Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  2. p. 9, line 14As to me directing like flame its eyes,
  3. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  4. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
  5. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  6. p. 10, line 27Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
  7. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  8. p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
  9. p. 11, line 9Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,
  10. p. 11, line 11TO thee old cause!
  11. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
  12. p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
  13. p. 11, line 27As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
  14. p. 12, line 4To glean eidólons.
  15. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  16. p. 12, line 24To fashion his eidólon.
  17. p. 13, line 7Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,
  18. p. 13, line 11Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
  19. p. 13, line 31Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
  20. p. 13, line 35Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,
  21. p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
  22. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  23. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
  24. p. 14, line 24I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
  25. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  26. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  27. p. 15, line 2How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
  28. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  29. p. 15, line 4How people respond to them, yet know them not,
  30. p. 15, line 8TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
  31. p. 15, line 13Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,)
  32. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  33. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  34. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  35. p. 16, line 12Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
  36. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  37. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  38. p. 17, line 5The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
  39. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  40. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  41. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
  42. p. 17, line 13Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
  43. p. 17, line 17(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
  44. p. 17, line 19SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
  45. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
  46. p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
  47. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  48. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
  49. p. 18, line 8Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
  50. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  51. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
  52. p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
  53. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  54. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
  55. p. 20, line 5Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea,
  56. p. 20, line 8Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all.
  57. p. 20, line 17Why these are the children of the antique to justify it.
  58. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
  59. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  60. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  61. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  62. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  63. p. 22, line 9(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the winner's pealing shouts,
  64. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
  65. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  66. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  67. p. 22, line 27Any more than such are to religion.
  68. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  69. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  70. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  71. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  72. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  73. p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
  74. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  75. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  76. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  77. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  78. p. 24, line 11For those who belong here and those to come,
  79. 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.
  80. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  81. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  82. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  83. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  84. p. 25, line 3I will not make poems with reference to parts,
  85. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  86. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  87. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  88. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  89. p. 25, line 8Was somebody asking to see the soul?
  90. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  91. p. 25, line 14Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
  92. p. 25, line 20Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!
  93. p. 26, line 2Exulting words, words to Democracy's lands.
  94. p. 26, line 26Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
  95. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  96. p. 27, line 3Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
  97. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  98. p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
  99. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  100. p. 27, line 8Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
  101. p. 27, line 10For your life adhere to me,
  102. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  103. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
  104. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
  105. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  106. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
  107. p. 29, line 1O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
  108. p. 29, line 5O to haste firm holding—to haste, haste on with me.
  109. p. 29, line 8For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  110. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.
  111. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
  112. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  113. p. 29, line 25I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
  114. p. 30, line 5The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,
  115. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
  116. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  117. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  118. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
  119. p. 31, line 19And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
  120. p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  121. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  122. p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.
  123. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  124. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  125. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  126. p. 33, line 20This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  127. p. 33, line 22Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  128. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  129. p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  130. p. 34, line 10Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  131. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  132. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  133. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  134. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  135. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  136. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  137. p. 35, line 23The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow.
  138. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  139. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  140. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
  141. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
  142. p. 37, line 7Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  143. p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  144. 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,
  145. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  146. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  147. p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  148. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  149. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  150. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  151. p. 39, line 6They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  152. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  153. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  154. p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
  155. p. 39, line 23The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  156. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
  157. p. 39, line 29The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
  158. p. 40, line 4The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
  159. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
  160. p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
  161. p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
  162. p. 41, line 4The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  163. p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  164. p. 42, line 1And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
  165. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
  166. p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
  167. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  168. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  169. p. 43, line 13Vivas to those who have fail'd!
  170. p. 43, line 14And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
  171. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  172. p. 43, line 16And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
  173. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  174. p. 43, line 25This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
  175. p. 44, line 12Else it were time lost listening to me.
  176. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
  177. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
  178. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  179. p. 44, line 23To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  180. p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  181. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  182. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  183. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  184. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  185. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  186. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  187. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  188. p. 46, line 16I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
  189. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  190. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
  191. p. 47, line 8This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  192. p. 47, line 15Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  193. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  194. p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
  195. p. 48, line 12And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
  196. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  197. p. 49, line 10Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!
  198. p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,
  199. p. 49, line 29To behold the day-break!
  200. p. 49, line 31The air tastes good to my palate.
  201. p. 50, line 14Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself,
  202. p. 50, line 21I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  203. p. 50, line 25Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
  204. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
  205. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
  206. p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  207. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
  208. p. 52, line 2At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  209. p. 52, line 4To be in any form, what is that?
  210. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  211. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  212. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  213. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  214. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
  215. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  216. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  217. p. 52, line 28They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  218. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  219. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
  220. p. 53, line 13The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  221. p. 53, line 17(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  222. p. 53, line 23And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  223. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  224. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
  225. p. 54, line 17In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  226. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,
  227. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  228. p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  229. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  230. p. 54, line 28So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
  231. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  232. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  233. p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  234. p. 56, line 22Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
  235. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
  236. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  237. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
  238. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  239. p. 58, line 8Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,
  240. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
  241. p. 58, line 24I help myself to material and immaterial,
  242. p. 58, line 27My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  243. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  244. p. 58, line 29I ascend to the foretruck,
  245. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  246. p. 59, line 12I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  247. p. 60, line 27Again to my listening ears the cannon responsive.
  248. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  249. p. 61, line 24None obey'd the command to kneel,
  250. p. 62, line 1Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
  251. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  252. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
  253. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  254. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
  255. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  256. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  257. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
  258. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  259. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  260. p. 64, line 3You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
  261. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  262. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
  263. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  264. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  265. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  266. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  267. p. 66, line 12To cotton-field drudge or cleaner of privies I lean,
  268. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  269. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  270. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  271. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  272. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  273. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  274. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  275. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  276. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  277. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  278. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
  279. p. 68, line 20To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
  280. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  281. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
  282. p. 69, line 26Drinking mead from the skull-cup, to Shastas and Vedas admirant, minding the Koran,
  283. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
  284. p. 70, line 4Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.
  285. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  286. p. 71, line 3It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.
  287. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  288. p. 71, line 16(What have I to do with lamentation?)
  289. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
  290. p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  291. p. 72, line 3They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  292. p. 72, line 6For it the nebula cohered to an orb,
  293. p. 72, line 7The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
  294. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  295. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  296. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  297. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  298. p. 73, line 20I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
  299. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
  300. p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
  301. 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?
