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

similar 3

  1. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all […]
  2. p. 438, line 13[…] truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But it […]

similes 1

  1. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,

similitude 2

  1. p. 207, line 12A vast similitude interlocks all,
  2. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,

similitudes 1

  1. p. 129, line 17The similitudes of the past and those of the future,

simple 14

  1. p. 9, line 1ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
  2. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  3. p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 129, line 16The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme,
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  1. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  2. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  3. p. 293, line 28Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,
  4. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,
  5. p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
  6. p. 387, line 12Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 398, line 24The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
  9. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,

simplest 1

  1. p. 42, line 17A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,

simplicity 1

  1. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,

simply 2

  1. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
  2. p. 427, line 6[…] Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of […]

sin 5

  1. p. 285, line 12Dead house of love—house of madness and sin, crumbled, crush'd,
  2. p. 292, line 25It was not I that sinn'd the sin,
  3. p. 321, line 9(Let others deprecate, let others weep for sin, remorse, humiliation,)
  4. p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
  5. p. 335, line 17The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,

since 15

  1. p. 20, line 19Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
  2. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  3. p. 95, line 8Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,
  4. p. 249, line 11Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd,
  5. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
  3. p. 392, line 28All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,
  4. p. 400, line 4I heard it in my boyhood;)—More than a generation since,
  5. p. 401, line 3Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
  6. p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
  7. p. 433, line 11[…] the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd since why I was not overwhelm'd by those mighty masters. Likely […]
  8. p. 434, line 16[…] of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely […]
  9. p. 437, line 2[…] enclosing all, and over and beneath all. Ever since what might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought […]
  10. p. 437, line 19[…] and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced […]

sinews 3

  1. p. 64, line 14My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.
  2. p. 327, line 15I descend my western course, my sinews are flaccid,
  3. p. 365, line 11Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave in,

sinewy 5

  1. p. 183, line 11We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
  2. p. 217, line 5He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
  3. p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
  4. p. 230, line 17The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
  5. p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,

sinful 2

  1. p. 264, line 20Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
  2. p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.

sing 105

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singer 12

  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. 175, line 17When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  3. p. 178, line 29The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
  4. p. 198, line 11Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears.
  5. p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
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  1. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
  2. p. 257, line 25O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,
  3. p. 259, line 10O wild and loose to my soul—O wondrous singer!
  4. p. 260, line 5And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me,
  5. p. 293, line 5The singer ceas'd,
  6. p. 293, line 21The wailing melody again, the singer in the prison sings,
  7. p. 434, line 34[…] What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of coloring? The last value of artistic […]

singers 21

  1. p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
  2. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  3. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  4. p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
  5. p. 137, line 7The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
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  1. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  2. p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
  3. p. 180, line 14Say on, sayers! sing on, singers!
  4. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  5. p. 254, line 10From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
  6. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  7. p. 254, line 14But what remains remains for singers for you—wars to come are for you,
  8. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!
  9. p. 349, line 27Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
  10. p. 355, line 24I heard what the singers were singing so long,
  11. p. 389, line 12Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
  12. p. 421, line 2After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
  13. p. 431, line 29[…] that past, of being the loftiest of the singers life has yet given voice to. All, however, relate to […]
  14. p. 438, line 20[…] circumstances ever existed so needing a race of singers and poems differing from all others, and rigidly their own […]
  15. p. 438, line 22[…] and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as […]

singest 1

  1. p. 9, line 16And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,

singing 57

  1. p. 17, line 1I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear,
  2. p. 17, line 2Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
  3. p. 17, line 3The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
  4. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
  5. p. 17, line 5The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
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  1. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
  2. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
  3. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  4. p. 17, line 11Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
  5. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  6. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  7. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  8. p. 79, line 21From my own voice resonant, singing the phallus,
  9. p. 79, line 22Singing the song of procreation,
  10. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
  11. p. 79, line 24Singing the muscular urge and the blending,
  12. p. 79, line 25Singing the bedfellow's song, (O resistless yearning!
  13. p. 80, line 3From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
  14. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
  15. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  16. p. 99, line 12THESE I singing in spring collect for lovers,
  17. p. 99, line 24Collecting, dispensing, singing, there I wander with them,
  18. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  19. p. 113, line 2I hear the workman singing and the farmer's wife singing,
  20. p. 140, line 6Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp,
  21. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  22. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  23. p. 168, line 11The century-lasting, unseen dryads, singing, withdrawing,
  24. 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,
  25. p. 197, line 29Singing all time, minding no time,
  26. p. 200, line 8And I singing uselessly, uselessly all the night.
  27. p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
  28. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  29. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  30. p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
  31. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  32. p. 311, line 14I hear the minnesingers singing their lays of love,
  33. p. 314, line 20I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,
  34. p. 315, line 18SINGING my days,
  35. p. 315, line 19Singing the great achievements of the present,
  36. p. 315, line 20Singing the strong light works of engineers,
  37. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  38. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,
  39. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  40. p. 355, line 24I heard what the singers were singing so long,
  41. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,
  42. p. 360, line 12The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon, singing through the moon-lit night,
  43. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  44. p. 395, line 17How much from thee! the revelation of the singing voice from thee!
  45. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
  46. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;
  47. p. 415, line 5Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds,

singing-girl 1

  1. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,

single 22

  1. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  2. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  3. p. 61, line 21Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  4. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  5. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
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  1. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  4. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  5. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  6. p. 237, line 14Ah now the single figure to me,
  7. p. 264, line 25Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
  8. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
  9. 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,
  10. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  11. p. 344, line 7FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
  12. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,
  13. p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,
  14. p. 381, line 1I announce that the identity of these States is a single identity only,
  15. p. 382, line 4Is there a single final farewell?
  16. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,

singled 1

  1. p. 191, line 7There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)

singly 1

  1. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,

sings 13

  1. p. 22, line 3Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
  2. p. 39, line 16The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
  3. p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
  4. p. 175, line 17When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  5. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
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  1. p. 224, line 20But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,
  2. p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
  3. p. 256, line 8Sings by himself a song.
  4. p. 293, line 21The wailing melody again, the singer in the prison sings,
  5. p. 313, line 5Awaking from her woes at last retriev'd Amina sings,
  6. p. 375, line 19How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)

singular 1

  1. p. 437, line 44[…] the galleries of old convents, came across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while […]

sink 4

  1. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  2. p. 199, line 23But soft! sink low!
  3. p. 326, line 11The restless sink in their beds, they fitfully sleep.
  4. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,

sinking 9

  1. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
  2. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  3. p. 200, line 14The aria sinking,
  4. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  5. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
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  1. p. 261, line 6Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
  2. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
  3. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  4. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?

sinks 2

  1. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  2. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,

sinn'd 2 today: sinned

  1. p. 289, line 13In exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinn'd, in life.
  2. p. 292, line 25It was not I that sinn'd the sin,

sinned see sinn'd

sins 4

  1. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  2. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  3. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  4. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;

Sioux 1

  1. p. 366, line 19Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,

sire 1

  1. p. 230, line 13THE noble sire fallen on evil days,

Sirius 2

  1. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
  2. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?

sister 8

  1. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  2. p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
  3. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  4. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  5. p. 177, line 25The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
  6. p. 287, line 7COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!
  7. p. 313, line 9Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.)

sisters 27

  1. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!
  2. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  3. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  4. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  5. 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.
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  1. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  2. p. 160, line 2And ever henceforth sisters dear be both.
  3. p. 162, line 16To you ye reverent sane sisters,
  4. p. 177, line 22Of the interminable sisters,
  5. p. 177, line 23Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
  6. p. 177, line 24Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
  7. p. 206, line 6Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
  8. p. 206, line 28Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
  9. p. 235, line 6In death, defeat, and sisters', mothers' tears.
  10. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
  11. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  12. p. 264, line 22(O Mother—O Sisters dear!
  13. p. 293, line 16The mother's voice in lullaby, the sister's care, the happy childhood,
  14. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
  15. p. 312, line 12Last miracle of all, O dearest mother's, sister's, voices;)
  16. p. 325, line 23The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  17. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  18. p. 335, line 8Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  19. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  20. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)

sit 35

  1. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
  2. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  3. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  4. p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  5. p. 45, line 8And if each and all be aware I sit content.
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  1. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  2. p. 64, line 16I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
  3. 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;
  4. p. 74, line 11Sit a while dear son,
  5. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  6. p. 101, line 15But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
  7. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  8. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  9. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  10. p. 173, line 14Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
  11. p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
  12. p. 215, line 14I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
  13. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  14. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  15. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  16. p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
  17. p. 284, line 16O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd,
  18. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,
  19. p. 301, line 8Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
  20. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  21. p. 327, line 18I sit low in a straw-bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
  22. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,
  23. p. 344, line 12I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,
  24. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
  25. p. 376, line 18I sit by the form in the coffin,
  26. p. 384, line 9[…] Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year […]
  27. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
  28. p. 401, line 1Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
  29. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  30. p. 425, line 10So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and […]

site 1

  1. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,

Sitka 1

  1. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)

sits 7

  1. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
  2. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  3. p. 177, line 28Sits she whom I too love like the rest, sits undisturb'd,
  4. p. 177, line 30Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,
  5. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
  6. p. 355, line 28She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

sittest 1

  1. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,

sitting 9

  1. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
  2. p. 106, line 19THIS moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone,
  3. p. 139, line 4In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the water rocking silently,
  4. p. 204, line 11You up there walking or sitting,
  5. p. 214, line 16When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
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  1. p. 216, line 2All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
  2. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  3. p. 367, line 1As sitting in dark days,
  4. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,

situations 2

  1. p. 404, line 6So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan,
  2. p. 429, line 41[…] too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and all the conventional technique […]

six 5

  1. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
  2. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  5. p. 413, line 33[…] In the grand constellation of five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages […]

sixteen 1

  1. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,

sixteenth 1

  1. p. 432, line 27[…] serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one […]

sixty 1

  1. p. 429, line 15[…] these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with their lives, their passions […]

sixty-five 2

  1. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  2. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.

sixty-nine 2

  1. p. 384, line 6[…] Point, 385 To Those Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit […]
  2. p. 386, line 1A carol closing sixty-nine—a résumé—a repetition,

size 1

  1. p. 45, line 23I show that size is only development.

skald 2

  1. p. 192, line 2With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
  2. p. 192, line 13We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and more,

skalds 1

  1. p. 415, line 4The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds,

skein 1

  1. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,

skeletons 4

  1. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  2. p. 272, line 5The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons,
  3. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
  4. p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,

skeptic 1

  1. p. 50, line 29With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

sketches 2

  1. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  2. 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,

skies 10

  1. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  2. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  3. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  4. p. 308, line 4O fair auroral skies—O morning dew upon the grass!
  5. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
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  1. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  2. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  3. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  4. p. 387, line 4Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?
  5. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

skiff 1

  1. 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,

skiffs 1

  1. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.

skin 4

  1. p. 60, line 5I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the ooze of my skin,
  2. p. 72, line 15Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin,
  3. p. 83, line 7He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
  4. p. 87, line 27The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,

skins 1

  1. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,

skip 2

  1. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  2. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!

skipper 1

  1. 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,

skipping 3

  1. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 148, line 24Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.

skirmish 1

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

skirmishers 2

  1. p. 236, line 1WITH its cloud of skirmishers in advance,
  2. p. 248, line 8The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hear the irregular snap! snap!

skirt 1

  1. p. 55, line 20I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,

skirting 1

  1. p. 216, line 9SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)

skirts 1

  1. p. 232, line 10Over hills, across lowlands, and in the skirts of woods,

skulk 4

  1. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  2. 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,
  3. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)

skulking 1

  1. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,

skull 3

  1. p. 211, line 8Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
  2. p. 331, line 14The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood waits,

skull-bones 1

  1. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,

skull-cup 1

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

skull-frame 1

  1. p. 87, line 19The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,

sky 60

  1. p. 10, line 15The sky o'erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
  2. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  3. p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
  4. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  5. p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
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  1. p. 54, line 15In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  2. p. 69, line 14The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way?
  3. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  4. p. 130, line 18Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
  5. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  6. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  7. p. 160, line 25Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,
  8. p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  9. p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,
  10. p. 178, line 7From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,
  11. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  12. p. 181, line 15For it the entire star-myriads roll through the sky.
  13. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
  14. p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
  15. p. 204, line 29And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,)
  16. p. 205, line 28Watching the east, the autumn sky.
  17. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  18. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  19. p. 224, line 3Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
  20. p. 224, line 5Nothing my babe you see in the sky,
  21. p. 224, line 29It is so broad it covers the whole sky.
  22. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
  23. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  24. p. 235, line 23And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
  25. p. 237, line 1Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
  26. p. 246, line 25In the eastern sky up-buoying,
  27. p. 250, line 20WORD over all, beautiful as the sky,
  28. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
  29. 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,)
  30. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  31. p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
  32. p. 263, line 21Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.
  33. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
  34. p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,
  35. p. 296, line 14This glaze of God's serenest purest sky,
  36. p. 301, line 4Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  37. p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
  38. p. 317, line 24Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach'd sky.
  39. p. 322, line 26O secret of the earth and sky!
  40. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
  41. p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
  42. p. 348, line 26Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western sky,
  43. p. 350, line 17Set in the sky of Law.)
  44. p. 355, line 27She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  45. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,
  46. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,
  47. p. 374, line 26Illustrious the passing light—illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky,
  48. p. 385, line 10Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)
  49. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
  50. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  51. p. 414, line 10I feel the sky, the prairies vast—I feel the mighty northern lakes,
  52. p. 415, line 21The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
  53. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
  54. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,

sky-clouds 1

  1. p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,

sky-edge 1

  1. p. 420, line 15Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,

sky's 1

  1. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,

sky-sails 1

  1. p. 36, line 6The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,

skyward 2

  1. p. 216, line 10Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
  2. p. 338, line 21I see, just see skyward, great cloud-masses,

slabs 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,

slack 2

  1. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;
  2. p. 361, line 18O ME, man of slack faith so long,

slack-tow'd 1

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

slag 2

  1. p. 181, line 5Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
  2. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

slain 5

  1. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  2. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  3. p. 261, line 25I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,
  4. p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
  5. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,

slander 1

  1. p. 320, line 23Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?

slanted 1

  1. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,

slanting 5

  1. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  2. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  3. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  4. p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
  5. p. 309, line 18Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,

slantingly 2

  1. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
  2. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,

slapping 5

  1. p. 198, line 10Down almost amid the slapping waves,
  2. p. 284, line 3The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
  3. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  4. p. 351, line 25The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
  5. p. 401, line 8I hear the slapping waves, the restless keel, the rocking in the sand,

slaughter 5

  1. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  2. p. 226, line 27With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
  3. p. 233, line 16It sickens me yet, that slaughter!
  4. p. 253, line 23Red battles with their slaughter, the stimulus, the strong terrific game,
  5. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

slaughter'd 3 today: slaughtered

  1. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  2. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
  3. p. 366, line 24In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses for breastworks,

slaughtered see slaughter'd

slaughter-house 3

  1. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
  2. p. 167, line 12Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter-house,
  3. p. 174, line 15Beef on the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes,

slave 10

  1. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
  2. p. 43, line 22The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;
  3. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  4. p. 60, line 3I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs,
  5. p. 147, line 18O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
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  1. p. 152, line 23Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases,
  2. p. 204, line 29And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,)
  3. p. 332, line 4The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave,
  4. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,

slave-coffle 1

  1. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,

slave-makers 1

  1. p. 118, line 9The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,

slave-mart 1

  1. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)

slaver 1

  1. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.

slavery 3

  1. p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
  2. p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,
  3. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,

slaves 12

  1. p. 48, line 17Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
  2. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  3. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  4. p. 152, line 23Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases,
  5. p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
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  1. p. 185, line 3All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
  2. p. 192, line 3With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,
  3. p. 211, line 12SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  4. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  5. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.
  6. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
  7. p. 340, line 2Comrade of criminals, brother of slaves,

Slavic 1

  1. p. 118, line 19You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!

sledge 1

  1. p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,

sledges 1

  1. p. 164, line 7Behold thy sturdy blacksmiths swinging their sledges,

sleekest 1

  1. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.

sleep 53

  1. p. 28, line 6These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise,
  2. p. 39, line 10I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  3. p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
  4. p. 41, line 23The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time,
  5. p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
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  1. p. 66, line 26Sleep—I and they keep guard all night,
  2. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  3. p. 77, line 23I sleep—I sleep long.
  4. p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
  5. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
  6. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  7. p. 95, line 13Walking forth from the bower refresh'd with sleep,
  8. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
  9. p. 100, line 26Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
  10. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  11. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  12. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  13. p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  14. p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
  15. p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
  16. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  17. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
  18. p. 248, line 6There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me;
  19. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  20. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  21. p. 306, line 20In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep,
  22. p. 323, line 21I cannot rest O God, I cannot eat or drink or sleep,
  23. p. 324, line 10A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep,
  24. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  25. p. 325, line 23The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  26. p. 325, line 24The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  27. p. 326, line 1The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
  28. p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
  29. p. 326, line 4And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?
  30. p. 326, line 8And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.
  31. p. 326, line 11The restless sink in their beds, they fitfully sleep.
  32. p. 326, line 15I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers each in turn,
  33. p. 330, line 27The night and sleep have liken'd them and restored them.
  34. 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,
  35. p. 344, line 24The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets;
  36. p. 367, line 15IN midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
  37. p. 369, line 25Night, sleep, death and the stars.
  38. p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
  39. p. 375, line 11To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh!
  40. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  41. p. 378, line 9Till night and sleep pass over?)
  42. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
  43. p. 390, line 18Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,
  44. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!

sleepers 11

  1. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  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. 156, line 4Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,
  4. p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
  5. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
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  1. p. 315, line 28The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
  2. p. 325, line 14Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,
  3. p. 326, line 15I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers each in turn,
  4. p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
  5. p. 331, line 18The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,

sleepily 1

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

sleeping 14

  1. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
  2. p. 103, line 9For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
  3. p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
  4. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  5. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
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  1. p. 132, line 16Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping,
  2. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  3. p. 217, line 10I SEE the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother,
  4. p. 217, line 11The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.
  5. p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
  6. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  7. p. 378, line 12Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,
  8. p. 421, line 22Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;

sleepless 5

  1. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  2. p. 219, line 19Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
  3. p. 240, line 2As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
  4. p. 327, line 19It is I too, the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  5. p. 418, line 20Thou! thou! the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm,

sleeps 16

  1. 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,
  2. p. 35, line 1The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  3. p. 41, line 22The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
  4. p. 41, line 24The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  5. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
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  1. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  2. p. 217, line 17Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
  3. p. 325, line 25And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt.
  4. p. 326, line 2The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
  5. p. 326, line 5The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  6. p. 326, line 6And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
  7. p. 326, line 7The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
  8. p. 331, line 2Every one that sleeps is beautiful, every thing in the dim light is beautiful,

sleepy 1

  1. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.

sleeves 2

  1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,
  2. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,

sleigh-bells 1

  1. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,

sleigh-driver 1

  1. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,

slender 12

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  2. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  3. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
  4. p. 144, line 14My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope,
  5. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
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  1. p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
  2. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  3. p. 278, line 18The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees,
  4. p. 317, line 14Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,
  5. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;
  6. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  7. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;

slept 5

  1. p. 71, line 23I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
  2. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  3. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  4. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  5. p. 422, line 12Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended into one;

slide 1

  1. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,

slides 1

  1. p. 54, line 16In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,

sliding 3

  1. p. 52, line 22Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
  2. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  3. p. 394, line 18Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!

slight 3

  1. p. 63, line 22Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  2. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  3. p. 407, line 31[…] palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions […]

slight-built 1

  1. p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,

slighted 3

  1. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  2. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  3. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.

slights 2

  1. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
  2. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;

slime 2

  1. p. 418, line 10E'en as I chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime,
  2. p. 419, line 25Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons,

slimy 1

  1. p. 56, line 22Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;

slings 1

  1. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

slip 1

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

slip-noose 1

  1. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

slipper 1

  1. p. 185, line 30Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,

slivers 2

  1. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
  2. p. 386, line 17Within the pallid slivers slumbering.

slobbering 1

  1. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

sloop 2

  1. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  2. p. 409, line 3O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,

sloops 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,

slope 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 418, line 29On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-garden,

slopes 5

  1. 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,
  2. p. 232, line 8And below there where the boys were drilling, and up the slopes they ran,
  3. p. 232, line 20I mark the vista of waters, I mark the uplands and slopes;
  4. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  5. p. 317, line 25Along all history, down the slopes,

sloping 1

  1. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,

slouch 1

  1. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,

slough 2

slough 1 · sluff 1

  1. p. 35, line 7The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders,
  2. p. 243, line 10I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,

sloven 1

  1. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.

slow 18

  1. p. 37, line 25Overhand the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure,
  2. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
  3. p. 72, line 7The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
  4. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  5. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
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  1. p. 104, line 20O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,
  2. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  3. p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;
  4. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  5. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  6. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  7. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  8. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
  9. p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
  10. p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  11. p. 336, line 15Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  12. p. 358, line 14Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future,
  13. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,

slow-drawn 1

  1. p. 35, line 21The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,

slower 1

  1. p. 422, line 7The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,

slow-firm 1

  1. p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,

slowly 17

  1. p. 38, line 14They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  2. p. 41, line 1The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute-hand of the clock moves slowly,
  3. p. 61, line 2The ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip,
  4. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  5. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
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  1. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  2. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  3. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
  4. p. 209, line 2Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
  5. p. 257, line 2Here, coffin that slowly passes,
  6. p. 266, line 3Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne from the house,
  7. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  8. p. 338, line 22Mournfully slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing,
  9. p. 397, line 5"Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering,
  10. p. 417, line 2He slowly rais'd himself from the bed on the floor,
  11. p. 421, line 25Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,

slow-moving 1

  1. p. 334, line 5Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth—they never cease—they are the burial lines,

slow-stepping 1

  1. p. 65, line 19Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,

slow-wheeling 1

  1. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,

slues 1

  1. p. 68, line 9My head slues round on my neck,

sluggish 6

  1. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
  2. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
  3. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
  4. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
  5. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,
  6. p. 403, line 2On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,

slugs 1

  1. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,

sluing 1

  1. p. 38, line 8In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing,

slumber 1

  1. p. 79, line 10Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,

slumber-chamber 3

  1. p. 310, line 25Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?
  2. p. 310, line 28Parting the midnight, entering my slumber-chamber,
  3. p. 315, line 3I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,

slumber'd 1 today: slumbered

  1. p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,

slumbered see slumber'd

slumberers 1

  1. p. 378, line 21The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People,

slumbering 7

  1. p. 46, line 5Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  2. p. 112, line 14Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
  3. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  4. p. 248, line 3WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
  5. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  6. p. 355, line 5These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
  7. p. 386, line 17Within the pallid slivers slumbering.

