Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “man”

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  1. p. 9, line 8The Modern Man I sing.
  2. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  3. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  4. p. 12, line 18Or woman, man, or state, known or unknown,
  5. p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
  6. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  7. 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,
  8. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  9. p. 22, line 1I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races,
  10. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  11. p. 22, line 19Nor land nor man or woman without religion.)
  12. p. 22, line 20What are you doing young man?
  13. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  14. p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
  15. p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  16. p. 32, line 2The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  17. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  18. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  19. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  20. p. 42, line 5Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
  21. p. 44, line 10What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
  22. p. 45, line 18I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  23. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  24. p. 47, line 11The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  25. p. 53, line 17(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  26. p. 53, line 21And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
  27. p. 59, line 25I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.
  28. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  29. p. 65, line 26Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  30. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
  31. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  32. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  33. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  34. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  35. p. 73, line 20I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
  36. p. 73, line 21But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  37. p. 74, line 23The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right,
  38. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  39. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  40. p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
  41. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
  42. p. 81, line 27But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
  43. p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
  44. p. 83, line 1This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
  45. p. 84, line 8This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman,
  46. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
  47. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  48. p. 86, line 14Have you ever loved the body of a man?
  49. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
  50. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.
  51. p. 87, line 21Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,
  52. p. 88, line 7Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.
  53. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  54. p. 89, line 5They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
  55. 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,
  56. p. 90, line 18The limpid liquid within the young man,
  57. p. 90, line 22The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes,
  58. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  59. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  60. p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
  61. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
  62. p. 95, line 23That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
  63. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  64. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  65. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  66. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  67. p. 111, line 5I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
  68. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  69. p. 119, line 12You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
  70. p. 124, line 2Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
  71. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  72. p. 128, line 1Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!
  73. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
  74. p. 134, line 16A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
  75. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  76. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  77. p. 135, line 13A man is a summons and challenge,
  78. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  79. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  80. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  81. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  82. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  83. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  84. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
  85. p. 165, line 10Many a good man have I seen go under.
  86. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  87. p. 167, line 16To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
  88. p. 167, line 29For man of you, your characteristic race,
  89. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  90. p. 169, line 20A man like me and never the usual terms.
  91. p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  92. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  93. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  94. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  95. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
  96. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  97. p. 179, line 24I become a dumb man.
  98. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  99. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
  100. p. 187, line 17There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you,
  101. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  102. p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
  103. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  104. p. 197, line 8A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
  105. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  106. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  107. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  108. p. 210, line 2Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.
  109. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,
  110. p. 213, line 16Thou, thou, the Ideal Man,
  111. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  112. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  113. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  114. p. 222, line 21Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,
  115. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  116. p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
  117. p. 231, line 25Why what comes over you now old man?
  118. p. 232, line 3As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,
  119. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  120. p. 240, line 14Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,
  121. p. 241, line 15AN old man bending I come among new faces,
  122. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  123. p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,
  124. p. 259, line 3Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.
  125. p. 263, line 27THIS dust was once the man,
  126. p. 269, line 9Of these States the poet is the equable man,
  127. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  128. p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
  129. p. 273, line 2A man before all—myself, typical, before all.
  130. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  131. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  132. p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,
  133. 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,
  134. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  135. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  136. p. 297, line 16They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.
  137. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  138. p. 300, line 10It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
  139. p. 300, line 13All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.
  140. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,
  141. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  142. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  143. p. 302, line 20Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man,
  144. p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
  145. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  146. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  147. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  148. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  149. p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
  150. p. 305, line 1I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  151. p. 305, line 2Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  152. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  153. p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
  154. p. 311, line 34And man and art with Nature fused again.
  155. p. 319, line 8Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more,
  156. p. 319, line 19Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
  157. p. 320, line 3The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
  158. p. 320, line 33Of man, the voyage of his mind's return,
  159. p. 323, line 13A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man,
  160. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,
  161. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,
  162. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  163. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
  164. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  165. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  166. p. 345, line 4The same old man and soul—the same old aspirations, and the same content.
  167. p. 347, line 27Thought of man justified, blended with God,
  168. p. 349, line 23Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so long upon the mind of man,
  169. p. 349, line 24The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;
  170. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  171. p. 352, line 11I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
  172. p. 353, line 17This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
  173. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  174. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
  175. p. 355, line 14Come here she blushingly cries, Come nigh to me limber-hipp'd man,
  176. p. 357, line 11The heart of man and woman all for love,
  177. p. 358, line 18Marches of victory—man disenthral'd—the conqueror at last,
  178. p. 358, line 19Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy!
  179. p. 361, line 18O ME, man of slack faith so long,
  180. p. 362, line 2Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood?
  181. p. 362, line 16Costless, vouchsafed to each, yet never man the owner,
  182. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  183. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,
  184. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  185. p. 376, line 23THE business man the acquirer vast,
  186. p. 379, line 10The entrance of man to sing;
  187. p. 381, line 6I announce a man or woman coming, perhaps you are the one, (So long!)
  188. p. 382, line 8Who touches this touches a man,
  189. p. 393, line 1Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days!
  190. p. 396, line 23Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;
  191. p. 400, line 5A queer old savage man, a fighter under Washington himself,
  192. p. 402, line 15Mourning a good old man—a faithful shepherd, patriot.
  193. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
  194. p. 426, line 9[…] the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising—this […]
  195. p. 435, line 16[…] conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more or less […]
  196. p. 435, line 28[…] we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions […]
  197. p. 437, line 5[…] acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation […]