Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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.

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Nagasaki 1

  1. p. 114, line 15The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its mountains,

nail 2

  1. p. 161, line 11The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.
  2. p. 411, line 2Let it remain back there on its nail suspended,

nail'd 2 today: nailed

  1. p. 150, line 11The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,
  2. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,

nailed see nail'd

nail-making 1

  1. p. 173, line 18Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing,

nails 1

  1. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,

naivetè 1

  1. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,

naked 18

  1. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  2. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
  3. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  4. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
  5. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
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  1. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  2. p. 91, line 1The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
  3. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!
  4. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.
  5. p. 148, line 16WEAPON shapely, naked, wan,
  6. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  7. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,
  8. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  9. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  10. p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
  11. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  12. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  13. p. 368, line 21These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,

nakedness 1

  1. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,

name 49

  1. p. 20, line 16In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
  2. p. 22, line 18(Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion,
  3. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  4. p. 72, line 18Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush,
  5. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
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  1. p. 77, line 24I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
  2. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
  3. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  4. p. 120, line 19Toward you all, in America's name,
  5. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  6. 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?
  7. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  8. p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
  9. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.
  10. p. 160, line 1In liberty's name welcome immortal! clasp hands,
  11. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  12. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  13. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  14. p. 193, line 1In the name of these States and in your and my name, the Past,
  15. p. 193, line 2And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.
  16. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  17. p. 263, line 22But sing poet in our name,
  18. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  19. p. 296, line 2Thy name an earth, with mountains, fields and tides.
  20. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  21. p. 298, line 6I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
  22. p. 303, line 9WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
  23. p. 303, line 11To you your name also;
  24. p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
  25. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  26. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  27. p. 349, line 17I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
  28. p. 360, line 19Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
  29. p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
  30. p. 372, line 10I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead soldiers.
  31. p. 374, line 23Illustrious what we name space, sphere of unnumber'd spirits,
  32. p. 385, line 1My city's fit and noble name resumed,
  33. p. 385, line 2Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,
  34. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  35. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  36. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,
  37. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  38. p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,
  39. p. 417, line 10(And here a line in memory of his name and death.)
  40. p. 428, line 29[…] that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely […]
  41. p. 431, line 8[…] them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization from all […]
  42. p. 431, line 10[…] ages, I am not sure but I would name those old and less old songs ferried hither from east […]

named 4

  1. p. 128, line 19The goal that was named cannot be countermanded.
  2. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  3. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  4. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;

nameless 3

  1. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
  2. p. 321, line 21Nameless, the fibre and the breath,
  3. p. 403, line 1In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,

namely 5

  1. p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
  2. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
  3. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
  4. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)
  5. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.

names 10

  1. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  2. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
  3. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  4. p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
  5. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
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  1. p. 374, line 7Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads,
  2. p. 413, line 33[…] In the grand constellation of five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages in […]
  3. p. 416, line 3Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and sea's—the unreturn'd,
  4. p. 416, line 10You million unwrit names all, all—you dark bequest from all the war,
  5. p. 416, line 14Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,

Nankin 1

  1. p. 120, line 3You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!

Naples 1

  1. p. 115, line 7Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen,

Napoleon's 1

  1. p. 391, line 21Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,

Narragansett 1

  1. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,

narrate 1

  1. p. 278, line 12A song to narrate thee.

narrative 1

  1. p. 149, line 18The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,

narrow 4

  1. p. 33, line 11And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  2. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  3. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  4. p. 293, line 20Resumed, the large calm lady walks the narrow aisle,

narrower 2

  1. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,

narrowest 1

  1. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

natal 2

  1. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  2. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,

Natchez 1

  1. p. 27, line 23Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco,

nation 18

  1. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
  4. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  5. p. 128, line 21What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
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  1. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  2. p. 155, line 18Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
  3. p. 264, line 9A Nation announcing itself,
  4. p. 266, line 7Any period one nation must lead,
  5. p. 266, line 10Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations,
  6. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  7. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  8. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
  9. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  10. p. 378, line 25Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night,
  11. p. 413, line 39[…] most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead […]
  12. p. 435, line 24[…] to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of […]

national 5

  1. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  2. p. 428, line 11[…] of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent […]
  3. p. 429, line 38[…] America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]
  4. p. 433, line 42[…] terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is […]
  5. p. 438, line 36[…] Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege of a polish'd and select […]

Nationality 4

  1. p. 17, line 17(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
  2. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  3. p. 429, line 27In estimating first-class song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand, what may be call'd the […]
  4. p. 438, line 28[…] so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]

nations 34

  1. p. 20, line 21Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
  2. 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!
  3. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  4. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  5. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
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  1. p. 131, line 2The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset,
  2. p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
  3. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
  4. p. 207, line 18All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
  5. p. 208, line 3And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations,
  6. p. 208, line 8Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations,
  7. p. 208, line 13Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!
  8. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  9. p. 265, line 8I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,
  10. p. 266, line 10Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations,
  11. p. 274, line 6Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
  12. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  13. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  14. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
  15. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  16. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  17. p. 310, line 18Blending with Nature's rhythmus all the tongues of nations;
  18. p. 313, line 14I hear the dance-music of all nations,
  19. p. 318, line 3Lands found and nations born, thou born America,
  20. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,
  21. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  22. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  23. p. 371, line 6Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
  24. p. 388, line 2The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;
  25. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,
  26. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
  27. p. 415, line 21The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
  28. p. 431, line 6[…] perhaps the best parts of current character in nations, social groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World […]

native 11

  1. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  2. p. 57, line 23Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with the new and old,
  3. p. 80, line 3From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
  4. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  5. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
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  1. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  2. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  3. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  4. p. 330, line 12The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
  5. p. 374, line 12Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
  6. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large […]

native-born 1

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

nativities 1

  1. p. 142, line 5Nativities, climates, the grass of the great pastoral Plains,

nativity 5

  1. p. 264, line 13What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
  2. p. 274, line 3Underneath all, Nativity,
  3. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  4. p. 274, line 5I swear I am charm'd with nothing except nativity,
  5. p. 274, line 6Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.

natural 19

  1. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  2. p. 43, line 18This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
  3. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  4. p. 105, line 20We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
  5. p. 109, line 7You natural persons old and young!
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  1. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  2. p. 158, line 20Join'd with an irresistible, natural gravitation,
  3. p. 176, line 8(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,
  4. p. 217, line 14A MASK, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
  5. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  6. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  7. p. 274, line 20Natural and artificial are you and me,
  8. p. 351, line 8Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)
  9. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  10. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)
  11. p. 361, line 22Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
  12. p. 374, line 20Natural life of me faithfully praising things,
  13. p. 380, line 25I announce natural persons to arise,
  14. p. 399, line 15Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes—all that takes cognizance of natural beauty,

nature 57

  1. p. 16, line 6ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
  2. p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
  3. p. 29, line 18Nature without check with original energy.
  4. p. 80, line 6Renascent with grossest Nature or among animals,
  5. p. 84, line 16As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
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  1. p. 89, line 21SPONTANEOUS me, Nature,
  2. p. 91, line 24To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
  3. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
  4. p. 93, line 3We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
  5. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
  6. p. 128, line 21What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
  7. p. 157, line 16She receives them as the laws of Nature receive them, she is strong,
  8. p. 157, line 17She too is a law of Nature—there is no law stronger than she is.
  9. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  10. p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,
  11. p. 169, line 5The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,
  12. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
  13. p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
  14. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  15. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  16. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  17. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  18. p. 218, line 2Through Nature, Time, and Space,
  19. p. 244, line 19Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
  20. p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
  21. p. 265, line 19Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature,
  22. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
  23. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  24. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
  25. p. 299, line 21BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
  26. p. 303, line 13WHO includes diversity and is Nature,
  27. p. 309, line 20While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
  28. p. 311, line 34And man and art with Nature fused again.
  29. p. 318, line 21Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
  30. p. 319, line 8Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more,
  31. p. 321, line 33At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,
  32. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  33. p. 352, line 11I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
  34. p. 364, line 24They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
  35. p. 367, line 19Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
  36. p. 376, line 7I say Nature continues, glory continues,
  37. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,
  38. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  39. p. 386, line 3Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
  40. p. 396, line 5Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
  41. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  42. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  43. p. 428, line 26[…] the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a […]
  44. p. 430, line 1[…] it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the […]
  45. p. 430, line 28[…] come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn […]
  46. p. 433, line 13[…] them, as described, in the full presence of Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape and vistas, or […]
  47. p. 434, line 30[…] he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects. What […]
  48. p. 435, line 12[…] only because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the […]
  49. p. 437, line 14[…] fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as […]
  50. p. 438, line 10[…] outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person […]

