Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
  3. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  4. p. 10, line 21Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
  5. p. 10, line 22You not a reminiscence of the land alone,
  6. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  7. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,
  8. p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
  9. p. 13, line 21Not this the world,
  10. p. 14, line 9Thy very songs not in thy songs,
  11. p. 15, line 4How people respond to them, yet know them not,
  12. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  13. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  14. p. 17, line 19SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
  15. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  16. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  17. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  18. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
  19. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
  20. p. 22, line 11Each is not for its own sake,
  21. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  22. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  23. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  24. p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
  25. p. 23, line 19Not he with a daily kiss onward from childhood kissing me,
  26. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  27. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  28. p. 25, line 3I will not make poems with reference to parts,
  29. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  30. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  31. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
  32. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  33. p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
  34. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.
  35. p. 29, line 21The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  36. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  37. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  38. p. 30, line 19But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  39. p. 31, line 7Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  40. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  41. p. 32, line 6But they are not the Me myself.
  42. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  43. p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.
  44. p. 32, line 17Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  45. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  46. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  47. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  48. 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,
  49. p. 34, line 15I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  50. p. 34, line 17(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)
  51. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  52. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  53. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  54. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  55. p. 37, line 18They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  56. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  57. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  58. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  59. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  60. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  61. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  62. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)
  63. p. 42, line 24And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  64. p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  65. p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
  66. p. 43, line 3If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  67. p. 43, line 4If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  68. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  69. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  70. p. 44, line 7I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
  71. p. 44, line 13I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  72. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  73. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  74. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  75. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  76. p. 47, line 10What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not such a wonder,
  77. p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
  78. p. 47, line 26Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling,
  79. p. 48, line 27I do not press my fingers across my mouth,
  80. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  81. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  82. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  83. p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
  84. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  85. p. 53, line 12They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  86. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  87. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  88. p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  89. p. 54, line 25Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  90. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  91. p. 54, line 27Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
  92. p. 55, line 4Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  93. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  94. p. 59, line 19And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will not desert you;
  95. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  96. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  97. p. 60, line 18Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy,
  98. p. 61, line 7He gasps through the clot Mind not me—mind—the entrenchments.
  99. p. 61, line 9(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
  100. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  101. p. 61, line 21Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  102. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  103. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  104. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  105. p. 63, line 6Not a moment's cease,
  106. p. 63, line 10He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
  107. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  108. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  109. p. 64, line 13Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,
  110. p. 65, line 22Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
  111. p. 66, line 3Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  112. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  113. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  114. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  115. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  116. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  117. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  118. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  119. p. 68, line 10Music rolls, but not from the organ,
  120. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
  121. p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
  122. p. 69, line 8Not words of routine this song of mine,
  123. p. 69, line 18I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over,
  124. p. 70, line 15I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  125. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  126. p. 71, line 11I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  127. p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
  128. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  129. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  130. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  131. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  132. p. 73, line 26It is not far, it is within reach,
  133. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  134. p. 74, line 23The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right,
  135. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  136. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  137. p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  138. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  139. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  140. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  141. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  142. p. 76, line 16For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  143. p. 76, line 18I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
  144. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  145. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  146. p. 77, line 21There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.
  147. p. 77, line 24I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
  148. p. 77, line 25It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
  149. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  150. p. 78, line 17I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
  151. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  152. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
  153. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  154. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  155. p. 81, line 23And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
  156. p. 81, line 27But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
  157. 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,
  158. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
  159. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  160. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  161. p. 84, line 19The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
  162. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  163. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
  164. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  165. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)
  166. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  167. p. 86, line 11She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  168. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  169. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  170. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  171. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  172. p. 88, line 18I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
  173. p. 88, line 20They are not one jot less than I am,
  174. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  175. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  176. p. 89, line 11I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
  177. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
  178. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  179. p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
  180. p. 92, line 19I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,
  181. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  182. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
  183. p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
  184. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
  185. p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
  186. p. 95, line 16Be not afraid of my body.
  187. p. 95, line 22Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul,
  188. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  189. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
  190. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  191. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  192. p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
  193. p. 96, line 21O I think it is not for life I am chanting here my chant of lovers, I think it must be for death,
  194. p. 96, line 24(I am not sure but the high soul of lovers welcomes death most,)
  195. p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
  196. p. 97, line 1Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
  197. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
  198. p. 97, line 18That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
  199. p. 97, line 23I am not what you supposed, but far different.
  200. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  201. p. 98, line 18For these leaves and me you will not understand,
  202. p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
  203. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  204. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
  205. p. 100, line 14NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only,
  206. p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
  207. p. 100, line 16Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs,
  208. p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
  209. p. 100, line 18Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,
  210. p. 100, line 19Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,
  211. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
  212. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
  213. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  214. p. 100, line 23Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,
  215. p. 100, line 24Not in husky pantings through clinch'd teeth,
  216. p. 100, line 25Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
  217. p. 100, line 26Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
  218. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  219. p. 100, line 29Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
  220. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  221. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  222. 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,
  223. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  224. p. 104, line 9NOT heat flames up and consumes,
  225. p. 104, line 10Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
  226. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  227. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  228. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  229. p. 105, line 8Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
  230. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  231. 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,
  232. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  233. p. 106, line 8I know very well I could not.
  234. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  235. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  236. 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,
  237. p. 106, line 17I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
  238. p. 106, line 18I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
  239. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  240. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  241. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  242. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  243. p. 109, line 14I now suspect that is not all;
  244. p. 109, line 18I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.
  245. p. 110, line 16(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
  246. p. 110, line 19Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins,
  247. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  248. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  249. p. 111, line 10Some are baffled, but that one is not—that one knows me.
  250. p. 112, line 6Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)
  251. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  252. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  253. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,
  254. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  255. p. 120, line 5I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
  256. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  257. p. 121, line 1Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
  258. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
  259. p. 121, line 13You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
  260. p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  261. p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
  262. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
  263. p. 122, line 13Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
  264. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  265. p. 123, line 4I did not know I held so much goodness.
  266. p. 123, line 10Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
  267. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  268. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  269. p. 123, line 20Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
  270. p. 123, line 21Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
  271. p. 123, line 22Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
  272. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
  273. p. 124, line 7Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos;
  274. p. 125, line 8Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
  275. p. 125, line 10Allons! we must not stop here,
  276. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  277. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
  278. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
  279. p. 126, line 4I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
  280. p. 126, line 6You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
  281. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  282. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  283. 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,
  284. p. 127, line 22They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
  285. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  286. p. 128, line 16Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
  287. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  288. p. 129, line 3Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
  289. p. 130, line 7It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
  290. p. 131, line 15Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not,
  291. p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
  292. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  293. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  294. p. 132, line 9The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,
  295. p. 132, line 10The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,
  296. p. 133, line 4We understand then do we not?
  297. p. 133, line 5What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
  298. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
  299. p. 133, line 18Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;
  300. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  301. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  302. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
  303. p. 135, line 19His welcome is universal, the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  304. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
  305. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
  306. p. 137, line 7The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
  307. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  308. p. 137, line 13The words of true poems do not merely please,
  309. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
  310. p. 138, line 1They do not seek beauty, they are sought,
  311. p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
  312. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  313. p. 142, line 17It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
  314. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  315. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  316. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
  317. p. 147, line 18O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
  318. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  319. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  320. p. 152, line 7Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
  321. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
  322. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  323. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  324. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  325. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
  326. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  327. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  328. p. 157, line 15She is silent, she is possess'd of herself, they do not offend her,
  329. p. 157, line 27After all not to create only, or found only,
  330. p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
  331. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  332. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  333. p. 159, line 23Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers, artificial fertilizers,
  334. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  335. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  336. p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
  337. p. 161, line 20The male and female many laboring not,
  338. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  339. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  340. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,
  341. p. 165, line 19Think not our chant, our show, merely for products gross or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual!
