Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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.

S

s – silvery · similar – statements · states – systole

s 2

  1. p. 406, line 35[…] Rounded 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 […]
  2. p. 426, line 1[…] of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it I […]

Sabbath 1

  1. p. 246, line 2Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,

sabians 1

  1. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,

Sabine 1

  1. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

sabres 1

  1. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

sacerdotal 1

  1. p. 350, line 10In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,

sachem 1

  1. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,

sack 1

  1. p. 151, line 19The sack of an old city in its time,

Sacramento 1

  1. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.

sacred 17

  1. p. 85, line 3The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred,
  2. p. 85, line 4No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers' gang?
  3. p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
  4. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
  5. p. 164, line 21All thine O sacred Union!
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  1. p. 250, line 19Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.
  2. p. 252, line 8My sacred one, my mother.
  3. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  4. p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
  5. p. 295, line 8In one, the sacred parturition scene,
  6. p. 306, line 17And left thee sacred.
  7. p. 314, line 3The sacred imperial hymns of China,
  8. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
  9. p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
  10. p. 353, line 8The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

sacrificers 1

  1. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,

sacs 1

  1. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,

sad 23

  1. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  2. p. 94, line 19I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
  3. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
  4. p. 159, line 19And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.
  5. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,
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  1. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
  2. p. 215, line 7The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
  3. p. 222, line 3I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
  4. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  5. p. 246, line 9I see a sad procession,
  6. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
  7. p. 279, line 9When late I sang sad was my voice,
  8. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  9. p. 279, line 16No more the sad, unnatural shows of war.
  10. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
  11. p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
  12. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,
  13. p. 318, line 17With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?
  14. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  15. p. 341, line 17I approach, hear, behold, the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes, your mute inquiry,
  16. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,
  17. p. 378, line 23Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad reverberations,)
  18. p. 408, line 24[…] or in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or […]

sadden'd 1 today: saddened

  1. p. 338, line 23With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,

saddened see sadden'd

saddle 4

  1. p. 40, line 8As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle,
  2. p. 82, line 8The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,
  3. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  4. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.

saddle-bags 1

  1. p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;

saddles 2

  1. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  2. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.

sadly 1

  1. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,

safe 12

  1. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  3. p. 92, line 17Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe,
  4. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  5. p. 181, line 6Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
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  1. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  2. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  3. p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
  4. p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
  5. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  6. p. 321, line 28That, circling, move in order, safe, harmonious,
  7. p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?

safely 6

  1. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  2. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  3. p. 140, line 4On rivers boatmen safely moor'd at nightfall in their boats under shelter of high banks,
  4. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  5. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
  6. p. 417, line 16A suffering woman saved—a baby safely born!)

safest 1

  1. p. 285, line 15SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,

safety 2

  1. p. 378, line 2And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,
  2. p. 403, line 17Of life or death, or soldier's wound, of country's loss or safety,

saga 1

  1. p. 192, line 2With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,

sagacious 1

  1. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!

sagas 1

  1. p. 116, line 11I see the places of the sagas,

sage 2

  1. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  2. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,

sage-deserts 1

  1. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,

sage-plant 1

  1. p. 90, line 11The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birchbark,

sages 1

  1. p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?

sagging 3

  1. p. 35, line 23The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow.
  2. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
  3. p. 201, line 6By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,

Saginaw 2

  1. p. 27, line 24Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla,
  2. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,

Saguenay's 1

  1. p. 347, line 19Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,

said 33

  1. p. 9, line 16And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,
  2. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  3. p. 12, line 5Put in thy chants said he,
  4. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
  5. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
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  1. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  2. p. 48, line 12And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
  3. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  4. p. 67, line 1I heard what was said of the universe,
  5. p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
  6. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  7. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  8. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  9. p. 97, line 8Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
  10. p. 181, line 1COME said the Muse,
  11. p. 200, line 28Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,)
  12. p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
  13. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
  14. p. 264, line 4Chant me the poem, it said, that comes from the soul of America, chant me the carol of victory,
  15. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  16. p. 315, line 3I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
  17. p. 315, line 8And I said, moreover,
  18. p. 380, line 12I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all,
  19. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  20. p. 399, line 3I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
  21. p. 408, line 3[…] and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out […]
  22. p. 426, line 15[…] I am. Behind all else that can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as […]
  23. p. 427, line 39[…] A few weeks ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to science and to […]
  24. p. 430, line 19[…] of the past, it still remains to be said that there is even towards all those a subjective and […]
  25. p. 430, line 26[…] time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must […]
  26. p. 431, line 34[…] and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not […]
  27. p. 436, line 4[…] were. I will also want my utterances (I said to myself before beginning) to be in spirit the poems […]
  28. p. 438, line 2[…] the criticisms of his suite of students, he said to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to […]

saidst 1

  1. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,

sail 35

  1. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
  2. p. 10, line 27Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
  3. p. 59, line 2We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
  4. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  5. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
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  1. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  2. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
  3. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  4. p. 114, line 25Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay,
  5. p. 125, line 15We will sail pathless and wild seas,
  6. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  7. p. 148, line 6O to sail to sea in a ship!
  8. p. 148, line 10To sail and sail and sail!
  9. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
  10. p. 230, line 12No more the mountains roam or sail the stormy sea.
  11. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  12. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  13. p. 308, line 8Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
  14. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,
  15. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,
  16. p. 323, line 1Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
  17. p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
  18. p. 323, line 10O farther farther sail!
  19. p. 323, line 12O farther, farther, farther sail!
  20. p. 325, line 10And on the distant waves sail countless ships,
  21. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
  22. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  23. p. 348, line 14Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
  24. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  25. p. 406, line 3Preface Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my […]
  26. p. 409, line 9Sail out for good, eidólon yacht of me!

sail'd 9 today: sailed

  1. 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,
  2. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  3. p. 191, line 13(A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads,
  4. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
  5. p. 228, line 19I sail'd through the storm, I was refresh'd by the storm,
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  1. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,
  2. p. 284, line 22The winds favor'd and the sea sail'd it,
  3. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  4. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)

sailed see sail'd

sailers 1

  1. p. 412, line 2Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us:

sailing 21

  1. p. 15, line 13Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,)
  2. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  3. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  4. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  5. p. 104, line 12Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;
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  1. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
  2. p. 115, line 20I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
  3. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  4. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
  5. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,
  6. p. 209, line 13Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,
  7. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  8. p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
  9. p. 257, line 13O western orb sailing the heaven,
  10. p. 321, line 14Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,
  11. p. 324, line 5Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
  12. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
  13. p. 360, line 4Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas,
  14. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  15. p. 389, line 23Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?
  16. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,

sail-maker 1

  1. p. 174, line 6The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,

sailor 12

  1. p. 42, line 20A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
  2. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
  3. p. 65, line 15The mountains? prairie-life, bush-life? or sailor from the sea?
  4. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  5. p. 148, line 13To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
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  1. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  2. p. 317, line 22Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead,
  3. p. 330, line 8The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
  4. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
  5. p. 380, line 10Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.
  6. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;
  7. p. 401, line 9I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,

sailor-men 1

  1. p. 170, line 26Sailor-men, merchant-men, coasters, immigrants,

sailors 18

  1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  2. p. 13, line 3Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors' voyages,
  3. p. 26, line 13Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen's land!
  4. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  5. p. 113, line 14I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea at Okotsk,
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  1. p. 126, line 15Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
  2. p. 130, line 26The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars,
  3. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  4. p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;
  5. p. 208, line 3And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations,
  6. p. 208, line 5Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,
  7. p. 208, line 17Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,
  8. p. 208, line 20A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors,
  9. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  10. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,
  11. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
  12. p. 411, line 31[…] I heard from a surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]
  13. p. 425, line 5[…] all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé […]

sailor-song 1

  1. p. 312, line 18The fiddler in the tavern, the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,

sail-power 1

  1. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,

sails 23

  1. p. 10, line 9Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
  2. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
  3. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  4. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
  5. p. 40, line 22The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white sails sparkle!)
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  1. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
  2. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,
  3. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  4. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  5. p. 163, line 30See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,
  6. p. 178, line 19The divine ship sails the divine sea.
  7. p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
  8. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,
  9. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  10. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,
  11. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
  12. p. 318, line 1Again Vasco de Gama sails forth,
  13. p. 330, line 8The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
  14. p. 348, line 23Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee,
  15. p. 348, line 24And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
  16. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
  17. p. 391, line 25Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.
  18. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,

sail-ships 3

  1. p. 195, line 19My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
  2. p. 230, line 27O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)
  3. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,

saints 1

  1. p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?

sake 29

  1. p. 22, line 11Each is not for its own sake,
  2. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  3. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
  4. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  5. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
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  1. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  2. p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
  3. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  4. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  5. p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
  6. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
  7. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  8. p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
  9. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
  10. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,
  11. p. 290, line 19All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
  12. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  13. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  14. p. 322, line 9What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?
  15. p. 322, line 10For others' sake to suffer all?
  16. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  17. p. 374, line 3Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,
  18. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  19. p. 427, line 24[…] song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme […]
  20. p. 430, line 27[…] it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment […]

sakes 1

  1. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,

salaams 1

  1. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.

sale 3

  1. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
  2. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
  3. p. 192, line 3With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,

salesman 1

  1. p. 220, line 8The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving;

saline 1

  1. p. 166, line 6In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country,

sallying 1

  1. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,

salmon 1

  1. p. 305, line 18Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon,

saloon 3

  1. p. 57, line 22Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the office or public hall;
  2. p. 155, line 13Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition-house, library,
  3. p. 245, line 20The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!

salt 9

  1. p. 63, line 18The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl'd whiskers,
  2. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  3. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  4. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  5. p. 384, line 40[…] To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small […]
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  1. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,
  2. p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
  3. p. 395, line 13Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my mother's side, far back.
  4. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,

salt-lettuce 1

  1. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,

salt-lick 1

  1. p. 57, line 21Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,

salty 1

  1. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

salut 1

  1. p. 120, line 16Salut au monde!

salutary 1

  1. p. 164, line 31Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,)

salute 14

  1. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  2. p. 65, line 9Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
  3. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  4. p. 105, line 19We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
  5. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
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  1. p. 118, line 16And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
  2. p. 188, line 23Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
  3. p. 272, line 19People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers,
  4. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  5. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  6. p. 381, line 17Salute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.

salutes 5

  1. 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!)
  2. p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
  3. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  4. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  5. p. 332, line 4The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave,

saluting 5

  1. p. 69, line 22Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,
  2. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
  3. p. 270, line 16I stand again in leaden rain your flapping folds saluting,
  4. p. 325, line 11And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.
  5. p. 410, line 20Reporting yet, saluting yet the Officer over all.

salvation 1

  1. p. 182, line 33Health, peace, salvation universal.

same 107

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sameness 1

  1. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,

Samoiede 1

  1. p. 117, line 6I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,

sample 1

  1. p. 334, line 8A frequent sample of the life and death of workmen,

samples 3

  1. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  2. p. 294, line 29Turning from all the samples, monuments of heroes.
  3. p. 409, line 30[…] of the departing? Those last words are not samples of the best, which involve vitality at its full, and […]

San 1

  1. p. 141, line 4The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,

sand 19

  1. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  2. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  3. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  4. p. 139, line 13Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,
  5. p. 197, line 9Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
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  1. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
  2. p. 204, line 15On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
  3. p. 204, line 19What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouch'd there on the sand?
  4. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  5. p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,
  6. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
  7. p. 312, line 14The measur'd sea-surf beating on the sand,
  8. p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
  9. p. 324, line 21One effort more, my altar this bleak sand;
  10. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
  11. p. 352, line 2Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,
  12. p. 401, line 1Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
  13. p. 401, line 8I hear the slapping waves, the restless keel, the rocking in the sand,
  14. p. 433, line 10[…] Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd since […]

sands 16

  1. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  2. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  3. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  4. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,
  5. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
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  1. p. 149, line 4Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
  2. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
  3. p. 200, line 18On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
  4. p. 201, line 15Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?
  5. p. 202, line 23A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
  6. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  7. p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
  8. p. 204, line 2Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
  9. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  10. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
  11. p. 392, line 15And rhythmic rasping of thy sands and waves,

sand-stone 1

  1. p. 118, line 2I look on chisell'd histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,

sane 10

  1. p. 162, line 16To you ye reverent sane sisters,
  2. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  3. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  4. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!
  5. p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
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  1. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  2. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  3. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  4. p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
  5. p. 387, line 20A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,

saner 2

  1. p. 280, line 31With saner wars, sweet wars, life-giving wars.
  2. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,

sang 7

  1. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  2. p. 201, line 27That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,
  3. p. 222, line 2Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp'd cannon,
  4. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  5. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  6. p. 279, line 9When late I sang sad was my voice,
  7. p. 292, line 16In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn.

sanities 1

  1. p. 244, line 19Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

sanity 3

  1. p. 84, line 17As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
  2. p. 136, line 23Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
  3. p. 411, line 12THE soothing sanity and blitheness of completion,

sank 4

  1. p. 43, line 14And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
  2. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  3. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
  4. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

Sanscrit 1

  1. p. 322, line 20Soundest below the Sanscrit and the Vedas?