natures 13

  1. p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,
  2. p. 166, line 30With Nature's calm content, with tacit huge delight,
  3. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
  4. p. 182, line 26Nature's amelioration blessing all,
  5. p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,
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  1. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  2. p. 310, line 18Blending with Nature's rhythmus all the tongues of nations;
  3. p. 314, line 25Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
  4. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  5. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  6. p. 411, line 39[…] little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines […]
  7. p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,
  8. p. 431, line 35[…] may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these the […]

naught 3

  1. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
  2. p. 433, line 40[…] more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for […]

nauseous 1

  1. p. 230, line 2One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me,

Navesink 1

  1. p. 384, line 22[…] of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You […]

navies 1

  1. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,

navigation 1

  1. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

navigators 1

  1. p. 320, line 5The mediæval navigators rise before me,

nay 5

  1. p. 183, line 2Nay but the lack of it the dream,
  2. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  3. p. 296, line 19This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe,
  4. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
  5. p. 427, line 41[…] firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate […]

Nazarene 1

  1. p. 414, line 27The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene,

Nazareth 1

  1. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!

Neapolitan 1

  1. p. 118, line 29You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek!

near 51

  1. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  2. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  3. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  4. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  5. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
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  1. p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,
  2. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
  3. p. 63, line 17Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,
  4. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
  5. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  6. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  7. p. 106, line 7Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
  8. 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,
  9. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  10. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  11. p. 130, line 24Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
  12. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  13. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  14. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
  15. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  16. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  17. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  18. 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;)
  19. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  20. p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
  21. p. 201, line 22But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
  22. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,
  23. p. 236, line 12Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
  24. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  25. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  26. p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
  27. p. 251, line 2I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,
  28. p. 255, line 18In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,
  29. p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
  30. p. 262, line 23The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
  31. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  32. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
  33. p. 289, line 2Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand,
  34. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  35. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  36. p. 316, line 21The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
  37. p. 324, line 28My terminus near,
  38. p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  39. p. 352, line 3The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
  40. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
  41. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;
  42. p. 403, line 2On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,
  43. p. 408, line 18[…] me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional […]
  44. p. 420, line 4Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shopfronts,

near-by 1

  1. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

nearer 9

  1. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
  2. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  3. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
  4. p. 173, line 11It is nearer and farther than they.
  5. p. 180, line 2It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
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  1. p. 246, line 21Now nearer blow the bugles,
  2. p. 291, line 9Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
  3. p. 356, line 11Come nearer bodiless one, haply in thee resounds
  4. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,

nearest 6

  1. p. 39, line 11What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me,
  2. p. 75, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key,
  3. p. 171, line 10It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
  4. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  5. p. 240, line 8Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
  6. p. 341, line 13The call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarm'd, uncertain,

near-human 1

  1. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,

nearing 2

  1. p. 262, line 16With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,
  2. p. 387, line 1Approaching, nearing, curious,

nearly 5

  1. p. 233, line 26Few return'd, nearly all remain in Brooklyn.
  2. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  3. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;
  4. p. 425, line 24[…] seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely […]
  5. p. 435, line 17[…] to be more or less a motif of nearly all my verse. I think this pride indispensable to an […]

nearness 1

  1. p. 80, line 12The welcome nearness, the sight of the perfect body,

neath 1

  1. p. 354, line 12I see 'neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.

Nebraska 3

  1. p. 184, line 5From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
  2. p. 264, line 19From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
  3. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,

nebula 1

  1. p. 72, line 6For it the nebula cohered to an orb,

nebulous 4

  1. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  2. p. 351, line 14Thou globe of globes! thou wonder nebulous!
  3. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
  4. p. 428, line 14[…] attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din […]

necessary 5

  1. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  2. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  3. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  4. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  5. p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,

necessitate 1

  1. p. 430, line 35[…] far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform with and […]

neck 33

  1. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
  2. p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  3. p. 38, line 3His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip-band,
  4. p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  5. p. 57, line 11Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,
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  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  2. p. 66, line 21O despairer, here is my neck,
  3. p. 68, line 9My head slues round on my neck,
  4. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
  5. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
  6. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  7. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  8. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  9. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
  10. p. 87, line 7Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
  11. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  12. p. 105, line 15This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,
  13. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  14. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.
  15. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  16. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  17. p. 196, line 7Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.
  18. p. 243, line 5The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I examine,
  19. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,
  20. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  21. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  22. p. 268, line 12And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you,
  23. p. 331, line 22The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover, they press close without lust, his lips press her neck,
  24. p. 354, line 2Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  25. p. 412, line 15Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.
  26. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  27. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  28. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.

