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.

T

table – trumpet · trumpeter – tyrants

trumpeter 8

  1. p. 356, line 6HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician,
  2. p. 356, line 8I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
  3. p. 356, line 18Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,
  4. p. 356, line 26Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes,
  5. p. 357, line 8Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme,
  6. p. 357, line 21Blow again trumpeter—conjure war's alarums.
  7. p. 358, line 1O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest,
  8. p. 358, line 11Now trumpeter for thy close,

trumpeters 1

  1. p. 371, line 26Now sound no note O trumpeters,

trumpet-note 1

  1. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.

trumpets 2

  1. p. 225, line 13I hear the drums beat and the trumpets blowing,
  2. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!

trumpet-voice 1

  1. p. 271, line 23Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?

trunk 5

  1. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
  2. p. 166, line 17Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,
  3. p. 168, line 9The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan,
  4. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,
  5. p. 433, line 31[…] distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer was to radiate, and to […]

trunks 2

  1. p. 93, line 4We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
  2. p. 375, line 20How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!

trust 8

  1. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  2. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  3. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  4. p. 233, line 20But we dared not trust the chances of a pitch'd battle.
  5. p. 309, line 4Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
  6. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  7. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,
  8. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,

trusted 1

  1. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,

trustees 1

  1. p. 107, line 6Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,

trusters 1

  1. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,

trustful 2

  1. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
  2. p. 387, line 15The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.

trusty 2

  1. p. 103, line 17Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
  2. p. 230, line 20Drest in blue, bearing their trusty rifles on their shoulders.

truth 7

  1. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  2. p. 361, line 20Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,
  3. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  4. p. 362, line 1Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
  5. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,
  6. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;

truths 4

  1. p. 53, line 10All truths wait in all things,
  2. p. 176, line 22The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
  3. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  4. p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,

try 4

  1. p. 50, line 25Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
  2. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  3. p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
  4. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,

trying 3

  1. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  2. p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
  3. p. 425, line 5[…] love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them […]

tub 3

  1. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  2. p. 155, line 16Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,
  3. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

tubercled 1

  1. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,

Tuckahoe 1

  1. p. 33, line 13Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.

tuck'd 1 today: tucked

  1. p. 36, line 9I tuck'd my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;

tucked see tuck'd

tucking 1

  1. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,

tuft 1

  1. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.

tufted 1

  1. p. 38, line 17And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,

tufts 2

  1. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
  2. p. 204, line 2Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,

tug 3

  1. p. 39, line 2The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  2. p. 350, line 25(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
  3. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)

tuition 1

  1. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?

tumble 2

  1. p. 155, line 9They tumble forth, they rise and form,
  2. p. 270, line 21Now the corpses tumble curl'd upon the ground,

tumbled 1

  1. p. 368, line 19These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,

tumbling 6

  1. p. 60, line 13Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  2. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  3. p. 178, line 12Tumbling on steadily, nothing dreading,
  4. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  5. p. 216, line 14In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
  6. p. 284, line 3The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,

tumbrils 1

  1. 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,

tumuli 1

  1. p. 116, line 17I see the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs,

tumult 1

  1. p. 164, line 9Like a tumult of laughter.

tumultuous 5

  1. p. 220, line 2Leapt they tumultuous, and lo! Manhattan arming.
  2. p. 220, line 20The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing the way,
  3. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  4. p. 310, line 24Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless,
  5. p. 357, line 6I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang,

tumultuously 2

  1. p. 151, line 20The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly,
  2. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,

tune 2

  1. p. 57, line 26Pleas'd with the tune of the choir of the whitewash'd church,
  2. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,

tuned 1

  1. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.

tunes 2

  1. p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
  2. p. 356, line 7Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.

tuning 1

  1. p. 278, line 8Tuning a verse for thee.

tunnels 1

  1. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,

turban 1

  1. p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?

turban'd 2 today: turbaned

  1. p. 249, line 6With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
  2. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,

turbaned see turban'd

turbid 1

  1. p. 77, line 14Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,

turbulence 1

  1. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)

turbulent 12

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,
  2. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
  3. p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
  4. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
  5. p. 157, line 21Shapes of turbulent manly cities,
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  1. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
  2. p. 221, line 10Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city,
  3. p. 245, line 25Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus!
  4. p. 306, line 28Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos,
  5. p. 309, line 11Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,
  6. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  7. p. 388, line 20But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,

turbulent-clear 1

  1. p. 368, line 21These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,

turf 2

  1. p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
  2. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,

