Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  2. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  3. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
  4. p. 13, line 35Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,
  5. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
  6. p. 15, line 4How people respond to them, yet know them not,
  7. p. 15, line 8TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
  8. p. 19, line 19Countless masses debouch upon them,
  9. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  10. p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
  11. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  12. p. 20, line 12And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
  13. 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,
  14. p. 21, line 27I will give them complete abandonment,
  15. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  16. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  17. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  18. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  19. p. 26, line 29The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,
  20. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
  21. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  22. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  23. p. 33, line 1And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  24. p. 33, line 13Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  25. p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
  26. p. 35, line 4I peeringly view them from the top.
  27. p. 35, line 19I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
  28. p. 37, line 7Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  29. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  30. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  31. p. 39, line 4I see in them and myself the same old law.
  32. p. 39, line 6They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  33. p. 39, line 10I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  34. p. 40, line 8As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle,
  35. p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
  36. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  37. p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  38. p. 43, line 12I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
  39. p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  40. p. 44, line 21And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  41. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  42. p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
  43. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  44. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  45. p. 48, line 21And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  46. p. 50, line 21I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  47. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
  48. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  49. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  50. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  51. p. 53, line 24And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
  52. p. 54, line 21I stand and look at them long and long.
  53. p. 54, line 28So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
  54. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  55. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  56. p. 55, line 3Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
  57. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  58. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  59. p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
  60. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  61. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
  62. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  63. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,
  64. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  65. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  66. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  67. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
  68. p. 69, line 4Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  69. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  70. p. 71, line 8There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  71. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  72. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  73. 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?
  74. p. 75, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  75. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  76. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  77. p. 76, line 5They and all would resume what I have told them.
  78. p. 76, line 24And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
  79. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  80. p. 78, line 12I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
  81. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  82. p. 80, line 3From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
  83. p. 80, line 7Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,
  84. p. 80, line 10Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land, I them chanting,
  85. p. 81, line 17The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  86. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  87. p. 81, line 19And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
  88. p. 82, line 22And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.
  89. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  90. 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,
  91. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
  92. p. 85, line 24They shall be stript that you may see them.
  93. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  94. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  95. 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,
  96. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  97. 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,
  98. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  99. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  100. p. 96, line 4Projecting them along that substantial life,
  101. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
  102. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
  103. p. 99, line 24Collecting, dispensing, singing, there I wander with them,
  104. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  105. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  106. p. 100, line 29Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
  107. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  108. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  109. p. 105, line 1Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
  110. p. 105, line 2Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
  111. p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
  112. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
  113. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  114. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  115. p. 106, line 25I know I should be happy with them.
  116. p. 107, line 3(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)
  117. p. 107, line 20But when I hear of the brotherhood of lovers, how it was with them,
  118. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  119. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  120. p. 115, line 10I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,
  121. p. 115, line 11I see them in Asia and in Africa.
  122. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  123. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  124. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  125. p. 117, line 18I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
  126. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
  127. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
  128. p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
  129. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
  130. p. 121, line 10I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
  131. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  132. p. 121, line 12I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
  133. p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
  134. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  135. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
  136. p. 124, line 20What gives me to be free to a woman's and man's good-will? what gives them to be free to mine?
  137. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  138. p. 127, line 4Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
  139. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
  140. p. 127, line 14To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
  141. p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
  142. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  143. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  144. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  145. p. 131, line 2The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset,
  146. p. 131, line 11Others the same—others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,
  147. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  148. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  149. p. 134, line 23Him they immerse and he immerses them.
  150. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  151. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  152. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
  153. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  154. p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
  155. p. 138, line 2Forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
  156. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,
  157. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  158. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  159. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
  160. 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,
  161. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  162. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  163. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  164. p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,
  165. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
  166. p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
  167. p. 152, line 19Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in return and understands them,
  168. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  169. p. 157, line 16She receives them as the laws of Nature receive them, she is strong,
  170. p. 158, line 26Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?
  171. p. 158, line 28But that she's left them all—and here?
  172. p. 160, line 16We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
  173. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  174. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
  175. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  176. p. 166, line 32And leave the field for them.
  177. p. 167, line 1For them predicted long,
  178. p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
  179. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  180. p. 167, line 6To be in them absorb'd, assimilated.
  181. 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.
  182. p. 170, line 20And all else behind or through them.
  183. p. 171, line 10It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
  184. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
  185. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
  186. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
  187. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  188. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  189. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  190. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
  191. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  192. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
  193. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  194. p. 175, line 5In them the development good—in them all themes, hints, possibilities.
  195. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  196. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  197. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  198. p. 178, line 4Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them,
  199. p. 178, line 8From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
  200. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  201. p. 180, line 23You shall be fully glorified in them.
  202. p. 187, line 11Underneath them and within them I see you lurk,
  203. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
  204. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
  205. p. 189, line 4And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
  206. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
  207. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
  208. p. 189, line 19But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
  209. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  210. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  211. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  212. p. 192, line 13We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and more,
  213. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  214. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  215. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,
  216. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  217. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
  218. p. 197, line 20And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
  219. p. 201, line 30And with them the key, the word up from the waves,
  220. p. 205, line 13In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,
  221. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
  222. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  223. p. 208, line 19Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old,
  224. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
  225. p. 210, line 15Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  226. p. 211, line 5This centre-piece for them;
  227. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  228. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  229. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  230. p. 217, line 11The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.