necklace 1

  1. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,

necks 5

  1. p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
  2. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  3. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.
  4. p. 209, line 8Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks,
  5. p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

neck-slue 1

  1. p. 87, line 7Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,

need 30

  1. p. 23, line 2What do you need camerado?
  2. p. 53, line 12They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  3. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  4. p. 65, line 22Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
  5. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
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  1. p. 96, line 9To celebrate the need of comrades.
  2. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  3. p. 121, line 2Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
  4. p. 171, line 3I bring what you much need yet always have,
  5. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
  6. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
  7. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
  8. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  9. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
  10. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  11. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  12. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  13. p. 284, line 15You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead between your knees,
  14. p. 284, line 16O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd,
  15. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  16. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  17. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  18. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  19. p. 353, line 24This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,
  20. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  21. p. 378, line 18But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
  22. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  23. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  24. p. 437, line 23[…] even to call attention to it, or the need of it—is the beginning, middle and final purpose of […]
  25. p. 438, line 22[…] and people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still […]

needed 10

  1. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
  2. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  3. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  4. 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.
  5. p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
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  1. p. 302, line 11IS reform needed? is it through you?
  2. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  3. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,
  4. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  5. p. 390, line 17Duly the needed discord-parts offsetting, blending,

needing 1

  1. p. 438, line 19[…] land or people or circumstances ever existed so needing a race of singers and poems differing from all others […]

needle 1

  1. p. 76, line 4The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,

needles 1

  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,

needs 7

  1. p. 125, line 23He traveling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
  2. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  3. p. 237, line 24But the mother needs to be better,
  4. p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?
  5. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  6. p. 429, line 30[…] often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less […]
  7. p. 432, line 12[…] which have been great; but the New World needs the poems of realities and science and of the democratic […]

ne'er 3

  1. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!
  2. p. 379, line 22THE untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
  3. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)

negative 1

  1. p. 429, line 28[…] the other hand, what may be call'd the negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes […]

neglected 2

  1. p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
  2. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,

neglects 1

  1. p. 407, line 31[…] dimming, and my brain more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions […]

negligence 1

  1. p. 272, line 4What mocking and scornful negligence?

negligent 4

  1. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  2. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  3. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  4. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,

negligently 1

  1. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?

negro 4

  1. p. 38, line 1The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  2. p. 38, line 2The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece,
  3. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!
  4. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

negro-cabins 1

  1. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;

negroes 3

  1. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  2. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  3. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;

neighbor 4

  1. p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
  2. p. 118, line 26You neighbor of the Danube!
  3. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  4. p. 344, line 13I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,

neighboring 2

  1. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  2. p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,

neighbors 5

  1. p. 68, line 14Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
  2. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  3. p. 290, line 20All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,
  4. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
  5. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,

neither 19

  1. p. 53, line 11They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  2. p. 63, line 10He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
  3. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  4. p. 107, line 2But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
  5. p. 164, line 27Without thee neither all nor each, nor land, home,
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  1. p. 169, line 21Neither a servant nor a master I,
  2. p. 176, line 18The earth neither lags nor hastens,
  3. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  4. p. 249, line 22Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,
  5. p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
  6. p. 288, line 8For till all ceases neither must you cease.
  7. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  8. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  9. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
  10. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  11. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  12. p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
  13. p. 372, line 4Nor you drummers, neither at reveillé at dawn,
  14. p. 426, line 5[…] had my choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of […]

nerve 2

  1. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.
  2. p. 85, line 23Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,

nerveless 1

  1. p. 324, line 32My hands, my limbs grow nerveless,

nest 10

  1. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  2. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
  3. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  4. p. 194, line 12The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,
  5. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
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  1. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
  2. p. 197, line 33One forenoon the she-bird crouch'd not on the nest,
  3. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,
  4. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  5. p. 353, line 21Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

nested 2

  1. p. 361, line 2Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
  2. p. 361, line 17City nested in bays! my city!

