Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “thou”

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  1. p. 9, line 16And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,
  2. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
  3. p. 11, line 12Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,
  4. p. 11, line 13Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
  5. p. 11, line 20Thou orb of many orbs!
  6. p. 11, line 21Thou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!
  7. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
  8. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
  9. p. 147, line 5Know'st thou the excellent joys of youth?
  10. p. 147, line 11Know'st thou the joys of pensive thought?
  11. p. 163, line 13And thou America,
  12. p. 163, line 16Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all,
  13. p. 163, line 18Thou, also thou, a World,
  14. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  15. p. 164, line 25Protectress absolute, thou! bulwark of all!
  16. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  17. p. 164, line 30And thou, the Emblem waving over all!
  18. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  19. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  20. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  21. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  22. p. 182, line 14And thou America,
  23. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  24. p. 182, line 17Thou too surroundest all,
  25. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  26. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  27. p. 204, line 28(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st,
  28. p. 205, line 6Thou also re-appearest.
  29. p. 205, line 7Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,)
  30. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,
  31. p. 205, line 13In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,
  32. p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
  33. p. 206, line 20Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
  34. p. 208, line 8Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations,
  35. p. 213, line 15Be thou my God.
  36. p. 213, line 16Thou, thou, the Ideal Man,
  37. p. 213, line 19Be thou my God.
  38. p. 213, line 22Be thou my God.
  39. p. 213, line 25Be thou my God.
  40. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
  41. p. 252, line 20Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world,
  42. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  43. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  44. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  45. p. 278, line 27Thou art all over set in births and joys!
  46. p. 278, line 28Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment,
  47. p. 278, line 29Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions,
  48. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  49. p. 279, line 3Thou envy of the globe! thou miracle!
  50. p. 279, line 4Thou, bathed, choked, swimming in plenty,
  51. p. 279, line 5Thou lucky Mistress of the tranquil barns,
  52. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,
  53. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)
  54. p. 281, line 25Well-pleased America thou beholdest,
  55. p. 294, line 11Thou, soul, unloosen'd—the restlessness after I know not what;
  56. p. 294, line 22WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
  57. p. 294, line 24The life thou lived'st we know not,
  58. p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,
  59. p. 295, line 32O thou within this tomb,
  60. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
  61. p. 306, line 18In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly,
  62. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  63. p. 306, line 20In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep,
  64. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
  65. p. 306, line 22In that thou couldst not, wouldst not, wear the usual chains,
  66. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
  67. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  68. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
  69. p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
  70. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  71. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
  72. p. 317, line 19Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,
  73. p. 317, line 20The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.)
  74. p. 318, line 3Lands found and nations born, thou born America,
  75. p. 318, line 5Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'd.
  76. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  77. p. 320, line 31O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,
  78. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
  79. p. 321, line 10O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.
  80. p. 321, line 13O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
  81. p. 321, line 20O Thou transcendent,
  82. p. 321, line 22Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,
  83. p. 321, line 23Thou mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving,
  84. p. 321, line 24Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection's source—thou reservoir,
  85. p. 321, line 27Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,
  86. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  87. p. 322, line 1And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,
  88. p. 322, line 2Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,
  89. p. 322, line 5Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;
  90. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
  91. p. 322, line 18O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?
  92. p. 322, line 19Disportest thou on waters such as those?
  93. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
  94. p. 323, line 25Thou knowest my years entire, my life,
  95. p. 323, line 27Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth,
  96. p. 323, line 28Thou knowest my manhood's solemn and visionary meditations,
  97. p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
  98. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
  99. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  100. p. 324, line 22That Thou O God my life hast lighted,
  101. p. 338, line 1DAREST thou now O soul,
  102. p. 338, line 8Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,
  103. p. 346, line 20THOU Mother with thy equal brood,
  104. p. 346, line 21Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
  105. p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!
  106. p. 348, line 7And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
  107. p. 348, line 8Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,
  108. p. 348, line 9Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it,
  109. p. 348, line 12Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing,
  110. p. 348, line 17Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone,
  111. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
  112. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  113. p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
  114. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  115. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
  116. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,
  117. p. 351, line 8Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)
  118. p. 351, line 14Thou globe of globes! thou wonder nebulous!
  119. p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
  120. p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
  121. p. 352, line 10(Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,
  122. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  123. p. 352, line 15Thou that with fructifying heat and light,
  124. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,
  125. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  126. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,
  127. p. 357, line 1What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,
  128. p. 358, line 1O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest,
  129. p. 358, line 2Thou melt'st my heart, my brain—thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;
  130. p. 358, line 4Thou takest away all cheering light, all hope,
  131. p. 366, line 2Lag'd'st thou so long? shall the clouds close again upon thee?
  132. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  133. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  134. p. 366, line 5Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time.
  135. p. 367, line 7Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,
  136. p. 367, line 14Thou yieldest up thyself.
  137. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
  138. p. 368, line 10Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
  139. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,
  140. p. 368, line 28But thou that revelest here—spirit that form'd this scene,
  141. p. 369, line 4Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,
  142. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  143. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  144. p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
  145. p. 387, line 2Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?
  146. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  147. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,
  148. p. 392, line 23Thou tellest to a kindred soul.
  149. p. 392, line 29Victor's and vanquish'd—Lincoln's and Lee's—now thou with them,
  150. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  151. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  152. p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!
  153. p. 394, line 18Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!
  154. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  155. p. 394, line 20Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson!
  156. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  157. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  158. p. 402, line 12To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia,
  159. p. 403, line 13"Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,
  160. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  161. p. 414, line 2Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door,
  162. p. 414, line 3Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing
  163. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  164. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  165. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  166. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,
  167. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  168. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?
  169. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  170. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,
  171. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  172. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  173. p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,
  174. p. 415, line 14Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.
  175. p. 415, line 20Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,
  176. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!
  177. p. 418, line 16Thou waters that encompass us!
  178. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!
  179. p. 418, line 18Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
  180. p. 418, line 19Thou that in all, and over all, and through and under all, incessant!
  181. p. 418, line 20Thou! thou! the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm,
  182. p. 421, line 18More multiform far—more lasting thou than they.