Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “night”

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  1. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  2. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  3. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  4. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  5. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  6. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  7. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  8. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  9. p. 38, line 21The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  10. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  11. p. 45, line 26I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
  12. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  13. p. 46, line 1Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
  14. p. 46, line 2Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
  15. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
  16. p. 51, line 6Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
  17. p. 53, line 16The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  18. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  19. p. 58, line 19I tread day and night such roads.
  20. p. 59, line 1I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest,
  21. p. 59, line 12I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  22. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  23. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  24. p. 64, line 9It is I let out in the morning and barr'd at night.
  25. p. 66, line 26Sleep—I and they keep guard all night,
  26. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  27. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  28. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  29. p. 75, line 26On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
  30. p. 77, line 18I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night,
  31. p. 80, line 2From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
  32. p. 81, line 5From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in the night,
  33. p. 81, line 13From the night a moment I emerging flitting out,
  34. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  35. p. 89, line 29The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
  36. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  37. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  38. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
  39. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  40. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  41. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  42. p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
  43. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  44. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  45. 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,
  46. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
  47. p. 103, line 9For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
  48. p. 103, line 11And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
  49. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  50. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  51. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
  52. p. 114, line 20Some are in storms, some in the night with the watch on the lookout,
  53. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  54. p. 131, line 20In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me,
  55. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  56. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  57. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  58. p. 143, line 7I hear the alarm at dead of night,
  59. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  60. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  61. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  62. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
  63. p. 166, line 22And the white snows and night and the wild winds;
  64. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  65. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
  66. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  67. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  68. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  69. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  70. p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  71. p. 186, line 1Has the night descended?
  72. p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
  73. p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
  74. p. 197, line 27Day come white, or night come black,
  75. p. 197, line 37And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather,
  76. p. 198, line 9All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake,
  77. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  78. p. 200, line 8And I singing uselessly, uselessly all the night.
  79. p. 201, line 5Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night,
  80. p. 201, line 9O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere,)
  81. p. 201, line 18Whisper'd me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
  82. p. 204, line 14In the night, in solitude, tears,
  83. p. 204, line 22O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!
  84. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  85. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  86. p. 205, line 26ON the beach at night,
  87. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  88. p. 207, line 9ON the beach at night alone,
  89. p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
  90. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  91. p. 213, line 32Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
  92. p. 219, line 21At dead of night, at news from the south,
  93. p. 219, line 23A shock electric, the night sustain'd it,
  94. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
  95. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
  96. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  97. p. 228, line 3Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, (ever-enlarging stars,)
  98. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
  99. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  100. p. 234, line 5Wearied that night we lay foil'd and sullen,
  101. p. 234, line 9But the night of that, mist lifting, rain ceasing,
  102. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  103. p. 238, line 1VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night;
  104. p. 238, line 6Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
  105. p. 238, line 10Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
  106. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  107. p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
  108. p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
  109. p. 249, line 4And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
  110. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  111. p. 252, line 5Flag cerulean—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
  112. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
  113. p. 255, line 14O shades of night—O moody, tearful night!
  114. p. 256, line 18Night and day journeys a coffin.
  115. p. 256, line 20Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,
  116. p. 256, line 23With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,
  117. p. 256, line 26With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
  118. p. 257, line 15As I walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night,
  119. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  120. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  121. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  122. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  123. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
  124. p. 257, line 23Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.
  125. p. 259, line 2The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,
  126. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,
  127. p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
  128. p. 260, line 16In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
  129. p. 260, line 33And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
  130. p. 261, line 1The night in silence under many a star,
  131. p. 261, line 11With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
  132. p. 261, line 14And I with my comrades there in the night.
  133. p. 261, line 31Passing the visions, passing the night,
  134. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  135. p. 262, line 6As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
  136. p. 262, line 11O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.
  137. p. 262, line 12Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,
  138. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  139. p. 266, line 11Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night,
  140. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,
  141. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  142. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  143. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)
  144. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  145. p. 305, line 17ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching,
  146. p. 308, line 21Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,
  147. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  148. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  149. p. 320, line 25Uprising in the night, it sprouts, blooms,
  150. p. 321, line 14Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,
  151. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  152. p. 325, line 12I WANDER all night in my vision,
  153. p. 325, line 21The night pervades them and infolds them.
  154. p. 326, line 13The earth recedes from me into the night,
  155. p. 330, line 7Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
  156. p. 330, line 27The night and sleep have liken'd them and restored them.
  157. p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  158. p. 332, line 10They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night, and awake.
  159. p. 332, line 11I too pass from the night,
  160. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  161. p. 332, line 17I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
  162. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
  163. p. 338, line 17Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals,
  164. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  165. p. 344, line 22NIGHT on the prairies,
  166. p. 356, line 22I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise,
  167. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  168. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
  169. p. 359, line 16Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,
  170. p. 360, line 12The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon, singing through the moon-lit night,
  171. p. 362, line 27Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night,
  172. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  173. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  174. p. 367, line 25Onward I sped at the time—but now of their forms at night,
  175. p. 369, line 25Night, sleep, death and the stars.
  176. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  177. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  178. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  179. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  180. p. 378, line 9Till night and sleep pass over?)
  181. p. 378, line 25Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night,
  182. p. 382, line 9(Is it night? are we here together alone?)
  183. p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
  184. p. 390, line 18Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,
  185. p. 392, line 2Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore,
  186. p. 392, line 19A phantom in the night thy confidant for once,)
  187. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,
  188. p. 394, line 10What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
  189. p. 396, line 12Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night,
  190. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  191. p. 401, line 22A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.
  192. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  193. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  194. p. 419, line 17The common day and night—the common earth and waters,
  195. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,