slumbers 1

  1. p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,

slush 2

  1. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  2. p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,

sly 3

  1. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  2. p. 132, line 8Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant,
  3. p. 156, line 23The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,

small 32

  1. p. 12, line 27The whole or large or small summ'd, added up,
  2. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  3. 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!)
  4. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  5. p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
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  1. p. 84, line 9This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
  2. p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
  3. p. 130, line 28The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,
  4. p. 132, line 19Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
  5. p. 133, line 17Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!
  6. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  7. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  8. p. 151, line 7The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,
  9. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  10. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  11. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  12. p. 207, line 13All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
  13. p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
  14. p. 246, line 14And the small drums steady whirring,
  15. p. 247, line 25His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works,
  16. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  17. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)
  18. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
  19. 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,
  20. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  21. p. 384, line 46[…] The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States […]
  22. p. 389, line 6Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman
  23. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  24. 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.
  25. p. 407, line 18[…] in my den—by putting in shape this small old age collation […]
  26. p. 426, line 8[…] best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to […]

smaller 2

  1. p. 71, line 11I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  2. p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,

smallest 3

  1. p. 34, line 5The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  2. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  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,

small-pox 1

  1. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,

smartly 2

  1. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
  2. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)

smarts 1

  1. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)

smear'd 1 today: smeared

  1. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

smeared see smear'd

smell 12

  1. p. 77, line 7I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,
  2. p. 80, line 8Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,
  3. p. 90, line 11The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birchbark,
  4. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  5. p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
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  1. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  2. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  3. p. 236, line 24(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
  4. p. 236, line 25Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
  5. p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,
  6. p. 239, line 20These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,

smelling 1

  1. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,

smells 2

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

smile 10

  1. p. 46, line 4Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
  2. p. 46, line 11Smile, for your lover comes.
  3. p. 145, line 6To behold his calmness—to be warm'd in the rays of his smile!
  4. p. 221, line 12But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
  5. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
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  1. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  2. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,
  3. p. 393, line 17Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated amid her ruins;
  4. p. 411, line 9Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever:
  5. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!

smiled 2

  1. p. 34, line 22For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  2. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,

smiles 4

  1. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  2. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  3. p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
  4. p. 231, line 27The troops are but drilling, they are yet surrounded with smiles,

smilest 1

  1. p. 322, line 2Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,

smiling 4

  1. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
  2. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  3. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  4. p. 392, line 6Thy ample, smiling face, dash'd with the sparkling dimples of the sun,

smiting 1

  1. p. 357, line 5I hear the shouts, the sounds of blows and smiting steel;

smitten 2

  1. p. 306, line 7Dim smitten star,
  2. p. 306, line 26Bear up O smitten orb! O ship continue on!

smoke 25

  1. p. 30, line 1The smoke of my own breath,
  2. p. 56, line 19Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
  3. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  4. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  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. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  2. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  3. p. 163, line 32See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.
  4. p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,
  5. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  6. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  7. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
  8. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  9. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;
  10. p. 252, line 3Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
  11. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  12. p. 261, line 19Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them,
  13. p. 261, line 20And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,
  14. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,
  15. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  16. p. 294, line 2The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,
  17. p. 355, line 20Lull'd and late is the smoke of the First-day morning,
  18. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
  19. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  20. p. 400, line 16The perfume strong, the smoke, the deafening noise;

smoke-stack 1

  1. p. 359, line 6The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack,

smoking 4

  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. 117, line 25I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,
  3. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  4. p. 248, line 13The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces,

smooth 3

  1. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  2. p. 126, line 4I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
  3. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

smoother 1

  1. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,

smoothly 1

  1. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,

smother'd 1 today: smothered

  1. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!

smothered see smother'd

smouldering 1

  1. p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,

smoulders 1

  1. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,

smut 1

  1. p. 93, line 10We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,

smutch'd 2 today: smutched

  1. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  2. p. 299, line 4Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch'd and choked,

smutched see smutch'd

smutty 2

  1. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
  2. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,

snag-tooth'd 1

  1. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,

snake 5

  1. p. 54, line 16In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
  2. p. 132, line 9The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,
  3. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  4. p. 228, line 7O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
  5. p. 230, line 2One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me,

snakes 2

  1. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  2. p. 353, line 21Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

snap 2

  1. p. 248, line 8The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hear the irregular snap! snap!

snapping 2

  1. p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
  2. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,

sneaking 1

  1. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,

sniff 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,

sniffing 1

  1. p. 353, line 20This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage,

sniffs 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,

snivel 2

  1. p. 44, line 13I do not snivel that snivel the world over,

snout 1

  1. p. 353, line 20This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage,

snow 13

  1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  2. p. 27, line 3Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
  3. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
  4. p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
  5. p. 117, line 5I see the regions of snow and ice,
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  1. p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
  2. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  3. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
  4. p. 294, line 9The melted snow of March, the willow sending forth its yellow-green sprouts,
  5. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  6. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,
  7. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
  8. p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,

snow-balls 1

  1. p. 35, line 9The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,

snow-cover'd 1

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

snow-flakes 2

  1. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  2. p. 391, line 20The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,

snows 7

  1. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
  2. p. 166, line 22And the white snows and night and the wild winds;
  3. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  4. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,
  5. p. 278, line 21The scenery of the snows, the winds' free orchestra,
  6. p. 322, line 30O morning red! O clouds! O rain and snows!
  7. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,

snow-shoes 1

  1. p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

snow-sleighs 1

  1. p. 35, line 9The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,

snow-white 1

  1. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)

snowy 7

  1. 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,
  2. p. 158, line 14Placard " Removed " and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus,
  3. p. 203, line 27Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
  4. p. 235, line 15Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
  5. p. 385, line 12The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,
  6. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,
  7. p. 415, line 30Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.

snuff 1

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

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soar 4

  1. p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
  2. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
  3. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  4. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,

soaring 2

  1. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,
  2. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,

sob 3

  1. p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
  2. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  3. p. 390, line 4Many a muffled confession—many a sob and whisper'd word,

sobbing 4

  1. p. 68, line 17Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  2. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  3. p. 204, line 20Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;
  4. p. 378, line 20THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,

sobs 4

  1. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  2. p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
  3. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
  4. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,

social 2

  1. p. 300, line 11It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
  2. p. 431, line 6[…] the best parts of current character in nations, social groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or […]

societies 1

  1. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,

society 5

  1. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?
  2. p. 169, line 5The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,
  3. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,
  4. p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
  5. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,

sociologies 1

  1. p. 431, line 30[…] relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from the […]

socket 1

  1. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;

Socrates 3

  1. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
  2. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  3. p. 102, line 5Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,

sod 1

  1. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,

soft 19

  1. p. 35, line 25I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other,
  2. p. 46, line 18Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse,
  3. p. 47, line 6Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  4. p. 72, line 20Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,
  5. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
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  1. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  2. p. 90, line 7Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
  3. p. 199, line 23But soft! sink low!
  4. p. 199, line 24Soft! let me just murmur,
  5. p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,
  6. p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
  7. p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
  8. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  9. p. 309, line 8THROUGH the soft evening air enwinding all,
  10. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,
  11. p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
  12. p. 401, line 20The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
  13. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  14. p. 426, line 5[…] choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools […]

soft-born 1

  1. p. 258, line 25The gentle soft-born measureless light,

soft-breath'd 1

  1. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,

soft-falling 1

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

softly 6

  1. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  2. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
  3. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  4. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  5. p. 314, line 28Then I woke softly,
  6. p. 344, line 10Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,

softness 4

  1. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  2. p. 346, line 6With the key of softness unlock the locks—with a whisper,
  3. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  4. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise

soft-tickling 1

  1. p. 49, line 20Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!

soggy 1

  1. p. 53, line 20I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,

soil 24

  1. p. 19, line 13Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.
  2. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  3. p. 29, line 11My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
  4. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  5. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
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  1. p. 176, line 10Air, soil, water, fire—those are words,
  2. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  3. p. 183, line 31We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
  4. p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
  5. p. 214, line 4Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
  6. p. 250, line 2Race of the soil, ready for conflict—race of the conquering march!
  7. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  8. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
  9. p. 272, line 9Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make but the soil of literature,
  10. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  11. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  12. p. 350, line 19Thy soil, thy very subsoil, all upheav'd,
  13. p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,
  14. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
  15. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  16. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  17. p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
  18. p. 403, line 11Or "Beat! Beat! Drums!" or "To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod,"
  19. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

soil'd 3 today: soiled

  1. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  2. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;

soiled see soil'd

soils 2

  1. p. 13, line 6Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
  2. p. 112, line 12What waves and soils exuding?

soiree 2

  1. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  2. p. 355, line 23I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

sojourning 1

  1. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,

solace 1

  1. p. 437, line 38[…] from elsewhere—lives on its own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]

sold 2

  1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
  2. p. 306, line 12Star crucified—by traitors sold,

solder'd 1 today: soldered

  1. p. 429, line 15[…] the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with their […]

soldered see solder'd

soldier 18

  1. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
  2. p. 75, line 24The soldier camp'd or upon the march is mine,
  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. 145, line 4O to resume the joys of the soldier!
  5. p. 212, line 5Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.
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  1. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  2. p. 238, line 25I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
  3. 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,)
  4. p. 240, line 18I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
  5. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  6. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,
  7. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  8. p. 253, line 19ADIEU O soldier,
  9. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  10. p. 364, line 11It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory.
  11. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  12. p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
  13. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,

soldiering 1

  1. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,

soldiers 48

  1. p. 9, line 19The making of perfect soldiers.
  2. p. 10, line 4I above all promote brave soldiers.
  3. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,
  4. p. 126, line 20Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,
  5. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
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  1. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  2. p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
  3. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  4. p. 232, line 28And the transports swarming with soldiers.
  5. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  6. p. 241, line 2Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave, comes the inscription rude in Virginia's woods,
  7. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  8. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  9. p. 244, line 3Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
  10. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
  11. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  12. p. 246, line 31O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
  13. p. 246, line 35And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
  14. p. 261, line 25I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,
  15. p. 263, line 16And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
  16. p. 263, line 26For the heavy hearts of soldiers.
  17. p. 276, line 17Yet bards of latent armies, a million soldiers waiting ever-ready,
  18. p. 279, line 14Nor the measur'd march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps,
  19. p. 280, line 17No holiday soldiers—youthful, yet veterans,
  20. p. 280, line 28Melt, melt away ye armies—disperse ye blue-clad soldiers,
  21. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
  22. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
  23. p. 329, line 5He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers all pass through,
  24. p. 367, line 13Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers,
  25. p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
  26. p. 371, line 16ASHES of soldiers South or North,
  27. p. 372, line 10I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead soldiers.
  28. p. 372, line 22Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers,
  29. p. 372, line 29For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
  30. p. 377, line 4And little souvenirs of camps and soldiers, with my love,
  31. p. 378, line 15And of each of us O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fought,
  32. p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
  33. p. 384, line 7[…] Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My […]
  34. p. 385, line 15To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
  35. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;
  36. p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
  37. p. 398, line 23Thanks—joyful thanks!—a soldier's, traveler's thanks.
  38. p. 399, line 24Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South,
  39. p. 403, line 17Of life or death, or soldier's wound, of country's loss or safety,
  40. p. 413, line 36[…] One consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice […]
  41. p. 416, line 2Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,
  42. p. 425, line 5[…] true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of […]

sole 2

  1. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  2. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,

solely 5

  1. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  2. p. 340, line 14Beyond Paradise, perfumed solely with mine own perfume,
  3. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.
  4. p. 426, line 2[…] from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it I have been the object of two […]
  5. p. 427, line 12[…] sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy […]

solemn 22

  1. p. 75, line 26On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
  2. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  3. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
  4. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  5. p. 222, line 6Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
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  1. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  2. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  3. p. 251, line 4HOW solemn as one by one,
  4. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  5. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  6. p. 256, line 26With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
  7. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  8. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  9. p. 311, line 25The solemn hymns and masses rousing adoration,
  10. p. 323, line 28Thou knowest my manhood's solemn and visionary meditations,
  11. p. 325, line 17How solemn they look there, stretch'd and still,
  12. p. 338, line 25(Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth;
  13. p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
  14. p. 374, line 2Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind;
  15. p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
  16. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,
  17. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)

solemn-sweet 1

  1. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,

solid 24

  1. p. 12, line 19We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
  2. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  3. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
  4. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  5. p. 44, line 22I know I am solid and sound,
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  1. p. 51, line 12The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
  2. p. 69, line 11The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  3. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  4. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  5. p. 139, line 9On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,
  6. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  7. p. 155, line 8The solid forest gives fluid utterances,
  8. p. 178, line 22Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
  9. p. 277, line 17Overtures sent to the solid out of the liquid,
  10. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,
  11. p. 340, line 19Here the square finishing, the solid, I the most solid,
  12. p. 369, line 13But I too announce solid things,
  13. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
  14. p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
  15. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)
  16. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,
  17. p. 419, line 19The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
  18. p. 425, line 34[…] contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S […]

solidarity 1

  1. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,

solid-founded 1

  1. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,

solidification 1

  1. p. 149, line 27The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;

solidifying 1

  1. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)

solid-planted 1

  1. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.

solid-wall'd 1

  1. p. 225, line 4But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.

solitary 16

  1. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  2. p. 58, line 11Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  3. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  4. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  5. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
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  1. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  2. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  3. p. 198, line 4The solitary guest from Alabama.
  4. p. 199, line 18Solitary here, the night's carols!
  5. p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
  6. p. 201, line 2O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,
  7. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  8. p. 256, line 6Solitary the thrush,
  9. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  10. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  11. p. 394, line 2I'll mind the lesson, solitary bird—let me too welcome chilling drifts,

solitude 4

  1. p. 204, line 14In the night, in solitude, tears,
  2. p. 244, line 19Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
  3. p. 310, line 7A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
  4. p. 362, line 21Indifferently, 'mid public, private haunts, in solitude,

solution 2

  1. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
  2. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!

solv'd 1 today: solved

  1. p. 320, line 2Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,

solve 2

  1. p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
  2. p. 372, line 26O love, solve all, fructify all with the last chemistry.

solved see solv'd

solvent 2

  1. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  2. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,

solving 1

  1. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)

Solway 1

  1. p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,

sombre 1

  1. p. 256, line 25With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,

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somebody 3

  1. p. 25, line 8Was somebody asking to see the soul?
  2. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,

somehow 4

  1. p. 64, line 18Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!
  2. p. 411, line 1SOMEHOW I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
  3. p. 411, line 36[…] at that time populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect of the hour was […]
  4. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;

something 68

  1. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  2. p. 15, line 5How there is something relentless in their fate all times,
  3. p. 23, line 6But there is something else very great, it makes the whole coincide,
  4. p. 29, line 2O something ecstatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
  5. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
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  1. p. 50, line 3Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
  2. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  3. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  4. p. 77, line 26Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  5. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  6. p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
  7. p. 92, line 3O something unprov'd! something in a trance!
  8. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  9. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  10. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  11. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  12. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  13. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  14. p. 123, line 25Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
  15. p. 127, line 23But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
  16. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  17. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.
  18. p. 144, line 20(O something pernicious and dread!
  19. p. 144, line 21Something far away from a puny and pious life!
  20. p. 144, line 22Something unproved! something in a trance!
  21. p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)
  22. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  23. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  24. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,
  25. p. 171, line 6There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
  26. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
  27. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  28. p. 171, line 20And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  29. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  30. p. 206, line 21Something there is,
  31. p. 206, line 24Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
  32. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,
  33. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  34. p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
  35. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  36. p. 229, line 16Lo! from deeps more unfathomable, something more deadly and savage,
  37. p. 234, line 19I saw something different from capitulation.
  38. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  39. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  40. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  41. p. 271, line 17Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
  42. p. 285, line 15SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,
  43. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  44. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  45. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  46. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
  47. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!
  48. p. 375, line 21(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
  49. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,
  50. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,
  51. p. 412, line 18(Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,)
  52. p. 414, line 1AH, whispering, something again, unseen,
  53. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  54. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,
  55. p. 422, line 15May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
  56. p. 429, line 2[…] sound at first, I will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes […]
  57. p. 429, line 9[…] of Grass," before a line was written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the […]
  58. p. 434, line 39[…] not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or […]
  59. p. 435, line 28[…] all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by […]
  60. p. 435, line 30[…] exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and […]

sometimes 9

  1. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  2. p. 131, line 19In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me,
  3. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  4. p. 395, line 7(Sometimes, indeed, through half the day,)
  5. p. 410, line 22(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,
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  1. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,
  2. p. 420, line 28Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face.
  3. p. 429, line 29[…] lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first […]
  4. p. 432, line 33[…] summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the country […]

someway 1

  1. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?

somewhere 12

  1. p. 34, line 4They are alive and well somewhere,
  2. p. 79, line 6I stop somewhere waiting for you.
  3. p. 106, line 11I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
  4. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,
  5. p. 199, line 16Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
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  1. p. 199, line 26For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
  2. p. 201, line 9O give me the clew! (it lurks in the night here somewhere,)
  3. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  4. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
  5. p. 384, line 45[…] Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United […]
  6. p. 397, line 8"All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere."
  7. p. 408, line 5[…] spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a […]

son 39

  1. p. 23, line 3Dear son do you think it is love?
  2. p. 23, line 4Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son,
  3. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
  4. p. 48, line 5Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
  5. p. 67, line 7Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
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  1. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  2. p. 74, line 11Sit a while dear son,
  3. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  4. p. 118, line 18You daughter or son of England!
  5. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  6. p. 157, line 6The door whence the son left home confident and puff'd up,
  7. p. 160, line 9(Would the son separate himself from the father?)
  8. p. 170, line 22The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
  9. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  10. p. 220, line 18The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother,
  11. p. 230, line 17The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
  12. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
  13. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  14. p. 237, line 23The only son is dead.
  15. p. 237, line 29To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
  16. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  17. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  18. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  19. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
  20. p. 246, line 17For the son is brought with the father,
  21. p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
  22. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  23. p. 284, line 18It was an illusion, the son you love was not really dead,
  24. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  25. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  26. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  27. p. 326, line 2The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
  28. p. 331, line 23The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  29. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  30. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,

song 100

  1. p. 10, line 28This song for mariners and all their ships.
  2. p. 17, line 7The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
  3. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  4. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  5. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
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  1. p. 21, line 14And a song make I of the One form'd out of all,
  2. p. 21, line 22I will sing the song of companionship,
  3. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  4. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  5. p. 42, line 2And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
  6. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
  7. p. 61, line 18Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
  8. p. 69, line 8Not words of routine this song of mine,
  9. 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,
  10. p. 79, line 22Singing the song of procreation,
  11. p. 79, line 25Singing the bedfellow's song, (O resistless yearning!
  12. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
  13. p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
  14. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  15. p. 142, line 10O TO make the most jubilant song!
  16. p. 142, line 14O for the dropping of raindrops in a song!
  17. p. 142, line 15O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song!
  18. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  19. p. 165, line 22A CALIFORNIA song,
  20. p. 169, line 12A SONG for occupations!
  21. p. 176, line 1A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according,
  22. p. 178, line 29The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
  23. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  24. p. 181, line 2Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
  25. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
  26. p. 191, line 1I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
  27. p. 193, line 15But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad.
  28. p. 201, line 26But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
  29. p. 201, line 31The word of the sweetest song and all songs,
  30. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  31. p. 223, line 8And then the song of each member of these States.
  32. p. 223, line 9O A new song, a free song,
  33. p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
  34. p. 226, line 17This song to the soul of one poor little child.
  35. p. 231, line 14War, red war is my song through your streets, O city!
  36. p. 252, line 7Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
  37. p. 256, line 5A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
  38. p. 256, line 8Sings by himself a song.
  39. p. 256, line 9Song of the bleeding throat,
  40. p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
  41. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  42. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  43. p. 259, line 7Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
  44. p. 259, line 8Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.
  45. p. 260, line 13And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
  46. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  47. p. 261, line 5Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
  48. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
  49. p. 262, line 2Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,
  50. p. 262, line 9I cease from my song for thee,
  51. p. 262, line 13The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird,
  52. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  53. p. 274, line 13Underneath all to me is myself, to you yourself, (the same monotonous old song.)
  54. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
  55. p. 278, line 12A song to narrate thee.
  56. p. 282, line 22And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
  57. p. 309, line 6From these your future song may rise with joyous trills,
  58. p. 311, line 1A festival song,
  59. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,
  60. p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
  61. p. 313, line 4Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.
  62. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,
  63. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  64. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,
  65. p. 358, line 16O glad, exulting, culminating song!
  66. p. 362, line 20Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
  67. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  68. p. 391, line 11The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.
  69. p. 396, line 11A song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge,
  70. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)
  71. p. 399, line 9(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
  72. p. 403, line 10Or "Paumanok, " "Song of Myself," "Calamus," or "Adam,"
  73. p. 403, line 16Each song of mine—each utterance in the past—having its long, long history,
  74. p. 406, line 25[…] Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death […]
  75. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;
  76. p. 412, line 17In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text,
  77. p. 414, line 17AN ancient song, reciting, ending,
  78. p. 416, line 15Embalm'd with love in this twilight song.
  79. p. 420, line 19Haughty this song, its words and scope,
  80. p. 425, line 30[…] dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point […]
  81. p. 427, line 23[…] or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend […]
  82. p. 429, line 4[…] those themes for the best elements of modern song […]
  83. p. 429, line 27In estimating first-class song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand, what may […]
  84. p. 430, line 31[…] Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and […]
  85. p. 430, line 42[…] forward, or a new verteber of the best song indispensable […]
  86. p. 431, line 33[…] all in the Western. As authoritative types of song they belong in America just about as much as the […]
  87. p. 434, line 4[…] the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]
  88. p. 434, line 33[…] Up to how recent a date is the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer […]
  89. p. 435, line 23[…] dead level. While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation […]
  90. p. 436, line 14[…] of view "Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that […]
  91. p. 438, line 25[…] the Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their […]

songs 91

  1. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  2. p. 14, line 9Thy very songs not in thy songs,
  3. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  4. p. 15, line 12(Ay through the world, urged by these songs,
  5. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
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  1. p. 17, line 11Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
  2. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  5. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
  6. p. 88, line 10Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
  7. p. 92, line 28I, chanter of Adamic songs,
  8. p. 92, line 31Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,
  9. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  10. p. 99, line 11For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
  11. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  12. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  13. p. 109, line 18I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.
  14. p. 110, line 17Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
  15. p. 111, line 20But among my lovers and caroling these songs,
  16. p. 113, line 7I hear fierce French liberty songs,
  17. p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
  18. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  19. p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
  20. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
  21. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  22. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  23. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  24. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  25. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
  26. p. 200, line 9O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
  27. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  28. p. 201, line 28With the thousand responsive songs at random,
  29. p. 201, line 29My own songs awaked from that hour,
  30. p. 201, line 31The word of the sweetest song and all songs,
  31. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
  32. p. 219, line 7FIRST O songs for a prelude,
  33. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  34. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  35. p. 223, line 2To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)
  36. p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
  37. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  38. p. 249, line 27Composed these songs.
  39. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  40. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
  41. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  42. p. 270, line 11Songs of stern defiance ever ready,
  43. p. 270, line 12Songs of the rapid arming and the march,
  44. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  45. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  46. p. 276, line 18Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!
  47. p. 277, line 5Songs of continued years I sing.
  48. p. 278, line 15Gorgeous processions, songs of birds,
  49. p. 287, line 15(Not songs of loyalty alone are these,
  50. p. 287, line 16But songs of insurrection also,
  51. p. 296, line 27Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)
  52. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  53. p. 312, line 20All songs of current lands come sounding round me,
  54. p. 314, line 31And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,
  55. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  56. p. 340, line 20Breathe my breath also through these songs.
  57. p. 369, line 20The rapt promises and luminè of seers, the spiritual world, these centuries-lasting songs,
  58. p. 374, line 11Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,)
  59. p. 376, line 21I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,
  60. p. 377, line 5I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.
  61. p. 379, line 2Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them,
  62. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  63. p. 380, line 21And the songs of birth, and shown that there are many births.
  64. p. 382, line 5My songs cease, I abandon them,
  65. p. 384, line 39[…] Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going […]
  66. p. 384, line 71[…] Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the […]
  67. p. 386, line 21May filter in my daily songs.
  68. p. 388, line 4Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,
  69. p. 394, line 21To get the final lilt of songs,
  70. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;
  71. p. 400, line 2Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decorum,
  72. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)
  73. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,
  74. p. 410, line 13Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions,
  75. p. 412, line 26Then only may these songs reach fruition.
  76. p. 421, line 8After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,
  77. p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
  78. p. 425, line 4PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's […]
  79. p. 427, line 10[…] from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage […]
  80. p. 427, line 15[…] them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I see it now […]
  81. p. 431, line 11[…] I would name those old and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and […]
  82. p. 436, line 8[…] the complete Union of the States in my songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live […]
  83. p. 438, line 38[…] select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]