Santa 1

  1. p. 340, line 11Santa Spirita, breather, life,

Santee 1

  1. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

sap 3

  1. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
  2. p. 90, line 3Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap,
  3. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,

sarcastic 1

  1. p. 275, line 7I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me,

sarcastically 1

  1. p. 50, line 15It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically,

Sardinian 1

  1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!

sash 1

  1. p. 155, line 16Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,

Saskatchawan 1

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,

sassafras 1

  1. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.

sat 14

  1. p. 20, line 14I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
  2. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  3. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  4. p. 36, line 18And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him,
  5. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
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  1. p. 198, line 11Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears.
  2. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  3. p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
  4. p. 295, line 11Sat peaceful parents with contented sons.
  5. p. 295, line 16Grandmother, loving daughter, loving daughter's daughter, sat,
  6. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  7. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  8. p. 368, line 10Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
  9. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,

Satan 2

  1. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  2. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,

Satan's 1

  1. p. 296, line 15This film of Satan's seething pit,

satellite 1

  1. p. 206, line 27Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,

satellites 1

  1. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,

satisfaction 6

  1. p. 103, line 16Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
  2. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  3. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  4. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  5. p. 374, line 29In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,
  6. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;

satisfied 12

  1. p. 31, line 14I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  2. p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
  3. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  4. p. 101, line 15But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
  5. p. 101, line 16He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
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  1. p. 230, line 1Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,
  2. p. 230, line 8But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  5. p. 341, line 7Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.
  6. p. 375, line 12To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large!
  7. p. 438, line 13[…] any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But it is not on "Leaves of Grass " distinctively […]

satisfier 1

  1. p. 21, line 3The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing,

satisfiers 1

  1. p. 272, line 19People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers,

satisfies 5

  1. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  2. p. 49, line 28A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  3. p. 291, line 10Whatever satisfies souls is true;
  4. p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
  5. p. 291, line 12Itself only finally satisfies the soul,

satisfy 3

  1. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  2. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  3. p. 434, line 39[…] do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even […]

sat'st 1

  1. p. 368, line 10Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,

saturate 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 105, line 2Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
  3. 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.

Saturnius 1

  1. p. 339, line 4Old Brahm I, and I Saturnius am;

Sauk 1

  1. p. 27, line 23Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco,

Saukara 1

  1. p. 115, line 22I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.

saunter 1

  1. p. 143, line 1O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides!

saunter'd 2 today: sauntered

  1. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  2. p. 289, line 19MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd pondering,

sauntered see saunter'd

sauntering 5

  1. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  2. p. 99, line 19Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go,
  3. p. 284, line 26As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor,
  4. p. 353, line 1SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
  5. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,

sauroids 1

  1. p. 72, line 9Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

savage 19

  1. p. 65, line 11The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
  2. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  3. p. 100, line 18Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,
  4. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.
  5. p. 145, line 10To taste the savage taste of blood—to be so devilish!
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  1. p. 200, line 25The undertone, the savage old mother incessantly crying,
  2. p. 209, line 5That savage trinity warily watching.
  3. p. 229, line 16Lo! from deeps more unfathomable, something more deadly and savage,
  4. p. 249, line 12A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,
  5. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  6. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
  7. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  8. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  9. p. 323, line 14Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
  10. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  11. p. 381, line 11I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.
  12. p. 392, line 16And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laughter,
  13. p. 400, line 5A queer old savage man, a fighter under Washington himself,
  14. p. 419, line 21The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage,

savagely 1

  1. p. 165, line 5Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,

savageness 1

  1. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)

savagest 1

  1. p. 208, line 25Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,

savanna 1

  1. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,

Savannah 1

  1. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

savannas 2

  1. p. 18, line 17Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas,
  2. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,

savans 4 today: savants

  1. p. 12, line 22The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long,
  2. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  3. p. 299, line 12For noble savans and coming musicians.
  4. p. 350, line 10In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,

savants see savans

save 2

  1. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  2. p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.

saved 3

  1. p. 59, line 21How he saved the drifting company at last,
  2. p. 263, line 30Was saved the Union of these States.
  3. p. 417, line 16A suffering woman saved—a baby safely born!)

saviors 1

  1. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,

saviour 2

  1. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,
  2. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,

saviours 1

  1. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,

saw 87

  1. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 36, line 17Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,
  3. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  4. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  5. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
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  1. p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  2. p. 83, line 5They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
  3. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  4. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  5. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
  6. p. 105, line 21I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
  7. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  8. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
  9. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
  10. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  11. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  12. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  13. p. 130, line 18Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
  14. p. 130, line 24Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
  15. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  16. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  17. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  18. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  19. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
  20. p. 162, line 24To use the hammer and the saw, (rip, or cross-cut,)
  21. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  22. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
  23. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  24. p. 198, line 3I saw, I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he-bird,
  25. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  26. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  27. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  28. p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
  29. p. 228, line 22I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds,
  30. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
  31. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  32. p. 229, line 18What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what comes here,
  33. p. 230, line 14I saw with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,
  34. p. 230, line 18I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio's waters and of Indiana,
  35. p. 233, line 17I saw the moisture gather in drops on the face of the General.
  36. p. 233, line 18I saw how he wrung his hands in anguish.
  37. p. 234, line 11I saw him at the river-side,
  38. p. 234, line 19I saw something different from capitulation.
  39. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
  40. p. 247, line 23I SAW old General at bay,
  41. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  42. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
  43. p. 248, line 2I saw them depart with cheerfulness, freely risking their lives.
  44. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  45. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  46. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,
  47. p. 261, line 17And I saw askant the armies,
  48. p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,
  49. p. 261, line 19Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them,
  50. p. 261, line 23I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  51. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  52. p. 261, line 25I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,
  53. p. 261, line 26But I saw they were not as was thought,
  54. p. 270, line 15(Angry cloth I saw there leaping!
  55. p. 270, line 23Angry cloth I saw there leaping.)
  56. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  57. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  58. p. 275, line 12Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)
  59. p. 276, line 5And I saw the free souls of poets,
  60. p. 280, line 11I saw the day the return of the heroes,
  61. p. 280, line 13Them that day I saw not.)
  62. p. 280, line 14I saw the interminable corps, I saw the processions of armies,
  63. p. 280, line 15I saw them approaching, defiling by with divisions,
  64. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  65. p. 326, line 14I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  66. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  67. p. 346, line 13I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;
  68. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  69. p. 355, line 23I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
  70. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  71. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  72. p. 420, line 14(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,)
  73. p. 433, line 17[…] I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that beyond their limited range of melody (like perpetual chimes […]
  74. p. 433, line 28[…] an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves […]
  75. p. 434, line 2[…] don't mean in my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only […]
  76. p. 434, line 7[…] in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of […]

saw'd 1 today: sawed

  1. p. 156, line 11The shape measur'd, saw'd, jack'd, join'd, stain'd,

sawed see saw'd

sawing 2

  1. p. 150, line 5The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising,
  2. p. 173, line 17House-building, measuring, sawing the boards,

saw-mill 1

  1. p. 281, line 31Beholdest the newer saw-mill, the southern cotton-gin, and the rice-cleanser.

sawyer 1

  1. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,

Saxon 2

  1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!
  2. p. 191, line 24With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon,

say 72

  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. 14, line 28The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
  3. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  4. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  5. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
63 more lines
  1. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  2. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  3. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
  4. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  5. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  6. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  7. p. 44, line 21And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  8. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  9. p. 45, line 20And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  10. p. 65, line 25Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
  11. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
  12. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  13. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  14. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  15. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  16. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  17. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  18. p. 88, line 5O I say now these are the soul!
  19. p. 94, line 16I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,
  20. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  21. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  22. p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
  23. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  24. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  25. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
  26. p. 122, line 13Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
  27. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  28. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  29. p. 122, line 24Listening to others, considering well what they say,
  30. p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
  31. 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,)
  32. p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
  33. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  34. p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
  35. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  36. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  37. p. 175, line 8But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
  38. p. 180, line 14Say on, sayers! sing on, singers!
  39. p. 188, line 14Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution?
  40. p. 224, line 4And what does it say to me all the while?
  41. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  42. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  43. p. 249, line 14No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
  44. p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
  45. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  46. p. 304, line 19I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
  47. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  48. p. 376, line 7I say Nature continues, glory continues,
  49. p. 381, line 4I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd,
  50. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  51. 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.
  52. p. 409, line 15GOOD-BYE* my fancy—(I had a word to say,
  53. p. 409, line 16But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,
  54. p. 421, line 1HOW dare one say it?
  55. p. 425, line 28[…] the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my […]
  56. p. 426, line 12[…] the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record […]
  57. p. 427, line 24[…] personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor […]
  58. p. 429, line 2[…] as it may sound at first, I will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher […]
  59. p. 429, line 11[…] is the result of such presupposition. I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book without […]
  60. p. 433, line 43[…] been given to me. It is certain, I say, that, although I had made a start before, only from […]
  61. p. 434, line 37[…] Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems or any other writings can […]
  62. p. 436, line 17[…] palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of […]
  63. p. 438, line 19I say no land or people or circumstances ever existed so needing […]

sayers 1

  1. p. 180, line 14Say on, sayers! sing on, singers!

saying 4

  1. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  2. p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
  3. p. 225, line 2What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much it displeases me;
  4. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;

sayings 2

  1. p. 176, line 13A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,
  2. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.

says 9

  1. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  2. p. 50, line 15It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically,
  3. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  4. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
  5. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
4 more lines
  1. p. 224, line 6And nothing at all to you it says—but look you my babe,
  2. p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
  3. p. 290, line 1All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
  4. p. 437, line 35[…] a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be […]

scabbard 1

  1. p. 354, line 6And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pull'd scabbard.

scabs 1

  1. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.

scaffold 5

  1. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
  2. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  3. p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
  4. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  5. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,

scaffolds 3

  1. p. 154, line 22I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
  2. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  3. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)

scalder's 1

  1. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

scale 1

  1. p. 435, line 5[…] though certain to come, and on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent […]

scales 2

  1. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
  2. p. 387, line 9Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones,

scaling 1

  1. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,

scallop'd 1 today: scalloped

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,

scalloped see scallop'd

scallop-edg'd 2

  1. p. 132, line 27River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?
  2. p. 133, line 8Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg'd waves!

scallop-edged 1

  1. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,

scalp-dance 1

  1. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,

scalpel 1

  1. p. 47, line 24This is the geologist, this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.

scalp-knife 1

  1. p. 417, line 6Put the scalp-knife carefully in his belt—then lying down, resting a moment,

scaly 1

  1. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)

scan 7

  1. p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
  2. p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
  3. p. 317, line 10I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,
  4. p. 384, line 28[…] Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With […]
  5. p. 390, line 26By that long scan of waves, myself call'd back, resumed upon myself,
  6. p. 401, line 10I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded—the stout-strong frame,
  7. p. 404, line 6So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan,

scandalous 1

  1. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.

