Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “past”

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  1. p. 13, line 1These with the past,
  2. p. 14, line 14I raise the present on the past,
  3. p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
  4. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  5. p. 47, line 8This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  6. p. 47, line 10What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not such a wonder,
  7. p. 65, line 12Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
  8. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  9. p. 70, line 13The past is the push of you, me, all, precisely the same,
  10. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  11. p. 79, line 15Content with the present, content with the past,
  12. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  13. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
  14. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
  15. p. 128, line 20Have the past struggles succeeded?
  16. p. 129, line 17The similitudes of the past and those of the future,
  17. p. 151, line 10The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
  18. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  19. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  20. p. 166, line 31We welcome what we wrought for through the past,
  21. p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
  22. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  23. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  24. 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;
  25. p. 182, line 20The measur'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past,
  26. p. 183, line 21All the past we leave behind,
  27. p. 191, line 21With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
  28. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  29. p. 192, line 26I assert that all past days were what they must have been,
  30. p. 193, line 1In the name of these States and in your and my name, the Past,
  31. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  32. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  33. p. 200, line 9O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
  34. p. 207, line 20All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
  35. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  36. p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,
  37. p. 236, line 15Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that are far away;
  38. p. 254, line 9Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past,
  39. p. 254, line 10From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
  40. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  41. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  42. p. 254, line 17To where the future, greater than all the past,
  43. p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
  44. p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
  45. p. 274, line 22Past, present, future, are you and me.
  46. p. 276, line 6The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
  47. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  48. 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,
  49. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  50. p. 300, line 9It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
  51. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  52. p. 310, line 12To justify the past.
  53. p. 315, line 26The Past! the Past! the Past!
  54. p. 315, line 27The Past—the dark unfathom'd retrospect!
  55. p. 315, line 29The past—the infinite greatness of the past!
  56. p. 315, line 30For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  57. p. 316, line 2So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)
  58. p. 319, line 20The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again.
  59. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  60. p. 333, line 6Is to-day nothing? is the beginningless past nothing?
  61. p. 336, line 9The law of the past cannot be eluded,
  62. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  63. p. 337, line 2And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
  64. p. 337, line 14The past and the present indicate that it is good.
  65. p. 344, line 2O the burials of me past and present,
  66. p. 348, line 5By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
  67. p. 348, line 16The Past is also stored in thee,
  68. p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
  69. p. 374, line 15Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
  70. p. 382, line 17Enough O gliding present—enough O summ'd-up past.
  71. p. 384, line 56[…] the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty […]
  72. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
  73. p. 391, line 2The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and the dead,
  74. p. 391, line 4My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past,
  75. p. 392, line 28All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,
  76. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  77. p. 394, line 26Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
  78. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,
  79. p. 399, line 21While not the past forgetting,
  80. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  81. p. 403, line 16Each song of mine—each utterance in the past—having its long, long history,
  82. p. 407, line 2From many limpid distillations and past showers;
  83. p. 408, line 15[…] sorry for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end […]
  84. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,
  85. p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;
  86. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  87. p. 425, line 7[…] long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves […]
  88. p. 427, line 16[…] contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have […]
  89. p. 428, line 38[…] appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty […]
  90. p. 429, line 19[…] environage and limited area of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think […]
  91. p. 430, line 8[…] only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but the born child of the New World—to illustrate […]
  92. p. 430, line 19[…] they already possess from the bequests of the past, it still remains to be said that there is even […]
  93. p. 430, line 31[…] birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our […]
  94. p. 431, line 26[…] out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases […]
  95. p. 431, line 28[…] proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being the loftiest of the singers life has yet […]
  96. p. 431, line 38[…] are of incalculable value as pictures of the past. I willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent […]
  97. p. 432, line 8[…] the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of the past, so I would dare to claim for my verse. Without […]
  98. p. 433, line 37[…] and full estimate of the Present both the Past and the Future are main considerations […]
  99. p. 434, line 35[…] of coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day […]
  100. p. 437, line 30[…] indirect threads of all the poetry of the past—are in my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and […]