Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “thee”

thee 258 Back to T

  1. p. 11, line 11TO thee old cause!
  2. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  3. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
  4. p. 11, line 17These chants for thee, the eternal march of thee.
  5. p. 11, line 22Around the idea of thee the war revolving,
  6. p. 11, line 25These recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,
  7. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
  8. p. 11, line 28Around the idea of thee.
  9. p. 14, line 1And thee my soul,
  10. p. 18, line 13Therefore for thee the following chants.
  11. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  12. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  13. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  14. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  15. p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
  16. p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
  17. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  18. p. 163, line 17Thee, ever thee, I sing.
  19. p. 163, line 20Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language,
  20. p. 163, line 25For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands;
  21. p. 164, line 24We dedicate, dread Mother, all to thee!
  22. p. 164, line 27Without thee neither all nor each, nor land, home,
  23. p. 164, line 31Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,)
  24. p. 165, line 1In other scenes than these have I observ'd thee flag,
  25. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  26. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  27. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  28. p. 165, line 17While we rehearse our measureless wealth, it is for thee, dear Mother,
  29. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  30. 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!
  31. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  32. p. 165, line 21Our freedom all in thee! our very lives in thee!
  33. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
  34. p. 182, line 32Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
  35. p. 204, line 29And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,)
  36. p. 204, line 31As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee,
  37. p. 206, line 22(With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,
  38. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
  39. p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
  40. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
  41. p. 208, line 10Indomitable, untamed as thee.
  42. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)
  43. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  44. p. 252, line 21(The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,)
  45. p. 252, line 23Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
  46. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  47. p. 260, line 23Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
  48. p. 260, line 24Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
  49. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  50. p. 260, line 28Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
  51. p. 260, line 30From me to thee glad serenades,
  52. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
  53. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  54. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
  55. p. 261, line 5Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
  56. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
  57. p. 262, line 7Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,
  58. p. 262, line 8I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.
  59. p. 262, line 9I cease from my song for thee,
  60. p. 262, line 10From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,
  61. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  62. p. 278, line 6Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,
  63. p. 278, line 8Tuning a verse for thee.
  64. p. 278, line 12A song to narrate thee.
  65. p. 278, line 28Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment,
  66. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  67. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  68. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  69. p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,
  70. p. 282, line 16Under the beaming sun and under thee.
  71. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  72. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  73. p. 294, line 23What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire?
  74. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
  75. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  76. p. 306, line 17And left thee sacred.
  77. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
  78. p. 306, line 32So thee O ship of France!
  79. p. 308, line 21Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,
  80. p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
  81. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,
  82. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  83. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  84. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
  85. p. 309, line 31The mothers fit for thee?
  86. p. 310, line 27Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend,
  87. p. 310, line 29For thee they sing and dance O soul.
  88. p. 314, line 17(Such led to thee O soul,
  89. p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
  90. p. 315, line 15But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
  91. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  92. p. 316, line 29Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
  93. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  94. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  95. p. 320, line 31O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,
  96. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
  97. p. 321, line 10O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.
  98. p. 321, line 13O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
  99. p. 321, line 18Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,
  100. p. 321, line 19I and my soul to range in range of thee.
  101. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  102. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
  103. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  104. p. 323, line 23Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee, commune with Thee,
  105. p. 323, line 24Report myself once more to Thee.
  106. p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
  107. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  108. p. 324, line 2Accepting all from Thee, as duly come from Thee.
  109. p. 324, line 3All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee,
  110. p. 324, line 4My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
  111. p. 324, line 5Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
  112. p. 324, line 6Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.
  113. p. 324, line 7O I am sure they really came from Thee,
  114. p. 324, line 15The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
  115. p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,
  116. p. 324, line 23With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,
  117. p. 324, line 27Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee.
  118. p. 324, line 31I yield my ships to Thee.
  119. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  120. p. 324, line 36Thee, Thee at least I know.
  121. p. 346, line 23For thee, the future.
  122. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  123. p. 347, line 9Out of that formula for thee I sing.
  124. p. 347, line 12Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
  125. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
  126. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
  127. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  128. p. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  129. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
  130. p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
  131. p. 348, line 13The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.
  132. p. 348, line 16The Past is also stored in thee,
  133. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,
  134. p. 348, line 23Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee,
  135. p. 348, line 24And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
  136. p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
  137. p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
  138. p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
  139. p. 349, line 17I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
  140. p. 349, line 18I merely thee ejaculate!
  141. p. 349, line 19Thee in thy future,
  142. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,
  143. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  144. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  145. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  146. p. 349, line 27Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
  147. p. 350, line 1Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest material civilization must remain in vain,)
  148. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,
  149. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  150. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  151. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,
  152. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
  153. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  154. p. 350, line 11These! these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.
  155. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,
  156. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
  157. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  158. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  159. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  160. p. 351, line 6They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
  161. p. 351, line 13In thee America, the soul, its destinies,
  162. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  163. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  164. p. 352, line 5O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.
  165. p. 352, line 7Thy lover me, for always I have loved thee,
  166. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  167. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
  168. p. 356, line 8I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,
  169. p. 356, line 11Come nearer bodiless one, haply in thee resounds
  170. p. 356, line 17That I may thee translate.
  171. p. 356, line 18Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,
  172. p. 358, line 28THEE for my recitative,
  173. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  174. p. 358, line 30Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,
  175. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  176. p. 365, line 24Beaming towards thee.)
  177. p. 366, line 1Nor think we forget thee maternal;
  178. p. 366, line 2Lag'd'st thou so long? shall the clouds close again upon thee?
  179. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  180. p. 366, line 29O lesson opportune, O how I welcome thee!
  181. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)
  182. p. 367, line 13Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers,
  183. p. 368, line 7WHAT best I see in thee,
  184. p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,
  185. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  186. p. 368, line 29They have remember'd thee.
  187. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  188. p. 380, line 3Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
  189. p. 384, line 16[…] Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out […]
  190. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,
  191. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
  192. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.
  193. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  194. p. 388, line 6The heirdom all converged in thee!
  195. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
  196. p. 394, line 12What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!
  197. p. 395, line 17How much from thee! the revelation of the singing voice from thee!
  198. p. 395, line 27To memory of thee.
  199. p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
  200. p. 402, line 21Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
  201. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"
  202. p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
  203. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  204. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  205. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  206. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
  207. p. 412, line 13Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking thee;
  208. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  209. p. 414, line 18Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All,
  210. p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,
  211. p. 414, line 24Ever so far back, preluding thee, America,
  212. p. 415, line 10Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee,
  213. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  214. p. 417, line 20Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
  215. p. 417, line 21We mourn the old, the young untimely drawn to thee,
  216. p. 418, line 22How ill to e'er forget thee!
  217. p. 421, line 16(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)