Scandinavia 1

  1. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,

Scandinavian 2

  1. p. 116, line 14I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,
  2. p. 191, line 24With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon,

scant 1

  1. p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;

scanted 1

  1. p. 188, line 5Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted,

scapula 1

  1. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,

scares 1

  1. p. 38, line 13My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble,

scarf'd 1 today: scarfed

  1. p. 66, line 6Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,

scarfed see scarf'd

scarlet 6

  1. p. 83, line 7He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
  2. p. 105, line 1Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
  3. p. 144, line 9There in a huge kettle of boiling water the lobsters shall be boil'd till their color becomes scarlet.
  4. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  5. p. 235, line 15Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
  6. p. 250, line 9Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,

scars 2

  1. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,
  2. p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;

scatter 3

  1. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  2. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
  3. p. 222, line 6Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,

scatter'd 3 today: scattered

  1. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
  2. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  3. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,

scattered see scatter'd

scattering 2

  1. p. 39, line 15Scattering it freely forever.
  2. p. 349, line 23Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so long upon the mind of man,

scena 1

  1. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,

scene 14

  1. p. 158, line 24Upon this very scene.
  2. p. 197, line 5From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
  3. p. 238, line 8Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind,
  4. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  5. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
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  1. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  2. p. 250, line 16LOOK down fair moon and bathe this scene,
  3. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  4. p. 295, line 8In one, the sacred parturition scene,
  5. p. 302, line 3The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me,
  6. p. 368, line 18SPIRIT that form'd this scene,
  7. p. 368, line 28But thou that revelest here—spirit that form'd this scene,
  8. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  9. p. 393, line 4Upon this scene, this show,

scenery 5

  1. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  2. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
  3. p. 259, line 15In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,
  4. p. 278, line 21The scenery of the snows, the winds' free orchestra,
  5. p. 317, line 5I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the world,

scenes 15

  1. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  2. p. 165, line 1In other scenes than these have I observ'd thee flag,
  3. p. 241, line 21Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
  4. p. 248, line 12All the scenes at the batteries rise in detail before me again,
  5. p. 258, line 18And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
10 more lines
  1. p. 295, line 3Lambent tableaus, prophetic, bodiless scenes,
  2. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
  3. p. 347, line 20With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
  4. p. 367, line 19Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
  5. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,
  6. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
  7. p. 400, line 11To the sights and scenes—to forming the line of battle,
  8. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,
  9. p. 425, line 5[…] or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them, or […]
  10. p. 434, line 3[…] flare and provocation of that war's sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely […]

scent 9

  1. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
  2. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
  3. p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
  4. p. 158, line 22I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance,
  5. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)
4 more lines
  1. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
  2. p. 356, line 23I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses;
  3. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)
  4. p. 418, line 28In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air,

scented 5

  1. p. 33, line 7A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
  2. p. 96, line 10SCENTED herbage of my breast,
  3. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
  4. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,
  5. p. 402, line 11And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.

scents 2

  1. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  2. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,

Scheld 1

  1. p. 115, line 1Others traverse the Zuyder Zee or the Scheld,

Schelling 1

  1. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,

scheme 8

  1. p. 129, line 16The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme,
  2. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  3. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  4. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  5. p. 419, line 24(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?)
  6. p. 434, line 21[…] if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to […]
  7. p. 436, line 18[…] so gives breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have […]

scheme's 3

  1. p. 182, line 15For the scheme's culmination, its thought and its reality,
  2. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,
  3. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,

Schiller 1

  1. p. 415, line 7Shakspere, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson,

scholar 4

  1. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  2. p. 222, line 7Into the school where the scholar is studying;
  3. p. 332, line 3The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong'd is made right,

scholars 1

  1. p. 173, line 1List close my scholars dear,

scholarships 1

  1. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;

school 14

  1. p. 75, line 18No shutter'd room or school can commune with me,
  2. p. 129, line 3Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
  3. p. 190, line 12I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
  4. p. 222, line 7Into the school where the scholar is studying;
  5. p. 271, line 10Are you not of some coterie? some school or mere religion?
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  1. p. 283, line 7And the schoolmistress that pass'd on her way to the school,
  2. p. 295, line 14Toward a tall-domed school.
  3. p. 308, line 1AN old man's thought of school,
  4. p. 308, line 12Only a public school?
  5. p. 308, line 19To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.
  6. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
  7. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  8. p. 438, line 3[…] in answer to their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the […]
  9. p. 438, line 5[…] the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted anything but this one picture, which is […]

schoolboy 1

  1. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;

schoolmistress 1

  1. p. 283, line 7And the schoolmistress that pass'd on her way to the school,

schools 8

  1. p. 29, line 15Creeds and schools in abeyance,
  2. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
  3. p. 123, line 20Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
  4. p. 152, line 16Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest,
  5. p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
  6. p. 398, line 7Amid the changing schools, theologies, philosophies,
  7. p. 419, line 16(Take here the mainest lesson—less from books—less from the schools,)
  8. p. 426, line 6[…] big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort […]

schooner 1

  1. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,

schooners 3

  1. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  2. p. 133, line 23Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters!
  3. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,

science 22

  1. p. 12, line 31From science and the modern still impell'd,
  2. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  3. p. 47, line 20Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
  4. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  5. p. 181, line 10Lo! keen-eyed towering science,
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  1. p. 181, line 13Yet again, lo! the soul, above all science,
  2. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
  3. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  4. p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
  5. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  6. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
  7. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  8. p. 369, line 8The announcements of recognized things, science,
  9. p. 369, line 14Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing,
  10. p. 427, line 13[…] solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to […]
  11. p. 427, line 39[…] said that, owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be […]
  12. p. 428, line 1[…] is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and […]
  13. p. 428, line 5[…] alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]
  14. p. 430, line 37[…] realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included […]
  15. p. 431, line 19[…] of literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise of science and resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical […]
  16. p. 432, line 13[…] New World needs the poems of realities and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall […]
  17. p. 435, line 32[…] and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that […]

science-friend 1

  1. p. 397, line 1My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend,

sciences 1

  1. p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,

scientists 2

  1. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,
  2. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,

scoff'd 1 today: scoffed

  1. p. 290, line 20All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,

scoffed see scoff'd

scooper 1

  1. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,

scooting 1

  1. p. 50, line 2Scooting obliquely high and low.

scoots 2

  1. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,
  2. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,

scope 4

  1. p. 290, line 11In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever.
  2. p. 409, line 31[…] its full, and balance, and perfect control and scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and endorse […]
  3. p. 420, line 19Haughty this song, its words and scope,
  4. p. 427, line 35[…] above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of view of verse; for everything else […]

scorch 1

  1. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,

scorch'd 1 today: scorched

  1. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,

scorched see scorch'd

score 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 354, line 19And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,

scores 1

  1. p. 131, line 14What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?

scorn 9

  1. p. 20, line 16In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
  2. p. 39, line 6They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  3. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  4. p. 84, line 22Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
  5. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
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  1. p. 264, line 19From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
  2. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
  3. p. 374, line 12Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
  4. p. 394, line 14Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!

scorn'd 1 today: scorned

  1. p. 212, line 2The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings.

scorned see scorn'd

scorner 1

  1. p. 268, line 12And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you,

scornful 2

  1. p. 147, line 20No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints or scornful criticisms,
  2. p. 272, line 4What mocking and scornful negligence?

scornfully 2

  1. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
  2. p. 431, line 24[…] there in those works that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]

scorning 3

  1. p. 108, line 8Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
  2. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  3. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,

scorns 1

  1. p. 412, line 11For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?

Scotch 2

  1. p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
  2. p. 401, line 11Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth:

Scotchman 1

  1. p. 330, line 12The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,

Scott 1

  1. p. 415, line 7Shakspere, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson,

Scott's 1

  1. p. 432, line 29[…] octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage […]

scout 2

  1. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;
  2. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;

scouts 1

  1. p. 400, line 12To the scouts ahead reconnoitering,

scowl 1

  1. p. 392, line 7Thy brooding scowl and murk—thy unloos'd hurricanes,

scragged 1

  1. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,

scrawl'd 1 today: scrawled

  1. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,

scrawled see scrawl'd

scream 9

  1. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  2. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
  5. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
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  1. p. 239, line 18An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,
  2. p. 270, line 18The cannons ope their rosy-flashing muzzles—the hurtled balls scream,
  3. p. 312, line 15The twittering bird, the hawk's sharp scream,
  4. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,

screaming 3

  1. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  2. p. 364, line 16Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
  3. p. 381, line 18Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,

screams 4

  1. p. 50, line 20The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
  2. p. 57, line 5Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles, screams, weeps,
  3. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  4. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,

screech 1

  1. p. 59, line 13My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,

screeching 1

  1. p. 387, line 6Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?

screen 2

  1. p. 128, line 3Out of the dark confinement! out from behind the screen!
  2. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.

script 1

  1. p. 175, line 18When the script preaches instead of the preacher,

scrofula 1

  1. p. 47, line 3Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?

scud 2

  1. p. 36, line 6The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. p. 78, line 19The last scud of day holds back for me,

scull'd 1 today: sculled

  1. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,

sculled see scull'd

sculptor 1

  1. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,

sculpture 1

  1. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,

sculptures 1

  1. p. 158, line 26Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?

scum 3

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  2. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
  3. p. 218, line 17What deepening twilight—scum floating atop of the waters,

scuttle 1

  1. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,

scythe 1

  1. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,

scythes 1

  1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,

sea 152

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sea-beach 2

  1. p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
  2. p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,

sea-beauty 1

  1. p. 385, line 4Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!

sea-bird 1

  1. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,

sea-birds 1

  1. p. 133, line 20Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;

seaboard 3

  1. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  2. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  3. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,

sea-breeze 1

  1. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,

sea-captains 1

  1. p. 208, line 5Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,

sea-coast 3

  1. p. 65, line 6Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  2. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,
  3. p. 205, line 17Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,

sea-cool 1

  1. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,

sea-crow 1

  1. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,

sea-currents 1

  1. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,

sea-fight 1

  1. p. 62, line 7Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?

sea-gaps 1

  1. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,

sea-gluten 1

  1. p. 202, line 11Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten,

sea-gulls 2

  1. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  2. p. 132, line 28The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?

sea-hawk's 1

  1. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,

sea-headlands 1

  1. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;

sea-islands 1

  1. p. 195, line 18I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea-islands,

seal 3

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. 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.
  3. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,

sea-leopard 1

  1. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

sea-lettuce 1

  1. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,

seal-fishers 1

  1. p. 155, line 27Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.

seal-seeker 1

  1. p. 117, line 7I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance,

seaman 1

  1. p. 115, line 20I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.