  342. p. 166, line 11The choppers heard not, the camp shanties echoed not,
  343. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,
  344. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  345. p. 167, line 11Not wan from Asia's fetiches,
  346. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  347. p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,
  348. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  349. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  350. p. 170, line 21The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  351. p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
  352. p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,
  353. p. 171, line 8It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book,
  354. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  355. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  356. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  357. p. 171, line 20And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  358. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  359. p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
  360. p. 172, line 18It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life,
  361. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  362. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  363. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
  364. p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
  365. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
  366. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  367. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  368. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  369. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  370. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
  371. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  372. p. 176, line 21The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
  373. p. 176, line 22The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
  374. p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
  375. p. 177, line 9The earth does not argue,
  376. p. 177, line 10Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
  377. p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
  378. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  379. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  380. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  381. p. 178, line 27No one can acquire for another—not one,
  382. p. 178, line 28Not one can grow for another—not one.
  383. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  384. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  385. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  386. p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
  387. p. 180, line 2It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
  388. p. 180, line 3Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before,
  389. p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
  390. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
  391. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  392. p. 181, line 21Not the right only justified, what we call evil also justified.
  393. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  394. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
  395. p. 182, line 31In Thy ensemble, whatever else withheld withhold not from us,
  396. p. 185, line 29Not for delectations sweet,
  397. p. 185, line 30Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
  398. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  399. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  400. p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,
  401. p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
  402. p. 187, line 10The mockeries are not you,
  403. 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,
  404. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
  405. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
  406. 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.
  407. p. 188, line 12Was not so sick from the blood in the gutters running, nor from the single corpses, nor those in heaps, nor those borne away in the tumbrils,
  408. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.
  409. p. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
  410. p. 189, line 15Not for an embroiderer,
  411. p. 189, line 18Not to chisel ornaments,
  412. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  413. p. 190, line 15O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
  414. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  415. p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
  416. p. 192, line 11O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You,
  417. p. 193, line 12Libertad! I do not know whether others behold what I behold,
  418. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
  419. p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
  420. p. 197, line 33One forenoon the she-bird crouch'd not on the nest,
  421. p. 198, line 15The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,
  422. p. 198, line 27But my love soothes not me, not me.
  423. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  424. p. 199, line 7O moon do not keep her from me any longer.
  425. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  426. p. 199, line 33Do not be decoy'd elsewhere,
  427. p. 199, line 34That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice,
  428. p. 201, line 17Delaying not, hurrying not,
  429. p. 201, line 25Which I do not forget,
  430. p. 202, line 18As I wend to the shores I know not,
  431. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  432. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  433. p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
  434. p. 203, line 21Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,
  435. p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,
  436. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  437. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  438. p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
  439. p. 206, line 10Weep not, child,
  440. p. 206, line 11Weep not, my darling,
  441. p. 206, line 13The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
  442. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  443. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  444. p. 210, line 21I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  445. p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
  446. p. 211, line 20Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
  447. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  448. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  449. p. 212, line 22Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  450. p. 212, line 26Nevertheless, be ready, be not weary of watching,
  451. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  452. 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,
  453. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  454. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  455. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  456. p. 218, line 4The voyage of the soul—not life alone,
  457. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  458. p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
  459. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  460. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  461. p. 222, line 20Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer,
  462. p. 222, line 21Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,
  463. p. 222, line 22Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties,
  464. p. 224, line 16But I am not the sea nor the red sun,
  465. p. 224, line 17I am not the wind with girlish laughter,
  466. p. 224, line 18Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,
  467. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  468. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  469. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  470. p. 225, line 10I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,
  471. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
  472. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  473. p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
  474. p. 226, line 18O my father I like not the houses,
  475. 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,
  476. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  477. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  478. p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
  479. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
  480. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  481. p. 229, line 10Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities,
  482. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  483. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  484. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  485. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  486. p. 232, line 6When I clutch'd your hand it was not with terror,
  487. p. 233, line 1I tell not now the whole of the battle,
  488. p. 233, line 20But we dared not trust the chances of a pitch'd battle.
  489. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  490. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
  491. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  492. p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
  493. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,
  494. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  495. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  496. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  497. p. 241, line 5Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,
  498. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  499. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  500. p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
  501. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  502. p. 243, line 12His eyes are closed, his face is pale, he dares not look on the bloody stump,
  503. p. 243, line 13And has not yet look'd on it.