nestles 1

  1. p. 181, line 7Nestles the seed perfection.

nestling 4

  1. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  2. p. 217, line 10I SEE the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother,
  3. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
  4. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,

nests 2

  1. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,
  2. p. 361, line 2Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,

net 1

  1. p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,

Netherlands 1

  1. p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)

netherward 1

  1. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,

nets 1

  1. p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,

network 1

  1. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,

neuters 1

  1. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,

Nevada 2

  1. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  2. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,

Nevadas 3

  1. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  2. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  3. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,

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never-broken 1

  1. p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,

never-ending 1

  1. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,

never-erased 1

  1. p. 354, line 11I see your rounded never-erased flow,

never-happy 1

  1. p. 318, line 16With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,

never-quell'd 1

  1. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,

nevertheless 4

  1. p. 79, line 2But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  2. p. 154, line 26The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,
  3. p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.
  4. p. 212, line 26Nevertheless, be ready, be not weary of watching,

never-to-be-excell'd 1

  1. p. 431, line 42[…] record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America […]

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new-born 2

  1. p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
  2. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,

new-brought 1

  1. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;

new-comer 1

  1. p. 401, line 1Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:

new-comers 2

  1. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
  2. p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,

new-dug 1

  1. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,

New-England's 1

  1. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,

newer 5

  1. p. 12, line 30Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
  2. p. 183, line 22We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
  3. p. 281, line 31Beholdest the newer saw-mill, the southern cotton-gin, and the rice-cleanser.
  4. p. 310, line 7A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
  5. p. 325, line 5Of newer better worlds, their mighty parturition,

newest 2

  1. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  2. p. 299, line 19And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?

Newfoundland 1

  1. p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

newly-come 1

  1. p. 40, line 7The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,

new-made 2

  1. p. 212, line 11Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves, bloody corpses of young men,
  2. p. 246, line 4Down a new-made double grave.

news 5

  1. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
  2. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
  3. p. 157, line 5The door that admits good news and bad news,
  4. p. 219, line 21At dead of night, at news from the south,

newspaper 1

  1. p. 371, line 3With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war,

newspapers 1

  1. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,

newts 1

  1. p. 419, line 25Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons,

new-wash'd 1

  1. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,

next 13

  1. p. 32, line 10Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
  2. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
  3. p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
  4. p. 69, line 14The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way?
  5. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
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  1. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  2. p. 112, line 9Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
  3. p. 197, line 34Nor return'd that afternoon, nor the next,
  4. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  5. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!
  6. p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
  7. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;

Niagara 7

  1. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  2. p. 56, line 25Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,
  3. p. 228, line 16Long I roam'd the woods of the north, long I watch'd Niagara pouring,
  4. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  5. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
  6. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
  7. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

Nibelungen 2

  1. p. 415, line 3The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen,
  2. p. 433, line 5[…] get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces […]

niches 2

  1. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  2. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.

nick 1

  1. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,

Niger 1

  1. p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,

nigh 14

  1. p. 58, line 7Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  2. p. 78, line 12I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
  3. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  4. p. 146, line 2How clear is my mind—how all people draw nigh to me!
  5. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
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  1. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  2. p. 231, line 16The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (make room gentlemen,)
  3. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;
  4. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  5. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  6. p. 355, line 14Come here she blushingly cries, Come nigh to me limber-hipp'd man,
  7. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  8. p. 370, line 1AS the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,
  9. p. 425, line 24[…] struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on memory,) I look upon […]

nigher 1

  1. p. 171, line 1All these I see, but nigher and farther the same I see,

nighest 5

  1. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  2. 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?
  3. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  4. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  5. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,

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night-air 1

  1. p. 214, line 19In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

night-dogs 1

  1. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?

nightfall 5

  1. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  2. p. 140, line 4On rivers boatmen safely moor'd at nightfall in their boats under shelter of high banks,
  3. p. 395, line 10At last at nightfall strikes the breeze aright, her whole luck veering,
  4. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,
  5. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.