seam'd 1 today: seamed

  1. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,

seamed see seam'd

seamen 3

  1. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  2. p. 155, line 27Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
  3. p. 185, line 3All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,

searching 4

  1. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;
  2. p. 61, line 3Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
  3. p. 122, line 25Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
  4. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,

sea-reefs 1

  1. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,

sear-faced 1

  1. p. 292, line 10(There by the hundreds seated, sear-faced murderers, wily counterfeiters,

sea-rills 1

  1. p. 277, line 4Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,

sea-rocks 1

  1. p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,

seas 33

  1. p. 47, line 23These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  2. p. 50, line 4Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  3. p. 93, line 15We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,
  4. p. 112, line 26Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups,
  5. p. 125, line 15We will sail pathless and wild seas,
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  1. p. 126, line 14Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
  2. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  3. p. 155, line 20Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas.
  4. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
  5. p. 183, line 18Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
  6. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,
  7. p. 208, line 21All seas, all ships.
  8. p. 223, line 12By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
  9. p. 296, line 8But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.
  10. p. 308, line 8Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
  11. p. 315, line 24The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires;
  12. p. 318, line 26After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,)
  13. p. 319, line 27To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
  14. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
  15. p. 321, line 3Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,
  16. p. 321, line 14Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,
  17. p. 322, line 12The seas all cross'd, weather'd the capes, the voyage done,
  18. p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
  19. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  20. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,
  21. p. 371, line 5What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
  22. p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
  23. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  24. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
  25. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,
  26. p. 412, line 3But we 'll make race a-time upon the seas—a battle-contest yet! bear lively there!
  27. p. 416, line 3Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and sea's—the unreturn'd,

sea-ship 2

  1. p. 209, line 6AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds,
  2. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,

seashore 1

  1. p. 197, line 15Up this seashore in some briers,

seashores 2

  1. p. 252, line 2Covering all my lands—all my seashores lining!
  2. p. 432, line 35[…] down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores—there, in the presence of outdoor influences, I went over […]

seaside 3

  1. p. 27, line 2Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
  2. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  3. p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?

season 4

  1. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  2. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
  3. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  4. p. 281, line 2The season of thanks and the voice of full-yielding,

seasons 12

  1. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
  2. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  3. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  4. p. 15, line 24And may be just as much as the seasons.
  5. 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!)
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  1. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;
  2. p. 42, line 18A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,
  3. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
  4. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  5. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  6. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  7. p. 375, line 1In the annual return of the seasons,

sea-sound 1

  1. p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,

sea-steamers 1

  1. p. 361, line 7The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd,

sea-surf 1

  1. p. 312, line 14The measur'd sea-surf beating on the sand,

seat 2

  1. p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
  2. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.

seated 11

  1. p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
  2. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  3. p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
  4. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  5. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,
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  1. p. 292, line 10(There by the hundreds seated, sear-faced murderers, wily counterfeiters,
  2. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
  3. p. 387, line 20A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
  4. p. 393, line 17Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruins;
  5. p. 395, line 6In his great arm chair by the window seated,
  6. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—

sea-tides 1

  1. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,

seating 2

  1. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  2. p. 292, line 14Whom seating on their stools beside her on the platform,

seats 2

  1. p. 265, line 9Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!
  2. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,

sea-waves 2

  1. p. 104, line 10Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
  2. p. 201, line 14Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you sea-waves?

sea-winds 2

  1. p. 198, line 6Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
  2. p. 258, line 4Sea-winds blown from east and west,

secession 5

  1. p. 271, line 23Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
  2. p. 411, line 33During the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd […]
  3. p. 413, line 35[…] her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright […]
  4. p. 428, line 13[…] of the United States—the war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can […]
  5. p. 433, line 44[…] start before, only from the occurrence of the Secession War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of […]

secluded 4

  1. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  2. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,
  3. p. 256, line 4In the swamp in secluded recesses,
  4. p. 260, line 8From deep secluded recesses,

second 12

  1. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  2. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  3. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  4. p. 75, line 17The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words.
  5. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
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  1. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  2. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  3. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
  4. p. 333, line 11Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement,
  5. p. 333, line 12Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse.
  6. p. 426, line 19[…] of any thing, or any results.) In the second place, the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant […]
  7. p. 438, line 37[…] the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be […]

seconds 1

  1. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,

secret 13

  1. p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
  2. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  3. p. 123, line 14Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
  4. p. 128, line 8Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.
  5. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
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  1. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
  2. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  3. p. 318, line 20Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
  4. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  5. p. 322, line 26O secret of the earth and sky!
  6. p. 362, line 15Open but still a secret, the real of the real, an illusion,
  7. p. 380, line 7But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish,
  8. p. 382, line 16Enough O deed impromptu and secret,

Secretaries 2

  1. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
  2. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,

secretly 4

  1. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  2. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  3. p. 189, line 24(Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
  4. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?

secure 8

  1. p. 162, line 2Lifted, illumin'd, bathed in peace—elate, secure in peace.
  2. p. 164, line 28Nor ship, nor mine, nor any here this day secure,
  3. p. 164, line 29Nor aught, nor any day secure.
  4. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  5. p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
  6. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  7. p. 309, line 26Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,
  8. p. 336, line 3You are henceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.

security 2

  1. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  2. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,

sedate 1

  1. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,

sedge 1

  1. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,

sedgy 1

  1. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,

sediment 1

  1. p. 202, line 9The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.

seducer 1

  1. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,

seduction 1

  1. p. 290, line 7Putridity of gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,

seductions 1

  1. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?

sedulously 1

  1. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,

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seed 13

  1. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,
  2. p. 154, line 26The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,
  3. p. 181, line 7Nestles the seed perfection.
  4. p. 181, line 9None born but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting.
  5. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
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  1. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  2. p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
  3. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  4. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,
  5. p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
  6. p. 381, line 24To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
  7. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?

seeding 1

  1. p. 432, line 24[…] field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted […]

seeds 6

  1. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  2. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  3. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  4. p. 373, line 16Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
  5. p. 399, line 7And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
  6. p. 428, line 10[…] towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses […]

seeing 4

  1. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  2. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  3. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  4. p. 374, line 19Eyes of my soul seeing perfection,

seek 20

  1. p. 14, line 24I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
  2. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  3. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  4. p. 75, line 26On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
  5. p. 110, line 21Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?
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  1. p. 138, line 1They do not seek beauty, they are sought,
  2. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  3. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  4. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  5. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  6. p. 237, line 29To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
  7. p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
  8. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  9. p. 276, line 26Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself.
  10. p. 347, line 4The paths to the house I seek to make,
  11. p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
  12. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  13. p. 395, line 22I fold thenceforth, or seek to fold, within my chants transmuting,
  14. p. 425, line 19[…] with certain unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft […]
  15. p. 434, line 22[…] as much as I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and […]

seeking 17

  1. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  2. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  3. p. 95, line 2Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
  4. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  5. p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
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  1. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  2. p. 112, line 2To you yet unborn these, seeking you.
  3. p. 112, line 4Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
  4. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!
  5. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  6. p. 202, line 17As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types.
  7. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
  8. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  9. p. 385, line 13Seeking the shores forever.
  10. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,
  11. p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,

seeks 2

  1. p. 427, line 6[…] points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In […]
  2. p. 431, line 1[…] European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or displace those voices […]

seek'st 2

  1. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,

seem 8

  1. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  4. p. 212, line 16Cold and motionless as they seem live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  5. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)
  6. p. 318, line 26After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,)
  7. p. 428, line 5[…] or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]
  8. p. 428, line 37[…] There are, I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past […]

seem'd 7 today: seemed

seem'd 6 · seemed 1

  1. p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,
  2. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  3. p. 234, line 15Every one else seem'd fill'd with gloom,
  4. p. 411, line 39[…] at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling […]
  5. p. 425, line 15[…] the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in a sufficient way […]
  6. p. 427, line 14[…] to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put […]
  7. p. 430, line 1[…] I have done, or could do. But it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of […]

seeming 3

  1. p. 12, line 19We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 390, line 15I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;

seems 16

  1. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  2. p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  3. p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
  4. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  5. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
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  1. p. 123, line 5All seems beautiful to me,
  2. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
  3. p. 224, line 26O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
  4. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  5. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
  6. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  7. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  8. p. 426, line 25[…] has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any […]
  9. p. 429, line 23[…] unprecedented stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of […]
  10. p. 429, line 29[…] of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element […]
  11. p. 434, line 43[…] a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages […]

seen 24

  1. p. 23, line 13Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen,
  2. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  3. p. 24, line 3I have seen the he-bird also,
  4. p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  5. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
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  1. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  2. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  3. p. 105, line 4Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
  4. p. 109, line 22It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
  5. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  6. p. 165, line 10Many a good man have I seen go under.
  7. p. 178, line 1Seen at hand or seen at a distance,
  8. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  9. p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
  10. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  11. p. 235, line 20Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
  12. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  13. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  14. p. 283, line 25The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between,
  15. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  16. p. 329, line 18Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
  17. p. 406, line 37[…] G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my Fancy […]
  18. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,

seer 1

  1. p. 12, line 1I MET a seer,

seers 1

  1. p. 369, line 20The rapt promises and luminè of seers, the spiritual world, these centuries-lasting songs,

sees 8

  1. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
  2. p. 171, line 23The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever,
  3. p. 269, line 21As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
  4. p. 270, line 1He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
  5. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  6. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  7. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

see'st 2

  1. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
  2. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?

seething 4

  1. p. 11, line 21Thou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!
  2. p. 296, line 15This film of Satan's seething pit,
  3. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  4. p. 429, line 17[…] their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think […]

segments 1

  1. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,

segregate 1

  1. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,

seine 2

  1. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
  2. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?

seine-ends 1

  1. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,

seiz'd 5 today: seized

  1. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  2. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  3. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,
  4. p. 202, line 8Was seiz'd by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
  5. p. 310, line 25Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?

seize 6

  1. p. 35, line 26I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy,
  2. p. 52, line 9They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  3. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
  4. p. 183, line 23Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
  5. p. 302, line 3The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me,
  6. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!

seized see seiz'd

seizes 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  3. p. 123, line 17(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,

seizing 1

  1. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,

seldom 1

  1. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)

select 2

  1. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  2. p. 438, line 37[…] and not the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain […]

selected 3

  1. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  2. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  3. p. 384, line 20[…] Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist […]

selecting 1

  1. p. 23, line 18These selecting, these in hints demanded of me.

selects 1

  1. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,

self 9

  1. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  2. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  3. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
  4. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  5. p. 202, line 17As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types.
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  1. p. 313, line 9Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.)
  2. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  3. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  4. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?

self-balanced 1

  1. p. 16, line 12Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,

self-contain'd 1

  1. p. 54, line 20I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,

self-denial 1

  1. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,

self-esteem 4

  1. p. 125, line 18Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
  2. p. 272, line 23Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power;
  3. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  4. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;

self-hood 1

  1. p. 146, line 26O the joy of a manly self-hood!

self-pois'd 1

  1. p. 264, line 18We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,

self-questioning 1

  1. p. 435, line 19[…] it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and self-questioning […]

self-regulated 1

  1. p. 437, line 36[…] future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it […]

self-sufficient 2

  1. p. 283, line 16The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,
  2. p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,

self-will'd 1

  1. p. 427, line 6[…] seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it gives one man's […]

sell 1

  1. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,

selling 4

  1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  2. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  3. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  4. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.

semen 1

  1. p. 190, line 17Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries.

seminal 2

  1. p. 88, line 10Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
  2. p. 266, line 22Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,

send 12

  1. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
  2. p. 17, line 13Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
  3. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  4. p. 54, line 11In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  5. p. 134, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
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  1. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  2. p. 171, line 5I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
  3. p. 189, line 3And I send these words to Paris with my love,
  4. p. 210, line 23I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
  5. p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,
  6. p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,
  7. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)

sendest 1

  1. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,

sending 4

  1. p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
  2. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  3. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!
  4. p. 294, line 9The melted snow of March, the willow sending forth its yellow-green sprouts,

sends 3

  1. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  2. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  3. p. 314, line 16Obeisant sends his love.