  302. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  303. p. 74, line 12Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
  304. p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
  305. p. 74, line 18Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  306. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  307. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  308. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  309. p. 75, line 6And those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun.
  310. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  311. p. 75, line 12Tied in your mouth, in mine it begins to be loosen'd.)
  312. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  313. p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  314. p. 75, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me, he knows me well,
  315. p. 76, line 1My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  316. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  317. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  318. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  319. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  320. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  321. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  322. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  323. p. 77, line 2To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
  324. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  325. p. 77, line 8I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.
  326. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  327. p. 77, line 17Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
  328. p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  329. p. 77, line 27To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  330. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  331. p. 78, line 6Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
  332. p. 78, line 14Who wishes to walk with me?
  333. p. 78, line 21It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
  334. p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  335. p. 79, line 2But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  336. p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
  337. p. 79, line 7TO the garden the world anew ascending,
  338. p. 79, line 12Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
  339. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  340. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
  341. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  342. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  343. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  344. p. 80, line 28From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
  345. p. 81, line 10From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave,
  346. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  347. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  348. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
  349. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  350. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  351. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  352. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  353. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  354. p. 83, line 11I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
  355. p. 83, line 12To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  356. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  357. 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?
  358. 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,
  359. p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  360. p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
  361. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
  362. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  363. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  364. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
  365. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  366. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  367. p. 86, line 22I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
  368. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  369. p. 89, line 1I draw you close to me, you women,
  370. p. 89, line 5They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
  371. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  372. p. 89, line 10I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
  373. p. 89, line 16The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
  374. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  375. 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,
  376. p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,
  377. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
  378. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  379. p. 91, line 6The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,
  380. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  381. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
  382. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  383. p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
  384. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  385. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  386. p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
  387. p. 91, line 19O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!
  388. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
  389. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  390. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
  391. p. 91, line 24To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
  392. p. 92, line 1To have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!
  393. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  394. p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
  395. p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
  396. p. 92, line 6To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!
  397. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
  398. p. 92, line 8To rise thither with my inebriate soul!
  399. p. 92, line 9To be lost if it must be so!
  400. p. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  401. p. 92, line 12OUT of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
  402. p. 92, line 14I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
  403. p. 92, line 18Return in peace to the ocean my love,
  404. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  405. p. 93, line 26So the body of me to all I meet or know.
  406. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  407. p. 94, line 16I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,
  408. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  409. p. 95, line 21Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,
  410. p. 95, line 22Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul,
  411. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  412. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  413. p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
  414. p. 96, line 9To celebrate the need of comrades.
  415. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
  416. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  417. p. 96, line 19Yet you are beautiful to me you faint tinged roots, you make me think of death,
  418. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  419. p. 96, line 23Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
  420. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  421. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  422. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  423. p. 97, line 8Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
  424. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  425. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  426. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
  427. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
  428. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  429. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  430. p. 98, line 9Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
  431. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
  432. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  433. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  434. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  435. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  436. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  437. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  438. p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
  439. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  440. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  441. p. 101, line 18A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,
  442. p. 101, line 20(So to the students the old professor,
  443. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  444. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  445. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  446. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  447. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
  448. p. 103, line 15Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
  449. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  450. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  451. 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,
  452. p. 104, line 6Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
  453. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  454. p. 104, line 12Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;
  455. p. 104, line 22From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
  456. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  457. p. 105, line 12Offering response to my own—these repay me,
  458. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  459. p. 106, line 5Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
  460. p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
  461. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  462. p. 106, line 17I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
  463. p. 106, line 18I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
  464. p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
  465. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  466. 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,
  467. p. 107, line 1I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
  468. p. 107, line 11Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
  469. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  470. p. 108, line 10A PROMISE to California,
  471. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  472. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  473. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  474. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  475. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  476. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  477. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  478. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
  479. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  480. p. 110, line 7While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
  481. p. 110, line 8TO the East and to the West,
  482. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  483. p. 110, line 10To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
  484. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  485. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
  486. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  487. p. 110, line 21Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?
  488. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  489. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  490. p. 112, line 1To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence,
  491. p. 112, line 2To you yet unborn these, seeking you.
  492. p. 112, line 9Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
  493. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  494. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
  495. p. 113, line 14I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea at Okotsk,
  496. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  497. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  498. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
  499. p. 114, line 17The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
  500. p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
  501. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  502. p. 116, line 7I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
  503. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  504. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  505. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  506. p. 119, line 15And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
  507. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  508. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  509. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  510. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  511. p. 120, line 18All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
  512. p. 120, line 21To remain after me in sight forever,
  513. p. 120, line 23AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,
  514. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
  515. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  516. p. 121, line 21None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
  517. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  518. p. 121, line 26I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
  519. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  520. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
  521. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  522. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  523. p. 122, line 17You shall be more to me than my poem.
  524. p. 122, line 24Listening to others, considering well what they say,
  525. p. 123, line 5All seems beautiful to me,
  526. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  527. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  528. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  529. p. 123, line 21Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
  530. p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
  531. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  532. 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?
  533. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
  534. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  535. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  536. p. 126, line 5These are the days that must happen to you:
  537. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  538. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  539. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  540. p. 127, line 1Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
  541. p. 127, line 2To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
  542. p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
  543. p. 127, line 4Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
  544. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  545. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
  546. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  547. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  548. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  549. p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
  550. p. 127, line 11To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
  551. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  552. 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,
  553. p. 127, line 14To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
  554. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  555. p. 128, line 4It is useless to protest, I know all and expose it.
  556. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
  557. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  558. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  559. p. 129, line 10FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
  560. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  561. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
  562. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  563. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  564. p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
  565. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  566. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  567. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  568. p. 130, line 23Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving,
  569. p. 131, line 8These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
  570. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  571. p. 131, line 11Others the same—others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,
  572. p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,
  573. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  574. p. 132, line 4I am he who knew what it was to be evil,
  575. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  576. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
  577. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
  578. p. 133, line 10Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers!
  579. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
  580. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  581. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  582. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  583. p. 134, line 14NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
  584. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  585. p. 134, line 16A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
  586. p. 134, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  587. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  588. p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
  589. 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.
  590. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  591. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  592. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  593. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  594. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
  595. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  596. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  597. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  598. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
  599. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  600. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  601. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
  602. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  603. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,
  604. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  605. 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,
  606. p. 141, line 8The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners,
  607. p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
  608. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  609. 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,
  610. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  611. 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?