night-heron 1

  1. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,

night-morning 1

  1. p. 194, line 21The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable,

night-owl 1

  1. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

night-roses 1

  1. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,

nights 19

  1. p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  2. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  3. p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
  4. p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
  5. p. 127, line 2To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
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  1. p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
  2. p. 185, line 15All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
  3. p. 199, line 18Solitary here, the night's carols!
  4. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  5. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  6. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  7. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  8. p. 252, line 26But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,
  9. p. 292, line 22O heart-sick days! O nights of woe!
  10. p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
  11. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  12. p. 352, line 25Prepare my starry nights.
  13. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  14. p. 434, line 7[…] camp—saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again […]

night-singer 1

  1. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.

night-time 1

  1. p. 283, line 20The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious whether and how,

night-watchman's 1

  1. p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,

night-wind 1

  1. p. 238, line 8Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind,

Nile 2

  1. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
  2. p. 314, line 2The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen,

nimble 3

  1. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  2. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
  3. p. 326, line 20I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,

nimbler 1

  1. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,

nimbly 1

  1. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,

nimbus 5

  1. p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  2. p. 187, line 2From the head of the centre-figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  3. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  4. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  5. p. 250, line 19Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.

nine 2

  1. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,

Nineteenth 6

  1. p. 427, line 4[…] all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and what they furnish as […]
  2. p. 427, line 26[…] humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and especially in each of their countless examples and […]
  3. p. 428, line 9[…] the material or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit […]
  4. p. 429, line 37[…] other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from […]
  5. p. 435, line 7[…] money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals […]
  6. p. 438, line 11[…] being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I […]

nineteen-twentieths 1

  1. p. 419, line 21The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage,

Nineveh 1

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!

Ninth-month 3

  1. p. 96, line 6Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,
  2. p. 196, line 15Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
  3. p. 245, line 9Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;

nip 1

  1. p. 57, line 8Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,

Niphon 2

  1. p. 193, line 8OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
  2. p. 193, line 13In the procession along with the nobles of Niphon, the errand-bearers,

nipple 1

  1. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,

nipples 1

  1. p. 87, line 22The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,

nirwana 1

  1. p. 401, line 22A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.

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nobility 1

  1. p. 419, line 13How cheap is health! how cheap nobility!

noble 10

  1. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  2. p. 230, line 13THE noble sire fallen on evil days,
  3. p. 230, line 17The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
  4. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  5. p. 295, line 18In one, along a suite of noble rooms,
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  1. p. 299, line 12For noble savans and coming musicians.
  2. p. 317, line 10I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,
  3. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,
  4. p. 385, line 1My city's fit and noble name resumed,
  5. p. 412, line 17In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text,

nobles 5

  1. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.
  2. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
  3. p. 193, line 13In the procession along with the nobles of Niphon, the errand-bearers,
  4. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  5. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;

noblest 3

  1. p. 135, line 5The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there,
  2. p. 145, line 25O the old manhood of me, my noblest joy of all!
  3. p. 397, line 1My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend,

nobly-form'd 1

  1. p. 118, line 20You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms with me!

nobody 5

  1. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  2. p. 53, line 18Only what nobody denies is so.)
  3. p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
  4. p. 234, line 3Nobody clapp'd hands here then.
  5. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.

nocturnal 1

  1. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,

nod 1

  1. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.

nodding 2

  1. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
  2. p. 186, line 2Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?

nods 1

  1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,

no-form'd 1

  1. p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,

no-how 2

  1. p. 192, line 27And that they could no-how have been better than they were,
  2. p. 192, line 29And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.

noise 4

  1. p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
  2. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  3. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  4. p. 400, line 16The perfume strong, the smoke, the deafening noise;

noiseless 8

  1. p. 13, line 17The noiseless myriads,
  2. p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,
  3. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)
  4. p. 343, line 14A NOISELESS patient spider,
  5. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  6. p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
  7. p. 371, line 20Noiseless as mists and vapors,
  8. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,

noiselessly 5

  1. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  2. p. 139, line 15The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind,
  3. p. 286, line 8The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
  4. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  5. p. 346, line 5Let me glide noiselessly forth;

noises 4

  1. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
  2. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  3. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,
  4. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;

noisy 3

  1. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  2. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,
  3. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,

nomadic 1

  1. p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,

nomads 3

  1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  2. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  3. p. 288, line 17What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes and nomads,

nomination 1

  1. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

nominee 2

  1. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,

nonchalance 2

  1. p. 91, line 24To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
  2. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!