Senegal 1

  1. p. 205, line 11At dusk that look'st on Senegal, at morn America,

sense 18

  1. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
  2. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  3. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  4. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  5. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
  3. p. 347, line 23And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,
  4. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  5. p. 371, line 18The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes,
  6. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  7. p. 392, line 3Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions,
  8. p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:
  9. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  10. p. 426, line 16[…] and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its […]
  11. p. 427, line 2[…] date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  12. p. 434, line 27[…] lands, and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and […]
  13. p. 437, line 27[…] humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common sense—is the justification and main purpose of these United States […]

senseless 1

  1. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,

senses 8

  1. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
  2. p. 85, line 25Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
  3. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  4. p. 146, line 11The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh,
  5. p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
  6. p. 365, line 11Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave in,
  7. p. 374, line 25Illustrious the attribute of speech, the senses, the body,

sensitive 1

  1. p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,

sensual 1

  1. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,

sensuous 1

  1. p. 356, line 26Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes,

sent 12

  1. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  2. p. 72, line 3They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  3. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  4. p. 145, line 14I hear the cry again sent down from the mast-head, There—she blows!
  5. p. 201, line 13Subtle, sent up—what is it?—I listen;
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  1. p. 277, line 17Overtures sent to the solid out of the liquid,
  2. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  3. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  4. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
  5. p. 390, line 3With many a half-caught voice sent up from the eddies,
  6. p. 407, line 26[…] up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps […]
  7. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,

sentenced 4

  1. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  2. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  3. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,
  4. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

sentences 1

  1. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,

sentiment 4

  1. p. 122, line 11The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
  2. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
  3. p. 177, line 3Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter,
  4. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,

sentimental 1

  1. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,

sentimentalist 1

  1. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,

sentinels 3

  1. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
  2. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,

sentries 3

  1. p. 52, line 27The sentries desert every other part of me,
  2. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  3. p. 309, line 9Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,

sentry 2

  1. p. 225, line 11I hear the tramp of armies, I hear the challenging sentry,
  2. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,

separate 20

  1. p. 9, line 1ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
  2. p. 13, line 19The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
  3. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  4. p. 64, line 23That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning.
  5. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
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  1. p. 94, line 17Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
  2. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  3. p. 111, line 3Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
  4. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  5. p. 160, line 9(Would the son separate himself from the father?)
  6. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  7. p. 208, line 13Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!
  8. p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
  9. p. 259, line 20And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages,
  10. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  11. p. 291, line 17Declines to separate one part of life from every part,
  12. p. 318, line 21Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
  13. p. 351, line 22The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
  14. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  15. p. 431, line 43[…] indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not […]

separated 1

  1. p. 92, line 19I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,

separating 1

  1. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,

separation 2

  1. p. 311, line 32The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
  2. p. 422, line 10Delightful!—now separation—Good-bye my Fancy.

separations 1

  1. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,

serenades 2

  1. p. 260, line 30From me to thee glad serenades,
  2. p. 310, line 17You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert,

serene 4

  1. p. 63, line 9Serene stands the little captain,
  2. p. 118, line 12I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
  3. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  4. p. 356, line 19While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene,

serenely 2

  1. p. 260, line 15Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
  2. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,

serene-moving 1

  1. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,

serenest 1

  1. p. 296, line 14This glaze of God's serenest purest sky,

serious 5

  1. p. 426, line 3[…] been the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I […]
  2. p. 431, line 11[…] songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing […]
  3. p. 431, line 40[…] extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]
  4. p. 432, line 26[…] till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I […]
  5. p. 436, line 36[…] nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of […]

seriously 2

  1. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
  2. p. 132, line 22I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.

sermon 2

  1. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
  2. p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,

sermons 2

  1. p. 53, line 15Logic and sermons never convince,
  2. p. 69, line 16Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless human brain,

serpent 1

  1. p. 392, line 16And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laughter,

serpentine 2

  1. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
  2. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,

serpents 1

  1. p. 419, line 23Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;

serpent-skin 1

  1. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,

servant 1

  1. p. 169, line 21Neither a servant nor a master I,

serve 13

  1. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  2. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
  3. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
  4. p. 168, line 6To disappear, to serve.
  5. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
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  1. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  2. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
  3. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  4. 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?
  5. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  6. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,
  7. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,

served 27

served 25 · serv'd 2

  1. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
  2. p. 63, line 17Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,
  3. p. 153, line 28What always served and always serves is at hand.
  4. p. 154, line 1Than this nothing has better served, it has served all,
  5. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
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  1. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  2. p. 154, line 4Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,
  3. p. 154, line 5Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi, served those whose relics remain in Central America,
  4. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,
  5. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
  6. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
  7. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  8. p. 154, line 10Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,
  9. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  10. p. 154, line 12Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,
  11. p. 154, line 13Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
  12. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  13. p. 213, line 20O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
  14. p. 273, line 3Give me the pay I have served for,
  15. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  16. p. 347, line 15Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
  17. p. 402, line 19With rosy tinge reddening the land he'd served,

serves 7

  1. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  2. p. 153, line 28What always served and always serves is at hand.
  3. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  4. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  5. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  6. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  7. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:

service 4

  1. p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
  2. p. 220, line 26The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines,
  3. p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
  4. p. 434, line 38[…] involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems or any other writings can do for their […]

servile 1

  1. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,

serving 1

  1. p. 13, line 15Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)

set 17

  1. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
  2. p. 43, line 18This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
  3. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  4. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
  5. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
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  1. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  2. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
  3. p. 202, line 20As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
  4. p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
  5. p. 278, line 27Thou art all over set in births and joys!
  6. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  7. p. 302, line 6The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,)
  8. p. 346, line 7Set ope the doors O soul.
  9. p. 350, line 17Set in the sky of Law.)
  10. p. 376, line 22And set a tombstone here.
  11. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
  12. p. 434, line 15But I set out with the intention also of indicating or hinting some […]

sets 4

  1. p. 40, line 11The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  2. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  3. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;
  4. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,

settee 1

  1. p. 156, line 23The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,

setting 11

  1. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,
  2. p. 140, line 17The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march,
  3. p. 141, line 6Evening—me in my room—the setting sun,
  4. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  5. p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,
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  1. p. 224, line 13On floats the wind over the breast of the sea setting in toward land,
  2. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  3. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  4. p. 375, line 26I too carol the sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting,
  5. p. 376, line 11O setting sun! though the time has come,
  6. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:

settle 6

  1. p. 36, line 7My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 53, line 19A minute and a drop of me settle my brain,
  3. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  4. p. 145, line 22Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast,
  5. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  6. p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)

settled 5

  1. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  2. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  3. p. 334, line 15The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
  4. p. 433, line 34[…] personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I […]
  5. p. 436, line 39[…] occasion now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby […]

settlement 1

  1. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from the time my […]

settlements 5

  1. p. 58, line 5Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print,
  2. p. 149, line 21The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette,
  3. p. 168, line 15The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all,
  4. p. 256, line 7The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,
  5. p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,

settles 1

  1. p. 137, line 4The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,

settling 3

  1. p. 54, line 14In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  2. p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
  3. p. 168, line 24A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere,

seven 5

  1. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  2. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  3. p. 160, line 23Earth's modern wonder, history's seven outstripping,
  4. p. 315, line 21Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)
  5. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years […]

seventeen 1

  1. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,

Seventh-month 2

  1. 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!)
  2. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,

Seventieth 1

  1. p. 384, line 11[…] Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day […]

seventy 4

  1. p. 305, line 1I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  2. p. 305, line 2Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  3. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  4. p. 429, line 15[…] or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with their lives, their passions, their future […]

several 4

  1. p. 67, line 2Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
  2. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  3. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
  4. p. 437, line 14[…] a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite […]

severance 1

  1. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,

severe 2

  1. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  2. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,

Seville 1

  1. p. 118, line 30You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!

sewing 2

  1. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
  2. p. 295, line 17Chatting and sewing.

sewing-machine 1

  1. p. 40, line 17The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,

sex 10

  1. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  2. p. 80, line 31From sex, from the warp and from the woof,
  3. p. 88, line 7Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.
  4. p. 88, line 8Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
  5. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
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  1. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  2. p. 92, line 31Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,
  3. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  4. p. 213, line 10No brain, no heart left, no magnetism of sex;
  5. p. 436, line 14[…] Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not […]

sexes 4

  1. p. 48, line 25Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veil'd and I remove the veil,
  2. p. 137, line 23They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
  3. p. 153, line 9Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands,
  4. p. 274, line 26Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes,

sextillions 1

  1. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

sexton 1

  1. p. 354, line 7This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,

sexual 1

  1. 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,

sexuality 3

  1. p. 87, line 20Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,
  2. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  3. p. 436, line 22[…] and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a […]

shackles 1

  1. p. 324, line 1In shackles, prison'd, in disgrace, repining not,

shade 13

  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  4. p. 87, line 27The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
  5. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
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  1. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
  2. p. 114, line 2I see the curious rapid change of the light and shade,
  3. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  4. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,
  5. p. 313, line 1From Spanish chestnut trees' dense shade,
  6. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  7. p. 390, line 27In every crest some undulating light or shade—some retrospect,
  8. p. 402, line 9To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,

shaded 3

  1. p. 49, line 8Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you!
  2. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  3. p. 355, line 28She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

shades 6

  1. p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  2. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  3. p. 255, line 14O shades of night—O moody, tearful night!
  4. p. 296, line 10These lights and shades, this drama of the whole,
  5. p. 352, line 4And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;
  6. p. 401, line 20The soft voluptuous opiate shades,

shad-fishery 1

  1. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

shading 1

  1. p. 49, line 18Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you!

shadow 5

  1. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  2. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  3. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  4. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.
  5. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,

shadow'd 2 today: shadowed

  1. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  2. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,

shadowed see shadow'd

shadowing 1

  1. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,

shadows 20

  1. p. 49, line 30The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  2. p. 57, line 9Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  3. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
  4. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  5. p. 139, line 18The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees, the flames with the black smoke from the pitch-pine curling and rising;
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  1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  2. p. 151, line 5The crowd with their lit faces watching, the glare and dense shadows;
  3. p. 185, line 11Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
  4. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
  5. p. 198, line 17Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
  6. p. 200, line 2Those are the shadows of leaves.
  7. p. 208, line 26Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,
  8. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
  9. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  10. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
  11. p. 308, line 18The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
  12. p. 315, line 28The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
  13. p. 352, line 24Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my lengthening shadows,
  14. p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
  15. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,

shadowy 11

  1. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
  2. p. 151, line 10The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
  3. p. 159, line 10The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the sunrise,
  4. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  5. p. 257, line 15As I walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night,
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  1. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  2. p. 305, line 19The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
  3. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
  4. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  5. p. 415, line 9The great shadowy groups gathering around,
  6. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—

shaft 1

  1. p. 393, line 13Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending,

shafts 1

  1. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,

Shahs 1

  1. p. 114, line 6I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,

shake 8

  1. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  2. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
  3. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  4. p. 78, line 22I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  5. p. 199, line 17Shake out carols!
  6. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
  7. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,
  8. p. 323, line 1Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!

shaken 1

  1. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

shakes 2

  1. p. 51, line 17It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.
  2. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.

