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.
M
ma – murdering · murderous – myths
murderous 6
- p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
- p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
- p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
- p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
- p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,
- p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
murder-plots 1
murders 1
murk 7
- p. 208, line 28Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,
- p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
- p. 255, line 15O great star disappear'd—O the black murk that hides the star!
- p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
- p. 365, line 17OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,
- p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
- p. 392, line 7Thy brooding scowl and murk—thy unloos'd hurricanes,
murkiest 1
murky 3
murmur 3
murmur'd 1 today: murmured
murmured see murmur'd
murmuring 7
- p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
- p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
- p. 166, line 15Murmuring out of its myriad leaves,
- p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
- p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
- p. 371, line 17As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
- p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:
murmurs 4
- p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
- p. 100, line 26Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
- p. 100, line 27Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
- p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,
Muscat 1
muscle 6
- p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
- p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
- p. 151, line 27Muscle and pluck forever!
- p. 266, line 22Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,
- p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,
- p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
muscular 5
- p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
- p. 79, line 24Singing the muscular urge and the blending,
- p. 164, line 5How the ash writhes under those muscular arms!
- p. 217, line 5He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
- p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
muse 12
- p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
- p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
- p. 158, line 11Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,
- p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
- p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
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- p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
- p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
- p. 181, line 1COME said the Muse,
- p. 240, line 23Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,
- p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
- p. 371, line 17As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
- p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
mused 1
muses 1
museum 1
music 35
- p. 10, line 7With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
- p. 29, line 2O something ecstatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
- p. 32, line 17Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,
- p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
- p. 51, line 19Ah this indeed is music—this suits me.
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- p. 68, line 10Music rolls, but not from the organ,
- p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
- p. 142, line 11Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
- p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
- p. 148, line 23Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music,
- p. 161, line 14One stately house shall be the music house,
- p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
- p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,
- p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
- p. 189, line 5For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
- p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
- p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
- p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
- p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,
- p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,
- p. 309, line 19Music, Italian music in Dakota.
- p. 310, line 13PROUD music of the storm,
- p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
- p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
- p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
- p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
- p. 343, line 1THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear,
- p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
- p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
- p. 357, line 1What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,
- p. 359, line 16Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,
- p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
- p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,
- p. 433, line 18[…] limited range of melody (like perpetual chimes of music bells, ringing from lower b flat up to g) they […]
musical 14
- p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
- p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
- p. 113, line 8I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
- p. 196, line 14Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
- p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
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- p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
- p. 245, line 25Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus!
- p. 278, line 17The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
- p. 292, line 15She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,
- p. 294, line 7With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at sunset,
- p. 356, line 14Waves, oceans musical, chaotically surging,
- p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
- p. 372, line 16Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living—sweet are the musical voices sounding,
- p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
musically 2
musician 1
musicians 6
- p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
- p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
- p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
- p. 299, line 12For noble savans and coming musicians.
- p. 311, line 24The players playing, all the world's musicians,
- p. 349, line 27Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
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musing 8
- p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
- p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
- p. 261, line 29And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffer'd,
- p. 263, line 17And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
- p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
- p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,
- p. 416, line 2Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,
- p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
musings 2
musket-barrels 2
musket-muzzles 1
musketry 1
muskets 5
- p. 62, line 2These were despatch'd with bayonets or batter'd with the blunts of muskets,
- p. 231, line 24Do you hear the clank of the muskets?
- p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
- p. 253, line 9As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders,
- p. 279, line 20With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks and your muskets;
muslin 1
Mussulman 1
must 77
- p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
- p. 18, line 4Arouse! for you must justify me.
- p. 21, line 23I will show what alone must finally compact these,
- p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
- p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
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- p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
- p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.
- p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
- p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
- p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
- p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
- p. 73, line 25You must travel it for yourself.
- p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
- p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
- 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. 92, line 9To be lost if it must be so!
- p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
- p. 96, line 21O I think it is not for life I am chanting here my chant of lovers, I think it must be for death,
- p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
- p. 122, line 21I think whoever I see must be happy.