  504. p. 243, line 20I am faithful, I do not give out,
  505. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  506. p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
  507. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  508. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  509. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  510. p. 249, line 20NOT youth pertains to me,
  511. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  512. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  513. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  514. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  515. p. 254, line 16Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad—turn your undying face,
  516. p. 255, line 2And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
  517. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  518. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  519. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  520. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,
  521. p. 261, line 26But I saw they were not as was thought,
  522. p. 261, line 27They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not,
  523. p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
  524. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  525. p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
  526. 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.
  527. p. 265, line 3No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
  528. p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
  529. p. 266, line 10Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations,
  530. p. 269, line 5Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
  531. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  532. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  533. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  534. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  535. p. 271, line 10Are you not of some coterie? some school or mere religion?
  536. p. 271, line 17Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
  537. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  538. p. 271, line 19Is it not a mere tale? a rhyme? a prettiness?—is the good old cause in it?
  539. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?
  540. p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
  541. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
  542. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  543. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  544. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  545. p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
  546. p. 273, line 21It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great,
  547. p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,
  548. p. 274, line 24Not any part of America good or bad,
  549. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  550. p. 274, line 26Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes,
  551. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  552. p. 275, line 6I will not be outfaced by irrational things,
  553. p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
  554. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  555. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  556. p. 275, line 27I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for,
  557. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  558. p. 276, line 8O my rapt verse, my call, mock me not!
  559. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  560. p. 276, line 10Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
  561. p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
  562. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  563. p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
  564. p. 279, line 13But now I sing not war,
  565. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
  566. p. 280, line 13Them that day I saw not.)
  567. p. 280, line 26Not there your victory on those red shuddering fields,
  568. p. 281, line 21Not alone on those warlike fields the Mother of All,
  569. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  570. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
  571. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  572. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  573. p. 284, line 16O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd,
  574. p. 284, line 17For know you the one you mourn is not in that grave,
  575. p. 284, line 18It was an illusion, the son you love was not really dead,
  576. p. 284, line 19The Lord is not dead, he is risen again young and strong in another country,
  577. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  578. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
  579. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
  580. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  581. p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
  582. p. 285, line 23Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you?
  583. p. 285, line 24Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?
  584. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  585. p. 286, line 20That the winds are really not infectious,
  586. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
  587. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
  588. p. 287, line 15(Not songs of loyalty alone are these,
  589. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  590. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  591. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  592. p. 288, line 23Not a mark, not a record remains—and yet all remains.
  593. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  594. 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;
  595. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  596. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  597. p. 290, line 6Not one word or deed, not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of the onanist,
  598. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  599. p. 291, line 18Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous or the living from the dead,
  600. p. 292, line 25It was not I that sinn'd the sin,
  601. p. 294, line 11Thou, soul, unloosen'd—the restlessness after I know not what;
  602. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  603. p. 294, line 24The life thou lived'st we know not,
  604. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  605. p. 298, line 6I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
  606. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  607. p. 298, line 19Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
  608. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  609. p. 299, line 2(O admirers, praise not me—compliment not me—you make me wince,
  610. p. 299, line 3I see what you do not—I know what you do not.)
  611. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  612. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  613. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  614. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  615. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  616. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  617. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  618. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  619. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  620. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  621. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  622. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  623. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  624. p. 305, line 1I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  625. p. 305, line 13Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges,
  626. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  627. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  628. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  629. p. 306, line 22In that thou couldst not, wouldst not, wear the usual chains,
  630. p. 308, line 15Why this is not the church at all—the church is living, ever living souls.")
  631. p. 308, line 26Fail not to certify and cheer my soul.
  632. p. 309, line 14Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,
  633. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  634. p. 310, line 27Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend,
  635. p. 311, line 21The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,
  636. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  637. p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,
  638. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
  639. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  640. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  641. p. 320, line 4Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
  642. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
  643. p. 321, line 12But with the mystery of God we dare not dally.
  644. p. 321, line 25(O pensive soul of me—O thirst unsatisfied—waitest not there?