  612. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  613. p. 142, line 10O TO make the most jubilant song!
  614. p. 142, line 17It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
  615. p. 142, line 19O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!
  616. p. 142, line 20To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!
  617. p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
  618. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  619. p. 143, line 16O to go back to the place where I was born,
  620. p. 143, line 17To hear the birds sing once more,
  621. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
  622. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,
  623. p. 143, line 21To continue and be employ'd there all my life,
  624. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  625. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  626. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  627. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  628. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  629. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  630. p. 145, line 1O to work in mines, or forging iron,
  631. p. 145, line 4O to resume the joys of the soldier!
  632. p. 145, line 5To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer—to feel his sympathy!
  633. p. 145, line 6To behold his calmness—to be warm'd in the rays of his smile!
  634. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
  635. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  636. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  637. p. 145, line 10To taste the savage taste of blood—to be so devilish!
  638. p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
  639. p. 145, line 15Again I spring up the rigging to look with the rest—we descend, wild with excitement,
  640. p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
  641. p. 145, line 20Again I see him rise to breathe, we row close again,
  642. p. 146, line 2How clear is my mind—how all people draw nigh to me!
  643. p. 146, line 6To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
  644. p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
  645. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.
  646. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  647. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  648. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  649. p. 146, line 18To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
  650. p. 146, line 19To plough land in the spring for maize,
  651. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  652. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,
  653. p. 146, line 22To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep, or race naked along the shore.
  654. p. 146, line 23O to realize space!
  655. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  656. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
  657. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
  658. p. 147, line 2To look with calm gaze or with a flashing eye,
  659. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  660. p. 147, line 4To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth.
  661. p. 147, line 18O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
  662. p. 147, line 19To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
  663. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  664. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
  665. p. 147, line 26My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
  666. p. 147, line 27My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
  667. p. 147, line 28O to attract by more than attraction!
  668. p. 148, line 1O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!
  669. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  670. p. 148, line 3To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!
  671. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
  672. p. 148, line 5To be indeed a God!
  673. p. 148, line 6O to sail to sea in a ship!
  674. p. 148, line 7To leave this steady unendurable land,
  675. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  676. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  677. p. 148, line 10To sail and sail and sail!
  678. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  679. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
  680. p. 148, line 13To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
  681. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  682. p. 148, line 21To be lean'd and to lean on.
  683. p. 150, line 11The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,
  684. 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,
  685. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
  686. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  687. p. 152, line 7Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
  688. p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
  689. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  690. p. 153, line 3Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves,
  691. p. 155, line 23Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec,
  692. p. 156, line 12The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his shroud,
  693. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  694. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  695. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  696. p. 157, line 27After all not to create only, or found only,
  697. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
  698. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  699. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  700. p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
  701. p. 158, line 5To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
  702. p. 158, line 14Placard " Removed " and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus,
  703. p. 158, line 18Responsive to our summons,
  704. p. 158, line 19Or rather to her long-nurs'd inclination,
  705. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  706. p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
  707. p. 159, line 17Pass'd to its charnel vault, coffin'd with crown and armor on,
  708. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  709. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  710. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  711. p. 160, line 11We build to ours to-day.
  712. p. 160, line 16We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
  713. p. 160, line 33But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.
  714. p. 161, line 22With precious benefits to both, glory to all,
  715. p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
  716. p. 161, line 26Echoed through long, long centuries to come,
  717. p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
  718. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  719. p. 162, line 8Thy pennants labor, loosen'd to the breeze,
  720. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
  721. p. 162, line 16To you ye reverent sane sisters,
  722. p. 162, line 18To exalt the present and the real,
  723. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  724. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
  725. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
  726. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  727. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  728. p. 162, line 24To use the hammer and the saw, (rip, or cross-cut,)
  729. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,
  730. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  731. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,
  732. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  733. p. 163, line 3Food and its preservation, chemistry applied to it,
  734. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  735. p. 163, line 6For the eternal real life to come.
  736. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
  737. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
  738. p. 164, line 24We dedicate, dread Mother, all to thee!
  739. p. 164, line 31Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,)
  740. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  741. p. 165, line 4Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands,
  742. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  743. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  744. p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
  745. p. 167, line 2For a superber race, they too to grandly fill their time,
  746. p. 167, line 6To be in them absorb'd, assimilated.
  747. p. 167, line 7Then to a loftier strain,
  748. p. 167, line 16To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
  749. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  750. p. 167, line 28We pledge, we dedicate to you.
  751. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  752. p. 168, line 5To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last,
  753. p. 168, line 6To disappear, to serve.
  754. p. 168, line 13From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah,
  755. p. 168, line 14To the deities of the modern henceforth yielding,
  756. p. 168, line 19The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,
  757. p. 168, line 25Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world,
  758. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
  759. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  760. p. 169, line 4Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race.
  761. p. 169, line 5The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,
  762. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  763. p. 169, line 11To build a grander future.
  764. p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?
  765. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  766. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  767. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  768. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
  769. p. 171, line 2None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
  770. p. 171, line 6There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
  771. p. 171, line 8It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book,
  772. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?
  773. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  774. p. 173, line 7All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
  775. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
  776. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  777. p. 175, line 8But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
  778. p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
  779. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  780. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  781. 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.
  782. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  783. p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
  784. p. 177, line 5To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I?
  785. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  786. p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
  787. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  788. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
  789. p. 178, line 29The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
  790. p. 178, line 30The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
  791. p. 179, line 1The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him,
  792. p. 179, line 2The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
  793. p. 179, line 3The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
  794. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  795. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  796. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  797. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  798. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  799. p. 179, line 15I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words,
  800. p. 179, line 19I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
  801. p. 179, line 20It is always to leave the best untold.
  802. p. 179, line 21When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot,
  803. p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
  804. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  805. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
  806. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  807. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  808. p. 180, line 16Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
  809. p. 180, line 17It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
  810. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  811. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  812. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  813. p. 181, line 18For it the partial to the permanent flowing,
  814. p. 181, line 19For it the real to the ideal tends.
  815. p. 181, line 24Health to emerge and joy, joy universal.
  816. p. 182, line 7To fashion's, custom's discord,
  817. p. 182, line 8To the mad Babel-din, the deafening orgies,
  818. p. 182, line 19To the ideal tendest.
  819. p. 182, line 23All eligible to all.
  820. p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.
