Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “soul”

soul 243 Back to S

  1. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  2. p. 14, line 1And thee my soul,
  3. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  4. p. 21, line 4Yes here comes my mistress the soul.
  5. p. 21, line 5The soul,
  6. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  7. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  8. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  9. p. 25, line 8Was somebody asking to see the soul?
  10. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  11. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;
  12. p. 29, line 9I loafe and invite my soul,
  13. p. 31, line 7Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  14. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  15. p. 45, line 15I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
  16. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
  17. p. 53, line 16The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  18. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,
  19. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  20. p. 72, line 11Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
  21. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  22. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  23. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  24. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
  25. p. 81, line 19And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
  26. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  27. p. 81, line 23And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
  28. 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,
  29. p. 83, line 17All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  30. p. 84, line 11You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
  31. p. 84, line 16As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
  32. p. 84, line 19The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
  33. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
  34. 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,)
  35. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  36. p. 88, line 5O I say now these are the soul!
  37. p. 92, line 8To rise thither with my inebriate soul!
  38. p. 95, line 21Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,
  39. p. 95, line 22Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul,
  40. p. 95, line 23That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
  41. p. 96, line 23Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
  42. p. 96, line 24(I am not sure but the high soul of lovers welcomes death most,)
  43. p. 104, line 17Any more than my soul is borne through the open air,
  44. p. 123, line 22Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
  45. p. 123, line 25Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
  46. p. 124, line 10Here is the efflux of the soul,
  47. p. 124, line 11The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions,
  48. p. 124, line 21The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness,
  49. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  50. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  51. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  52. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  53. p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
  54. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  55. p. 147, line 10Yet O my soul supreme!
  56. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  57. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  58. p. 153, line 5Where speculations on the soul are encouraged,
  59. p. 153, line 18The dispute on the soul stops,
  60. p. 153, line 24Where are your cavils about the soul now?
  61. p. 159, line 1The same undying soul of earth's, activity's, beauty's, heroism's expression,
  62. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  63. 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!
  64. p. 166, line 14But in my soul I plainly heard.
  65. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
  66. p. 173, line 14Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
  67. p. 173, line 16Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
  68. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  69. p. 180, line 6But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
  70. p. 181, line 13Yet again, lo! the soul, above all science,
  71. p. 185, line 9I too with my soul and body,
  72. p. 186, line 12Your true soul and body appear before me,
  73. p. 194, line 15With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes,
  74. p. 200, line 22The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,
  75. p. 200, line 28Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,)
  76. p. 205, line 13In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,
  77. p. 205, line 25Ship of the body, ship of the soul, voyaging, voyaging, voyaging.
  78. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  79. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)
  80. p. 218, line 4The voyage of the soul—not life alone,
  81. p. 223, line 30Come up here, soul, soul,
  82. p. 226, line 17This song to the soul of one poor little child.
  83. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,
  84. p. 229, line 6Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious.
  85. p. 229, line 7'Twas well, O soul—'twas a good preparation you gave me,
  86. p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,
  87. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  88. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  89. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  90. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  91. 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,)
  92. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  93. p. 251, line 9I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul,
  94. p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
  95. p. 254, line 1Myself and this contentious soul of mine,
  96. p. 255, line 16O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
  97. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  98. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
  99. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  100. p. 258, line 19Lo, body and soul—this land,
  101. p. 259, line 10O wild and loose to my soul—O wondrous singer!
  102. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  103. p. 261, line 9To the tally of my soul,
  104. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
  105. p. 262, line 14And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul,
  106. p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
  107. p. 262, line 19Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
  108. p. 263, line 17And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
  109. p. 264, line 4Chant me the poem, it said, that comes from the soul of America, chant me the carol of victory,
  110. p. 266, line 13Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves,
  111. p. 266, line 14Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
  112. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  113. p. 269, line 6(Soul of love and tongue of fire!
  114. 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,
  115. p. 273, line 10Dismiss'd whatever insulted my own soul or defiled my body,
  116. p. 276, line 15To cheer O Mother your boundless expectant soul.
  117. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  118. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,
  119. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  120. p. 281, line 1Loud O my throat, and clear O soul!
  121. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  122. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  123. p. 289, line 23The soul is of itself,
  124. p. 291, line 12Itself only finally satisfies the soul,
  125. p. 291, line 13The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
  126. p. 291, line 24Who favors body and soul the same,
  127. p. 292, line 2O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  128. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,
  129. p. 292, line 29Dear prison'd soul bear up a space,
  130. p. 293, line 4Depart—a God-enfranchis'd soul!
  131. p. 293, line 23O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  132. p. 294, line 11Thou, soul, unloosen'd—the restlessness after I know not what;
  133. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  134. p. 294, line 27Silent, my soul,
  135. p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
  136. p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?
  137. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  138. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  139. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  140. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  141. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  142. p. 308, line 26Fail not to certify and cheer my soul.
  143. p. 310, line 26Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
  144. p. 310, line 29For thee they sing and dance O soul.
  145. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,
  146. p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
  147. p. 314, line 17(Such led to thee O soul,
  148. p. 315, line 3I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
  149. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  150. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  151. p. 316, line 3Passage O soul to India!
  152. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
  153. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  154. p. 316, line 29Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
  155. p. 317, line 1In one again, different, (yet thine, all thine, O soul, the same,)
  156. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  157. p. 318, line 17With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?
  158. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
  159. p. 319, line 21Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward,
  160. p. 320, line 4Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
  161. p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
  162. p. 320, line 31O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,
  163. p. 321, line 2We too take ship O soul,
  164. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
  165. p. 321, line 10O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.
  166. p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
  167. p. 321, line 13O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
  168. p. 321, line 19I and my soul to range in range of thee.
  169. p. 321, line 25(O pensive soul of me—O thirst unsatisfied—waitest not there?
  170. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  171. p. 322, line 5Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;
  172. p. 322, line 7What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
  173. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
  174. p. 322, line 18O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?
  175. p. 322, line 35Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
  176. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
  177. p. 323, line 9O my brave soul!
  178. p. 331, line 6The myth of heaven indicates the soul,
  179. p. 331, line 7The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind,
  180. p. 331, line 11The soul is always beautiful,
  181. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  182. p. 338, line 1DAREST thou now O soul,
  183. p. 338, line 7I know it not O soul,
  184. p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
  185. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  186. p. 338, line 27Some soul is passing over.)
  187. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  188. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  189. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  190. p. 343, line 19And you O my soul where you stand,
  191. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
  192. p. 345, line 4The same old man and soul—the same old aspirations, and the same content.
  193. p. 346, line 7Set ope the doors O soul.
  194. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
  195. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  196. p. 351, line 10The soul, its destinies.
  197. p. 351, line 11The soul, its destinies, the real real,
  198. p. 351, line 13In thee America, the soul, its destinies,
  199. p. 353, line 7The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or despised face,
  200. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  201. p. 360, line 1O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again,
  202. p. 363, line 13The soul for it, and all the visible universe for it,
  203. p. 369, line 22THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
  204. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;
  205. p. 370, line 8O soul, we have positively appear'd—that is enough.
  206. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  207. p. 372, line 10I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead soldiers.
  208. p. 374, line 18Open mouth of my soul uttering gladness,
  209. p. 374, line 19Eyes of my soul seeing perfection,
  210. p. 375, line 21(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
  211. p. 379, line 14With you O soul.
  212. p. 379, line 16(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
  213. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  214. p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
  215. p. 386, line 26Is it not just as great, O soul?
  216. p. 388, line 10Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
  217. p. 392, line 23Thou tellest to a kindred soul.
  218. p. 393, line 8As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
  219. p. 395, line 20How through those strains distill'd—how the rapt ears, the soul of me, absorbing
  220. p. 396, line 23Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;
  221. p. 396, line 27Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unconvinced at last;
  222. p. 397, line 7"The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes,
  223. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)
  224. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,
  225. p. 410, line 22(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,
  226. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  227. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
  228. p. 421, line 14But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
  229. p. 421, line 16(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)
  230. p. 421, line 17More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
  231. p. 425, line 8[…] with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]
  232. p. 426, line 12[…] unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own […]
  233. p. 429, line 24[…] of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is certain that a poetry […]
  234. p. 430, line 2[…] and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality […]
  235. p. 433, line 33[…] a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I […]
  236. p. 436, line 29[…] fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]