  645. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  646. p. 321, line 31I could not launch, to those, superior universes?
  647. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  648. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  649. p. 323, line 4Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
  650. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
  651. p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
  652. p. 323, line 20Haply I may not live another day;
  653. p. 323, line 26My long and crowded life of active work, not adoration merely;
  654. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  655. p. 324, line 1In shackles, prison'd, in disgrace, repining not,
  656. p. 324, line 15The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
  657. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  658. p. 324, line 34Let the old timbers part, I will not part,
  659. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  660. p. 326, line 14I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  661. p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
  662. p. 327, line 4Receive me and my lover too, he will not let me go without him.
  663. p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
  664. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  665. p. 328, line 12I turn but do not extricate myself,
  666. p. 328, line 19I search with the crowd, not one of the company is wash'd to us alive,
  667. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  668. p. 332, line 15I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
  669. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  670. p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
  671. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  672. p. 333, line 11Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement,
  673. p. 333, line 12Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse.
  674. p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  675. p. 334, line 19He was a good fellow, free-mouth'd, quick-temper'd, not bad-looking,
  676. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  677. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  678. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  679. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  680. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  681. p. 336, line 1It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided,
  682. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
  683. p. 336, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  684. p. 336, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  685. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  686. p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
  687. p. 338, line 7I know it not O soul,
  688. p. 339, line 5Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any,
  689. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  690. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  691. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  692. p. 341, line 20A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
  693. p. 341, line 22I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;
  694. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  695. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
  696. p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
  697. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  698. p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
  699. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  700. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  701. p. 342, line 9(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
  702. 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,
  703. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  704. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  705. p. 342, line 13QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
  706. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  707. p. 343, line 1THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear,
  708. p. 343, line 7I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
  709. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  710. p. 344, line 4O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
  711. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  712. p. 344, line 19You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,
  713. p. 344, line 21I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.
  714. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  715. p. 346, line 8Tenderly—be not impatient,
  716. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  717. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
  718. p. 348, line 15Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
  719. p. 348, line 17Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone,
  720. p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
  721. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  722. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,
  723. p. 350, line 22Not for success alone,
  724. p. 350, line 23Not to fair-sail unintermitted always,
  725. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  726. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  727. p. 352, line 10(Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,
  728. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  729. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,
  730. p. 353, line 15I see them and complain not, and am content with all.
  731. p. 354, line 16And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
  732. p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
  733. p. 355, line 9Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  734. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  735. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  736. p. 361, line 23(This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be realized,
  737. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  738. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  739. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  740. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,
  741. p. 365, line 16We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave.
  742. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
  743. p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
  744. p. 369, line 14Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing,
  745. p. 370, line 2A dread beyond of I know not what darkens me.
  746. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  747. p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
  748. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
  749. p. 372, line 12Draw close, but speak not.
  750. p. 372, line 15Follow me ever—desert me not while I live.
  751. p. 372, line 19But love is not over—and what love, O comrades!
  752. p. 376, line 9For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
  753. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
  754. p. 376, line 16To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
  755. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  756. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  757. p. 377, line 23NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars,
  758. p. 378, line 18But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
  759. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  760. p. 384, line 26[…] Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long […]
  761. p. 384, line 56[…] Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie […]
  762. p. 384, line 66[…] Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's […]
  763. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
  764. p. 386, line 14(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,)
  765. p. 386, line 19Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
  766. p. 386, line 26Is it not just as great, O soul?
  767. p. 388, line 18Not from successful love alone,
  768. p. 389, line 2A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why,
  769. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  770. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
  771. p. 391, line 17(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
  772. p. 393, line 12Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
  773. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  774. p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)
  775. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,
  776. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  777. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  778. p. 398, line 13For all my days—not those of peace alone—the days of war the same,
  779. p. 399, line 21While not the past forgetting,
  780. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  781. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  782. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  783. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)
  784. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  785. p. 407, line 3HAD I not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis of me […]
  786. p. 407, line 6[…] journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and […]
  787. p. 407, line 7[…] of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace […]
  788. p. 407, line 9[…] am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently […]
  789. p. 407, line 15[…] cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that, as here collated, it is worth […]
  790. p. 408, line 15[…] it is a glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the past […]
  791. p. 409, line 4(I will not call it our concluding voyage,
  792. p. 409, line 11We know not whence, (was the answer,)
  793. p. 409, line 16But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,
  794. p. 409, line 30[…] appearance, of the departing? Those last words are not samples of the best, which involve vitality at its full […]
  795. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  796. p. 411, line 11It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.