sonnambula's 1

  1. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,

sonnambules 1

  1. p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)

sonnet 1

  1. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)

sonorous 4

  1. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  2. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  3. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  4. p. 396, line 21A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment,

sons 19

  1. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  2. p. 79, line 8Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
  3. p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
  4. p. 82, line 22And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.
  5. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
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  1. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  2. p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
  3. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  4. p. 137, line 15The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
  5. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  6. p. 247, line 5Sons of the Mother of All, you shall yet be victorious,
  7. p. 295, line 11Sat peaceful parents with contented sons.
  8. p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
  9. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  10. p. 387, line 16Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
  11. p. 400, line 8Lay dying—sons, daughters, church-deacons, lovingly tending him,
  12. p. 420, line 9Weddings in churches, thanksgiving dinners, returns of long-absent sons,

soon 43

  1. p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  2. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  3. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  4. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  5. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
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  1. p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
  2. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  3. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
  4. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  5. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  6. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  7. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
  8. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  9. p. 206, line 8Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
  10. p. 212, line 27He will soon return, his messengers come anon.
  11. p. 213, line 12Such a result so soon—and from such a beginning!
  12. p. 214, line 17How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
  13. p. 220, line 23(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
  14. p. 220, line 24Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business;)
  15. p. 237, line 13At present low, but will soon be better.
  16. p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
  17. p. 241, line 19But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself,
  18. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
  19. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
  20. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  21. p. 277, line 6Life's ever-modern rapids first, (soon, soon to blend,
  22. p. 292, line 30For soon or late the certain grace;
  23. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
  24. p. 308, line 8Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
  25. p. 364, line 16Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
  26. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  27. p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
  28. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  29. p. 384, line 54[…] Life and Death, 398 The Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past […]
  30. p. 399, line 11Soon shall the winter's foil be here;
  31. p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,
  32. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)
  33. p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
  34. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.

sooner 7

  1. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  2. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  3. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  4. p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
  5. p. 260, line 17Sooner or later delicate death.
  6. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)
  7. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,

soonest 1

  1. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?

sooth'd 3 today: soothed

  1. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  2. p. 319, line 1All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd,
  3. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,

soothe 7

  1. p. 63, line 22Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  2. p. 198, line 24Soothe! soothe! soothe!
  3. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  4. p. 246, line 30O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
  5. p. 318, line 18Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?

soothed see sooth'd

soothes 2

  1. p. 198, line 25Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
  2. p. 198, line 27But my love soothes not me, not me.

soothing 12

  1. p. 82, line 11The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
  2. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.
  3. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  4. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  5. p. 182, line 9Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard,
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  1. p. 206, line 22(With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,
  2. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
  3. p. 260, line 14Come lovely and soothing death,
  4. p. 319, line 19Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
  5. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  6. p. 411, line 12THE soothing sanity and blitheness of completion,
  7. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,

soothingly 2

  1. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  2. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,

sooty 1

  1. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!

Sophocles 2

  1. p. 415, line 2Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur,
  2. p. 433, line 5[…] translated versions I could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one […]

sopp'd 1 today: sopped

  1. p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,

sopped see sopp'd

soprani 1

  1. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!

soprano 4

  1. p. 51, line 22I hear the train'd soprano (what work with hers is this?)
  2. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  3. p. 113, line 13I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear the responsive base and soprano,
  4. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,

sopranos 1

  1. p. 314, line 31And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,

Sorata 1

  1. p. 117, line 2I see the Bolivian ascending mount Sorata,

sordid 1

  1. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

sore 2

  1. p. 290, line 6Not one word or deed, not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of the onanist,
  2. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,

soreness 1

  1. p. 333, line 14The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,

sorrow 11

  1. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  2. p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
  3. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  4. p. 182, line 1Over the mountain-growths disease and sorrow,
  5. p. 284, line 13Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love.
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  1. p. 339, line 17All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself,
  2. p. 358, line 23War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing but joy left!
  3. p. 394, line 12What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!
  4. p. 402, line 13Less for the mighty crown laid low in sorrow—less for the Emperor,
  5. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  6. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,

sorrowful 7

  1. p. 200, line 4O I am very sick and sorrowful.
  2. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  3. p. 225, line 2What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much it displeases me;
  4. p. 246, line 26The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin'd,
  5. p. 284, line 8Crouching over a grave an ancient sorrowful mother,
  6. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  7. p. 311, line 26All passionate heart-chants, sorrowful appeals,

sorrowing 1

  1. p. 185, line 7All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,

sorrows 4

  1. p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  2. p. 215, line 14I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
  3. p. 296, line 12(Tragedies, sorrows, laughter, tears—O heaven!
  4. p. 410, line 16With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,

sorry 2

  1. p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
  2. p. 408, line 15[…] a glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain […]

sort 3

  1. p. 288, line 20What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
  2. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  3. p. 407, line 12[…] amid no loud call or market for my sort of poetic utterance […]

sortie 1

  1. p. 426, line 19[…] In the second place, the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim […]

sorts 3

  1. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,
  2. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  3. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,

Soudanese 1

  1. p. 120, line 1You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!

soughing 1

  1. p. 77, line 15Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,

sought 11

  1. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  2. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  3. p. 107, line 1I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
  4. p. 138, line 1They do not seek beauty, they are sought,
  5. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
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  1. p. 245, line 4(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
  2. p. 262, line 22The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
  3. p. 315, line 4Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
  4. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,
  5. p. 427, line 3[…] is in brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States […]
  6. p. 436, line 15[…] all, and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of […]

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soul-dearest 1

  1. p. 402, line 5Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest,

souls 29

  1. p. 88, line 8Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
  2. p. 100, line 18Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,
  3. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  4. p. 127, line 16All parts away for the progress of souls,
  5. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
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  1. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  2. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  3. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  4. p. 176, line 15The workmanship of souls is by those inaudible words of the earth,
  5. p. 178, line 14The soul's realization and determination still inheriting,
  6. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  7. p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
  8. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
  9. p. 207, line 16All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
  10. p. 214, line 22As souls only understand souls.
  11. p. 276, line 5And I saw the free souls of poets,
  12. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  13. p. 291, line 10Whatever satisfies souls is true;
  14. p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
  15. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  16. p. 308, line 9On the soul's voyage.
  17. p. 308, line 15Why this is not the church at all—the church is living, ever living souls.")
  18. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  19. p. 345, line 22Are souls drown'd and destroy'd so?
  20. p. 392, line 21Outsurging, muttering from thy soul's abysms,
  21. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)
  22. p. 435, line 28[…] primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last […]

sound 53

  1. p. 30, line 5The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,
  2. p. 44, line 22I know I am solid and sound,
  3. p. 51, line 4I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,
  4. p. 75, line 22The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  5. p. 78, line 18I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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  1. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  2. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  3. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  4. 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.
  5. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  6. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  7. p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
  8. p. 168, line 19The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,
  9. p. 186, line 5Till with sound of trumpet,
  10. p. 197, line 36And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
  11. p. 199, line 14Sound clearer through the atmosphere!
  12. p. 202, line 13Miles walking, the sound of breaking waves the other side of me,
  13. p. 216, line 10Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
  14. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  15. p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
  16. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  17. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
  18. p. 246, line 10And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
  19. p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
  20. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  21. p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
  22. p. 266, line 1Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound, initiates the true use of precedents,
  23. p. 271, line 23Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
  24. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
  25. p. 298, line 6I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
  26. p. 303, line 9WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
  27. p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
  28. p. 313, line 18I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre,
  29. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  30. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
  31. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  32. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
  33. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  34. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  35. p. 328, line 14The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,
  36. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,
  37. p. 343, line 7I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
  38. p. 359, line 13By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
  39. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
  40. p. 371, line 26Now sound no note O trumpeters,
  41. p. 381, line 16Hasten throat and sound your last,
  42. p. 396, line 21A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment,
  43. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.
  44. p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
  45. p. 429, line 1[…] or other emotion. But, strange as it may sound at first, I will say there is something striking far […]
  46. p. 436, line 12[…] in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]

sounded 3

  1. p. 100, line 25Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
  2. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  3. p. 433, line 45[…] flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my own […]

soundest 1

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

sounding 14

  1. p. 80, line 11The overture lightly sounding, the strain anticipating,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 162, line 9Thy bugles sounding loud and clear.
  4. p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
  5. p. 182, line 10From some far shore the final chorus sounding.
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  1. p. 277, line 28Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding,
  2. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  3. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  4. p. 312, line 20All songs of current lands come sounding round me,
  5. p. 338, line 5Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
  6. p. 372, line 16Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living—sweet are the musical voices sounding,
  7. p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,
  8. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,
  9. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,

soundings 3

  1. p. 58, line 23My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  2. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  3. p. 85, line 2(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)

soundless 1

  1. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;

soundness 1

  1. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,

sounds 32

  1. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  2. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  3. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
  4. p. 51, line 5I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
  5. p. 51, line 6Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
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  1. p. 57, line 5Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles, screams, weeps,
  2. p. 112, line 8Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
  3. p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
  4. 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,
  5. 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;
  6. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  7. p. 176, line 5Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?
  8. p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
  9. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  10. p. 223, line 10Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
  11. p. 227, line 2Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
  12. p. 248, line 9I hear the sounds of the different missiles, the short t-h-t! t-h-t! of the rifle-balls,
  13. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  14. p. 309, line 15Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
  15. p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
  16. p. 311, line 16Now the great organ sounds,
  17. p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
  18. p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
  19. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
  20. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  21. p. 357, line 5I hear the shouts, the sounds of blows and smiting steel;
  22. p. 406, line 19[…] Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds […]
  23. p. 406, line 24[…] the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet […]
  24. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  25. p. 415, line 24SOUNDS of the winter too,

sour 3

  1. p. 213, line 6Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,
  2. p. 285, line 24Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?
  3. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.

source 3

  1. p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
  2. p. 321, line 24Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection's source—thou reservoir,
  3. p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,

sources 3

  1. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  2. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
  3. p. 428, line 36[…] light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the best. There are […]

souse 2

  1. p. 37, line 18They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  2. p. 91, line 1The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,

south 53

  1. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
  2. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  3. p. 46, line 2Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
  4. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
  5. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
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  1. p. 112, line 23Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends,
  2. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  3. p. 123, line 2The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
  4. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  5. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  6. p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
  7. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
  8. p. 164, line 13Mark, thy interminable farms, North, South,
  9. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,
  10. p. 168, line 19The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,
  11. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,
  12. p. 197, line 26Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
  13. p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
  14. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)
  15. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  16. p. 219, line 21At dead of night, at news from the south,
  17. p. 225, line 6To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan,
  18. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  19. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  20. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  21. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  22. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  23. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  24. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  25. p. 281, line 14Cotton and rice of the South and Louisianian cane,
  26. p. 282, line 15Or aught that ripens in all these States or North or South,
  27. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  28. p. 319, line 27To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
  29. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  30. p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
  31. p. 359, line 23O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening perfumed South! my South!
  32. p. 371, line 16ASHES of soldiers South or North,
  33. p. 372, line 29For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
  34. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  35. p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
  36. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  37. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  38. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,
  39. p. 399, line 24Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South,
  40. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  41. p. 408, line 22[…] or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere—those […]
  42. p. 408, line 25[…] the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles […]
  43. p. 416, line 5Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,
  44. p. 416, line 7From the measureless West, Virginia, the South, the Carolinas, Texas,
  45. p. 416, line 14Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,
  46. p. 418, line 12From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
  47. p. 436, line 10[…] are read, it must be just as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic […]

south-east 1

  1. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,

southern 12

  1. p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
  2. p. 18, line 17Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas,
  3. 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,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 184, line 7All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
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  1. p. 195, line 8From the southern peninsulas and the demi-continental islands, from Malaysia,
  2. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  3. p. 268, line 2Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation life,
  4. p. 281, line 31Beholdest the newer saw-mill, the southern cotton-gin, and the rice-cleanser.
  5. p. 319, line 30Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
  6. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  7. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,

Southerner 3

  1. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  2. p. 110, line 10To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
  3. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,

Southerners 1

  1. 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?

south's 1

  1. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,

southward 6

  1. p. 130, line 21Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward,
  2. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  3. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  4. p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
  5. p. 221, line 24Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top,
  6. p. 277, line 10Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas,

south-west 4

  1. p. 26, line 8Lands where the north-west Columbia winds, and where the south-west Colorado winds!
  2. p. 90, line 7Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
  3. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  4. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,

Southwesterner 1

  1. p. 65, line 13Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian?

south-westward 1

  1. p. 130, line 21Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward,

souvenirs 3

  1. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  2. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  3. p. 377, line 4And little souvenirs of camps and soldiers, with my love,

sovereign 2

  1. p. 309, line 20While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
  2. p. 376, line 14Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,

sovereigns 1

  1. p. 368, line 14Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,

sow 2

  1. p. 39, line 2The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  2. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,

sower 1

  1. p. 346, line 12Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,

sowing 1

  1. p. 346, line 12Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,

sown 1

  1. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,

sow's 1

  1. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,

space 55

  1. p. 13, line 13All space, all time,
  2. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
  3. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  4. p. 58, line 13Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
  5. p. 73, line 10See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,
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  1. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  2. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  3. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  4. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  5. p. 113, line 22I see a great round wonder rolling through space,
  6. p. 123, line 1I inhale great draughts of space,
  7. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
  8. p. 141, line 11The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,
  9. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  10. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
  11. p. 146, line 23O to realize space!
  12. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  13. p. 149, line 13The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for a garden,
  14. p. 157, line 26The loving Laborer through space and time.)
  15. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  16. p. 182, line 32Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
  17. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  18. p. 213, line 29Or Time and Space,
  19. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  20. p. 216, line 11The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
  21. p. 218, line 2Through Nature, Time, and Space,
  22. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  23. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  24. p. 291, line 14Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
  25. p. 292, line 29Dear prison'd soul bear up a space,
  26. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,
  27. p. 301, line 18Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
  28. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  29. p. 318, line 6O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
  30. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  31. p. 321, line 29Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space,
  32. p. 321, line 33At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,
  33. p. 322, line 3And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.
  34. p. 338, line 11All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,
  35. p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
  36. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  37. p. 343, line 20Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
  38. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  39. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
  40. p. 357, line 17Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
  41. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,
  42. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  43. p. 374, line 23Illustrious what we name space, sphere of unnumber'd spirits,
  44. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,
  45. p. 396, line 5Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
  46. p. 397, line 7"The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes,
  47. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
  48. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!
  49. p. 420, line 20To span vast realms of space and time,
  50. p. 421, line 12Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,

spaces 5

  1. p. 19, line 17See, vast trackless spaces,
  2. p. 168, line 2Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof,
  3. p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
  4. p. 347, line 11Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
  5. p. 389, line 18You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,

spacious 5

  1. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
  2. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  3. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  4. p. 266, line 1Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound, initiates the true use of precedents,
  5. p. 433, line 21[…] of human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for all—has so many mansions!) But I […]

spade 3

  1. p. 143, line 24I come with my clam-rake and spade, I come with my eel-spear,
  2. p. 155, line 11Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
  3. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,

spades 1

  1. p. 334, line 16The mound above is flatted with the spades—silence,

Spain 3

  1. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  2. p. 118, line 22You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
  3. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,

spake 2

  1. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  2. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;

span 6

  1. p. 72, line 12O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity!
  2. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  3. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  4. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  5. p. 420, line 20To span vast realms of space and time,
  6. p. 428, line 19[…] I—what a period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud […]

Spaniard 2

  1. p. 118, line 22You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
  2. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,

Spanish 4

  1. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
  2. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
  3. p. 313, line 1From Spanish chestnut trees' dense shade,
  4. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,

spann'd 4 today: spanned

  1. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  2. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
  3. p. 315, line 23The New by its mighty railroad spann'd,
  4. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,

spanned see spann'd

spanning 1

  1. p. 266, line 27Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,

spans 1

  1. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,

spar 2

  1. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  2. p. 390, line 25Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.

spare 3

  1. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  2. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  3. p. 154, line 26The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,

sparingly 1

  1. p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,

sparkle 5

  1. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  2. p. 36, line 6The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  3. p. 40, line 22The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white sails sparkle!)
  4. p. 119, line 8You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!
  5. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,

sparkles 5

  1. p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  2. p. 302, line 2Sparkles from the wheel.
  3. p. 302, line 10Sparkles from the wheel.
  4. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  5. p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,

sparkling 6

  1. p. 55, line 9Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
  2. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  3. p. 294, line 4All that is jocund and sparkling, the brooks running,
  4. p. 308, line 5And these I see, these sparkling eyes,
  5. p. 361, line 16City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
  6. p. 392, line 6Thy ample, smiling face, dash'd with the sparkling dimples of the sun,

spar-makers 1

  1. p. 150, line 20Spar-makers in the spar-yard, the swarming row of well-grown apprentices,

sparrow 1

  1. p. 293, line 28Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,

spars 5

  1. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  2. p. 130, line 26The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars,
  3. p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
  4. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,
  5. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,

sparse 2

  1. p. 384, line 64[…] Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead […]
  2. p. 402, line 1You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs,

spar-yard 1

  1. p. 150, line 20Spar-makers in the spar-yard, the swarming row of well-grown apprentices,

spasm 1

  1. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,

spasmic 2

  1. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
  2. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

spasms 3

  1. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  2. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  3. p. 306, line 29Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,

speak 29

  1. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  2. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
  3. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
  4. p. 48, line 14I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,
  5. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
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  1. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
  2. p. 95, line 23That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
  3. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  4. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  5. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  6. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  7. p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
  8. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  9. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  10. p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
  11. p. 225, line 5Speak to the child O bard out of Manhattan,
  12. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  13. p. 232, line 16My blind eyes even as I speak behold it re-peopled from graves,
  14. p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
  15. p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
  16. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  17. p. 318, line 20Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
  18. p. 321, line 30How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,
  19. p. 325, line 1Is it the prophet's thought I speak, or am I raving?
  20. p. 372, line 12Draw close, but speak not.
  21. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!
  22. p. 397, line 11Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
  23. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,

speaker 1

  1. p. 16, line 2I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,

speakers 2

  1. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
  2. p. 390, line 5As of speakers far or hid.

speaking 6

  1. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  2. p. 128, line 16Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
  3. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  4. p. 141, line 8The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners,
  5. p. 230, line 21Then the Mother of All with calm voice speaking,
  6. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.

speaks 6

  1. p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
  2. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  3. p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
  4. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  5. p. 334, line 17A minute—no one moves or speaks—it is done,
  6. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,

spear 5

  1. p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
  2. p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,
  3. p. 286, line 9The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
  4. p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
  5. p. 306, line 24The spear thrust in thy side.

spearing 1

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

special 15

  1. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  2. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  3. p. 107, line 8THE prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,
  4. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,
  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,)
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  1. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  2. p. 352, line 5O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.
  3. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
  4. p. 402, line 18Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
  5. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
  6. p. 426, line 3[…] the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought […]
  7. p. 426, line 35[…] the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a […]
  8. p. 427, line 39[…] eminent French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would […]
  9. p. 430, line 2[…] in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their […]
  10. p. 434, line 33[…] is the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of coloring? The […]

specially 2

  1. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  2. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,

specific 1

  1. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,

specifically 1

  1. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be […]

specification 1

  1. p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,

specify 2

  1. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  2. 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,

specimen 1

  1. p. 438, line 15[…] Leaves of Grass " distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No […]

specimens 2

  1. p. 190, line 2Let others finish specimens, I never finish specimens,

speck 1

  1. p. 204, line 32(Myself a speck, a point on the world's floating vast.)

speckle 1

  1. p. 163, line 30See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,

specks 5

  1. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  2. 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;
  3. p. 283, line 21Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
  4. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  5. p. 407, line 4[…] of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it […]

spectacles 3

  1. p. 27, line 8Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
  2. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  3. p. 375, line 16How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!

specters see spectres

spectral 2

  1. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  2. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,

spectre 2

  1. p. 346, line 19And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
  2. p. 387, line 2Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?

spectres 1 today: specters

  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,

spectroscope 1

  1. p. 13, line 26Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics,

speculates 1

  1. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.

speculation 1

  1. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

speculations 7

  1. p. 101, line 3That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
  2. p. 153, line 5Where speculations on the soul are encouraged,
  3. p. 296, line 27Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)
  4. p. 324, line 4My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
  5. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  6. p. 398, line 6That coursing on, whate'er men's speculations,
  7. p. 425, line 21[…] probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange […]

speculators 1

  1. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?

sped 8

  1. p. 159, line 10The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the sunrise,
  2. p. 230, line 4The cities I loved so well I abandon'd and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,
  3. p. 238, line 5Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,
  4. p. 271, line 8Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
  5. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
  6. p. 296, line 25Of youth long sped and middle age declining,
  7. p. 324, line 11These sped me on.
  8. p. 367, line 25Onward I sped at the time—but now of their forms at night,

speech 9

  1. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;
  2. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
  3. p. 50, line 14Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself,
  4. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  5. p. 136, line 5And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
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  1. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  2. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  3. p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,
  4. p. 374, line 25Illustrious the attribute of speech, the senses, the body,

speechless 2

  1. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
  2. p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,

speed 8

  1. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  2. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  3. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  4. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  5. p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
  6. p. 162, line 6And in its stead speed industry's campaigns,
  7. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
  8. p. 409, line 3O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,

speeding 9

  1. p. 54, line 10In vain the speeding or shyness,
  2. p. 58, line 13Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
  3. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  4. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  5. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  6. p. 341, line 15Come tell me where I am speeding, tell me my destination.
  7. p. 343, line 18Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
  8. p. 397, line 5"Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering,

speeds 5

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  3. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  4. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.

spell 2

  1. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  2. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,

spelling 1

  1. p. 308, line 11Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?

spells 1

  1. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,

spending 2

  1. p. 39, line 12Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  2. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,

spends 1

  1. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)

spent 1

  1. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,

sperm-whale 1

  1. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,

sphere 6

  1. p. 116, line 7I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
  2. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.
  3. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  4. p. 374, line 23Illustrious what we name space, sphere of unnumber'd spirits,
  5. p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
  6. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.