Shakspere 7

  1. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
  2. p. 415, line 7Shakspere, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson,
  3. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,
  4. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have […]
  5. p. 433, line 3[…] room—it makes such difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions I could get of Homer […]
  6. p. 434, line 35[…] of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson […]
  7. p. 435, line 38[…] The times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements […]

shakspere-bacon's 1

  1. p. 406, line 16[…] Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To […]

Shakspere's 2

  1. p. 159, line 18Blazon'd with Shakspere's purple page,
  2. p. 389, line 11Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,

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shallow 6

  1. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  2. p. 132, line 8Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant,
  3. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  4. p. 181, line 25Out of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow,
  5. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  6. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)

shallowest 2

  1. p. 69, line 2I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
  2. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)

shalt 4

  1. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  2. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
  3. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  4. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,

shame 11

  1. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  2. p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
  3. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  4. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
  5. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
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  1. p. 215, line 14I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
  2. p. 292, line 1O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  3. p. 293, line 3Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole!
  4. p. 293, line 22O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  5. p. 358, line 6I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race, it becomes all mine,

shamed 2

  1. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  2. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,

shame-faced 1

  1. p. 64, line 16I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.

shames 1

  1. p. 38, line 20And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

shanties 1

  1. p. 166, line 11The choppers heard not, the camp shanties echoed not,

shape 36

  1. p. 13, line 11Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
  2. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  3. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  4. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
  5. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
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  1. p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
  2. p. 130, line 20Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
  3. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
  4. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
  5. p. 156, line 11The shape measur'd, saw'd, jack'd, join'd, stain'd,
  6. p. 156, line 13The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride's bed,
  7. p. 156, line 14The shape of the little trough, the shape of the rockers beneath, the shape of the babe's cradle,
  8. p. 156, line 15The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,
  9. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  10. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  11. p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
  12. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
  13. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  14. p. 156, line 23The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,
  15. p. 156, line 24The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings,
  16. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  17. p. 157, line 8Her shape arises,
  18. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
  19. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  20. p. 199, line 6O it is the shape, the shape of my mate!
  21. p. 212, line 6Yet behind all lowering stealing, lo, a shape,
  22. p. 213, line 30Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
  23. p. 213, line 31Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
  24. p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
  25. p. 407, line 18[…] forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape this small old age collation […]
  26. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—

shaped 6

  1. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  2. p. 214, line 3The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
  3. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  4. p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
  5. p. 433, line 29[…] from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era […]

shapeless 2

  1. p. 204, line 19What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouch'd there on the sand?
  2. p. 321, line 29Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space,

shapeliness 1

  1. p. 87, line 17All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one's body, male or female,

shapely 2

  1. p. 148, line 16WEAPON shapely, naked, wan,
  2. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,

shapes 32

  1. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  2. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  3. p. 155, line 21The shapes arise!
  4. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  5. p. 156, line 1The shapes arise!
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  1. p. 156, line 2Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,
  2. p. 156, line 3Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,
  3. p. 156, line 4Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,
  4. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,
  5. p. 156, line 10The shapes arise!
  6. p. 156, line 19The shapes arise!
  7. p. 157, line 2The shapes arise!
  8. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  9. p. 157, line 18The main shapes arise!
  10. p. 157, line 19Shapes of Democracy total, result of centuries,
  11. p. 157, line 20Shapes ever projecting other shapes,
  12. p. 157, line 21Shapes of turbulent manly cities,
  13. p. 157, line 22Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
  14. p. 157, line 23Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
  15. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  16. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  17. p. 235, line 20Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
  18. p. 310, line 16Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,
  19. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  20. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,
  21. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
  22. p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
  23. p. 371, line 18The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes,
  24. p. 391, line 11The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.
  25. p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,

shaping 2

  1. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
  2. p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,

share 4

  1. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  2. p. 94, line 5I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,
  3. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  4. p. 181, line 8By every life a share or more or less,

shared 1

  1. p. 253, line 20You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)

sharer 1

  1. p. 111, line 6O sharer of my roving life.

sharing 1

  1. p. 112, line 10Each answering all, each sharing the earth with all.

shark 2

  1. p. 56, line 20Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  2. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

sharks 1

  1. p. 419, line 23Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;

sharp 8

  1. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  2. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  3. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,
  4. p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
  5. p. 242, line 29I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,
  6. p. 254, line 4Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled,
  7. p. 312, line 15The twittering bird, the hawk's sharp scream,
  8. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,

sharp-bow'd 1

  1. p. 230, line 27O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)

sharp-chinn'd 1

  1. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,

sharp-edged 1

  1. p. 183, line 7Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?

sharpening 1

  1. p. 301, line 27A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,

sharpens 1

  1. p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,

sharpest 2

  1. p. 362, line 11Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,
  2. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)

sharp-eyed 1

  1. p. 117, line 6I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,

sharp-hoof'd 1

  1. p. 39, line 1The sharp-hoof'd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

sharping 1

  1. p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:

sharp-lipp'd 1

  1. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;

sharp-peak'd 1

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,

sharp-tooth'd 1

  1. p. 53, line 4Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!

Shasta 1

  1. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,

Shastas 1

  1. p. 69, line 26Drinking mead from the skull-cup, to Shastas and Vedas admirant, minding the Koran,

shatter'd 1 today: shattered

  1. p. 365, line 19Out of that old entire European debris, the shatter'd mummeries,

shattered see shatter'd

shaved 2

  1. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
  2. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,

shawl 1

  1. p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,

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shears 1

  1. p. 174, line 8The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's ornaments, the decanter and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,

sheath 1

  1. p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,

sheath'd 1 today: sheathed

  1. p. 53, line 4Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!

sheathed see sheath'd

she-bird 3

  1. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  2. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
  3. p. 197, line 33One forenoon the she-bird crouch'd not on the nest,

she-birds 1

  1. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,

shed 5

  1. p. 34, line 22For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  2. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  3. p. 352, line 21Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,

shedding 2

  1. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  2. p. 321, line 22Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,

sheeny 2

  1. p. 352, line 2Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,
  2. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,

sheep 3

  1. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.
  2. p. 281, line 16Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine,
  3. p. 312, line 19The lowing cattle, bleating sheep, the crowing cock at dawn.

sheer 1

  1. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,

sheet 1

  1. p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

sheiks 1

  1. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!

sheldrake 1

  1. p. 139, line 4In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the water rocking silently,

shelf 2

  1. p. 129, line 1Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
  2. p. 333, line 17Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long pervaded the rooms,)

shell 3

  1. p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
  2. p. 52, line 7Mine is no callous shell,
  3. p. 408, line 6[…] down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one […]

shell-fish 2

  1. p. 407, line 35[…] deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high […]
  2. p. 408, line 17[…] end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now […]

shells 9

  1. p. 56, line 22Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
  2. p. 122, line 3You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much!
  3. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
  4. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  5. p. 277, line 23A windrow-drift of weeds and shells.
  6. p. 277, line 24O little shells, so curious-convolute, so limpid-cold and voiceless,
  7. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  8. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)

shelter 3

  1. p. 140, line 4On rivers boatmen safely moor'd at nightfall in their boats under shelter of high banks,
  2. p. 398, line 2Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
  3. p. 398, line 15For shelter, wine and meat—for sweet appreciation,

shelter'd 3 today: sheltered

  1. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  2. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  3. p. 433, line 10[…] Orient, northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the sea on each […]

sheltered see shelter'd

sheltering 1

  1. p. 402, line 9To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,

shelves 2

  1. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
  2. p. 29, line 19Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,

shepherd 1

  1. p. 402, line 15Mourning a good old man—a faithful shepherd, patriot.

Sheridan's 1

  1. p. 413, line 35[…] of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of the now […]

sheriff 1

  1. p. 157, line 1The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd crowd, the dangling of the rope.

Sherman 1

  1. p. 249, line 10As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)

she's 4

  1. p. 158, line 28But that she's left them all—and here?
  2. p. 159, line 25She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!
  3. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,

she-walrus 1

  1. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,

she-whale 1

  1. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,

shifted 2

  1. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  2. p. 436, line 21[…] become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and […]

shifting 4

  1. p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
  2. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  3. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  4. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,

shifting-delicate 1

  1. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,

shiftings 1

  1. p. 428, line 11[…] preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent facts of the […]

shimmer 1

  1. p. 294, line 3Shimmer of waters with fish in them, the cerulean above,

shimmering 1

  1. p. 130, line 19Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,

shimmers 1

  1. p. 57, line 11Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,

shine 12

  1. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  2. p. 41, line 19Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw,
  3. p. 46, line 8Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  4. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  5. p. 197, line 22Shine! shine! shine!
5 more lines
  1. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  2. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  3. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  4. p. 210, line 1How bright shine the cutlasses of the foremost troops!
  5. p. 428, line 33[…] be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems […]

shines 3

  1. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  2. p. 332, line 1The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  3. p. 355, line 29The sun just shines on her old white head.

shingle 1

  1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

shingle-dressing 1

  1. p. 173, line 18Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing,

shining 20

  1. p. 16, line 22They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.
  2. p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
  3. p. 81, line 12From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
  4. p. 88, line 21They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
  5. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
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  1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  2. p. 200, line 15All else continuing, the stars shining,
  3. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
  4. p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
  5. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  6. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  7. p. 259, line 3Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.
  8. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  9. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
  10. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  11. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  12. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
  13. p. 415, line 22(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)
  14. p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,

shiny 1

  1. p. 329, line 13Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop'd her face,

ship 59

  1. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
  2. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
  3. p. 16, line 22They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.
  4. p. 47, line 23These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  5. p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
50 more lines
  1. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  2. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  3. p. 126, line 15Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
  4. p. 139, line 8White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,
  5. p. 148, line 6O to sail to sea in a ship!
  6. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  7. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  8. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  9. p. 164, line 28Nor ship, nor mine, nor any here this day secure,
  10. p. 178, line 19The divine ship sails the divine sea.
  11. p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
  12. p. 181, line 17(As a much-tacking ship upon the sea,)
  13. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  14. p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,
  15. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,
  16. p. 205, line 20Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place.
  17. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  18. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  19. p. 205, line 24But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard the ship!
  20. p. 205, line 25Ship of the body, ship of the soul, voyaging, voyaging, voyaging.
  21. p. 209, line 9Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,
  22. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
  23. p. 218, line 3As a ship on the waters advancing,
  24. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  25. p. 262, line 22The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
  26. p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
  27. p. 263, line 10From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
  28. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  29. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  30. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  31. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  32. p. 306, line 3Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
  33. p. 306, line 25O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long!
  34. p. 306, line 26Bear up O smitten orb! O ship continue on!
  35. p. 306, line 27Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself,
  36. p. 306, line 32So thee O ship of France!
  37. p. 321, line 2We too take ship O soul,
  38. p. 323, line 8And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
  39. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  40. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
  41. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
  42. p. 348, line 14Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
  43. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
  44. p. 379, line 19The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
  45. p. 384, line 70[…] Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent […]
  46. p. 389, line 23Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?
  47. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,
  48. p. 403, line 3An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
  49. p. 406, line 13[…] The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long […]
  50. p. 412, line 5Put on the old ship all her power to-day!

shipcraft 1

  1. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,

ship-fringed 1

  1. p. 402, line 20So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship-fringed shore,

ship-joiner 1

  1. 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,

ship-joining 1

  1. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,

shipmate 2

  1. p. 379, line 15JOY, shipmate, joy!
  2. p. 379, line 21Joy, shipmate, joy.

ship-merchants 1

  1. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,

shipp'd 1 today: shipped

  1. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)

shipped see shipp'd

shipping 3

  1. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  2. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  3. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,

ships 60

  1. p. 10, line 5IN cabin'd ships at sea,
  2. p. 10, line 28This song for mariners and all their ships.
  3. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
  4. p. 51, line 10The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters,
  5. p. 105, line 8Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
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  1. p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
  2. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  3. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
  4. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  5. p. 133, line 23Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters!
  6. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  7. p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;
  8. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
  9. p. 145, line 13I feel the ship's motion under me, I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,
  10. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  11. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
  12. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  13. p. 163, line 29And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships;
  14. p. 164, line 22Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines,
  15. p. 168, line 25Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world,
  16. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
  17. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
  18. p. 205, line 15ABOARD at a ship's helm,
  19. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,
  20. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
  21. p. 208, line 21All seas, all ships.
  22. p. 219, line 19Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
  23. p. 221, line 9And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
  24. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  25. p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
  26. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  27. p. 227, line 25Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
  28. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
  29. p. 230, line 25CITY of ships!
  30. p. 230, line 26(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!
  31. p. 245, line 17Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
  32. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  33. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,
  34. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
  35. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  36. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  37. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  38. p. 301, line 22The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
  39. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
  40. p. 324, line 31I yield my ships to Thee.
  41. p. 325, line 10And on the distant waves sail countless ships,
  42. p. 330, line 7Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
  43. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
  44. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  45. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
  46. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  47. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
  48. p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
  49. p. 369, line 14Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing,
  50. p. 385, line 11The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,
  51. p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,
  52. p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
  53. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"

ship-signal 1

  1. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,

ship-signals 1

  1. p. 208, line 14Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship-signals!