  821. p. 182, line 29Give me O God to sing that thought,
  822. p. 184, line 25O to die advancing on!
  823. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  824. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  825. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  826. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  827. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  828. p. 186, line 15I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
  829. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  830. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  831. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  832. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  833. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  834. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  835. p. 188, line 14Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution?
  836. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
  837. p. 189, line 3And I send these words to Paris with my love,
  838. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,
  839. p. 189, line 9I will run transpose it in words, to justify it,
  840. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
  841. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  842. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  843. p. 189, line 18Not to chisel ornaments,
  844. 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.
  845. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  846. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  847. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  848. p. 190, line 13I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
  849. p. 190, line 19I perceive I have no time to lose.
  850. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
  851. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  852. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  853. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  854. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  855. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
  856. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  857. p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
  858. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  859. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  860. p. 193, line 16When million-footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements,
  861. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
  862. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  863. p. 194, line 7Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes.
  864. p. 194, line 8To us, my city,
  865. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  866. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
  867. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  868. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  869. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  870. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  871. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  872. 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,
  873. p. 196, line 20From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
  874. p. 197, line 2From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
  875. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
  876. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  877. p. 197, line 32May-be kill'd, unknown to her mate,
  878. p. 198, line 2Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
  879. p. 198, line 7I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.
  880. p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
  881. p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
  882. p. 198, line 35Loud I call to you, my love!
  883. p. 199, line 16Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
  884. p. 199, line 26For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
  885. p. 199, line 27So faint, I must be still, be still to listen,
  886. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  887. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
  888. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
  889. p. 200, line 27To the outsetting bard.
  890. p. 200, line 29Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
  891. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  892. p. 201, line 5Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night,
  893. p. 201, line 10O if I am to have so much, let me have more!
  894. p. 201, line 12The word final, superior to all,
  895. p. 201, line 19Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
  896. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
  897. p. 201, line 27That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,
  898. p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
  899. p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
  900. p. 202, line 15These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
  901. p. 202, line 18As I wend to the shores I know not,
  902. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  903. p. 202, line 23A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
  904. p. 202, line 25O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth,
  905. p. 202, line 26Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
  906. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
  907. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  908. p. 203, line 3Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
  909. p. 203, line 15I cling to you so that you cannot unloose me,
  910. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
  911. p. 204, line 31As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee,
  912. p. 205, line 7Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,)
  913. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
  914. p. 205, line 20Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place.
  915. p. 206, line 8Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
  916. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
  917. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  918. p. 207, line 8The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
  919. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  920. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,
  921. p. 209, line 18TO get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early,
  922. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  923. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!
  924. p. 210, line 20To your graves—back—back to the hills old limpers!
  925. p. 210, line 23I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
  926. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
  927. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  928. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  929. p. 211, line 19And you, paid to defile the People—you liars, mark!
  930. p. 212, line 18They live in brothers again ready to defy you,
  931. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  932. p. 213, line 21Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion,
  933. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)
  934. 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;
  935. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  936. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  937. p. 214, line 19In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
  938. p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
  939. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  940. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  941. 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?
  942. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  943. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  944. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  945. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  946. p. 217, line 19As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
  947. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  948. p. 218, line 9To utter nothingness?
  949. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  950. p. 219, line 9How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
  951. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  952. p. 220, line 3To the drum-taps prompt,
  953. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  954. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  955. p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
  956. p. 220, line 23(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
  957. p. 220, line 24Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business;)
  958. p. 221, line 2War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
  959. p. 221, line 3Mannahatta a-march—and it's O to sing it well!
  960. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  961. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
  962. p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
  963. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,
  964. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  965. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  966. p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
  967. p. 223, line 2To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)
  968. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  969. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
  970. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  971. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
  972. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
  973. p. 224, line 2To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.
  974. p. 224, line 3Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
  975. p. 224, line 4And what does it say to me all the while?
  976. p. 224, line 6And nothing at all to you it says—but look you my babe,
  977. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  978. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  979. p. 224, line 26O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
  980. p. 224, line 27I hear it—it talks to me—O it is wonderful!
  981. p. 225, line 2What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much it displeases me;
  982. p. 225, line 5Speak to the child O bard out of Manhattan,
  983. p. 225, line 6To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan,
  984. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  985. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  986. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  987. p. 226, line 17This song to the soul of one poor little child.
  988. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  989. p. 226, line 20But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
  990. p. 226, line 23To be that pennant would be too fearful,
  991. p. 226, line 25It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing,
  992. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  993. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  994. 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,
  995. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  996. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
  997. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  998. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  999. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  1000. p. 229, line 14What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?
  1001. p. 230, line 4The cities I loved so well I abandon'd and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,
  1002. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  1003. p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
  1004. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  1005. p. 230, line 23When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
  1006. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  1007. p. 232, line 1But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters,
  1008. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  1009. p. 232, line 19I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river to bay,
  1010. p. 232, line 23It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here,
  1011. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  1012. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
  1013. p. 233, line 13They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment,
  1014. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
  1015. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  1016. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  1017. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  1018. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
  1019. p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
  1020. p. 236, line 5In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
  1021. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)
  1022. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
  1023. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
  1024. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
  1025. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
  1026. p. 237, line 14Ah now the single figure to me,
  1027. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  1028. p. 237, line 24But the mother needs to be better,
  1029. p. 237, line 29To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
  1030. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  1031. p. 238, line 6Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
  1032. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  1033. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
  1034. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  1035. p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
  1036. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
  1037. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  1038. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
  1039. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
  1040. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  1041. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
  1042. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  1043. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  1044. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
  1045. p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
  1046. p. 241, line 13Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
  1047. p. 241, line 16Years looking backward resuming in answer to children,
  1048. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  1049. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  1050. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
  1051. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  1052. p. 242, line 22Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof'd hospital,
  1053. p. 242, line 23To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return,
  1054. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  1055. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
  1056. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
  1057. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  1058. p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
  1059. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  1060. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  1061. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  1062. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  1063. p. 244, line 21These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
  1064. p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
  1065. p. 245, line 2Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,
  1066. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  1067. p. 245, line 4(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
  1068. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!
  1069. p. 246, line 31O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
  1070. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
  1071. p. 247, line 11More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.
  1072. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  1073. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  1074. p. 247, line 15The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
  1075. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
  1076. p. 247, line 26He call'd for volunteers to run the enemy's lines, a desperate emergency,
  1077. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  1078. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  1079. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  1080. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
  1081. p. 249, line 16And courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by.
