Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “men”

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  1. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  2. p. 19, line 24Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
  3. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  4. p. 33, line 16It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  5. p. 33, line 21Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  6. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  7. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  8. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  9. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  10. p. 37, line 2Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
  11. p. 37, line 6Which of the young men does she like the best?
  12. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  13. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  14. p. 39, line 8Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  15. p. 41, line 4The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  16. p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  17. p. 45, line 20And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  18. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  19. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  20. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
  21. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  22. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  23. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  24. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  25. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
  26. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  27. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  28. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  29. p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
  30. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  31. p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
  32. p. 89, line 29The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
  33. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
  34. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  35. p. 94, line 5I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,
  36. p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
  37. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  38. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  39. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  40. p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
  41. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  42. p. 107, line 10Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
  43. p. 109, line 22It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
  44. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
  45. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  46. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
  47. p. 111, line 7AMONG the men and women the multitude,
  48. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  49. p. 118, line 10The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
  50. p. 120, line 22For all the haunts and homes of men.
  51. p. 121, line 10I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
  52. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  53. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  54. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  55. p. 123, line 17(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
  56. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  57. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
  58. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
  59. 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,
  60. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  61. p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
  62. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  63. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
  64. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  65. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  66. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  67. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  68. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  69. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  70. 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,
  71. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  72. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  73. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  74. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  75. p. 149, line 18The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,
  76. p. 150, line 8The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curv'd limbs,
  77. p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,
  78. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  79. p. 152, line 22Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
  80. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  81. p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
  82. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  83. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  84. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  85. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,
  86. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  87. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  88. p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
  89. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;
  90. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  91. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  92. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  93. p. 181, line 26Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states,
  94. p. 184, line 1Colorado men are we,
  95. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  96. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  97. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  98. p. 198, line 13He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.
  99. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  100. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
  101. p. 212, line 11Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves, bloody corpses of young men,
  102. p. 212, line 14Those corpses of young men,
  103. p. 212, line 17They live in other young men O kings!
  104. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  105. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  106. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  107. p. 220, line 4The young men falling in and arming,
  108. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  109. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  110. p. 225, line 12I hear the jubilant shouts of millions of men, I hear Liberty!
  111. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  112. p. 233, line 6It was the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  113. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  114. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  115. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  116. p. 236, line 4Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,
  117. p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
  118. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  119. p. 242, line 6O maidens and young men I love and that love me,
  120. p. 248, line 13The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces,
  121. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  122. p. 253, line 9As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders,
  123. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  124. p. 265, line 8I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,
  125. p. 265, line 20Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
  126. p. 266, line 11Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night,
  127. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  128. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  129. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  130. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  131. p. 270, line 7They live in the feelings of young men and the best women,
  132. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
  133. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  134. 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?
  135. p. 274, line 6Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
  136. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  137. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  138. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  139. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  140. p. 276, line 7Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.
  141. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  142. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  143. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
  144. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  145. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  146. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  147. p. 289, line 8Are those billions of men really gone?
  148. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  149. p. 290, line 22All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded,
  150. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
  151. p. 298, line 11Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
  152. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  153. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  154. p. 301, line 22The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
  155. p. 325, line 24The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  156. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  157. p. 339, line 20Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of affection,
  158. 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,
  159. p. 356, line 5The justified mother of men.
  160. p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,
  161. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!
  162. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  163. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  164. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
  165. p. 366, line 25The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.
  166. p. 370, line 18I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,
  167. p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
  168. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  169. p. 381, line 11I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.
  170. p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
  171. p. 387, line 10Once living men—once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
  172. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
  173. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
  174. p. 411, line 36[…] those at that time populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect of the hour […]
  175. p. 413, line 12The rifle crack—the cannon thud—the rushing forth of men from their tents;
  176. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.
  177. p. 436, line 7[…] the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete Union of the […]
  178. p. 436, line 22[…] imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as […]
  179. p. 437, line 34[…] of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of men. But my volume is a candidate for the future. "All […]