spheres 10

  1. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  2. p. 58, line 20I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
  3. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  4. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  5. p. 147, line 26My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
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  1. p. 207, line 8The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
  2. p. 207, line 13All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
  3. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  4. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  5. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

spheric 1

  1. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,

Sphynx 1

  1. p. 159, line 5Silent the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century-baffling tombs,

spice 1

  1. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,

spider 1

  1. p. 343, line 14A NOISELESS patient spider,

spin 2

  1. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,
  2. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,

spinal 1

  1. p. 27, line 1Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,

spinning-girl 1

  1. p. 39, line 23The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,

spins 1

  1. p. 305, line 10And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth, is equally wonderful,

spiral 3

  1. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
  2. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  3. p. 181, line 16In spiral routes by long detours,

spirals 1

  1. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,

spired 1

  1. p. 160, line 14Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,

spires 3

  1. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  2. p. 361, line 16City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
  3. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.

spirit 53

  1. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
  2. p. 22, line 2I advance from the people in their own spirit,
  3. p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
  4. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  5. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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  1. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  2. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
  3. 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?
  4. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  5. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  6. p. 142, line 16O the joy of my spirit—it is uncaged—it darts like lightning!
  7. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  8. p. 164, line 10Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents,
  9. p. 202, line 8Was seiz'd by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
  10. p. 212, line 22Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  11. p. 213, line 18Complete in body and dilate in spirit,
  12. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  13. p. 253, line 1SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!
  14. p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)
  15. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  16. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  17. p. 260, line 13And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
  18. p. 267, line 6His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
  19. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  20. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  21. p. 272, line 14He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run,
  22. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
  23. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  24. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  25. p. 293, line 17The long-pent spirit rous'd to reminiscence;
  26. p. 298, line 4MY spirit to yours dear brother,
  27. p. 316, line 8The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos'd dreams,
  28. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,
  29. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  30. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,
  31. p. 362, line 2Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood?
  32. p. 368, line 18SPIRIT that form'd this scene,
  33. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  34. p. 368, line 28But thou that revelest here—spirit that form'd this scene,
  35. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  36. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  37. p. 426, line 43[…] in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America […]
  38. p. 427, line 11[…] songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave […]
  39. p. 428, line 22[…] cull'd enough of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to […]
  40. p. 430, line 31[…] day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the […]
  41. p. 432, line 2[…] their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict […]
  42. p. 434, line 29[…] trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the […]
  43. p. 436, line 4[…] said to myself before beginning) to be in spirit the poems of the morning. (They have been founded and […]
  44. p. 436, line 27[…] analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass […]
  45. p. 438, line 36[…] or Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege of a polish'd and select few […]

Spirita 1

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

spirited 1

  1. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,

spirits 7

  1. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  2. p. 100, line 9These I compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits,
  3. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  4. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.
  5. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  6. p. 374, line 23Illustrious what we name space, sphere of unnumber'd spirits,
  7. p. 408, line 4[…] be got at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his […]

spiritual 25

  1. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
  2. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  3. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  4. p. 107, line 9I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,
  5. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
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  1. 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!
  2. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  3. p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.
  4. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  5. p. 295, line 4Spiritual projections.
  6. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  7. p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
  8. p. 321, line 24Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection's source—thou reservoir,
  9. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  10. p. 345, line 3How plenteous! how spiritual! how resumé!
  11. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  12. p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
  13. p. 369, line 20The rapt promises and luminè of seers, the spiritual world, these centuries-lasting songs,
  14. p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,
  15. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  16. p. 381, line 8I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
  17. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  18. p. 432, line 15[…] stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World […]
  19. p. 437, line 15[…] in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate […]
  20. p. 437, line 22[…] growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or […]

spiritualism 2

  1. p. 192, line 20I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part.
  2. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,

spiritualistic 1

  1. p. 400, line 6(Large, brave, cleanly, hot-blooded, no talker, rather spiritualistic,

spirituality 4

  1. p. 21, line 1Here spirituality the translatress, the openly-avow'd,
  2. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  3. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  4. p. 375, line 23O spirituality of things!

spiritual-prescient 1

  1. p. 353, line 3The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,

spirt 1 today: spurt

  1. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.

spirting 1

  1. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,

spirts 1

  1. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,

spit 1

  1. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,

spite 2

  1. p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
  2. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,

splash 4

  1. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  2. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
  3. p. 70, line 9How the flukes splash!
  4. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.

splashing 2

  1. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  2. p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,

splay 1

  1. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

splendid 11

  1. p. 99, line 2I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
  2. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  3. p. 214, line 5Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
  4. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  5. p. 244, line 9GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
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  1. p. 245, line 6Keep your splendid silent sun,
  2. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  3. p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
  4. p. 381, line 11I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.
  5. p. 431, line 19[…] on this era of literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise of science and resuscitation of history, that our chief […]
  6. p. 432, line 11[…] myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the […]

splendidly 1

  1. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,

splendor 4

  1. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
  2. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  3. p. 320, line 8The sunset splendor of chivalry declining.
  4. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,

splendors 2

  1. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
  2. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.

splint 1

  1. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.

splinter'd 2 today: splintered

  1. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  2. p. 261, line 22And the staffs all splinter'd and broken.

splintered see splinter'd

splinters 1

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

splints 1

  1. p. 387, line 9Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones,

spoke 2

  1. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  2. p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.

spoken 2

  1. p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
  2. p. 436, line 28[…] to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand […]

spokes 2

  1. p. 130, line 20Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
  2. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!

sponge 1

  1. p. 242, line 18Bearing the bandages, water and sponge,

sponger 1

  1. p. 43, line 21The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,

spontaneous 4

  1. p. 89, line 21SPONTANEOUS me, Nature,
  2. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  3. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  4. p. 407, line 1Last droplets of and after spontaneous rain,

spooning 2

  1. p. 68, line 20To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
  2. p. 139, line 8White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,

sporades 1

  1. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,

sport 1

  1. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,

sporting 1

  1. p. 408, line 10[…] a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten—probably a streak of […]

sports 2

  1. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  2. p. 375, line 19How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)

sport'st 1

  1. p. 205, line 12That sport'st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud,

spot 6

  1. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 72, line 11Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
  3. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  4. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  5. p. 199, line 5What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
  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;)

spots 4

  1. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
  2. p. 236, line 11The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
  3. p. 355, line 9Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
  4. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,

spotted 5

  1. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
  2. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  3. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
  4. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  5. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.

spotter 1

  1. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,

spotting 1

  1. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,

spouts 2

  1. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  2. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,

sprang 6

  1. p. 219, line 10How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang,
  2. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
  3. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  4. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  5. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  6. p. 380, line 12I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all,

sprawl 1

  1. 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,

sprawls 1

  1. p. 35, line 5The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,

spray 5

  1. p. 37, line 18They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  2. p. 200, line 1That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray,
  3. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
  4. p. 208, line 2Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing,
  5. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,

spread 28

  1. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  2. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  3. p. 40, line 22The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white sails sparkle!)
  4. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
  5. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
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  1. p. 66, line 7Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  2. p. 72, line 27Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding,
  3. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
  4. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,
  5. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  6. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  7. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  8. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  9. p. 205, line 5The limpid spread of air cerulean,
  10. p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,
  11. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
  12. p. 235, line 18Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
  13. p. 240, line 5Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
  14. p. 262, line 5Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
  15. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  16. p. 301, line 19Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
  17. p. 325, line 4Dim ever-shifting guesses of it spread before me,
  18. p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
  19. p. 347, line 19Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
  20. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  21. p. 369, line 9The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
  22. p. 389, line 18You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,
  23. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,

spreading 16

  1. p. 10, line 9Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
  2. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
  3. p. 187, line 2From the head of the centre-figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  4. p. 206, line 1While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
  5. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
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  1. p. 226, line 9But these and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours,
  2. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
  3. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  4. p. 259, line 1The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon,
  5. p. 261, line 11With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
  6. p. 275, line 12Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)
  7. p. 317, line 23Over my mood stealing and spreading they come,
  8. p. 320, line 12Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
  9. p. 352, line 4And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;
  10. p. 418, line 30Under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spreading its branches,

spreads 4

  1. p. 74, line 21He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  4. p. 224, line 28O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,

sprig 2

  1. p. 256, line 3A sprig with its flower I break.
  2. p. 257, line 3I give you my sprig of lilac.

sprigs 1

  1. p. 257, line 10Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,

spring 26

  1. p. 18, line 19Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring,
  2. p. 93, line 13We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,
  3. p. 96, line 27Spring away from the conceal'd heart there!
  4. p. 99, line 12THESE I singing in spring collect for lovers,
  5. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
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  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,
  2. p. 145, line 15Again I spring up the rigging to look with the rest—we descend, wild with excitement,
  3. p. 146, line 19To plough land in the spring for maize,
  4. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  5. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  6. p. 255, line 9I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
  7. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
  8. p. 256, line 12Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,
  9. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  10. p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
  11. p. 262, line 8I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.
  12. p. 285, line 21How can you be alive you growths of spring?
  13. p. 286, line 7The grass of spring covers the prairies,
  14. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  15. p. 301, line 14Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
  16. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  17. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  18. p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
  19. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
  20. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  21. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,

springs 4

  1. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  2. p. 359, line 7Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,
  3. p. 387, line 15The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
  4. p. 396, line 9To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,

spring-time 1

  1. p. 294, line 10For spring-time is here! the summer is here! and what is this in it and from it?

springy 3

  1. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
  2. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  3. p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,

sprout 2

  1. p. 34, line 5The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  2. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)

Sprouting 1

  1. p. 33, line 11And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,

sprouts 6

  1. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  2. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  3. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  4. p. 283, line 4Winter-grain sprouts and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,
  5. p. 294, line 9The melted snow of March, the willow sending forth its yellow-green sprouts,
  6. p. 320, line 25Uprising in the night, it sprouts, blooms,

sprung 1

  1. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,

spun 3

  1. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  2. p. 336, line 4The threads that were spun are gather'd, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
  3. p. 356, line 2Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

spur 2

  1. p. 60, line 7The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
  2. p. 419, line 6Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every life;

spurn'd 1 today: spurned

  1. p. 268, line 16An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.)

spurned see spurn'd

spurning 2

  1. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  2. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,

spurt see spirt

squads 3

  1. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  2. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  3. p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,

square 15

  1. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
  2. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  3. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  4. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  5. p. 140, line 20All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle;
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  1. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
  2. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  3. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
  4. p. 301, line 19Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
  5. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
  6. p. 339, line 1CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
  7. p. 339, line 2Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine,
  8. p. 340, line 19Here the square finishing, the solid, I the most solid,
  9. p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,

square-hew'd 1

  1. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,

squaring 1

  1. p. 150, line 5The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising,

squat 1

  1. p. 177, line 8Will you squat and stifle there?)

squatter 1

  1. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,

squaw 5

  1. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
  2. p. 329, line 11A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead,
  3. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  4. p. 329, line 25But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  5. p. 330, line 23The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

s-s-t 1

  1. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)

st 7

  1. p. 117, line 13I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
  4. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  5. p. 314, line 20I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,
  6. p. 389, line 1Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,
  7. p. 406, line 9[…] On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's […]

stab 2

  1. p. 251, line 11Nor the bayonet stab what you really are;
  2. p. 251, line 14Nor the bayonet stab O friend.