ship-voyage 1

  1. p. 425, line 14[…] halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived […]

ship-yards 1

  1. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,

shirk 1

  1. p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,

shirt 4

  1. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  2. p. 38, line 3His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip-band,
  3. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  4. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,

shirts 1

  1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,

shock 2

  1. p. 63, line 22Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  2. p. 219, line 23A shock electric, the night sustain'd it,

shock'd 1 today: shocked

  1. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.

shocked see shock'd

shod 2

  1. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,

shoeless 1

  1. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,

shoemaker 2

  1. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
  2. p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,

shoes 1

  1. p. 73, line 17My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,

shone 2

  1. p. 99, line 2I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
  2. p. 247, line 24(Old as he was, his gray eyes yet shone out in battle like stars,)

shoot 2

  1. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  2. p. 199, line 1High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves,

shooting 4

  1. p. 20, line 8Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all.
  2. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  3. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  4. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.

shoots 4

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  2. p. 84, line 1Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,
  3. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
  4. p. 368, line 9Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,

shop 3

  1. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  2. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,

shopfronts 1

  1. p. 420, line 4Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shopfronts,

shops 7

  1. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  2. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
  3. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  4. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  5. p. 164, line 22Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines,
  6. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  7. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,

shop-windows 1

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,

shore 51

  1. p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
  2. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  3. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,
  4. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  5. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
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  1. p. 120, line 13You waters I have finger'd every shore with you,
  2. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  3. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
  4. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  5. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  6. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  7. p. 133, line 10Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers!
  8. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  9. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  10. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  11. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,
  12. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.
  13. p. 166, line 5Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves,
  14. p. 167, line 15These virgin lands, lands of the Western shore,
  15. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  16. p. 169, line 1But more in you than these, lands of the Western shore,
  17. p. 182, line 10From some far shore the final chorus sounding.
  18. p. 198, line 6Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
  19. p. 200, line 18On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
  20. p. 203, line 7You friable shore with trails of debris,
  21. p. 204, line 15On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
  22. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  23. p. 227, line 6And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western shore the same,
  24. p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
  25. p. 264, line 1BY blue Ontario's shore,
  26. p. 268, line 25I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
  27. p. 276, line 1Thus by blue Ontario's shore,
  28. p. 278, line 17The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
  29. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  30. p. 317, line 20The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.)
  31. p. 323, line 14Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
  32. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  33. p. 341, line 22I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;
  34. p. 341, line 23But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me,
  35. p. 366, line 6BY broad Potomac's shore, again old tongue,
  36. p. 379, line 20She swiftly courses from the shore,
  37. p. 380, line 1NOW finalè to the shore,
  38. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
  39. p. 392, line 2Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore,
  40. p. 402, line 20So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship-fringed shore,
  41. p. 403, line 2On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,
  42. p. 438, line 2Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo from the shore.

shore-going 1

  1. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,

shores 41

  1. p. 20, line 20Language-shapers on other shores,
  2. p. 26, line 12Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
  3. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  4. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  5. p. 95, line 1FACING west from California's shores,
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  1. p. 95, line 4Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
  2. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  3. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
  4. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  5. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,
  6. p. 185, line 11Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing,
  7. p. 188, line 9I walk'd the shores of my Eastern sea,
  8. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  9. p. 194, line 27The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores,
  10. p. 202, line 2As I wended the shores I know,
  11. p. 202, line 16As I wended the shores I know,
  12. p. 202, line 18As I wend to the shores I know not,
  13. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,
  14. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  15. p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
  16. p. 227, line 7And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with bends and chutes,
  17. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  18. p. 245, line 17Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
  19. p. 250, line 10Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
  20. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  21. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  22. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
  23. p. 263, line 11Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
  24. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
  25. p. 276, line 10Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
  26. p. 278, line 3Wash'd on America's shores?
  27. p. 319, line 24(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
  28. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,
  29. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  30. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
  31. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  32. p. 385, line 13Seeking the shores forever.
  33. p. 391, line 8Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,
  34. p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
  35. p. 436, line 12[…] in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]

shore-sands 2

  1. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
  2. p. 408, line 1[…] non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet […]

shore-steamers 1

  1. p. 361, line 7The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd,

shorn 1

  1. p. 408, line 17[…] at the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and […]

short 13

  1. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  2. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  3. p. 57, line 8Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
  4. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  5. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
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  1. p. 190, line 15O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
  2. p. 248, line 9I hear the sounds of the different missiles, the short t-h-t! t-h-t! of the rifle-balls,
  3. p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
  4. p. 387, line 5Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
  5. p. 409, line 1HEAVE the anchor short!
  6. p. 421, line 8After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,
  7. p. 433, line 25[…] haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]
  8. p. 438, line 27[…] to them distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]

shorter 1

  1. p. 13, line 15Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)

shortly 1

  1. p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,

shot 7

  1. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
  3. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  4. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
  5. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  6. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
  7. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,

shots 2

  1. p. 61, line 1The cries, curses, roar, the plaudits for well-aim'd shots,
  2. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,

should 47

  1. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  2. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  3. p. 17, line 2Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
  4. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  5. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
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  1. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  2. p. 21, line 30And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
  3. p. 36, line 10You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  4. p. 44, line 17Why should I pray? why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
  5. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  6. p. 73, line 6We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  7. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  8. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  9. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  10. p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
  11. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  12. p. 99, line 14And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
  13. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  14. p. 106, line 24O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
  15. p. 106, line 25I know I should be happy with them.
  16. p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
  17. p. 131, line 23That I was I knew was of my body, and what I should be I knew I should be of my body.
  18. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  19. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  20. p. 186, line 19I should have blabb'd nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.
  21. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  22. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
  23. p. 280, line 3Should the dead intrude?
  24. 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,
  25. p. 298, line 22Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
  26. p. 305, line 4Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
  27. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  28. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  29. p. 336, line 1It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided,
  30. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  31. 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,
  32. p. 369, line 16They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
  33. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  34. p. 429, line 11[…] stands, is the result of such presupposition. I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book […]
  35. p. 433, line 32[…] answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far a distance, must be an […]
  36. p. 433, line 34[…] after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I also […]
  37. p. 436, line 38[…] of Grass" in time to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines […]
  38. p. 437, line 9[…] formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief […]

shoulder 6

  1. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  2. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  3. p. 89, line 23The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
  4. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  5. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  6. p. 243, line 17I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,

shoulder-band 1

  1. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,

shouldering 1

  1. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;

shoulders 12

  1. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  2. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
  3. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  4. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  5. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
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  1. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  2. p. 230, line 20Drest in blue, bearing their trusty rifles on their shoulders.
  3. p. 253, line 9As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders,
  4. p. 253, line 10As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders,
  5. p. 279, line 20With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks and your muskets;
  6. p. 284, line 10Her old white hair drooping dishevel'd round her shoulders,
  7. p. 355, line 17Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders.

shoulder-side 1

  1. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.

shout 5

  1. p. 36, line 7My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  3. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
  4. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,
  5. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)

shouted 2

  1. p. 35, line 9The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,
  2. p. 239, line 18An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,

shouting 4

  1. p. 87, line 23The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
  2. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,
  3. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  4. p. 390, line 20Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing,

shouts 13

  1. p. 22, line 9(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the winner's pealing shouts,
  2. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  3. p. 91, line 14What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
  4. p. 113, line 4I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse,
  5. p. 143, line 8I hear bells, shouts! I pass the crowd, I run!
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  1. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
  2. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  3. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  4. p. 208, line 24Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
  5. p. 225, line 12I hear the jubilant shouts of millions of men, I hear Liberty!
  6. p. 311, line 8Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?
  7. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  8. p. 357, line 5I hear the shouts, the sounds of blows and smiting steel;

shovel'd 2 today: shoveled

  1. p. 334, line 15The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
  2. p. 395, line 26A wafted autumn leaf, dropt in the closing grave, the shovel'd earth,

shoveled see shovel'd

shovels 1

  1. p. 60, line 15I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,

show 43

  1. p. 21, line 23I will show what alone must finally compact these,
  2. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  3. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  4. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  5. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
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  1. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  2. p. 31, line 19And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
  3. p. 35, line 19I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
  4. p. 45, line 23I show that size is only development.
  5. p. 54, line 28So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
  6. p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
  7. p. 60, line 22They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.
  8. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  9. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  10. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  11. p. 152, line 9The show passes, all does well enough of course,
  12. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  13. 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!
  14. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  15. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  16. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  17. p. 210, line 5Why this is indeed a show—it has called the dead out of the earth!
  18. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  19. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  20. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  21. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
  22. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  23. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  24. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
  25. p. 354, line 2Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  26. p. 355, line 6They show their descent from the Master himself.
  27. p. 356, line 27Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.
  28. p. 362, line 27Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night,
  29. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  30. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
  31. p. 377, line 1With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
  32. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  33. p. 393, line 4Upon this scene, this show,
  34. p. 394, line 20Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson!
  35. p. 413, line 1ADD to your show, before you close it, France,
  36. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  37. p. 436, line 1[…] the democratic averages of America. I was to show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest […]

show'd 3 today: showed

  1. p. 83, line 7He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
  2. p. 420, line 15Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,
  3. p. 433, line 44[…] occurrence of the Secession War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths […]

showed see show'd

shower 1

  1. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,

shower'd 1 today: showered

  1. p. 196, line 17Down from the shower'd halo,

showered see shower'd

showering 1

  1. p. 53, line 7Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

showers 10

  1. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  2. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  3. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  4. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
  5. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,
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  1. p. 278, line 20The heat, the showers, the measureless pasturages,
  2. p. 302, line 9Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
  3. p. 407, line 2From many limpid distillations and past showers;
  4. p. 409, line 14To make the passing shower's concluding drops.

showing 3

  1. p. 31, line 10Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
  2. p. 55, line 2Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  3. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;

shown 5

  1. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  2. p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
  3. p. 380, line 21And the songs of birth, and shown that there are many births.
  4. p. 413, line 38[…] time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by […]
  5. p. 433, line 36[…] other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that to the true and full estimate […]

shows 28

  1. p. 26, line 25Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
  2. p. 34, line 5The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  3. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  4. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
  5. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
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  1. p. 135, line 12What can be answer'd he answers, and what cannot be answer'd he shows how it cannot be answer'd.
  2. p. 136, line 23Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
  3. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  4. p. 185, line 2All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
  5. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  6. p. 245, line 13Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!
  7. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  8. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,
  9. p. 278, line 25The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products.
  10. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  11. p. 279, line 16No more the sad, unnatural shows of war.
  12. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  13. p. 295, line 22All, all the shows of laboring life,
  14. p. 310, line 3Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
  15. p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
  16. p. 342, line 18When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure?
  17. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,
  18. p. 384, line 20[…] Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the […]
  19. p. 387, line 15The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
  20. p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
  21. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  22. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  23. p. 425, line 33[…] book and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find […]

shred 1

  1. p. 403, line 19What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!)

shreds 2

  1. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  2. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)

shriek 2

  1. p. 142, line 20To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!
  2. p. 168, line 9The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan,

shrieking 1

  1. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,

shrieks 1

  1. p. 359, line 20Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd,

shrill 4

  1. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
  2. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
  3. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  4. p. 317, line 4I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steam-whistle,

shrivel 1

  1. p. 321, line 32Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,

shrivels 1

  1. p. 153, line 14How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!

shroud 6

  1. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  2. p. 156, line 12The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his shroud,
  3. p. 256, line 15Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen,
  4. p. 327, line 21A shroud I see and I am the shroud, I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,
  5. p. 372, line 23Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.

shrouded 2

  1. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
  2. p. 284, line 12Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope and heir,

shrubs 1

  1. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)

shuddering 7

  1. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  2. p. 125, line 3Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
  3. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  4. p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
  5. p. 280, line 26Not there your victory on those red shuddering fields,
  6. p. 343, line 5A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
  7. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,

shuffle 1

  1. p. 37, line 20I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.

shuffling 3

  1. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  2. p. 313, line 24I hear the metrical shuffling of their feet.
  3. p. 394, line 18Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!