  1082. p. 249, line 20NOT youth pertains to me,
  1083. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  1084. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  1085. p. 250, line 12Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
  1086. p. 250, line 14You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other,
  1087. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  1088. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
  1089. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  1090. p. 251, line 22And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me,
  1091. p. 251, line 23And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me;
  1092. p. 252, line 7Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
  1093. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  1094. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  1095. p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
  1096. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  1097. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  1098. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  1099. p. 253, line 12Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left,
  1100. p. 253, line 16Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive,
  1101. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  1102. p. 254, line 6To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.
  1103. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  1104. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  1105. p. 254, line 14But what remains remains for singers for you—wars to come are for you,
  1106. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  1107. p. 254, line 17To where the future, greater than all the past,
  1108. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  1109. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  1110. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  1111. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
  1112. p. 254, line 24To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,
  1113. p. 254, line 25To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods,
  1114. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  1115. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  1116. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  1117. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  1118. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  1119. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
  1120. p. 256, line 7The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,
  1121. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  1122. p. 256, line 17Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
  1123. p. 257, line 5Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,
  1124. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  1125. p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
  1126. p. 258, line 10To adorn the burial-house of him I love?
  1127. p. 259, line 10O wild and loose to my soul—O wondrous singer!
  1128. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,
  1129. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  1130. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  1131. p. 260, line 5And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me,
  1132. p. 260, line 16In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
  1133. p. 260, line 30From me to thee glad serenades,
  1134. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  1135. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
  1136. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
  1137. p. 261, line 9To the tally of my soul,
  1138. p. 261, line 16As to long panoramas of visions.
  1139. p. 262, line 12Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,
  1140. p. 262, line 17Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
  1141. p. 263, line 17And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
  1142. p. 264, line 13What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
  1143. p. 264, line 17We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves,
  1144. p. 264, line 19From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
  1145. p. 264, line 20Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
  1146. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  1147. p. 265, line 1All is eligible to all,
  1148. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,
  1149. p. 265, line 7Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like,
  1150. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
  1151. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
  1152. p. 265, line 14These clamors wild to a race of pride I give.)
  1153. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  1154. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  1155. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
  1156. p. 266, line 15Land of lands and bards to corroborate!
  1157. p. 266, line 16Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face,
  1158. p. 266, line 17To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,
  1159. p. 266, line 20Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land,
  1160. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  1161. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
  1162. p. 267, line 6His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
  1163. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  1164. p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,
  1165. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.
  1166. p. 268, line 16An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.)
  1167. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!
  1168. p. 268, line 25I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
  1169. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  1170. 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,
  1171. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  1172. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  1173. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  1174. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  1175. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  1176. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  1177. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
  1178. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  1179. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  1180. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
  1181. p. 271, line 27Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?
  1182. p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
  1183. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  1184. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  1185. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  1186. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  1187. 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,
  1188. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  1189. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  1190. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
  1191. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  1192. p. 273, line 15To life recalling many a prostrate form;)
  1193. p. 273, line 16I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
  1194. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  1195. p. 273, line 20I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things,
  1196. p. 273, line 22It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one,
  1197. p. 273, line 23It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories,
  1198. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  1199. p. 273, line 26I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,
  1200. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
  1201. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  1202. p. 274, line 13Underneath all to me is myself, to you yourself, (the same monotonous old song.)
  1203. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  1204. p. 274, line 26Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes,
  1205. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  1206. p. 274, line 28Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn belov'd of time.
  1207. p. 275, line 5Who inaugurate one to inaugurate all.
  1208. p. 275, line 8I will make cities and civilizations defer to me,
  1209. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  1210. p. 275, line 14I will know if I am to be less than they,
  1211. p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,
  1212. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  1213. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  1214. p. 275, line 26(Mother, bend down, bend close to me your face,
  1215. p. 276, line 7Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.
  1216. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  1217. p. 276, line 10Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
  1218. p. 276, line 15To cheer O Mother your boundless expectant soul.
  1219. p. 276, line 22Let that which was behind advance to the front,
  1220. p. 277, line 6Life's ever-modern rapids first, (soon, soon to blend,
  1221. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
  1222. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  1223. p. 277, line 17Overtures sent to the solid out of the liquid,
  1224. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  1225. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  1226. p. 278, line 6Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,
  1227. p. 278, line 9O earth that hast no voice, confide to me a voice,
  1228. p. 278, line 12A song to narrate thee.
  1229. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  1230. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
  1231. p. 282, line 9Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns,
  1232. p. 282, line 10Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs;
  1233. p. 283, line 7And the schoolmistress that pass'd on her way to the school,
  1234. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
  1235. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
  1236. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  1237. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  1238. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  1239. p. 287, line 8Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs;
  1240. p. 287, line 19And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)
  1241. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  1242. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  1243. p. 288, line 2It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.
  1244. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  1245. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  1246. p. 289, line 2Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand,
  1247. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  1248. p. 289, line 13In exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinn'd, in life.
  1249. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  1250. p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,
  1251. p. 289, line 24All verges to it, all has reference to what ensues,
  1252. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  1253. p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,
  1254. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
  1255. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  1256. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  1257. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  1258. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  1259. p. 291, line 17Declines to separate one part of life from every part,
  1260. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  1261. p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
  1262. p. 292, line 4Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
  1263. p. 292, line 11Gather'd to Sunday church in prison walls, the keepers round,
  1264. p. 292, line 21Ceaseless she paces to and fro,
  1265. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  1266. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
  1267. p. 293, line 17The long-pent spirit rous'd to reminiscence;
  1268. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  1269. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  1270. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  1271. p. 294, line 20To grace the bush I love—to sing with the birds,
  1272. p. 295, line 27The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught,
  1273. p. 296, line 8But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.
  1274. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,
  1275. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,
  1276. p. 296, line 23To you whoe'er you are—a look.
  1277. p. 296, line 27Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)
  1278. p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
  1279. p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
  1280. p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
  1281. p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
  1282. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  1283. p. 297, line 16They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.