Turin 1

  1. p. 117, line 16I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

Turk 1

  1. p. 117, line 25I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,

turkey 1

  1. p. 360, line 13The humming-bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum;

turkey-hen 1

  1. p. 39, line 3The brood of the turkey-hen and she with her half-spread wings,

turkey-shooting 1

  1. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,

turn 41

  1. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  2. p. 31, line 9Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  3. p. 31, line 18That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  4. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  5. p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
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  1. p. 54, line 20I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
  2. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  3. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  4. p. 66, line 18Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed,
  5. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  6. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  7. p. 89, line 16The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
  8. p. 112, line 23Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends,
  9. p. 116, line 7I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
  10. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,
  11. p. 164, line 8Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
  12. 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,
  13. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?
  14. p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
  15. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  16. p. 211, line 18Turn back unto this day and make yourselves afresh.
  17. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  18. p. 213, line 20O Death, (for Life has served its turn,)
  19. p. 223, line 15In the upward air where their eyes turn,
  20. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  21. p. 254, line 7TURN O Libertad, for the war is over,
  22. p. 254, line 9Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past,
  23. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  24. p. 254, line 16Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad—turn your undying face,
  25. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,
  26. p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
  27. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  28. p. 326, line 15I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers each in turn,
  29. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  30. p. 328, line 12I turn but do not extricate myself,
  31. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  32. p. 347, line 15Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
  33. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,
  34. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  35. p. 430, line 29[…] Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn the argument over and repeat it: Does not the best […]

turn'd 10 today: turned

  1. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
  2. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  3. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  4. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
  5. p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
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  1. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 233, line 24Till we turn'd menacing here, and then he left us.
  4. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  5. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,

turn'd-in 1

  1. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,

turned see turn'd

turning 14

  1. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,
  2. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
  3. p. 216, line 14In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
  4. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  5. p. 230, line 3Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;
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  1. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  2. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
  3. p. 294, line 29Turning from all the samples, monuments of heroes.
  4. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  5. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  6. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
  7. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,
  8. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  9. p. 422, line 17May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning—so now finally,

turning-in 1

  1. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,

turnpike 1

  1. p. 55, line 23Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,

turns 14

  1. p. 11, line 27As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
  2. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  3. p. 39, line 28He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;
  4. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  5. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
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  1. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  2. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  3. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
  4. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,
  5. p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 341, line 10Earth to a chamber of mourning turns—I hear the o'erweening, mocking voice,
  8. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,

turpentine 2

  1. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,

turret 1

  1. p. 155, line 14Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch,

turrets 2

  1. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  2. p. 159, line 12Palmerin, ogre, departed, vanish'd the turrets that Usk from its waters reflected,

turtle 1

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

Tuscan 1

  1. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,

tushes 1

  1. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.

tussle 2

  1. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,
  2. p. 364, line 4You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,

tussled 1

  1. p. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!

tutti 2

  1. p. 312, line 1Tutti! for earth and heaven;
  2. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,

twain 9

  1. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  2. p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
  3. p. 216, line 15Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
  4. p. 246, line 31O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
  5. p. 316, line 29Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
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  1. p. 349, line 5World of the real—world of the twain in one,
  2. p. 406, line 8[…] my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day […]
  3. p. 410, line 1ON, on the same, ye jocund twain!
  4. p. 410, line 14On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same!

twang 1

  1. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,

twas 4

  1. p. 229, line 7'Twas well, O soul—'twas a good preparation you gave me,
  2. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  3. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)

Twelfth-month 3

  1. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  2. p. 172, line 23The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,
  3. p. 267, line 15Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts,

twelve 4

  1. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  2. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  3. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
  4. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,

twenty 5

  1. p. 232, line 30Twenty thousand were brought against us,
  2. p. 361, line 9Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,
  3. p. 384, line 60[…] The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering […]
  4. p. 401, line 3Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
  5. p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)

twenty-eight 3

  1. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  2. p. 37, line 2Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
  3. p. 37, line 3Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.

twenty-four 2

  1. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  2. p. 178, line 2Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,

twenty-ninth 1

  1. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,

twice 1

  1. p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.