nonchalant 3

  1. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  2. p. 105, line 20We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
  3. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,

none 58

  1. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  2. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  3. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,
  4. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
  5. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
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  1. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  2. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  3. p. 61, line 24None obey'd the command to kneel,
  4. p. 100, line 6Interchange it youths with each other! let none render it back!)
  5. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  6. p. 104, line 14O none more than I hurrying in and out;
  7. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  8. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  9. p. 121, line 21None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
  10. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  11. p. 132, line 11Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting,
  12. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  13. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
  14. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
  15. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  16. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
  17. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  18. p. 157, line 12She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor,
  19. p. 158, line 26Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?
  20. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.
  21. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  22. p. 171, line 2None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
  23. p. 175, line 8But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
  24. p. 177, line 13Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
  25. p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.
  26. p. 177, line 30Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,
  27. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  28. p. 178, line 25For none more than you is immortality.
  29. p. 181, line 9None born but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting.
  30. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  31. p. 186, line 21None has understood you, but I understand you,
  32. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  33. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  34. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  35. p. 187, line 12I pursue you where none else has pursued you,
  36. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  37. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  38. p. 212, line 8Whose face and eyes none may see,
  39. p. 260, line 23Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
  40. p. 264, line 11I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
  41. p. 273, line 17Rejecting none, permitting all.
  42. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  43. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  44. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
  45. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  46. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  47. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
  48. p. 427, line 21[…] conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation, or choice plots of love or […]

non-locomotive 1

  1. p. 407, line 36[…] ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to […]

nonpareil 1

  1. p. 386, line 14(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,)

non-realities 1

  1. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)

nonsense 1

  1. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?

nook 1

  1. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,

noon 7

  1. p. 17, line 7The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
  2. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,
  3. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
  4. p. 259, line 1The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon,
  5. p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
  6. p. 352, line 5O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.
  7. p. 375, line 26I too carol the sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting,

noonday 1

  1. p. 77, line 19I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,

noons 1

  1. p. 396, line 8The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;

noon-time 1

  1. p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,

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Norma 1

  1. p. 312, line 26Stalks Norma brandishing the dagger in her hand.

normal 1

  1. p. 436, line 33[…] rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation […]

normally 1

  1. p. 435, line 2[…] there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to […]

Norma's 1

  1. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,

north 59

  1. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
  2. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
  3. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  4. p. 36, line 23He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,
  5. p. 39, line 1The sharp-hoof'd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,
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  1. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,
  2. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  3. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
  4. p. 110, line 10To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
  5. p. 112, line 23Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends,
  6. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
  7. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  8. p. 123, line 2The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
  9. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  10. p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
  11. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  12. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  13. p. 164, line 1Behold, in Oregon, far in the north and west,
  14. p. 164, line 2Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen,
  15. p. 164, line 13Mark, thy interminable farms, North, South,
  16. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,
  17. p. 191, line 11Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven,
  18. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,
  19. p. 197, line 26Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
  20. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)
  21. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  22. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  23. p. 225, line 6To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan,
  24. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  25. p. 227, line 4And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
  26. p. 228, line 16Long I roam'd the woods of the north, long I watch'd Niagara pouring,
  27. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  28. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  29. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  30. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
  31. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  32. p. 281, line 13Prairie, orchard, and yellow grain of the North,
  33. p. 282, line 15Or aught that ripens in all these States or North or South,
  34. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)
  35. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  36. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  37. p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
  38. p. 371, line 16ASHES of soldiers South or North,
  39. p. 372, line 29For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
  40. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  41. p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
  42. p. 379, line 13And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine,
  43. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  44. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  45. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,
  46. p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,
  47. p. 399, line 24Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South,
  48. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  49. p. 408, line 24[…] wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers […]
  50. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!
  51. p. 416, line 5Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,
  52. p. 416, line 14Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,
  53. p. 418, line 12From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
  54. p. 436, line 10[…] it must be just as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the […]

northeast 4

  1. p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
  2. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,
  3. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  4. p. 433, line 9[…] read first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks […]

northerly 1

  1. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,

northern 17

  1. p. 115, line 3Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs,
  2. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
  3. p. 166, line 4Along the northern coast,
  4. p. 168, line 7Thus on the northern coast,
  5. p. 184, line 7All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
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  1. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  2. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  3. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  4. p. 307, line 8IN a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region,
  5. p. 307, line 27In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region.
  6. p. 363, line 11Or midnight's silent glowing northern lights unreachable.
  7. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)
  8. p. 389, line 1Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,
  9. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
  10. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,
  11. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
  12. p. 414, line 10I feel the sky, the prairies vast—I feel the mighty northern lakes,

Northerner 2

  1. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  2. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,

northward 5

  1. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  4. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  5. p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.

north-west 4

  1. p. 26, line 8Lands where the north-west Columbia winds, and where the south-west Colorado winds!
  2. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  3. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,
  4. p. 305, line 17ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching,

North-Westerners 1

  1. p. 42, line 15Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,)

Norway 1

  1. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,

Norwegian 2

  1. p. 118, line 21You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
  2. p. 330, line 15The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

nose 3

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  2. p. 87, line 6Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,

nostrils 2

  1. p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
  2. p. 87, line 6Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,

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notch'd 1 today: notched

  1. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,

notched see notch'd

not-day 1

  1. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,

note 10

  1. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
  2. p. 198, line 15The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,
  3. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
  4. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  5. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
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  1. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,
  2. p. 371, line 26Now sound no note O trumpeters,
  3. p. 406, line 2Preface Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering […]
  4. p. 411, line 30ANOTHER NOTE.—" He went out with the tide and the sunset," was […]
  5. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;

note-book 1

  1. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,

noted 1

  1. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;

notes 16

  1. p. 197, line 1From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
  2. p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
  3. p. 200, line 16The winds blowing, the notes of the bird continuous echoing,
  4. p. 257, line 25O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,
  5. p. 261, line 11With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
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  1. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  2. p. 293, line 28Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,
  3. p. 309, line 10In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
  4. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  5. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  6. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  7. p. 356, line 8I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
  8. p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,
  9. p. 358, line 17A vigor more than earth's is in thy notes,
  10. p. 359, line 13By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
  11. p. 432, line 31[…] forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains […]

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nothingness 1

  1. p. 218, line 9To utter nothingness?

notice 8

  1. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  2. p. 130, line 23Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving,
  3. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  4. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
  5. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  6. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  7. p. 381, line 19At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
  8. p. 413, line 37[…] as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time these […]

noticed 1

  1. p. 138, line 19All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,

noticing 1

  1. p. 245, line 16Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)

notifies 1

  1. p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.

noting 1

  1. p. 320, line 22(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,

notion 1

  1. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)

notoriety 1

  1. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,

notoriously 1

  1. p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?

nought 2

  1. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;

nourish 4

  1. p. 128, line 23My call is the call of battle, I nourish active rebellion,
  2. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  3. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  4. p. 372, line 25Make these ashes to nourish and blossom,

nourish'd 4 today: nourished

  1. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  2. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  3. p. 273, line 14This arm, this hand, this voice, have nourish'd, rais'd, restored,
  4. p. 315, line 7Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.

nourished see nourish'd

nourishes 1

  1. p. 124, line 4Only the kernel of every object nourishes;

nourishing 3

  1. p. 46, line 1Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
  2. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  3. p. 402, line 9To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,

nourishment 1

  1. p. 100, line 19Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,

novel 1

  1. p. 160, line 4I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,

novels 1

  1. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,

November 1

  1. p. 384, line 30[…] of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red […]

novice 1

  1. p. 42, line 18A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,

novitiate 1

  1. p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,

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nucleus 1

  1. p. 84, line 8This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman,

nude 1

  1. p. 44, line 8Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;

nudge 1

  1. p. 304, line 18They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.

nudity 1

  1. p. 436, line 36[…] and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can […]

Nueces 1

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,

numb'd 1 today: numbed

  1. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,

numbed see numb'd

number 7

  1. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  3. p. 112, line 1To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence,
  4. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  5. p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
  6. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  7. p. 413, line 41[…] known in points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have, too, the eligibility of […]

numberless 9

  1. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,
  2. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  3. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  4. p. 119, line 14All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
  5. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
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  1. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  2. p. 211, line 20Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
  3. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  4. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,

numerous 2

  1. p. 152, line 17Nor the place of the most numerous population.
  2. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,

nurse 4

  1. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  2. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  3. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
  4. p. 344, line 13I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,

nurses 1

  1. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;

nutriment 2

  1. p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
  2. p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,

nutritious 1

  1. p. 107, line 12Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,