  1284. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  1285. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
  1286. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  1287. p. 298, line 4MY spirit to yours dear brother,
  1288. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  1289. p. 298, line 14They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
  1290. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  1291. p. 299, line 6Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me,
  1292. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
  1293. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  1294. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  1295. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  1296. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  1297. p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
  1298. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  1299. 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,
  1300. p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
  1301. p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
  1302. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  1303. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  1304. p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
  1305. p. 301, line 2As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
  1306. p. 301, line 15These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
  1307. p. 301, line 17To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
  1308. p. 301, line 21To me the sea is a continual miracle,
  1309. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  1310. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  1311. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  1312. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  1313. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  1314. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  1315. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  1316. p. 302, line 20Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man,
  1317. p. 303, line 10I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
  1318. p. 303, line 11To you your name also;
  1319. p. 304, line 12It is no lesson—it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
  1320. p. 304, line 13And that to another, and every one to another still.
  1321. p. 304, line 18They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
  1322. p. 304, line 19I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
  1323. p. 305, line 6And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers and winters to articulate and walk—all this is equally wonderful.
  1324. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  1325. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  1326. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  1327. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  1328. p. 306, line 11Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.
  1329. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  1330. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,
  1331. p. 307, line 16They all know him, all are affectionate to him;
  1332. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  1333. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  1334. p. 308, line 8Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
  1335. p. 308, line 19To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.
  1336. p. 308, line 26Fail not to certify and cheer my soul.
  1337. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  1338. p. 309, line 7Destin'd to fill the world.
  1339. p. 309, line 14Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,
  1340. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  1341. p. 310, line 2It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  1342. p. 310, line 6With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
  1343. p. 310, line 12To justify the past.
  1344. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
  1345. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  1346. p. 312, line 9Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,
  1347. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  1348. p. 313, line 16The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets.
  1349. p. 313, line 19I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the martial clang of cymbals,
  1350. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  1351. p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
  1352. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
  1353. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
  1354. p. 314, line 15To you a new bard caroling in the West,
  1355. p. 314, line 17(Such led to thee O soul,
  1356. p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
  1357. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
  1358. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
  1359. p. 315, line 3I said to my silent curious soul out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
  1360. p. 315, line 15But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
  1361. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  1362. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  1363. p. 316, line 3Passage O soul to India!
  1364. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  1365. p. 316, line 17Passage to India!
  1366. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,
  1367. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
  1368. p. 316, line 21The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
  1369. p. 316, line 22The lands to be welded together.
  1370. p. 316, line 28Passage to India!
  1371. p. 317, line 16Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,
  1372. p. 317, line 21Passage to India!
  1373. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  1374. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  1375. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  1376. p. 318, line 21Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
  1377. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  1378. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  1379. p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
  1380. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  1381. p. 319, line 18Passage to India!
  1382. p. 319, line 27To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
  1383. p. 320, line 2Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,
  1384. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,
  1385. p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
  1386. p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
  1387. p. 320, line 30To realms of budding bibles.
  1388. p. 320, line 34To reason's early paradise,
  1389. p. 320, line 35Back, back to wisdom's birth, to innocent intuitions,
  1390. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,
  1391. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
  1392. p. 321, line 18Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,
  1393. p. 321, line 19I and my soul to range in range of thee.
  1394. p. 321, line 31I could not launch, to those, superior universes?
  1395. p. 321, line 34But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,
  1396. p. 322, line 9What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?
  1397. p. 322, line 10For others' sake to suffer all?
  1398. p. 322, line 16Passage to more than India!
  1399. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  1400. p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
  1401. p. 322, line 25Passage to more than India!
  1402. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  1403. p. 322, line 33Passage to you!
  1404. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
  1405. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  1406. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  1407. p. 323, line 24Report myself once more to Thee.
  1408. p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
  1409. p. 324, line 6Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.
  1410. p. 324, line 10A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep,
  1411. p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
  1412. p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,
  1413. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,
  1414. p. 324, line 31I yield my ships to Thee.
  1415. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  1416. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
  1417. p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
  1418. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  1419. p. 326, line 15I go from bedside to bedside, I sleep close with the other sleepers each in turn,
  1420. p. 326, line 26To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way;
  1421. p. 327, line 5I roll myself upon you as upon a bed, I resign myself to the dusk.
  1422. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  1423. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  1424. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  1425. p. 328, line 18I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
  1426. p. 328, line 19I search with the crowd, not one of the company is wash'd to us alive,
  1427. p. 329, line 2He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes, the color is blanch'd from his cheeks,
  1428. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  1429. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  1430. p. 329, line 11A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead,
  1431. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  1432. p. 329, line 22O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  1433. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
  1434. p. 330, line 18The actor and actress, those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  1435. 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,
  1436. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  1437. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  1438. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  1439. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  1440. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  1441. p. 333, line 1TO think of time—of all that retrospection,
  1442. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.
  1443. p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
  1444. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  1445. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  1446. p. 333, line 10To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  1447. p. 333, line 25To think the thought of death merged in the thought of materials,
  1448. 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.
  1449. p. 334, line 1To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  1450. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  1451. p. 334, line 13Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,
  1452. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
  1453. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  1454. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  1455. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  1456. p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
  1457. p. 335, line 5To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  1458. p. 335, line 6To think how much pleasure there is,
  1459. p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
  1460. p. 335, line 11Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are,
  1461. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  1462. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  1463. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  1464. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  1465. p. 336, line 8He is one of those who are beautiful and happy, he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  1466. p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
  1467. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  1468. p. 337, line 6If all came but to ashes of dung,
  1469. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  1470. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  1471. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  1472. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  1473. p. 338, line 26On the frontiers to eyes impenetrable,
  1474. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  1475. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  1476. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
  1477. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  1478. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  1479. p. 341, line 3And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
  1480. p. 341, line 4And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them,
  1481. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  1482. p. 341, line 7Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.
  1483. p. 341, line 10Earth to a chamber of mourning turns—I hear the o'erweening, mocking voice,
  1484. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
  1485. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;
  1486. p. 341, line 25And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.
  1487. p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
  1488. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  1489. 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,
  1490. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
  1491. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  1492. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  1493. p. 343, line 16Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
  1494. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
  1495. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  1496. p. 344, line 6To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
  1497. p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
  1498. p. 344, line 20I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,
  1499. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  1500. p. 345, line 11Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
  1501. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
  1502. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  1503. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  1504. p. 347, line 4The paths to the house I seek to make,
  1505. p. 347, line 5But leave to those to come the house itself.
  1506. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  1507. p. 347, line 8But greater still from what is yet to come,
  1508. p. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  1509. p. 348, line 2To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern,
  1510. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
  1511. p. 348, line 6To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
  1512. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
  1513. p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
  1514. p. 348, line 25Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes,
  1515. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  1516. p. 349, line 9Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be constructed here,
  1517. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  1518. p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
  1519. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  1520. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  1521. p. 350, line 11These! these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.