- p. 125, line 10Allons! we must not stop here,
- p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
- p. 126, line 5These are the days that must happen to you:
- p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
- p. 128, line 24He going with me must go well arm'd,
- p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
- p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
- p. 183, line 10We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
- p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
- p. 185, line 23Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
- p. 190, line 18I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
- p. 192, line 26I assert that all past days were what they must have been,
- p. 192, line 28And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is,
- p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
- p. 199, line 2Surely you must know who is here, is here,
- p. 199, line 3You must know who I am, my love.
- p. 199, line 16Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
- p. 199, line 27So faint, I must be still, be still to listen,
- p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
- p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
- p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
- p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
- p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
- p. 226, line 21That pennant I would be and must be.
- p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
- p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
- p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,
- p. 234, line 27I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.
- p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
- p. 241, line 13Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
- p. 250, line 21Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
- p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
- p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
- p. 266, line 7Any period one nation must lead,
- p. 266, line 8One land must be the promise and reliance of the future.
- p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
- p. 288, line 8For till all ceases neither must you cease.
- p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
- p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
- p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
- p. 350, line 1Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest material civilization must remain in vain,)
- p. 361, line 23(This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be realized,
- p. 370, line 6O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
- p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;
- p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
- p. 408, line 6[…] somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are […]
- p. 427, line 42[…] is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years gone […]
- p. 428, line 32Also it must be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by […]
- p. 430, line 26[…] has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no […]
- p. 430, line 27[…] democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature […]
- p. 431, line 44[…] as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before […]
- p. 433, line 32[…] should return from straying however far a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality […]
- p. 436, line 9[…] Henceforth, if they live and are read, it must be just as much South as North—just as much […]
- p. 436, line 29[…] permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body and […]
- p. 436, line 30[…] with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]
mustache 1
musters 1
mutable 1
mute 2
mutely 1
mutilated 1
mutineer 1
mutter 2
muttering 4
- p. 208, line 23Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
- p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
- p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
- p. 392, line 21Outsurging, muttering from thy soul's abysms,
mutters 1
muzzles 2
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myriad 10
- p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
- p. 166, line 15Murmuring out of its myriad leaves,
- p. 197, line 3From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
- p. 209, line 8Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks,
- p. 261, line 6Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
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- p. 282, line 9Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns,
- p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
- p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
- p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!
myriads 20
- p. 13, line 17The noiseless myriads,
- p. 42, line 18A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,
- p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
- p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
- p. 112, line 19What myriads of dwellings are they fill'd with dwellers?
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- p. 138, line 19All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,
- p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
- p. 176, line 7Human bodies are words, myriads of words,
- p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
- p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
- p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
- p. 261, line 23I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
- p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
- p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,
- p. 381, line 10I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,
- p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
- p. 412, line 24Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,
- p. 435, line 25[…] it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's […]
myriad-twining 1
myself 194
mysteries 1
mysterious 2
mystery 9
- p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
- p. 19, line 8The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
- p. 31, line 6I and this mystery here we stand.
- p. 88, line 10Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
- p. 321, line 12But with the mystery of God we dare not dally.
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- p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
- p. 374, line 24Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings, even the tiniest insect,
- p. 396, line 25Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
- p. 437, line 10[…] at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or […]
mystic 17
- p. 47, line 17That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
- p. 80, line 17The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,
- p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
- p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
- p. 173, line 14Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
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- p. 181, line 20For it the mystic evolution,
- p. 185, line 15All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
- p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
- p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
- p. 277, line 15All, all toward the mystic ocean tending.
- p. 296, line 20Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)
- p. 308, line 6These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives,
- p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
- p. 391, line 9Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:
- p. 412, line 21A mystic cipher waits infolded.
- p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
- p. 416, line 14Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,
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myth 5
- p. 192, line 2With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
- p. 192, line 24I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,
- p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
- p. 331, line 6The myth of heaven indicates the soul,
- p. 427, line 24[…] may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average […]
myths 9
- p. 113, line 17I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans,
- p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,
- p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
- p. 299, line 19And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
- p. 316, line 4Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
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- p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,
- p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
- p. 427, line 16[…] its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too […]
- p. 432, line 10[…] the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters […]