Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “shall”

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  1. p. 13, line 30Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
  2. p. 13, line 34Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
  3. p. 13, line 35Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,
  4. p. 20, line 16In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
  5. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  6. 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,
  7. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  8. p. 29, line 7And what I assume you shall assume,
  9. p. 29, line 21The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  10. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  11. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  12. 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,
  13. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  14. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  15. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  16. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  17. p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  18. p. 44, line 11All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  19. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  20. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  21. 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,
  22. p. 49, line 7Translucent mould of me it shall be you!
  23. p. 49, line 8Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you!
  24. p. 49, line 9Firm masculine colter it shall be you!
  25. p. 49, line 10Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!
  26. p. 49, line 12Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you!
  27. p. 49, line 13My brain it shall be your occult convolutions!
  28. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
  29. p. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
  30. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
  31. p. 49, line 17Sun so generous it shall be you!
  32. p. 49, line 18Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you!
  33. p. 49, line 19You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
  34. p. 49, line 20Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!
  35. p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
  36. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  37. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  38. p. 53, line 20I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  39. p. 53, line 24And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
  40. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  41. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  42. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  43. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  44. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  45. p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
  46. 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?
  47. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  48. p. 79, line 2But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  49. p. 85, line 24They shall be stript that you may see them.
  50. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  51. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  52. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  53. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  54. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  55. p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
  56. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  57. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  58. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  59. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  60. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
  61. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  62. p. 96, line 14Every year shall you bloom again, out from where you retired you shall emerge again;
  63. p. 97, line 8Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
  64. p. 100, line 5And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades, this calamus-root shall,
  65. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  66. p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
  67. p. 121, line 21None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
  68. p. 122, line 17You shall be more to me than my poem.
  69. p. 122, line 20I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me,
  70. p. 123, line 10Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
  71. p. 123, line 11Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
  72. p. 125, line 14Allons! the inducements shall be greater,
  73. p. 126, line 6You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
  74. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
  75. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  76. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  77. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  78. 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.
  79. p. 129, line 9Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
  80. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  81. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  82. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  83. p. 144, line 9There in a huge kettle of boiling water the lobsters shall be boil'd till their color becomes scarlet.
  84. p. 147, line 22And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
  85. p. 154, line 26The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,
  86. p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
  87. p. 160, line 27Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
  88. p. 160, line 29A brood of lofty, fair, but lesser palaces shall cluster.
  89. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,
  90. p. 161, line 1Here shall you trace in flowing operation,
  91. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
  92. p. 161, line 4The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
  93. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  94. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  95. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  96. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  97. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
  98. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  99. p. 161, line 11The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.
  100. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
  101. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  102. p. 161, line 14One stately house shall be the music house,
  103. p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
  104. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.
  105. p. 161, line 17(This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks,
  106. p. 161, line 21Shall ever here confront the laboring many,
  107. p. 161, line 24And here shall ye inhabit powerful Matrons!
  108. p. 169, line 23I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
  109. p. 171, line 2None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
  110. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  111. p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
  112. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  113. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  114. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  115. p. 180, line 23You shall be fully glorified in them.
  116. p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
  117. p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
  118. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  119. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  120. p. 201, line 2O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,
  121. p. 201, line 3Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations,
  122. p. 206, line 13The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
  123. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  124. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  125. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  126. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  127. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  128. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,
  129. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  130. p. 210, line 22But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  131. p. 210, line 23I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
  132. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
  133. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  134. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  135. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  136. p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
  137. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  138. p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
  139. p. 247, line 3Those who love each other shall become invincible,
  140. p. 247, line 4They shall yet make Columbia victorious.
  141. p. 247, line 5Sons of the Mother of All, you shall yet be victorious,
  142. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
  143. p. 247, line 7No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,
  144. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  145. p. 247, line 9One from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian's comrade,
  146. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  147. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  148. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  149. p. 247, line 15The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
  150. p. 247, line 16The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers,
  151. p. 247, line 17The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.
  152. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  153. p. 251, line 25Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell'd and defeated.
  154. p. 255, line 9I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
  155. p. 256, line 17Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
  156. p. 258, line 1O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
  157. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  158. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  159. p. 258, line 8O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
  160. p. 258, line 9And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,
  161. p. 266, line 6And that he shall be fittest for his days.
  162. p. 269, line 5Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
  163. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  164. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
  165. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  166. p. 280, line 12(Yet the heroes never surpass'd shall never return,
  167. p. 286, line 4I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
  168. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  169. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  170. p. 289, line 17I suspect I shall meet them there,
  171. p. 289, line 18I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.
  172. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  173. p. 293, line 2The heavenly pardoner death shall come.
  174. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  175. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
  176. p. 307, line 7Shall beam immortal.
  177. p. 318, line 18Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
  178. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
  179. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  180. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  181. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  182. p. 319, line 1All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd,
  183. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  184. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,
  185. p. 319, line 4The whole earth, this cold, impassive, voiceless earth, shall be completely justified,
  186. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  187. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,
  188. p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
  189. p. 319, line 8Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more,
  190. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  191. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  192. p. 331, line 13What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place,
  193. p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
  194. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  195. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  196. p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  197. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  198. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  199. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  200. p. 337, line 2And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
  201. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
  202. p. 340, line 10Nor time nor change shall ever change me or my words.
  203. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  204. p. 341, line 7Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.
  205. p. 341, line 20A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
  206. 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,
  207. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  208. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  209. p. 351, line 3Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face with hectic,
  210. p. 351, line 6They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
  211. p. 354, line 19And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  212. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  213. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
  214. p. 364, line 10It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me,
  215. p. 364, line 11It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory.
  216. p. 364, line 23THEY shall arise in the States,
  217. p. 364, line 24They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
  218. p. 364, line 25They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
  219. p. 365, line 1They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,
  220. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
  221. p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
  222. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  223. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,
  224. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  225. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
  226. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
  227. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  228. p. 366, line 2Lag'd'st thou so long? shall the clouds close again upon thee?
  229. p. 370, line 3I shall go forth,
  230. p. 370, line 4I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,
  231. p. 381, line 4I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd,
  232. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  233. p. 381, line 8I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
  234. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
  235. p. 384, line 54[…] and Death, 398 The Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting […]
  236. p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
  237. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)
  238. p. 399, line 11Soon shall the winter's foil be here;
  239. p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,
  240. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  241. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  242. p. 432, line 14[…] of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of all, and object of […]
  243. p. 436, line 17[…] feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives […]