Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
  2. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  3. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  4. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  5. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  6. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  7. p. 22, line 17Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
  8. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  9. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  10. p. 27, line 13No dainty dolce affettuoso I,
  11. p. 28, line 6These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise,
  12. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  13. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  14. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
  15. p. 32, line 13I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
  16. p. 34, line 5The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  17. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
  18. p. 34, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  19. p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  20. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  21. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  22. p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  23. p. 47, line 1My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
  24. p. 47, line 9There is no better than it and now.
  25. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  26. p. 48, line 8No more modest than immodest.
  27. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  28. p. 52, line 7Mine is no callous shell,
  29. p. 52, line 18Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  30. p. 52, line 24No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  31. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
  32. p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
  33. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  34. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  35. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  36. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  37. p. 68, line 11Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  38. p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
  39. p. 71, line 24And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
  40. p. 73, line 4There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,
  41. p. 73, line 18No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  42. p. 73, line 19I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,
  43. p. 73, line 20I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
  44. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  45. p. 75, line 18No shutter'd room or school can commune with me,
  46. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  47. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
  48. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  49. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  50. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  51. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  52. p. 85, line 4No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers' gang?
  53. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  54. p. 89, line 10I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
  55. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  56. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  57. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  58. p. 97, line 15That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
  59. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  60. p. 103, line 20Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
  61. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
  62. p. 108, line 18NO labor-saving machine,
  63. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
  64. p. 110, line 15But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
  65. p. 121, line 2Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
  66. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  67. p. 125, line 21The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.
  68. p. 125, line 27No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
  69. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
  70. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  71. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  72. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  73. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
  74. 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.
  75. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  76. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  77. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  78. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  79. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  80. p. 146, line 24The plenteousness of all, that there are no bounds,
  81. p. 147, line 20No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints or scornful criticisms,
  82. p. 151, line 30And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
  83. p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
  84. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.
  85. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  86. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  87. p. 157, line 17She too is a law of Nature—there is no law stronger than she is.
  88. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
  89. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  90. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  91. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  92. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  93. p. 171, line 5I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
  94. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  95. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  96. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
  97. p. 176, line 6No, the real words are more delicious than they.
  98. p. 177, line 10Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
  99. p. 177, line 12Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
  100. p. 178, line 4Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them,
  101. p. 178, line 16No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,
  102. p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,
  103. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  104. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  105. p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
  106. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  107. p. 180, line 7No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,
  108. p. 181, line 2Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
  109. p. 181, line 22Forth from their masks, no matter what,
  110. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  111. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  112. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  113. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
  114. p. 187, line 17There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you,
  115. p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
  116. p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
  117. p. 188, line 17Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
  118. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  119. p. 189, line 21Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
  120. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  121. p. 190, line 12I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
  122. p. 190, line 19I perceive I have no time to lose.
  123. p. 192, line 20I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part.
  124. p. 197, line 29Singing all time, minding no time,
  125. p. 200, line 12But my mate no more, no more with me!
  126. p. 200, line 13We two together no more.
  127. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  128. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  129. p. 213, line 10No brain, no heart left, no magnetism of sex;
  130. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  131. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  132. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  133. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
  134. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  135. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
  136. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
  137. p. 222, line 19Make no parley—stop for no expostulation,
  138. p. 223, line 18Words no more, for hearken and see,
  139. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  140. p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
  141. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
  142. p. 230, line 8But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,
  143. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  144. p. 230, line 12No more the mountains roam or sail the stormy sea.
  145. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  146. p. 231, line 12I chant and celebrate all that is yours—yet peace no more,
  147. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,
  148. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  149. p. 234, line 16Many no doubt thought of capitulation.
  150. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  151. p. 247, line 7No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,
  152. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  153. p. 249, line 14No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
  154. p. 250, line 3(No more credulity's race, abiding-temper'd race,)
  155. p. 250, line 4Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,
  156. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  157. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,
  158. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  159. p. 263, line 19No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
  160. p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
  161. p. 264, line 2As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more,
  162. p. 264, line 23If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
  163. p. 265, line 3No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
  164. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.
  165. p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
  166. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
  167. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  168. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)
  169. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  170. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  171. p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
  172. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  173. p. 278, line 9O earth that hast no voice, confide to me a voice,
  174. p. 279, line 16No more the sad, unnatural shows of war.
  175. p. 280, line 17No holiday soldiers—youthful, yet veterans,
  176. p. 284, line 15You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead between your knees,
  177. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,
  178. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
  179. p. 288, line 3When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs,
  180. 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,
  181. p. 291, line 1All that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no,
  182. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  183. p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,
  184. p. 291, line 20Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,
  185. p. 293, line 3Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole!
  186. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
  187. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
  188. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  189. p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
  190. p. 300, line 7It is no more in the legends than in all else,
  191. p. 304, line 12It is no lesson—it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
  192. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
  193. p. 310, line 7A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
  194. p. 319, line 8Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more,
  195. p. 319, line 13(No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)
  196. p. 321, line 1O we can wait no longer,
  197. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  198. p. 330, line 26I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,
  199. p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
  200. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  201. p. 334, line 17A minute—no one moves or speaks—it is done,
  202. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  203. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  204. p. 335, line 17The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,
  205. p. 338, line 4No map there, nor guide,
  206. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
  207. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  208. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  209. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  210. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  211. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  212. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
  213. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,
  214. p. 353, line 24This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,
  215. p. 355, line 2This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest,
  216. p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
  217. p. 357, line 12No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.
  218. p. 357, line 20No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
  219. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)
  220. 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,
  221. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  222. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;
  223. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  224. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)
  225. p. 371, line 1Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest!
  226. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  227. p. 371, line 26Now sound no note O trumpeters,
  228. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
  229. p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
  230. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  231. p. 382, line 7Camerado, this is no book,
  232. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  233. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
  234. p. 396, line 2No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
  235. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  236. p. 397, line 6"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,)
  237. p. 397, line 15Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
  238. p. 400, line 6(Large, brave, cleanly, hot-blooded, no talker, rather spiritualistic,
  239. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  240. p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)
  241. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  242. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  243. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  244. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)
  245. p. 407, line 11[…] time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my sort of poetic utterance […]
  246. p. 407, line 36[…] hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the […]
  247. p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
  248. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  249. p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;
  250. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  251. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,
  252. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  253. p. 419, line 14Abstinence, no falsehood, no gluttony, lust;
  254. p. 426, line 4[…] pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my […]
  255. p. 427, line 24[…] nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But […]
  256. p. 428, line 28[…] sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name […]
  257. p. 429, line 8[…] them, and without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before a line […]
  258. p. 429, line 19[…] of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think of the absence and […]
  259. p. 430, line 27[…] plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole […]
  260. p. 433, line 23[…] for our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem. The same thought had […]
  261. p. 437, line 31[…] opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have […]
  262. p. 437, line 36[…] original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its […]
  263. p. 438, line 4[…] do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy, ever […]
  264. p. 438, line 16[…] that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing […]
  265. p. 438, line 19I say no land or people or circumstances ever existed so needing a […]