Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “myself”

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  1. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
  2. p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
  3. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  4. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  5. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  6. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  7. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  8. p. 29, line 6I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
  9. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  10. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  11. p. 32, line 3The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
  12. p. 32, line 6But they are not the Me myself.
  13. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  14. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  15. p. 39, line 4I see in them and myself the same old law.
  16. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  17. p. 42, line 2And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
  18. p. 43, line 27This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
  19. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  20. p. 44, line 21And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  21. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  22. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  23. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  24. p. 49, line 23I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious,
  25. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  26. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
  27. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  28. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  29. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  30. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,
  31. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)
  32. p. 58, line 24I help myself to material and immaterial,
  33. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  34. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  35. p. 60, line 22They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.
  36. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  37. p. 64, line 20I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
  38. p. 66, line 4When I give I give myself.
  39. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  40. p. 67, line 6Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
  41. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  42. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  43. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
  44. p. 68, line 14Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
  45. p. 69, line 2I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
  46. p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  47. p. 71, line 3It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.
  48. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  49. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  50. p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  51. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  52. p. 78, line 9Do I contradict myself?
  53. p. 78, line 10Very well then I contradict myself,
  54. p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  55. p. 79, line 19From that of myself without which I were nothing,
  56. p. 80, line 15The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
  57. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  58. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  59. p. 88, line 16Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
  60. p. 89, line 10I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
  61. p. 89, line 12Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
  62. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
  63. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  64. p. 91, line 10And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself,
  65. p. 92, line 30Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,
  66. p. 92, line 31Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,
  67. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  68. p. 95, line 24Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
  69. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  70. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  71. p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
  72. p. 105, line 24And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
  73. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  74. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  75. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  76. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  77. p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
  78. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  79. p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)
  80. p. 120, line 17What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,
  81. p. 120, line 18All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
  82. p. 121, line 1Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
  83. p. 122, line 16You express me better than I can express myself,
  84. p. 122, line 19I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
  85. p. 122, line 22From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
  86. p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  87. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  88. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  89. p. 129, line 7I give you myself before preaching or law;
  90. p. 129, line 16The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme,
  91. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  92. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
  93. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  94. p. 189, line 11MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever,
  95. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  96. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  97. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
  98. p. 191, line 19What am I myself but one of your meteors?
  99. p. 197, line 9Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
  100. p. 198, line 17Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
  101. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
  102. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  103. p. 202, line 26Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
  104. p. 203, line 14I throw myself upon your breast my father,
  105. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  106. p. 204, line 32(Myself a speck, a point on the world's floating vast.)
  107. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  108. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  109. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  110. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  111. p. 218, line 16WHY reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?
  112. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  113. p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
  114. p. 225, line 14I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
  115. p. 230, line 6I refresh'd myself with it only, I could relish it only,
  116. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  117. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
  118. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  119. p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
  120. p. 241, line 19But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself,
  121. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
  122. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  123. p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,
  124. p. 254, line 1Myself and this contentious soul of mine,
  125. p. 258, line 1O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
  126. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
  127. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
  128. p. 273, line 2A man before all—myself, typical, before all.
  129. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  130. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  131. p. 273, line 16I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
  132. p. 274, line 10I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
  133. p. 274, line 13Underneath all to me is myself, to you yourself, (the same monotonous old song.)
  134. p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,
  135. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  136. p. 275, line 21Copious as you are I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself,
  137. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?
  138. p. 275, line 23These States, what are they except myself?
  139. p. 277, line 14In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing,
  140. p. 278, line 4FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
  141. p. 278, line 6Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,
  142. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  143. p. 298, line 22Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
  144. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
  145. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  146. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  147. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  148. p. 304, line 18They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
  149. p. 304, line 19I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
  150. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  151. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  152. p. 323, line 23Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee, commune with Thee,
  153. p. 323, line 24Report myself once more to Thee.
  154. p. 325, line 2What do I know of life? what of myself?
  155. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
  156. p. 327, line 5I roll myself upon you as upon a bed, I resign myself to the dusk.
  157. p. 328, line 12I turn but do not extricate myself,
  158. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.
  159. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  160. p. 339, line 17All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself,
  161. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  162. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  163. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  164. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  165. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  166. p. 352, line 24Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my lengthening shadows,
  167. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  168. p. 358, line 1O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest,
  169. p. 361, line 24I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
  170. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  171. p. 375, line 15Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself!
  172. p. 375, line 28I too have felt the resistless call of myself.
  173. p. 376, line 4Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.
  174. p. 381, line 23Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
  175. p. 381, line 26To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,
  176. p. 386, line 6Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast,
  177. p. 390, line 26By that long scan of waves, myself call'd back, resumed upon myself,
  178. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,
  179. p. 403, line 10Or "Paumanok, " "Song of Myself," "Calamus," or "Adam,"
  180. p. 408, line 2[…] helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover […]
  181. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
  182. p. 425, line 33[…] failure—that public criticism on the book and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt […]
  183. p. 426, line 34[…] years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with […]
  184. p. 433, line 34[…] considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly […]
  185. p. 434, line 18[…] those "Leaves" from the first. The word I myself put primarily for the description of them as they stand […]
  186. p. 436, line 4[…] will also want my utterances (I said to myself before beginning) to be in spirit the poems of the […]
  187. p. 437, line 41[…] at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a […]
  188. p. 438, line 11[…] last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America […]