Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “love”

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  1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  2. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
  3. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
  4. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  5. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
  6. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  7. p. 23, line 3Dear son do you think it is love?
  8. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  9. p. 23, line 12The greatness of Love and Democracy, and the greatness of Religion.
  10. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  11. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  12. p. 29, line 23It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
  13. p. 32, line 2The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  14. p. 32, line 27And that a kelson of the creation is love,
  15. p. 34, line 19For me those that have been boys and that love women,
  16. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  17. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  18. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  19. p. 46, line 13O unspeakable passionate love.
  20. p. 51, line 4I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,
  21. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  22. p. 68, line 17Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  23. p. 69, line 17And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
  24. p. 74, line 23The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right,
  25. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  26. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  27. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  28. p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  29. p. 79, line 9The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
  30. p. 80, line 19I love you, O you entirely possess me,
  31. p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,
  32. p. 81, line 17The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  33. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
  34. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
  35. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  36. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
  37. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
  38. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  39. p. 89, line 7I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
  40. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  41. p. 90, line 5Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
  42. p. 90, line 6The body of my love, the body of the woman I love, the body of the man, the body of the earth,
  43. p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
  44. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
  45. p. 92, line 13Whispering I love you, before long I die,
  46. p. 92, line 18Return in peace to the ocean my love,
  47. p. 92, line 19I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,
  48. p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
  49. p. 93, line 24I AM he that aches with amorous love;
  50. p. 94, line 14Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,
  51. p. 94, line 17Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
  52. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  53. p. 96, line 5Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,
  54. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  55. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  56. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
  57. p. 99, line 4With the love of comrades,
  58. p. 99, line 5With the life-long love of comrades.
  59. p. 99, line 8By the love of comrades,
  60. p. 99, line 9By the manly love of comrades.
  61. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  62. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  63. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  64. 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,
  65. p. 103, line 9For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
  66. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
  67. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  68. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  69. p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
  70. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  71. p. 105, line 17Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,
  72. p. 106, line 5Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
  73. p. 107, line 7The institution of the dear love of comrades.
  74. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  75. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  76. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  77. p. 109, line 21Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
  78. p. 110, line 10To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
  79. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  80. p. 110, line 15But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
  81. p. 110, line 16(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
  82. p. 111, line 1FAST-ANCHOR'D eternal O love! O woman I love!
  83. p. 111, line 5I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
  84. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  85. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
  86. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
  87. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  88. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
  89. p. 129, line 6I give you my love more precious than money,
  90. p. 129, line 21The certainty of others, the life, love, sight, hearing of others.
  91. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  92. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
  93. p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,
  94. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
  95. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  96. p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
  97. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  98. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  99. p. 160, line 7The same old love, beauty and use the same.
  100. p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
  101. 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.
  102. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  103. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  104. p. 177, line 28Sits she whom I too love like the rest, sits undisturb'd,
  105. p. 179, line 3The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
  106. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  107. p. 182, line 25Love like the light silently wrapping all,
  108. p. 182, line 30Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
  109. p. 184, line 10O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
  110. p. 184, line 11O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
  111. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  112. p. 189, line 3And I send these words to Paris with my love,
  113. p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,
  114. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  115. p. 197, line 1From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
  116. p. 198, line 27But my love soothes not me, not me.
  117. p. 198, line 29It is lagging—O I think it is heavy with love, with love.
  118. p. 198, line 31With love, with love.
  119. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  120. p. 198, line 35Loud I call to you, my love!
  121. p. 199, line 3You must know who I am, my love.
  122. p. 199, line 19Carols of lonesome love! death's carols!
  123. p. 199, line 29Hither my love!
  124. p. 199, line 32This gentle call is for you my love, for you.
  125. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  126. p. 201, line 4Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,
  127. p. 203, line 18Touch me with your lips as I touch those I love,
  128. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  129. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  130. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
  131. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
  132. p. 230, line 15(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
  133. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  134. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  135. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  136. p. 242, line 6O maidens and young men I love and that love me,
  137. p. 246, line 36My heart gives you love.
  138. p. 247, line 3Those who love each other shall become invincible,
  139. p. 247, line 19I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.
  140. p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
  141. p. 255, line 12And thought of him I love.
  142. p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
  143. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  144. p. 258, line 7I'll perfume the grave of him I love.
  145. p. 258, line 10To adorn the burial-house of him I love?
  146. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  147. p. 260, line 20And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
  148. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  149. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  150. p. 269, line 6(Soul of love and tongue of fire!
  151. 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?
  152. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  153. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  154. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  155. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  156. p. 284, line 13Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love.
  157. p. 284, line 18It was an illusion, the son you love was not really dead,
  158. p. 285, line 12Dead house of love—house of madness and sin, crumbled, crush'd,
  159. p. 290, line 21All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
  160. p. 294, line 20To grace the bush I love—to sing with the birds,
  161. p. 299, line 7I walk with delinquents with passionate love,
  162. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  163. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  164. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  165. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  166. p. 307, line 26Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms,
  167. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,
  168. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
  169. p. 311, line 14I hear the minnesingers singing their lays of love,
  170. p. 312, line 21The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
  171. p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
  172. p. 314, line 16Obeisant sends his love.
  173. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,
  174. p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
  175. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  176. p. 330, line 4O love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me,
  177. p. 331, line 23The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  178. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  179. p. 332, line 15I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
  180. p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
  181. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  182. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  183. 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,
  184. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  185. p. 346, line 10Strong is your hold O love.)
  186. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  187. p. 357, line 10Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,
  188. p. 357, line 11The heart of man and woman all for love,
  189. p. 357, line 12No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.
  190. p. 357, line 17Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
  191. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  192. p. 357, line 19Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,
  193. p. 357, line 20No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
  194. p. 358, line 25Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
  195. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!
  196. p. 363, line 5What countless stores of beauty, love, ventur'd for it!
  197. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  198. p. 372, line 19But love is not over—and what love, O comrades!
  199. p. 372, line 21Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
  200. p. 372, line 26O love, solve all, fructify all with the last chemistry.
  201. p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
  202. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  203. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  204. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  205. p. 377, line 4And little souvenirs of camps and soldiers, with my love,
  206. p. 382, line 24I love you, I depart from materials,
  207. p. 386, line 4Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
  208. p. 387, line 19Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
  209. p. 388, line 18Not from successful love alone,
  210. p. 390, line 25Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.
  211. p. 394, line 13What curious questioning glances—glints of love!
  212. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
  213. p. 398, line 18For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for colors, forms,
  214. p. 399, line 10Reck'd or unreck'd. duly with love returns.)
  215. p. 402, line 11And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.
  216. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,
  217. p. 412, line 23Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought,
  218. p. 413, line 6America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
  219. p. 416, line 15Embalm'd with love in this twilight song.
  220. p. 418, line 11The blossoms rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love,
  221. p. 421, line 5All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,
  222. p. 422, line 2Farewell dear mate, dear love!
  223. p. 425, line 4[…] songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on […]
  224. p. 427, line 22[…] of the stock ornamentation, or choice plots of love or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing […]
  225. p. 428, line 26[…] answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give […]
  226. p. 428, line 39[…] in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But […]