shun 1

  1. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,

shunn'd 2 today: shunned

  1. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
  2. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,

shunned see shunn'd

shunning 1

  1. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,

shut 5

  1. p. 17, line 19SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
  2. p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
  3. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
  4. p. 212, line 25Is the house shut? is the master away?
  5. p. 325, line 14Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,

shuts 2

  1. p. 177, line 13Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
  2. p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.

shutter'd 1 today: shuttered

  1. p. 75, line 18No shutter'd room or school can commune with me,

shuttered see shutter'd

shuttle 1

  1. p. 196, line 14Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,

shuttling 1

  1. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

shy 3

  1. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
  2. p. 256, line 5A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
  3. p. 260, line 5And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me,

shyness 1

  1. p. 54, line 10In vain the speeding or shyness,

Siberian 2

  1. p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,
  2. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,

sibilant 4

  1. p. 202, line 4Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant,
  2. p. 338, line 17Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals,
  3. p. 352, line 3The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
  4. p. 353, line 21Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

sick 24

  1. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
  3. p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  4. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
  5. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
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  1. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  2. p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
  3. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 200, line 4O I am very sick and sorrowful.
  6. p. 214, line 17How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
  7. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  8. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
  9. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  10. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,
  11. p. 330, line 21The stammerer, the sick, the perfect-form'd, the homely,
  12. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  13. p. 344, line 18You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
  14. p. 357, line 19Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,
  15. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
  16. p. 408, line 21[…] of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after […]
  17. p. 414, line 4Me, old, alone, sick, weak-down, melted-worn with sweat;

sicken 1

  1. p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?

sicken'd 3 today: sickened

  1. p. 211, line 17O many a sicken'd heart!
  2. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  3. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,

sickened see sicken'd

sickening 1

  1. p. 243, line 18Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening, so offensive,

sickens 1

  1. p. 233, line 16It sickens me yet, that slaughter!

sick-gray 1

  1. p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

sickly 1

  1. p. 237, line 16Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,

sickness 2

  1. p. 32, line 3The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
  2. p. 420, line 25I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.

side 66

  1. p. 10, line 6The boundless blue on every side expanding,
  2. p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
  3. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  4. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  5. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
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  1. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  2. p. 47, line 5I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  3. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
  4. p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  5. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  6. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  7. p. 79, line 16By my side or back of me Eve following,
  8. p. 81, line 9From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing,
  9. p. 93, line 6We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
  10. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  11. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  12. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  13. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  14. p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
  15. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
  16. p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
  17. p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
  18. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  19. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  20. p. 202, line 13Miles walking, the sound of breaking waves the other side of me,
  21. p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
  22. p. 226, line 2Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner,
  23. p. 232, line 7But suddenly pouring about me here on every side,
  24. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  25. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  26. p. 242, line 1Of unsurpass'd heroes, (was one side so brave? the other was equally brave;)
  27. p. 242, line 23To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return,
  28. p. 243, line 14I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep,
  29. p. 248, line 3WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
  30. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  31. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  32. p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
  33. p. 259, line 25Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,
  34. p. 259, line 26And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,
  35. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
  36. p. 306, line 24The spear thrust in thy side.
  37. p. 310, line 2It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  38. p. 319, line 26On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,
  39. p. 325, line 23The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  40. p. 325, line 24The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  41. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
  42. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,
  43. p. 339, line 12I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse.
  44. p. 339, line 16From this side, lo! the Lord Christ gazes—lo! Hermes I—lo! mine is Hercules' face,
  45. p. 340, line 9Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any,
  46. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  47. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  48. p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,
  49. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
  50. p. 395, line 1Far back, related on my mother's side,
  51. p. 395, line 13Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my mother's side, far back.
  52. p. 433, line 10[…] rocks and sand, with the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd since why I was not overwhelm'd by […]

side-bars 1

  1. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

side-curved 1

  1. p. 32, line 10Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,

side-drooping 1

  1. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.

side-falling 1

  1. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,

sideling 1

  1. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,

side-round 1

  1. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,

sides 13

  1. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  2. p. 52, line 16On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
  3. p. 58, line 3My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
  4. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  5. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
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  1. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
  2. p. 235, line 19Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
  3. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  4. p. 339, line 1CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
  5. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,
  6. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,
  7. p. 377, line 14And you mountain sides, and the woods where my dear children's blood trickling redden'd,
  8. p. 408, line 21[…] waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals […]

sidewalks 3

  1. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  2. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,
  3. p. 394, line 17Thy windows rich, and huge hotels—thy side-walks wide;)

side-wall 1

  1. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,

sideways 3

  1. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
  2. p. 40, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut eyes bent sideways,
  3. p. 133, line 20Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;

sideways-darting 1

  1. p. 302, line 9Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,

sidle 1

  1. p. 78, line 7Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,

Sidney 1

  1. p. 117, line 14I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,

siege 2

  1. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
  2. p. 151, line 17The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty,

sieges 1

  1. p. 242, line 5Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

sierras 4

  1. p. 26, line 12Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
  2. p. 55, line 20I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,
  3. p. 114, line 5I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,
  4. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,

sigh 1

  1. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,

sighs 3

  1. p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
  2. p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
  3. p. 100, line 16Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs,

sight 37

  1. p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
  2. p. 80, line 12The welcome nearness, the sight of the perfect body,
  3. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  4. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
  5. p. 120, line 21To remain after me in sight forever,
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  1. p. 123, line 25Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
  2. p. 129, line 21The certainty of others, the life, love, sight, hearing of others.
  3. p. 143, line 9The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure.
  4. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
  5. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  6. p. 146, line 12My body done with materials, my sight done with my material eyes,
  7. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  8. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  9. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  10. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  11. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  12. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  13. p. 232, line 25It glitter'd in the sun in full sight of the army.
  14. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  15. p. 240, line 1A SIGHT in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
  16. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  17. p. 261, line 15While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,
  18. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,
  19. p. 292, line 1O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  20. p. 293, line 22O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  21. p. 301, line 4Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  22. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  23. p. 328, line 11Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  24. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,
  25. 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,
  26. p. 365, line 11Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave in,
  27. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  28. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:
  29. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  30. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,

sights 16

  1. p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,
  2. p. 112, line 8Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
  3. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,
  4. p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
  5. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
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  1. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  2. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  3. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,
  4. p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
  5. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  6. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  7. p. 376, line 3Or cities or silent woods, or even amid the sights of war,
  8. p. 391, line 2The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and the dead,
  9. p. 400, line 11To the sights and scenes—to forming the line of battle,
  10. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;
  11. p. 434, line 3[…] the strong flare and provocation of that war's sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate […]

sign 7

  1. p. 48, line 14I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,
  2. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
  3. p. 188, line 23Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
  4. p. 196, line 1The sign is reversing, the orb is enclosed,
  5. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  6. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  7. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,

signal 7

  1. p. 120, line 20I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal,
  2. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  3. p. 208, line 30(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)
  4. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
  5. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
  6. p. 384, line 69[…] Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening […]
  7. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,

signal'd 1 today: signaled

  1. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)

signaled see signal'd

sign'd 3 today: signed

  1. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  2. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  3. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?

signed see sign'd

significance 2

  1. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
  2. p. 436, line 26[…] of it is altogether in its relations, bearings, significance—like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy the […]

significant 4

  1. p. 250, line 9Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
  2. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  3. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  4. p. 365, line 23A flash significant as of a sword,

signifiers 1

  1. p. 115, line 26I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.

signify 2

  1. p. 202, line 22I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift,
  2. p. 326, line 26To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way;

sign-painter 1

  1. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,

sign-painting 1

  1. p. 174, line 11Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking, electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,

signs 11

  1. p. 73, line 17My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,
  2. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  3. p. 134, line 14NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
  4. p. 134, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  5. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
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  1. p. 173, line 13Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
  2. p. 190, line 21I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
  3. p. 202, line 29Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows,
  4. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)
  5. p. 324, line 25Beyond all signs, descriptions, languages;
  6. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,

silence 18

  1. p. 9, line 9As I ponder'd in silence,
  2. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
  3. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
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  1. p. 214, line 20Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
  2. p. 220, line 23(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
  3. p. 236, line 11The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
  4. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  5. p. 242, line 13But in silence, in dreams' projections,
  6. p. 243, line 23Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
  7. p. 257, line 15As I walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night,
  8. p. 261, line 1The night in silence under many a star,
  9. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
  10. p. 293, line 9While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
  11. p. 334, line 16The mound above is flatted with the spades—silence,
  12. p. 366, line 19Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,
  13. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,

silent 66

  1. p. 16, line 8Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
  2. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  3. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  4. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  5. p. 58, line 4Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,)
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  1. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
  2. p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
  3. p. 64, line 11(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)
  4. p. 94, line 19I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
  5. p. 101, line 13Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further,
  6. p. 105, line 16My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
  7. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
  8. p. 128, line 8Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.
  9. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
  10. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
  11. p. 157, line 1The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd crowd, the dangling of the rope.
  12. p. 157, line 15She is silent, she is possess'd of herself, they do not offend her,
  13. p. 159, line 5Silent the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century-baffling tombs,
  14. p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,
  15. p. 185, line 5All the hapless silent lovers,
  16. p. 188, line 14Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution?
  17. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
  18. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  19. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
  20. p. 198, line 17Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
  21. p. 216, line 3See, hear, and am silent.
  22. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,
  23. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  24. p. 220, line 23(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
  25. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  26. p. 237, line 28O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw,
  27. p. 238, line 10Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
  28. p. 240, line 7Curious I halt and silent stand,
  29. p. 244, line 9GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
  30. p. 245, line 6Keep your splendid silent sun,
  31. p. 246, line 8Immense and silent moon.
  32. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
  33. p. 269, line 23In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
  34. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  35. p. 284, line 12Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope and heir,
  36. p. 294, line 27Silent, my soul,
  37. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  38. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,
  39. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  40. p. 315, line 3I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
  41. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  42. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  43. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  44. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
  45. p. 363, line 11Or midnight's silent glowing northern lights unreachable.
  46. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  47. p. 372, line 10I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead soldiers.
  48. p. 372, line 17But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead with their silent eyes.
  49. p. 376, line 3Or cities or silent woods, or even amid the sights of war,
  50. p. 378, line 12Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,
  51. p. 387, line 22How sweet the silent backward tracings!
  52. p. 388, line 10Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
  53. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
  54. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,
  55. p. 398, line 9The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue.
  56. p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
  57. p. 411, line 9Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever:
  58. p. 418, line 7Silent, resign'd, submissive.
  59. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

silently 23

  1. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
  2. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  3. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
  4. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  5. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
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  1. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  2. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  3. p. 111, line 14O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
  4. p. 139, line 4In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the water rocking silently,
  5. p. 182, line 25Love like the light silently wrapping all,
  6. p. 206, line 9Watching, silently weeps.
  7. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
  8. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  9. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  10. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,
  11. p. 280, line 10Your memories rising glide silently by me.
  12. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  13. p. 327, line 7He rises with me silently from the bed.
  14. p. 338, line 22Mournfully slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing,
  15. p. 371, line 25And silently gather round me.
  16. p. 375, line 17How the clouds pass silently overhead!
  17. p. 407, line 11[…] sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my […]

silk 1

  1. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,

silken 1

  1. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.

silk-thread 1

  1. p. 30, line 2Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,

silk-works 1

  1. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,

silliness 2

  1. p. 38, line 20And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  2. p. 412, line 11For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?

sills 1

  1. p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,

silver 6

  1. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  2. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,
  3. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  4. p. 262, line 11O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.
  5. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,
  6. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

silver-wired 1

  1. p. 57, line 20Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,

silvery 8

  1. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  2. p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
  3. p. 246, line 6Up from the east the silvery round moon,
  4. p. 246, line 30O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
  5. p. 252, line 6Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson!
  6. p. 278, line 22The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes,
  7. p. 359, line 1Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
  8. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,