Stabat 1

  1. p. 314, line 10Rossini's Stabat Mater dolorosa,

stable 2

  1. p. 47, line 6Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  2. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,

staccato 1

  1. p. 148, line 24Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.

stacks 2

  1. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  2. p. 258, line 17And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,

staff 5

  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. 73, line 17My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,
  3. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
  4. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  5. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,

staffs 2

  1. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
  2. p. 261, line 22And the staffs all splinter'd and broken.

stage 7

  1. p. 278, line 13Ever upon this stage,
  2. p. 312, line 25Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
  3. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  4. p. 392, line 25From that great play on history's stage eterne,
  5. p. 395, line 14As down the stage again,
  6. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,
  7. p. 427, line 11[…] to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out or […]

stage-driver 1

  1. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.

stages 4

  1. p. 13, line 34Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
  2. p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
  3. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
  4. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh […]

stagger 2

  1. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
  2. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,

staggering 2

  1. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  2. p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,

stagnant 1

  1. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)

staid 3

  1. p. 36, line 23He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,
  2. p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
  3. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,

stain 3

  1. p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
  2. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)

stain'd 1 today: stained

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

stained see stain'd

stainless 2

  1. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,
  2. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,

stains 1

  1. p. 407, line 4[…] me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward […]

stairs 3

  1. p. 59, line 13My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,
  2. p. 71, line 18My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  3. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,

stake 3

  1. p. 80, line 24(O I willingly stake all for you,
  2. p. 198, line 9All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake,
  3. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.

staked 1

  1. p. 363, line 4How much of genius boldly staked and lost for it!

stakes 1

  1. p. 287, line 19And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)

stale 3

  1. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  2. p. 125, line 21The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.
  3. p. 211, line 12SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

stalk'd 1 today: stalked

  1. p. 377, line 9As she call'd to her earth with mournful voice while she stalk'd,

stalked see stalk'd

stalks 2

  1. p. 212, line 23But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counseling, cautioning.
  2. p. 312, line 26Stalks Norma brandishing the dagger in her hand.

stall 2

  1. p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
  2. p. 174, line 15Beef on the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes,

stallion 3

  1. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  2. p. 55, line 12I but use you a minute, then I resign you, stallion,
  3. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

stallions 1

  1. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!

stalwart 9

  1. p. 81, line 15And you stalwart loins.
  2. p. 166, line 17Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,
  3. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  4. p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
  5. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
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  1. p. 278, line 18The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees,
  2. p. 396, line 15I see swarms of stalwart chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,
  3. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  4. p. 416, line 9Again I see the stalwart ranks on-filing, rising—I hear the rhythmic tramp of the armies;)

stammerer 2

  1. p. 326, line 31The stammerer, the well-form'd person, the wasted or feeble person.
  2. p. 330, line 21The stammerer, the sick, the perfect-form'd, the homely,

stanch 2

  1. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  2. p. 239, line 12I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,)

stand 76

  1. p. 20, line 26I stand in my place with my own day here.
  2. p. 31, line 6I and this mystery here we stand.
  3. p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
  4. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  5. p. 46, line 31Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
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  1. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  2. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  3. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  4. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  5. p. 54, line 21I stand and look at them long and long.
  6. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  7. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  8. p. 64, line 18Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!
  9. p. 71, line 3It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.
  10. p. 72, line 11Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
  11. p. 73, line 6We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  12. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  13. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  14. p. 86, line 22I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
  15. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  16. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  17. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  18. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  19. p. 129, line 3Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
  20. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  21. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
  22. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  23. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
  24. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  25. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  26. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  27. 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,
  28. p. 192, line 14We stand amid time beginningless and endless, we stand amid evil and good,
  29. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  30. p. 210, line 17Worse and worse—can't you stand it? are you retreating?
  31. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  32. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  33. p. 223, line 14On the ground where father and child stand,
  34. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  35. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  36. p. 237, line 22While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
  37. p. 240, line 7Curious I halt and silent stand,
  38. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  39. p. 264, line 18We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,
  40. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  41. p. 268, line 10And your port immovable where you stand,
  42. p. 270, line 16I stand again in leaden rain your flapping folds saluting,
  43. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  44. p. 289, line 2Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand,
  45. p. 301, line 6Or stand under trees in the woods,
  46. p. 303, line 10I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
  47. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
  48. p. 320, line 22(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,
  49. p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,
  50. p. 333, line 17Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long pervaded the rooms,)
  51. p. 341, line 3And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
  52. p. 343, line 19And you O my soul where you stand,
  53. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  54. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
  55. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
  56. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  57. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  58. p. 364, line 11It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory.
  59. p. 369, line 16They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
  60. p. 375, line 20How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!
  61. p. 385, line 9I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
  62. p. 413, line 44[…] United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]
  63. p. 429, line 43[…] poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some […]
  64. p. 434, line 19[…] primarily for the description of them as they stand at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish […]
  65. p. 436, line 25[…] argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether in its […]
  66. p. 436, line 29[…] all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul […]

standard 1

  1. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,

standards 3

  1. p. 95, line 20From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,
  2. p. 95, line 22Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul,
  3. p. 431, line 30[…] All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated […]

stander 1

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

standers 1

  1. p. 126, line 20Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,

standing 14

  1. p. 16, line 6ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
  2. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  3. p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
  4. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
  5. p. 145, line 18I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;
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  1. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
  2. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  3. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  4. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  5. p. 266, line 16Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face,
  6. 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?
  7. p. 309, line 26Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,
  8. p. 361, line 19Standing aloof, denying portions so long,
  9. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,

standing-ground 1

  1. p. 169, line 2(These but the means, the implements, the standing-ground,)

stands 37

  1. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
  2. p. 32, line 7Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  3. p. 32, line 8Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
  4. p. 38, line 2The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece,
  5. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
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  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. 63, line 9Serene stands the little captain,
  3. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
  4. p. 152, line 18Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
  5. p. 152, line 19Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in return and understands them,
  6. p. 153, line 8Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,
  7. p. 153, line 9Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands,
  8. p. 153, line 10Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,
  9. p. 153, line 11Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,
  10. p. 153, line 12There the great city stands.
  11. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  12. p. 202, line 9The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
  13. p. 202, line 28But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch'd, untold, altogether unreach'd,
  14. p. 205, line 27Stands a child with her father,
  15. p. 235, line 8In the midst of you stands an encampment very old,
  16. p. 235, line 9Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade.
  17. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.
  18. p. 255, line 19Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  19. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
  20. p. 266, line 1Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound, initiates the true use of precedents,
  21. p. 305, line 17ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching,
  22. p. 311, line 21The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,
  23. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,
  24. p. 329, line 5He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers all pass through,
  25. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
  26. p. 358, line 9(Yet 'mid the ruins Pride colossal stands unshaken to the last,
  27. p. 393, line 25Stands or is rising thy true monument.
  28. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  29. p. 429, line 10[…] something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the result of such presupposition. I should say, indeed […]
  30. p. 432, line 14[…] the centre of all, and object of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems […]

star 24

  1. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  2. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  3. p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
  4. p. 213, line 32Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
  5. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
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  1. p. 255, line 11Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
  2. p. 255, line 13O powerful western fallen star!
  3. p. 255, line 15O great star disappear'd—O the black murk that hides the star!
  4. p. 257, line 27But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detain'd me,
  5. p. 257, line 28The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.
  6. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  7. p. 261, line 1The night in silence under many a star,
  8. p. 262, line 15With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,
  9. p. 262, line 19Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
  10. p. 306, line 1O STAR of France,
  11. p. 306, line 7Dim smitten star,
  12. p. 306, line 12Star crucified—by traitors sold,
  13. p. 306, line 13Star panting o'er a land of death, heroic land,
  14. p. 306, line 25O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long!
  15. p. 307, line 5Again thy star O France, fair lustrous star,
  16. p. 338, line 23With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,
  17. p. 412, line 19In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life,

stark 1

  1. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,

starlight 1

  1. p. 238, line 8Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind,

star-myriads 1

  1. p. 181, line 15For it the entire star-myriads roll through the sky.

starry 3

  1. p. 184, line 14Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
  2. p. 226, line 2Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner,
  3. p. 352, line 25Prepare my starry nights.

stars 75

  1. p. 13, line 14(The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
  2. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  3. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  4. p. 34, line 14The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  5. p. 46, line 2Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
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  1. p. 48, line 20And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff,
  2. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
  3. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  4. p. 58, line 13Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
  5. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  6. p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
  7. p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  8. p. 77, line 11I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  9. p. 81, line 12From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
  10. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
  11. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  12. 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,
  13. p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
  14. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  15. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
  16. p. 195, line 20My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind,
  17. p. 198, line 8Yes, when the stars glisten'd,
  18. p. 199, line 11O rising stars!
  19. p. 200, line 15All else continuing, the stars shining,
  20. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  21. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  22. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  23. p. 206, line 20Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
  24. p. 206, line 24Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
  25. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  26. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  27. p. 214, line 2The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
  28. p. 214, line 3The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
  29. p. 214, line 20Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
  30. p. 228, line 3Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, (ever-enlarging stars,)
  31. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
  32. p. 235, line 23And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
  33. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  34. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  35. p. 247, line 24(Old as he was, his gray eyes yet shone out in battle like stars,)
  36. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  37. 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,)
  38. p. 259, line 2The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,
  39. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  40. p. 278, line 23The high dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars,
  41. 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,
  42. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  43. p. 305, line 11And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  44. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
  45. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.
  46. p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
  47. p. 321, line 27Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,
  48. p. 322, line 4Greater than stars or suns,
  49. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
  50. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  51. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  52. p. 350, line 15(Lo, where arise three peerless stars,
  53. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
  54. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  55. p. 362, line 27Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night,
  56. p. 367, line 27THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! flag of stars!
  57. p. 368, line 6Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!
  58. p. 369, line 25Night, sleep, death and the stars.
  59. p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
  60. p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
  61. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
  62. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  63. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
  64. p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,
  65. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
  66. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
  67. p. 421, line 24(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in the heavens,)

starshine 1

  1. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

start 16

  1. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  2. p. 15, line 11ON journeys through the States we start,
  3. p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  4. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  5. p. 67, line 5Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
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  1. p. 74, line 5For after we start we never lie by again.
  2. p. 86, line 6In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  3. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  4. p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
  5. p. 127, line 4Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
  6. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  7. p. 197, line 5From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
  8. p. 214, line 7That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.
  9. p. 432, line 25[…] till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way for good or bad. Not till after […]
  10. p. 433, line 43[…] I say, that, although I had made a start before, only from the occurrence of the Secession War, and […]
  11. p. 437, line 22[…] is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to […]

started 5

  1. p. 95, line 10(But where is what I started for so long ago?
  2. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,
  3. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  4. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!
  5. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!

starter 1

  1. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,

starting 7

  1. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
  2. p. 18, line 14STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born,
  3. p. 95, line 5For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
  4. p. 222, line 25FROM Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
  5. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  6. p. 277, line 16Currents for starting a continent new,
  7. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.

startled 1

  1. p. 211, line 13Like lightning it le'pt forth half startled at itself,

startles 1

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

state 19

  1. p. 12, line 18Or woman, man, or state, known or unknown,
  2. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  3. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  4. p. 27, line 2Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
  5. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
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  1. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  2. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
  3. p. 161, line 2In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization,
  4. p. 161, line 25In your vast state vaster than all the old,
  5. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,
  6. p. 171, line 13Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or weekly papers,
  7. p. 212, line 4Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
  8. p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
  9. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
  10. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,
  11. p. 434, line 23[…] I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring […]

stated 4

  1. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
  2. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
  3. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  4. p. 431, line 44[…] Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd […]

stately 15

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  3. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
  4. p. 131, line 9I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,
  5. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
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  1. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  2. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  3. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
  4. p. 161, line 14One stately house shall be the music house,
  5. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,
  6. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
  7. p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,
  8. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  9. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
  10. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,

statement 2

  1. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  2. p. 437, line 40[…] present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to […]

statements 3

  1. p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
  2. p. 427, line 15[…] challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past […]
  3. p. 427, line 18[…] that challenge and made an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing […]