Concordance
The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.
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pace – precedent · precedents – pyrotechny
precedents 3
precedes 2
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- p. 151, line 13The Roman lictors preceding the consuls,
- p. 220, line 20The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing the way,
- p. 230, line 3Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;
- p. 407, line 15[…] comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that, as here collated […]
- p. 409, line 33[…] train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
- p. 428, line 10[…] ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines […]
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- p. 129, line 6I give you my love more precious than money,
- p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
- p. 161, line 22With precious benefits to both, glory to all,
- p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
- p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
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- p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
- p. 247, line 11More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.
- p. 270, line 22Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
- p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
- p. 290, line 21All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
- p. 349, line 7Yet in beginning only, incalculable masses of composite precious materials,
- p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
- p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
- p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)
- p. 431, line 9[…] if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization from all the hitherto ages […]
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prelude 7
- p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.
- p. 92, line 30Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,
- p. 219, line 7FIRST O songs for a prelude,
- p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
- p. 292, line 15She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,
- p. 356, line 19While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene,
- p. 430, line 34[…] history, and far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform […]
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preparation 8
- p. 48, line 19Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
- p. 220, line 25All the mutter of preparation, all the determin'd arming,
- p. 229, line 7'Twas well, O soul—'twas a good preparation you gave me,
- p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
- p. 337, line 24And all preparation is for it—and identity is for it—and life and materials are altogether for it!
- p. 347, line 6Belief I sing, and preparation;
- p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
- p. 432, line 22[…] his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing […]
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- p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
- p. 71, line 26Immense have been the preparations for me,
- p. 336, line 5The preparations have every one been justified,
- p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
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- p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
- p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
- p. 352, line 24Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my lengthening shadows,
- p. 352, line 25Prepare my starry nights.
- p. 375, line 11To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh!
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- p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
- p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
- p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
- p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
- p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,
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- p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
- p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,
- p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
- p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
- p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
- p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,
- p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
- p. 348, line 9Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it,
- p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,
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- p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
- p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
- p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
- p. 254, line 18Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
- p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
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- p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
- p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
- p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,
- p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
- p. 435, line 35[…] The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here […]
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- p. 126, line 2We convince by our presence.)
- p. 145, line 5To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer—to feel his sympathy!
- p. 176, line 13A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,
- p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
- p. 432, line 35[…] or to Long Island's seashores—there, in the presence of outdoor influences, I went over thoroughly the Old and […]
- p. 433, line 13[…] I read them, as described, in the full presence of Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape and […]
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- p. 12, line 33The present now and here,
- p. 13, line 31Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
- p. 14, line 14I raise the present on the past,
- p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
- p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
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- p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
- p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
- p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
- p. 59, line 16The courage of present times and all times,
- p. 71, line 2Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
- p. 75, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
- p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
- p. 79, line 15Content with the present, content with the past,
- p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
- p. 151, line 30And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
- p. 162, line 18To exalt the present and the real,
- p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
- p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
- p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
- p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
- p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
- p. 193, line 2And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.
- p. 193, line 4And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,
- p. 193, line 6And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
- p. 194, line 24Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.
- p. 207, line 20All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
- p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
- p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,
- p. 237, line 13At present low, but will soon be better.
- p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
- p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
- p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
- p. 268, line 22Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
- p. 274, line 22Past, present, future, are you and me.
- p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
- p. 300, line 8It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
- p. 308, line 17Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
- p. 315, line 19Singing the great achievements of the present,
- p. 315, line 30For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
- p. 316, line 2So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)
- p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
- p. 336, line 10The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
- p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
- p. 337, line 2And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
- p. 337, line 14The past and the present indicate that it is good.
- p. 344, line 2O the burials of me past and present,
- p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
- p. 348, line 6To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
- p. 348, line 7And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
- p. 348, line 15Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
- p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
- p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
- p. 374, line 2Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind;
- p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
- p. 382, line 17Enough O gliding present—enough O summ'd-up past.
- p. 398, line 25Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
- p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
- p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
- p. 429, line 19[…] limited area of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think of the […]
- p. 430, line 32[…] spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already […]
- p. 433, line 37[…] to the true and full estimate of the Present both the Past and the Future are main considerations […]
- p. 434, line 35[…] The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor […]
- p. 437, line 40As the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration […]
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- p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
- p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
- p. 202, line 15These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
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- p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
- p. 237, line 25She with thin form presently drest in black,
- p. 257, line 26I hear, I come presently, I understand you,
- p. 296, line 27Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)
- p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
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preserv'd 2 today: preserved
preserve 2
preserved see preserv'd
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President 15
- p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
- p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
- p. 45, line 24Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
- p. 107, line 19Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house,
- p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
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- p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
- p. 170, line 10Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
- p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
- p. 219, line 3Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
- p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
- p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
- p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
- p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
- p. 378, line 14Of the corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all,
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- p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
- p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
- p. 171, line 12You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
- p. 209, line 21Way for the President's marshal—way for the government cannon!