  231. p. 218, line 12LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
  232. p. 218, line 13Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?
  233. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  234. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
  235. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  236. p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
  237. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  238. 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,
  239. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  240. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  241. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
  242. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  243. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
  244. p. 233, line 12The General watch'd them from this hill,
  245. p. 233, line 15But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!
  246. p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
  247. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
  248. p. 239, line 14Faces, varieties, postures beyond description, most in obscurity, some of them dead,
  249. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  250. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  251. p. 246, line 20And the double grave awaits them.)
  252. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
  253. p. 248, line 2I saw them depart with cheerfulness, freely risking their lives.
  254. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  255. p. 252, line 22Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all,
  256. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  257. p. 253, line 16Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive,
  258. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,
  259. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  260. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  261. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  262. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  263. p. 261, line 19Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them,
  264. p. 261, line 23I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  265. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  266. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,
  267. p. 265, line 7Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like,
  268. p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
  269. p. 266, line 16Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face,
  270. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  271. p. 266, line 27Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,
  272. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
  273. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  274. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  275. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  276. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  277. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  278. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  279. p. 275, line 7I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me,
  280. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  281. p. 280, line 13Them that day I saw not.)
  282. p. 280, line 15I saw them approaching, defiling by with divisions,
  283. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  284. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  285. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  286. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  287. 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;
  288. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  289. p. 289, line 17I suspect I shall meet them there,
  290. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  291. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  292. p. 293, line 9While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
  293. p. 294, line 3Shimmer of waters with fish in them, the cerulean above,
  294. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
  295. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  296. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  297. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  298. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  299. p. 301, line 22The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
  300. p. 301, line 25Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
  301. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  302. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  303. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  304. p. 305, line 18Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon,
  305. p. 306, line 16Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,
  306. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,
  307. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  308. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  309. p. 307, line 23What yearning expression! how uneasy they are when he moves away from them;
  310. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  311. p. 313, line 23I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies,
  312. p. 314, line 27Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
  313. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  314. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  315. p. 321, line 22Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,
  316. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
  317. p. 325, line 21The night pervades them and infolds them.
  318. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  319. p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
  320. p. 328, line 20In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  321. p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  322. p. 330, line 25The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  323. p. 330, line 27The night and sleep have liken'd them and restored them.
  324. p. 332, line 21Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
  325. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  326. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  327. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  328. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  329. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
  330. p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
  331. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  332. p. 341, line 4And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them,
  333. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  334. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  335. p. 343, line 18Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
  336. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
  337. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  338. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  339. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
  340. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  341. p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
  342. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
  343. p. 351, line 25The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
  344. p. 352, line 14I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)
  345. p. 353, line 15I see them and complain not, and am content with all.
  346. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  347. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
  348. p. 358, line 2Thou melt'st my heart, my brain—thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;
  349. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  350. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
  351. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  352. p. 364, line 22Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.
  353. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  354. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,
  355. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  356. p. 372, line 23Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.
  357. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  358. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  359. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  360. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  361. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  362. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
  363. p. 378, line 11In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,
  364. p. 379, line 2Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them,
  365. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,
  366. p. 379, line 4Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,
  367. p. 379, line 5(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)
  368. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  369. p. 382, line 5My songs cease, I abandon them,
  370. p. 392, line 29Victor's and vanquish'd—Lincoln's and Lee's—now thou with them,
  371. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  372. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  373. p. 399, line 7And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
  374. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  375. p. 404, line 7Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
  376. p. 404, line 8The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.
  377. p. 408, line 22[…] both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City, or […]
  378. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  379. p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,
  380. p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,
  381. p. 416, line 22And wholly and joyously blends them.
  382. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  383. p. 418, line 18Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
  384. p. 420, line 14(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,)
  385. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)
  386. p. 421, line 23Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting,
  387. p. 425, line 6[…] on land or sea, is the résumé of them, or any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with […]
  388. p. 425, line 17[…] completing my poems, I am curious to review them in the light of their own (at the time unconscious […]
  389. p. 427, line 15[…] throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths […]
  390. p. 428, line 1[…] facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong […]
  391. p. 428, line 20[…] those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we have cull'd […]
  392. p. 428, line 28[…] we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made […]
  393. p. 429, line 7[…] themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without which they could have had no reason for […]
  394. p. 429, line 45[…] world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could do. But […]
  395. p. 430, line 6[…] old and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those […]
  396. p. 430, line 40[…] time, and dominate all that precedes or opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or […]
  397. p. 431, line 3[…] those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the […]
  398. p. 431, line 8[…] woman's individuality, Old World or New, are from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most […]
  399. p. 431, line 16[…] with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be? Is there one […]
  400. p. 432, line 21[…] of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly […]
  401. p. 433, line 7[…] and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter mostly in an […]
  402. p. 433, line 13[…] by those mighty masters. Likely because I read them, as described, in the full presence of Nature, under the […]
  403. p. 434, line 19[…] I myself put primarily for the description of them as they stand at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I […]
  404. p. 435, line 27[…] doctrines and popular education, a certain liability accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in […]
  405. p. 435, line 32[…] of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating […]
  406. p. 436, line 6[…] early midday of my life.) I will want them to be the poems of women entirely as much as […]
  407. p. 436, line 29[…] and the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an […]
  408. p. 436, line 41[…] of mine can do so, any elision of them […]
  409. p. 438, line 16[…] get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or […]
  410. p. 438, line 27[…] their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality […]