Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “then”

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  1. p. 9, line 20Be it so, then I answer'd,
  2. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  3. p. 10, line 21Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
  4. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
  5. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  6. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  7. p. 19, line 10This then is life,
  8. p. 20, line 25Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it,
  9. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  10. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  11. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  12. p. 50, line 16Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
  13. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  14. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  15. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  16. p. 55, line 12I but use you a minute, then I resign you, stallion,
  17. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  18. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  19. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  20. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  21. 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?
  22. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  23. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
  24. p. 78, line 10Very well then I contradict myself,
  25. 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?
  26. p. 96, line 23Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
  27. p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
  28. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  29. p. 101, line 13Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further,
  30. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  31. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  32. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
  33. p. 111, line 3Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
  34. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  35. p. 131, line 13What is it then between us?
  36. p. 133, line 4We understand then do we not?
  37. p. 136, line 8Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  38. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  39. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  40. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
  41. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  42. p. 158, line 25The dame of dames! can I believe then,
  43. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  44. p. 167, line 7Then to a loftier strain,
  45. p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
  46. p. 170, line 9Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  47. 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.
  48. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  49. p. 173, line 12Will the whole come back then?
  50. p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
  51. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
  52. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  53. p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
  54. p. 194, line 7Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes.
  55. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  56. p. 201, line 11A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
  57. p. 202, line 14Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
  58. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
  59. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  60. p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
  61. p. 210, line 19Retreat then—pell-mell!
  62. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  63. p. 216, line 16A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
  64. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  65. p. 220, line 1From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the doorways,
  66. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
  67. p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
  68. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  69. p. 223, line 8And then the song of each member of these States.
  70. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
  71. p. 225, line 14I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
  72. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  73. p. 226, line 28Demons and death then I sing,
  74. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  75. p. 230, line 21Then the Mother of All with calm voice speaking,
  76. p. 232, line 14Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.
  77. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  78. p. 232, line 29A few days more and they landed, and then the battle.
  79. p. 233, line 14Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle,
  80. p. 233, line 24Till we turn'd menacing here, and then he left us.
  81. p. 234, line 3Nobody clapp'd hands here then.
  82. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  83. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  84. p. 238, line 5Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,
  85. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
  86. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  87. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
  88. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  89. p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
  90. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
  91. p. 240, line 8Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
  92. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  93. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
  94. p. 240, line 23Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,
  95. p. 248, line 7The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal,
  96. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;
  97. p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
  98. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
  99. p. 254, line 16Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad—turn your undying face,
  100. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,
  101. p. 259, line 25Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,
  102. p. 260, line 24Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
  103. p. 264, line 11I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
  104. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.
  105. p. 279, line 22Pass—then rattle drums again,
  106. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  107. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  108. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  109. p. 288, line 7Then courage European revolter, revoltress!
  110. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  111. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  112. p. 297, line 4Then travel travel on.
  113. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  114. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  115. p. 302, line 1Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
  116. p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
  117. p. 309, line 4Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
  118. p. 314, line 28Then I woke softly,
  119. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  120. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  121. p. 322, line 21Then have thy bent unleash'd.
  122. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
  123. p. 337, line 8Then indeed suspicion of death.
  124. p. 338, line 13Then we burst forth, we float,
  125. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  126. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  127. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  128. p. 369, line 17Then my realities;
  129. p. 370, line 6O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
  130. p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
  131. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  132. p. 384, line 28[…] Comes In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O […]
  133. p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
  134. p. 390, line 10On to oblivion then!
  135. p. 391, line 8Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,
  136. p. 396, line 22Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
  137. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)
  138. p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)
  139. p. 408, line 14Then behind all, the deep-down consolation (it is a glum one […]
  140. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  141. p. 411, line 40[…] medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
  142. p. 412, line 16I DOUBT it not—then more, far more;
  143. p. 412, line 26Then only may these songs reach fruition.
  144. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  145. p. 417, line 6Put the scalp-knife carefully in his belt—then lying down, resting a moment,
  146. p. 418, line 4Then after burying, mourning the dead,
  147. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,
  148. p. 422, line 13Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
  149. p. 431, line 39[…] make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]
  150. p. 434, line 17[…] which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward those […]
  151. p. 437, line 1[…] Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all […]
  152. p. 437, line 7[…] moral America. I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my […]