- p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
- p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
- p. 269, line 5Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
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- p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
- p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
- p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
- p. 46, line 1Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
- p. 48, line 27I do not press my fingers across my mouth,
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- p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
- p. 56, line 14Where trip-hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders,
- p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
- p. 104, line 24From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops, confession drops,
- p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
- p. 236, line 3The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press on,
- p. 253, line 15Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close,
- p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,
- p. 331, line 22The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover, they press close without lust, his lips press her neck,
- p. 333, line 19The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
- p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,
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- p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
- p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
- p. 380, line 19I have press'd through in my own right,
- p. 386, line 11But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
pressed see press'd
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- p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
- p. 77, line 3I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
- p. 185, line 11Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
- p. 252, line 3Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
- p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)
- p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
- p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
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- p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
- p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,
- p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
- p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
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- p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
- p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
- p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,
- p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
- p. 426, line 37[…] a desire that had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had […]
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- p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
- p. 124, line 7Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos;
- p. 331, line 9Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
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- p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
- p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
- p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
- p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
- p. 374, line 2Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind;
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- p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
- p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
- p. 45, line 21I chant the chant of dilation or pride,
- p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
- p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
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- p. 88, line 10Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
- p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
- p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
- p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
- p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
- p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
- p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
- p. 248, line 13The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces,
- p. 265, line 14These clamors wild to a race of pride I give.)
- p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
- p. 291, line 13The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
- p. 291, line 15That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
- p. 358, line 9(Yet 'mid the ruins Pride colossal stands unshaken to the last,
- p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,
- p. 372, line 23Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.
- p. 380, line 28I announce the justification of candor and the justification of pride.
- p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
- p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;
- p. 435, line 15[…] and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more […]
- p. 435, line 17[…] of nearly all my verse. I think this pride indispensable to an American. I think it not inconsistent with […]
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- p. 42, line 21Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
- p. 66, line 19Let the physician and the priest go home.
- p. 212, line 4Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
- p. 306, line 11Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.
- p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
- p. 364, line 16Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
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- p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
- p. 20, line 18Dead poets, philosophs, priests,
- p. 69, line 18I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over,
- p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
- p. 113, line 13I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear the responsive base and soprano,
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- p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
- p. 125, line 20From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests.
- p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
- p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
- p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,
- p. 192, line 6With the fading religions and priests,
- p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
- p. 365, line 20Ruin'd cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,
- p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
- p. 414, line 25Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia,
- p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.
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- p. 28, line 3A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching,
- p. 151, line 11The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
- p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
- p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,
- p. 244, line 19Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
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- p. 310, line 7A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
- p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
- p. 408, line 5[…] at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old […]
- p. 435, line 28[…] liability accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring […]
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- p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
- p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,
- p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
- p. 314, line 2The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen,
- p. 316, line 4Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
- p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,
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- p. 11, line 21Thou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!
- p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
- p. 436, line 18[…] few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my […]
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- p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
- p. 58, line 5Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print,
- p. 149, line 18The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,
- p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
- p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,
- p. 177, line 1They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
- p. 179, line 18Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
- p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,
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- p. 69, line 10This printed and bound book—but the printer and the printing-office boy?
- p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
- p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,
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- p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
- p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
- p. 69, line 10This printed and bound book—but the printer and the printing-office boy?
- p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
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- p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
- p. 148, line 3To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!
- p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,
- p. 292, line 3RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,
- p. 292, line 11Gather'd to Sunday church in prison walls, the keepers round,
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- p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
- p. 293, line 12(Convict forgetting prison, keeper his loaded pistol,)
- p. 293, line 21The wailing melody again, the singer in the prison sings,
- p. 298, line 19Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
- p. 326, line 2The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
- p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
- p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
- p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
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- p. 48, line 17Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
- p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
- p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
- p. 118, line 6I see all the prisoners in the prisons,
- p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
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- p. 185, line 6All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
- p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,
- p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
- p. 419, line 22The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant,
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- p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
- p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
- p. 407, line 6[…] dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first […]
- p. 407, line 28[…] of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put […]
- p. 408, line 11[…] for sporting yet like a kid or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now […]
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- p. 425, line 20[…] they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the […]
- p. 426, line 4[…] three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had […]
- p. 430, line 15[…] of which has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic […]
- p. 430, line 17[…] our lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from […]
- p. 433, line 2[…] thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library or […]
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- p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
- p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
- p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
- p. 398, line 24The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
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- p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
- p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
- p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
- p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
- p. 378, line 5Or proceed to battle.
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- p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
- p. 207, line 17All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
- p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
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- p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
- p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
- p. 85, line 7Each has his or her place in the procession.
- p. 85, line 8(All is a procession,
- p. 85, line 9The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)
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- p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
- p. 163, line 27As in procession coming.
- p. 185, line 19We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
- p. 193, line 13In the procession along with the nobles of Niphon, the errand-bearers,
- p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
- p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,
- p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
- p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
- p. 236, line 14While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
- p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
- p. 245, line 20The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!
- p. 246, line 9I see a sad procession,
- p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,
- p. 349, line 3Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing,
- p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
- p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
- p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,
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- p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
- p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
- p. 151, line 10The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
- p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
- p. 256, line 23With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,
- p. 278, line 15Gorgeous processions, songs of birds,
- p. 280, line 14I saw the interminable corps, I saw the processions of armies,
- p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
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- p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
- p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
- p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
- p. 265, line 5Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
- p. 369, line 7Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,
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- p. 58, line 20I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
- p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
- p. 306, line 28Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos,
- p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
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- p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
- p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
- p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
- 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!
- p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
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- p. 278, line 25The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products.
- p. 281, line 11And counts the varied gathering of the products.
- p. 281, line 20Toil on heroes! harvest the products!
- p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
- p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
- p. 398, line 2Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
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- p. 95, line 20From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,
- p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
- p. 335, line 11Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are,
- p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
- p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
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- p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
- p. 19, line 9Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
- p. 127, line 16All parts away for the progress of souls,
- p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
- p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;
- p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)
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- p. 133, line 5What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
- p. 167, line 17You promis'd long, we pledge, we dedicate.
- p. 169, line 4Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race.
- p. 339, line 13Consolator most mild, the promis'd one advancing,
- p. 380, line 14When America does what was promis'd,
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- p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
- p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
- p. 108, line 10A PROMISE to California,
- p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
- p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
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- p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
- p. 266, line 8One land must be the promise and reliance of the future.
- p. 355, line 11I read the promise and patiently wait.
- p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
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- p. 31, line 9Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
- p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
- p. 123, line 22Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
- p. 153, line 16A strong being is the proof of the race and of the ability of the universe,
- p. 180, line 7No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,
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- p. 264, line 12A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
- p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
- p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
- p. 367, line 3From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof,
- p. 401, line 13A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
- p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
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- p. 88, line 9Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
- p. 214, line 14When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
- p. 254, line 9Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past,
- p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,
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- p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
- p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
- p. 247, line 1OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
- p. 295, line 3Lambent tableaus, prophetic, bodiless scenes,
- p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
- p. 374, line 15Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
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- p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
- p. 289, line 13In exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinn'd, in life.
- p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
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proportioned see proportion'd
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- p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
- p. 433, line 8[…] mostly in an old wood. The Iliad (Buckley's prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient […]
- p. 433, line 22[…] many mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions […]
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- 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,
- p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
- p. 400, line 1Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
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- p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
- p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
- p. 170, line 13Or that you are diseas'd, or rheumatic, or a prostitute,
- p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
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- p. 17, line 19SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
- p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
- p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
- p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
- 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,
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- p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
- p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
- p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
- p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,
- p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
- p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,
- p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
- p. 196, line 7Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.
- p. 221, line 10Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city,
- p. 231, line 6Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!
- p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
- p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
- p. 271, line 23Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
- p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,
- p. 302, line 7The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets,
- p. 306, line 3Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
- p. 310, line 13PROUD music of the storm,
- p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,
- p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
- p. 412, line 13Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking thee;
- p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
- p. 418, line 9Take deep to thy proud prosperous heart.
- p. 428, line 21[…] thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we have cull'd enough of […]
- p. 431, line 27[…] to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being […]
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- p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
- p. 160, line 14Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
- p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
- p. 167, line 8Still prouder, more ecstatic rose the chant,
- p. 435, line 44[…] endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I […]
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- p. 234, line 25As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
- p. 350, line 1Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest material civilization must remain in vain,)
- p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
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- p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
- p. 18, line 8Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
- p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
- p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
- p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
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- p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
- p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
- p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
- 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.
- 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,
- p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
- p. 426, line 20[…] place, the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and […]
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- p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
- p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
- p. 413, line 38[…] States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation […]
- p. 433, line 25[…] argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]
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- p. 15, line 1HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
- p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
- 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.
- p. 188, line 5Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted,
- p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
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- p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
- p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
- 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,
- 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?)
