Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “some”

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  1. p. 10, line 8Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
  2. p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
  3. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  4. p. 16, line 2I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,
  5. p. 16, line 4Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;
  6. p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
  7. p. 32, line 2The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  8. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  9. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  10. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  11. p. 47, line 3Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  12. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
  13. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  14. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  15. p. 59, line 8Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,
  16. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
  17. p. 62, line 1Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
  18. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,
  19. p. 65, line 13Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian?
  20. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  21. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
  22. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  23. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  24. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  25. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
  26. p. 111, line 10Some are baffled, but that one is not—that one knows me.
  27. p. 112, line 14Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
  28. p. 114, line 20Some are in storms, some in the night with the watch on the lookout,
  29. p. 114, line 21Some drifting helplessly, some with contagious diseases.
  30. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  31. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
  32. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
  33. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  34. p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
  35. p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
  36. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  37. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.
  38. 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;
  39. 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,
  40. p. 165, line 4Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands,
  41. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  42. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  43. p. 182, line 10From some far shore the final chorus sounding.
  44. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  45. p. 189, line 4And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
  46. p. 190, line 21I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
  47. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
  48. p. 197, line 15Up this seashore in some briers,
  49. p. 199, line 12Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.
  50. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
  51. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)
  52. p. 210, line 4Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless.
  53. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  54. p. 213, line 31Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
  55. p. 214, line 3The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
  56. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  57. p. 217, line 3As contending against some being or influence.
  58. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  59. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  60. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
  61. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,
  62. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  63. p. 239, line 14Faces, varieties, postures beyond description, most in obscurity, some of them dead,
  64. p. 239, line 17Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the death-spasm sweating,
  65. p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
  66. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  67. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  68. p. 245, line 16Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)
  69. p. 246, line 27('Tis some mother's large transparent face,
  70. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  71. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  72. p. 263, line 5It is some dream that on the deck,
  73. p. 271, line 10Are you not of some coterie? some school or mere religion?
  74. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  75. p. 277, line 8Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods,
  76. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
  77. p. 277, line 10Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas,
  78. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
  79. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  80. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  81. p. 286, line 4I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
  82. p. 289, line 3Some with oval countenances learn'd and calm,
  83. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  84. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,
  85. p. 289, line 6Some prowling through woods, some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,
  86. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  87. p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,
  88. p. 297, line 1As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
  89. p. 306, line 3Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
  90. p. 307, line 17See you! some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking;
  91. p. 307, line 18Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white line running along his back, some are brindled,
  92. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  93. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  94. p. 313, line 15The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,
  95. p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
  96. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,
  97. p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
  98. p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
  99. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,
  100. p. 325, line 8As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal'd my eyes,
  101. p. 338, line 25(Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth;
  102. p. 338, line 27Some soul is passing over.)
  103. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
  104. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  105. p. 353, line 7The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or despised face,
  106. p. 353, line 18Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,
  107. p. 353, line 19Some milk-nosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
  108. p. 354, line 6And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pull'd scabbard.
  109. p. 356, line 6HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician,
  110. p. 356, line 12Some dead composer, haply thy pensive life
  111. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  112. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  113. p. 358, line 14Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future,
  114. p. 362, line 28As some dissolving delicate film of dreams,
  115. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  116. p. 375, line 21(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
  117. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,
  118. p. 385, line 9I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
  119. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  120. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
  121. p. 390, line 27In every crest some undulating light or shade—some retrospect,
  122. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
  123. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,
  124. p. 392, line 13Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain'd and chafing in those breakers,
  125. p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
  126. p. 393, line 8As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
  127. p. 398, line 3As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,
  128. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  129. p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
  130. p. 402, line 2And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row;
  131. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  132. p. 402, line 18Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,
  133. p. 403, line 1In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
  134. p. 407, line 35[…] fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs […]
  135. p. 408, line 10[…] am I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or […]
  136. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,
  137. p. 411, line 37[…] hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be […]
  138. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  139. p. 412, line 18(Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,)
  140. p. 415, line 8As some vast wondrous weird dream-presences,
  141. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
  142. p. 425, line 13[…] with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had […]
  143. p. 426, line 33[…] both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I found […]
  144. p. 428, line 30[…] rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it […]
  145. p. 428, line 39[…] Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as […]
  146. p. 429, line 44[…] in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could […]
  147. p. 430, line 12[…] Not to carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine […]
  148. p. 431, line 11[…] old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a […]
  149. p. 431, line 12[…] and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd […]
  150. p. 432, line 20[…] the garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how […]
  151. p. 434, line 16[…] with the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then […]
  152. p. 437, line 4[…] mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify […]