Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “never”

never 135 Back to N

  1. p. 19, line 23With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
  2. p. 29, line 16Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
  3. p. 30, line 20There was never any more inception than there is now,
  4. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  5. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  6. p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
  7. p. 45, line 4I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  8. p. 47, line 14A word of the faith that never balks,
  9. p. 50, line 25Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
  10. p. 53, line 15Logic and sermons never convince,
  11. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
  12. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  13. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  14. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,
  15. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  16. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  17. p. 72, line 5My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
  18. p. 73, line 4There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,
  19. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  20. p. 74, line 5For after we start we never lie by again.
  21. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  22. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  23. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,
  24. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  25. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  26. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  27. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  28. p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,
  29. p. 108, line 2One the other never leaving,
  30. p. 111, line 21O I never doubt whether that is really me.
  31. p. 124, line 15Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
  32. p. 125, line 5Traveling with me you find what never tires.
  33. p. 125, line 6The earth never tires,
  34. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  35. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  36. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  37. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  38. p. 147, line 30It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws.
  39. p. 154, line 26The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,
  40. p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
  41. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  42. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
  43. p. 169, line 20A man like me and never the usual terms.
  44. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  45. p. 177, line 18Underneath these possessing words that never fail.
  46. p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
  47. p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
  48. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
  49. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  50. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
  51. p. 184, line 23Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
  52. p. 185, line 23Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
  53. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  54. p. 188, line 20Here too, though long represt, can never be destroy'd,
  55. p. 190, line 2Let others finish specimens, I never finish specimens,
  56. p. 197, line 2From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
  57. p. 197, line 20And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
  58. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  59. p. 201, line 2O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,
  60. p. 201, line 3Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations,
  61. p. 201, line 4Never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,
  62. p. 201, line 5Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night,
  63. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,
  64. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  65. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
  66. p. 209, line 2Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
  67. p. 212, line 24Liberty, let others despair of you—I never despair of you.
  68. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  69. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  70. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  71. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  72. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  73. p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
  74. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  75. p. 238, line 23Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  76. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  77. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  78. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
  79. p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
  80. p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
  81. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  82. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
  83. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  84. p. 275, line 1I am for those that have never been master'd,
  85. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  86. p. 275, line 3For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.
  87. p. 280, line 12(Yet the heroes never surpass'd shall never return,
  88. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  89. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  90. p. 303, line 10I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
  91. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  92. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
  93. p. 320, line 3The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
  94. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
  95. p. 329, line 18Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
  96. p. 329, line 25But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  97. p. 334, line 5Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth—they never cease—they are the burial lines,
  98. p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
  99. p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
  100. p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
  101. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  102. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  103. p. 362, line 16Costless, vouchsafed to each, yet never man the owner,
  104. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,
  105. p. 362, line 19Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd,
  106. p. 366, line 7(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)
  107. p. 367, line 12After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color,
  108. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  109. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  110. p. 381, line 23Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
  111. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
  112. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,
  113. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)
  114. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  115. p. 416, line 21Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
  116. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.
  117. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  118. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,
  119. p. 428, line 14[…] the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action […]
  120. p. 428, line 15[…] years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change of army front along the whole line, the […]
  121. p. 429, line 24[…] and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is certain that a poetry of absolute […]
  122. p. 429, line 26[…] equality for the use of the democratic masses never was […]
  123. p. 430, line 15[…] which has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation […]
  124. p. 430, line 17[…] and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests […]
  125. p. 431, line 32[…] been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types of […]
  126. p. 433, line 19[…] to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The […]
  127. p. 435, line 38[…] from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements of courageous and lofty […]