twig 1

  1. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,

twigs 3

  1. p. 36, line 16I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
  2. p. 100, line 7And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut,
  3. p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,

twilight 14

  1. p. 77, line 15Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
  2. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,
  3. p. 132, line 28The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?
  4. p. 218, line 17What deepening twilight—scum floating atop of the waters,
  5. p. 326, line 19I am the ever-laughing—it is new moon and twilight,
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  1. p. 384, line 63[…] Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs […]
  2. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  3. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  4. p. 404, line 3The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,
  5. p. 406, line 25[…] A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from […]
  6. p. 410, line 19To-day at twilight, hobbling, answering company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,
  7. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  8. p. 416, line 15Embalm'd with love in this twilight song.
  9. p. 431, line 22[…] of their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight dimness! What is there in those works that so imperiously […]

twill 1

  1. p. 400, line 3I cast a reminiscence—(likely 'twill offend you,

twin 2

  1. p. 50, line 14Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself,
  2. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,

twine 2

  1. p. 223, line 21I'll weave the chord and twine in,
  2. p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,

twined 5

  1. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  2. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  3. p. 208, line 19Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old,
  4. p. 262, line 19Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
  5. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,

twinges 1

  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,

twining 1

  1. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,

twinkle 1

  1. p. 359, line 7Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,

twirl 1

  1. p. 50, line 13With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.

twist 2

  1. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  2. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

twisted 2

  1. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  2. p. 331, line 14The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood waits,

twisting 1

  1. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,

twitching 2

  1. p. 64, line 11(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)
  2. p. 333, line 19The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,

twittering 5

  1. p. 44, line 4Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  2. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  3. p. 197, line 6As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
  4. p. 312, line 15The twittering bird, the hawk's sharp scream,

two 72

  1. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  4. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  5. p. 31, line 20Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
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  1. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
  2. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
  3. p. 58, line 3My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
  4. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  5. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  6. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
  7. p. 63, line 14Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  8. p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  9. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  10. p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,
  11. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  12. 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,
  13. p. 93, line 1WE two, how long we were fool'd,
  14. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  15. p. 93, line 8We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
  16. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
  17. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
  18. p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
  19. p. 93, line 15We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,
  20. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  21. p. 105, line 20We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
  22. p. 108, line 1WE two boys together clinging,
  23. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  24. 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,
  25. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  26. 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,
  27. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
  28. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  29. p. 197, line 16Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
  30. p. 197, line 24While we bask, we two together.
  31. p. 197, line 25Two together!
  32. p. 197, line 30While we two keep together.
  33. p. 200, line 13We two together no more.
  34. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
  35. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
  36. p. 233, line 6It was the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  37. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  38. p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,
  39. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  40. p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
  41. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  42. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  43. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
  44. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  45. p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
  46. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
  47. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  48. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  49. p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
  50. p. 354, line 19And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  51. p. 362, line 30Two little breaths of words comprising it,
  52. p. 362, line 31Two words, yet all from first to last comprised in it.
  53. p. 398, line 24The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,
  54. p. 407, line 26[…] to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness […]
  55. p. 412, line 2Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us:
  56. p. 413, line 42[…] handling and officering equal to the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make […]
  57. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  58. p. 416, line 21Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
  59. p. 426, line 3[…] publishing it I have been the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably […]
  60. p. 428, line 10[…] and ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses and shiftings of […]
  61. p. 433, line 6[…] Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read […]
  62. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it […]

two-handed 1

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

twos 4

  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,
  2. p. 208, line 11(Ever the heroes on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
  3. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  4. p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,

two-sworded 1

  1. p. 193, line 9Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,

two-threaded 1

  1. p. 156, line 3Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,

Twould 1

  1. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

tying 1

  1. p. 317, line 16Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,

tylandria 1

  1. 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,

tympan 1

  1. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,

tympans 3

  1. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  2. p. 298, line 1I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck,
  3. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,

tympanum 1

  1. p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,

type 7

  1. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
  2. p. 320, line 17(History's type of courage, action, faith,)
  3. p. 359, line 10Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,
  4. p. 384, line 8[…] Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to […]
  5. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  6. p. 407, line 29[…] may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn […]
  7. p. 435, line 5[…] on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent with the operative political and […]

types 6

  1. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
  2. p. 96, line 5Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,
  3. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.
  4. p. 149, line 27The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;
  5. p. 202, line 17As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types.
  6. p. 431, line 33[…] existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types of song they belong in America just about as much […]

typical 1

  1. p. 273, line 2A man before all—myself, typical, before all.

typify 1

  1. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)

tyranny 1

  1. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,

tyrant 2

  1. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
  2. p. 306, line 11Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.

tyrants 3

  1. p. 212, line 22Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  2. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  3. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,