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
  35. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,
  36. p. 179, line 15I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words,
  37. p. 188, line 10Heard over the waves the little voice,
  38. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  39. p. 197, line 8A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
  40. p. 198, line 33What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
  41. p. 202, line 22I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift,
  42. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  43. p. 203, line 13I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island.
  44. p. 203, line 26Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses,
  45. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  46. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  47. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  48. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  49. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,
  50. p. 224, line 1Come up here, dear little child,
  51. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  52. p. 226, line 17This song to the soul of one poor little child.
  53. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  54. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  55. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  56. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
  57. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  58. p. 249, line 12A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,
  59. p. 251, line 22And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me,
  60. p. 251, line 23And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me;
  61. p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
  62. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  63. p. 277, line 24O little shells, so curious-convolute, so limpid-cold and voiceless,
  64. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  65. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
  66. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  67. p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
  68. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  69. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  70. p. 294, line 18Wood-violets, the little delicate pale blossoms called innocence,
  71. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  72. p. 312, line 8Ah from a little child,
  73. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,
  74. p. 325, line 18How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  75. p. 325, line 25And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt.
  76. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  77. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  78. p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
  79. p. 343, line 15I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
  80. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  81. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,
  82. p. 362, line 30Two little breaths of words comprising it,
  83. p. 366, line 24In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses for breastworks,
  84. p. 377, line 4And little souvenirs of camps and soldiers, with my love,
  85. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
  86. p. 381, line 20Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,
  87. p. 381, line 28So I pass, a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
  88. p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,
  89. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  90. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,
  91. p. 407, line 4[…] this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long […]
  92. p. 407, line 14[…] that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at […]
  93. p. 408, line 6[…] gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are too many of […]
  94. p. 409, line 3O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,
  95. p. 411, line 38[…] some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be […]
  96. p. 417, line 9Fix'd his look on wife and little children—the last:
  97. p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)
  98. p. 426, line 10[…] doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd […]
  99. p. 426, line 27[…] to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel […]
  100. p. 429, line 30[…] always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less removes, the material […]
  101. p. 434, line 20[…] is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The […]