  797. p. 412, line 16I DOUBT it not—then more, far more;
  798. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)
  799. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  800. p. 413, line 44[…] genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that […]
  801. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?
  802. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  803. p. 415, line 29An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
  804. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  805. p. 420, line 5(Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true,
  806. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)
  807. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,
  808. p. 422, line 3I'm going away, I know not where,
  809. p. 422, line 11Yet let me not be too hasty,
  810. p. 425, line 28[…] may assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen […]
  811. p. 426, line 18[…] I think I have at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or any […]
  812. p. 427, line 18[…] attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]
  813. p. 427, line 21[…] poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation, or choice […]
  814. p. 428, line 24Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any […]
  815. p. 428, line 33[…] must be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its […]
  816. p. 429, line 29[…] it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration […]
  817. p. 429, line 35[…] I know very well that my "Leaves" could not possibly have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any […]
  818. p. 429, line 40[…] whether my friends claim it for me or not, I know well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial […]
  819. p. 429, line 43[…] melody and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the […]
  820. p. 430, line 3[…] special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as […]
  821. p. 430, line 7[…] chant those themes through the utterance of one, not only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but […]
  822. p. 430, line 12[…] the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature. Not to carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot […]
  823. p. 430, line 17[…] plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they […]
  824. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said […]
  825. p. 430, line 30[…] turn the argument over and repeat it: Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of […]
  826. p. 430, line 40[…] dominate all that precedes or opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new […]
  827. p. 431, line 2[…] feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or displace those voices from […]
  828. p. 431, line 10[…] civilization from all the hitherto ages, I am not sure but I would name those old and less old […]
  829. p. 431, line 17[…] be? Is there one whose underlying basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a comment it […]
  830. p. 431, line 20[…] that our chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been […]
  831. p. 431, line 35[…] emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these the old poems apply to […]
  832. p. 431, line 44[…] must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of […]
  833. p. 432, line 2[…] and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as […]
  834. p. 432, line 26[…] start its own way for good or bad. Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance […]
  835. p. 433, line 11[…] side. (I have wonder'd since why I was not overwhelm'd by those mighty masters. Likely because I read them […]
  836. p. 433, line 16[…] over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that beyond their limited […]
  837. p. 433, line 34[…] I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have […]
  838. p. 433, line 36[…] felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present […]
  839. p. 433, line 42[…] stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is certain, I say, that […]
  840. p. 434, line 14[…] the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]
  841. p. 434, line 16[…] point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward […]
  842. p. 434, line 17[…] see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward those "Leaves" from the […]
  843. p. 434, line 21[…] round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his […]
  844. p. 434, line 39[…] other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and […]
  845. p. 435, line 9[…] of the centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems […]
  846. p. 435, line 11[…] to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid […]
  847. p. 435, line 18[…] pride indispensable to an American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and self-questioning […]
  848. p. 436, line 15[…] Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those words are behind all, and […]
  849. p. 436, line 24[…] emotions, and a theme in literature. I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not […]
  850. p. 436, line 25[…] to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether in […]
  851. p. 437, line 11[…] every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of view of all, but […]
  852. p. 437, line 13While I can not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe in […]
  853. p. 437, line 27[…] in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common sense—is the justification […]
  854. p. 437, line 38[…] without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own blood "—a […]
  855. p. 438, line 3[…] school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who […]
  856. p. 438, line 12[…] freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied […]
  857. p. 438, line 14[…] current literature that satisfied me. But it is not on "Leaves of Grass " distinctively as literature, or a specimen […]
  858. p. 438, line 37[…] canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that […]