- 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,
- p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
- p. 378, line 2And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,
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- p. 152, line 21Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
- p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
- p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
- p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
- p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
- p. 291, line 14Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
- p. 291, line 16What is prudence is indivisible,
- p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
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- p. 26, line 26Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
- p. 57, line 22Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the office or public hall;
- p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
- p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
- p. 122, line 11The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
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- p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
- p. 128, line 12In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
- p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
- p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
- p. 141, line 8The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners,
- p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
- p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
- p. 178, line 2Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
- p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
- p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
- p. 308, line 12Only a public school?
- p. 362, line 21Indifferently, 'mid public, private haunts, in solitude,
- p. 364, line 12OF public opinion,
- p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
- p. 425, line 32[…] Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on the book and myself as author of it […]
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- p. 9, line 6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
- p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
- p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
- p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
- p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
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- p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
- p. 100, line 29Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
- p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
- p. 321, line 27Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,
- p. 333, line 20The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
- p. 357, line 10Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,
- p. 359, line 10Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,
- p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
- p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
- p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,
- p. 389, line 21What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all?
- p. 394, line 3E'en the profoundest chill, as now—a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd,
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- p. 20, line 8Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all.
- p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
- p. 184, line 29All the pulses of the world,
- p. 253, line 16Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive,
- p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
- p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
- p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)
- p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,
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- p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
- p. 55, line 25Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
- p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
- 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,
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- p. 39, line 16The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
- p. 168, line 2Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof,
- p. 261, line 11With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
- p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
- p. 353, line 6The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
- p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
- p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
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- p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
- p. 159, line 18Blazon'd with Shakspere's purple page,
- p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
- p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
- p. 258, line 24The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,
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- p. 13, line 23Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
- p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
- p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
- p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
- p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
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- p. 300, line 9It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
- 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?)
- p. 351, line 12(Purport of all these apparitions of the real;)
- p. 406, line 35[…] Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my […]
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- p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
- p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
- p. 52, line 19Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
- p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
- p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
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- p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
- p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
- p. 318, line 4For purpose vast, man's long probation fill'd,
- p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
- p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
- p. 319, line 11Year of the purpose accomplish'd!
- p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
- 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,
- p. 437, line 1[…] Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all. Ever since what […]
- p. 437, line 14[…] out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results […]
- p. 437, line 24[…] of it—is the beginning, middle and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and […]
- p. 437, line 28[…] the common sense—is the justification and main purpose of these United States […]
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- p. 38, line 15I believe in those wing'd purposes,
- p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
- p. 425, line 21[…] therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always […]
- p. 428, line 17[…] For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
- p. 428, line 24[…] not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor […]
- p. 428, line 25[…] or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question […]
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- p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
- p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;
- p. 113, line 4I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse,
- p. 216, line 18She hers, he his, pursuing.
- p. 362, line 14Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss,
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- p. 70, line 13The past is the push of you, me, all, precisely the same,
- p. 115, line 3Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs,
- p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
- p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,
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- p. 12, line 5Put in thy chants said he,
- p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
- p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
- p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
- p. 47, line 23These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
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- p. 66, line 13On his right cheek I put the family kiss,
- p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
- p. 98, line 2Put me down and depart on your way.
- p. 98, line 9Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
- p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
- p. 104, line 5Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
- p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
- p. 171, line 8It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book,
- p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
- p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
- p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
- p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
- p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
- p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
- p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,
- p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
- p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
- p. 334, line 18He is decently put away—is there any thing more?
- p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
- p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
- p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
- p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
- p. 379, line 12To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams,
- p. 407, line 29[…] which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my […]
- p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
- p. 412, line 5Put on the old ship all her power to-day!
- p. 417, line 6Put the scalp-knife carefully in his belt—then lying down, resting a moment,
- p. 426, line 12[…] had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record—the value thereof to be decided […]
- p. 427, line 12[…] but I would sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern […]
- p. 427, line 15[…] be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and […]
- p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it […]
- p. 431, line 41I have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd […]
- p. 434, line 18[…] Leaves" from the first. The word I myself put primarily for the description of them as they stand at […]
- p. 436, line 7[…] as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete Union of the States in my songs without […]
- p. 438, line 10[…] nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half […]
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- p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
- p. 50, line 3Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
- p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
- p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
- p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
- p. 135, line 8He puts things in their attitudes,
- p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,
- p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
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- p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
- p. 50, line 24My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am,
- p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
- p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
- p. 113, line 14I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea at Okotsk,
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- p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
- p. 285, line 23Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you?
- p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
- p. 341, line 13The call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarm'd, uncertain,
- p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
- p. 407, line 18[…] hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape this small old age collation […]