  1522. p. 350, line 13Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
  1523. p. 350, line 14Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself.
  1524. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
  1525. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
  1526. p. 350, line 23Not to fair-sail unintermitted always,
  1527. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  1528. p. 351, line 22The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
  1529. p. 352, line 5O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.
  1530. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  1531. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
  1532. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  1533. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
  1534. p. 353, line 18Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,
  1535. p. 353, line 19Some milk-nosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
  1536. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  1537. p. 354, line 7This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
  1538. p. 354, line 18The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement,
  1539. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
  1540. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
  1541. p. 355, line 14Come here she blushingly cries, Come nigh to me limber-hipp'd man,
  1542. p. 355, line 16Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,
  1543. p. 355, line 17Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders.
  1544. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  1545. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
  1546. p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
  1547. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  1548. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  1549. p. 357, line 17Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
  1550. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,
  1551. p. 358, line 9(Yet 'mid the ruins Pride colossal stands unshaken to the last,
  1552. p. 358, line 10Endurance, resolution to the last.)
  1553. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  1554. p. 358, line 19Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy!
  1555. p. 358, line 26Enough to merely be! enough to breathe!
  1556. p. 359, line 13By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
  1557. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
  1558. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  1559. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!
  1560. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
  1561. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
  1562. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,
  1563. p. 360, line 1O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again,
  1564. p. 360, line 16O to be a Virginian where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!
  1565. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  1566. p. 362, line 16Costless, vouchsafed to each, yet never man the owner,
  1567. p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
  1568. p. 362, line 31Two words, yet all from first to last comprised in it.
  1569. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
  1570. p. 363, line 7How all heroic martyrdoms to it!
  1571. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
  1572. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  1573. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.
  1574. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  1575. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  1576. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
  1577. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  1578. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  1579. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  1580. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
  1581. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  1582. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  1583. p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
  1584. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,
  1585. p. 367, line 13Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers,
  1586. p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
  1587. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,
  1588. p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
  1589. p. 368, line 26To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
  1590. p. 369, line 5Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,
  1591. p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
  1592. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  1593. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
  1594. p. 370, line 6O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
  1595. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  1596. p. 371, line 6Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
  1597. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  1598. p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
  1599. p. 371, line 18The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes,
  1600. p. 372, line 14Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions,
  1601. p. 372, line 22Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers,
  1602. p. 372, line 25Make these ashes to nourish and blossom,
  1603. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
  1604. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)
  1605. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
  1606. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,
  1607. p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
  1608. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)
  1609. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  1610. p. 374, line 27Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch, to the last.
  1611. p. 375, line 6Wonderful to depart!
  1612. p. 375, line 7Wonderful to be here!
  1613. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!
  1614. p. 375, line 9To breathe the air, how delicious!
  1615. p. 375, line 10To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand!
  1616. p. 375, line 11To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh!
  1617. p. 375, line 12To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large!
  1618. p. 375, line 13To be this incredible God I am!
  1619. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  1620. p. 375, line 27I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth,
  1621. p. 376, line 5I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,
  1622. p. 376, line 15To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,
  1623. p. 376, line 16To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
  1624. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  1625. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  1626. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  1627. p. 377, line 1With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
  1628. p. 377, line 9As she call'd to her earth with mournful voice while she stalk'd,
  1629. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  1630. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
  1631. p. 378, line 3Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,
  1632. p. 378, line 5Or proceed to battle.
  1633. p. 378, line 19Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
  1634. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,
  1635. p. 379, line 1AS they draw to a close,
  1636. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,
  1637. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,
  1638. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  1639. p. 379, line 10The entrance of man to sing;
  1640. p. 379, line 11To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,
  1641. p. 379, line 12To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams,
  1642. p. 379, line 16(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
  1643. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  1644. p. 379, line 24WHAT are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
  1645. p. 379, line 26THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
  1646. p. 379, line 27For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.
  1647. p. 380, line 1NOW finalè to the shore,
  1648. p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
  1649. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
  1650. p. 380, line 11TO conclude, I announce what comes after me.
  1651. p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
  1652. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  1653. p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
  1654. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
  1655. p. 380, line 25I announce natural persons to arise,
  1656. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
  1657. p. 381, line 15It appears to me I am dying.
  1658. p. 381, line 23Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
  1659. p. 381, line 24To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
  1660. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
  1661. p. 381, line 26To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,
  1662. p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
  1663. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.
  1664. p. 382, line 14I feel immerged from head to foot,
  1665. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  1666. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  1667. p. 384, line 5Mannahatta, 385 Paumanok, 385 From Montauk Point, 385 To Those Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers […]
  1668. p. 384, line 11[…] I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America […]
  1669. p. 384, line 39[…] February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The […]
  1670. p. 384, line 48[…] of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in […]
  1671. p. 385, line 14To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,
  1672. p. 385, line 15To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
  1673. p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,
  1674. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  1675. p. 385, line 18High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,
  1676. p. 386, line 11But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
  1677. p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,
  1678. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
  1679. p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
  1680. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,
  1681. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
  1682. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.
  1683. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  1684. p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
  1685. p. 388, line 12To memory of Him—to birth of Him.
  1686. p. 389, line 8Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
  1687. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
  1688. p. 389, line 12Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
  1689. p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
  1690. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
  1691. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
  1692. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
  1693. p. 390, line 10On to oblivion then!
  1694. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  1695. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
  1696. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  1697. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
  1698. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
  1699. p. 392, line 3Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions,
  1700. p. 392, line 5Thy troops of white-maned racers racing to the goal,
  1701. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,
  1702. p. 392, line 23Thou tellest to a kindred soul.
  1703. p. 393, line 1Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days!
  1704. p. 393, line 3To admiration has it been enacted!
  1705. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  1706. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  1707. p. 394, line 21To get the final lilt of songs,
  1708. p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,
  1709. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
  1710. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
  1711. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  1712. p. 395, line 8Watching the coming, going of the vessels, he mutters to himself—And now the close of all:
  1713. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
  1714. p. 395, line 22I fold thenceforth, or seek to fold, within my chants transmuting,
  1715. p. 395, line 27To memory of thee.
  1716. p. 396, line 9To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
  1717. p. 396, line 13To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;
  1718. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  1719. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  1720. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  1721. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  1722. p. 398, line 4Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
  1723. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
  1724. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
  1725. p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
  1726. p. 398, line 27To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
  1727. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  1728. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  1729. p. 399, line 5Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
  1730. p. 399, line 6I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
  1731. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  1732. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  1733. p. 400, line 10"Let me return again to my war-days,
  1734. p. 400, line 11To the sights and scenes—to forming the line of battle,
  1735. p. 400, line 12To the scouts ahead reconnoitering,
  1736. p. 400, line 13To the cannons, the grim artillery,
  1737. p. 400, line 14To the galloping aids, carrying orders,
  1738. p. 400, line 15To the wounded, the fallen, the heat, the suspense,
  1739. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  1740. p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.
  1741. p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)
  1742. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
  1743. p. 402, line 9To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,
  1744. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  1745. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"
  1746. p. 403, line 11Or "Beat! Beat! Drums!" or "To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod,"
  1747. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  1748. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  1749. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)
  1750. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,
  1751. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,
  1752. p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
  1753. p. 404, line 20Garrulous to the very last.
  1754. p. 406, line 2Preface Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last […]
  1755. p. 406, line 15[…] An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris […]
  1756. p. 406, line 20[…] Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of […]
  1757. p. 407, line 11[…] now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for […]
  1758. p. 407, line 13In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster […]
  1759. p. 407, line 16[…] is worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d year […]
  1760. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  1761. p. 407, line 29[…] gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they are […]
  1762. p. 408, line 1[…] up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while […]
  1763. p. 408, line 4[…] anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited good spirits and […]
  1764. p. 408, line 32[…] but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you […]
  1765. p. 409, line 5But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)
  1766. p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
  1767. p. 409, line 14To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
  1768. p. 409, line 15GOOD-BYE* my fancy—(I had a word to say,
  1769. p. 409, line 32[…] and scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith […]
  1770. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)
  1771. p. 410, line 13Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions,
  1772. p. 410, line 22(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,
  1773. p. 411, line 11It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.
  1774. p. 411, line 34[…] Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the […]
  1775. p. 411, line 38[…] wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths […]
  1776. p. 411, line 40[…] their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere […]
  1777. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)
  1778. p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
  1779. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;
  1780. p. 412, line 15Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.
  1781. p. 413, line 1ADD to your show, before you close it, France,
  1782. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  1783. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  1784. p. 413, line 42[…] the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive […]
  1785. p. 413, line 44[…] the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united against […]
  1786. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  1787. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,
  1788. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  1789. p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)
  1790. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
  1791. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  1792. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)
  1793. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  1794. p. 415, line 23The height to be superb humanity.
  1795. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  1796. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,
  1797. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)
  1798. p. 417, line 20Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
  1799. p. 417, line 21We mourn the old, the young untimely drawn to thee,
  1800. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.
  1801. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  1802. p. 418, line 9Take deep to thy proud prosperous heart.
  1803. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;
  1804. p. 418, line 22How ill to e'er forget thee!
  1805. p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.
  1806. p. 419, line 1"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest,
  1807. p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,
  1808. p. 420, line 15Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,
  1809. p. 420, line 16Or plainly there to the left on the hill-tops.
  1810. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)
  1811. p. 420, line 20To span vast realms of space and time,
  1812. p. 420, line 28Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face.
  1813. p. 421, line 6All ages' plummets dropt to their utmost depths,
  1814. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
  1815. p. 422, line 4Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
  1816. p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
  1817. p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
  1818. p. 425, line 8[…] their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]
  1819. p. 425, line 17[…] last)—After completing my poems, I am curious to review them in the light of their own (at the […]
  1820. p. 425, line 19[…] certain unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of […]
  1821. p. 425, line 26[…] I look upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive […]
  1822. p. 425, line 27[…] opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations of the New World,* if I may […]
  1823. p. 425, line 28[…] of the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of […]
  1824. p. 426, line 1[…] else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And […]
  1825. p. 426, line 4[…] is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd. I […]
  1826. p. 426, line 9[…] of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising […]
  1827. p. 426, line 13[…] put it unerringly on record—the value thereof to be decided by time […]
  1828. p. 426, line 17[…] deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I think I have at least […]
  1829. p. 426, line 18[…] think I have at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or any results […]
  1830. p. 426, line 19[…] second place, the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape […]
  1831. p. 426, line 23[…] point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up for any and all other […]
  1832. p. 426, line 25[…] remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise […]
  1833. p. 426, line 26[…] seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly […]
  1834. p. 426, line 31[…] personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual rewards […]
  1835. p. 426, line 32[…] for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize […]
  1836. p. 426, line 33[…] great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits […]
  1837. p. 426, line 35[…] myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to […]
  1838. p. 426, line 36[…] with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through […]
  1839. p. 426, line 38[…] the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This […]
  1840. p. 426, line 40[…] everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and […]
  1841. p. 426, line 44[…] its immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a […]
  1842. p. 427, line 3[…] in brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and […]
  1843. p. 427, line 6[…] of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the […]
  1844. p. 427, line 11[…] songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution […]
  1845. p. 427, line 13[…] out or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be […]
  1846. p. 427, line 14[…] America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to […]
  1847. p. 427, line 15[…] to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I see […]
  1848. p. 427, line 18[…] such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]
  1849. p. 427, line 35[…] It is certainly time for America, above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of […]
  1850. p. 427, line 39[…] ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to […]
  1851. p. 427, line 40[…] owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But I anticipate the very […]
  1852. p. 427, line 41[…] Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius […]
  1853. p. 427, line 42[…] area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been […]
  1854. p. 427, line 44[…] for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with […]
  1855. p. 428, line 1[…] times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and […]
  1856. p. 428, line 2[…] glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that […]
  1857. p. 428, line 3[…] illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet […]
  1858. p. 428, line 19[…] and I—what a period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them […]
  1859. p. 428, line 20[…] have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be […]
  1860. p. 428, line 22[…] enough of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the […]
  1861. p. 428, line 23[…] worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the future […]
  1862. p. 428, line 25[…] anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what […]
  1863. p. 428, line 28[…] and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been […]
  1864. p. 428, line 38[…] know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in the Bible […]
  1865. p. 429, line 11[…] presupposition. I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory […]
  1866. p. 429, line 24[…] and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is certain […]
  1867. p. 429, line 29[…] it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One […]
  1868. p. 429, line 30[…] first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less removes, the material facts of […]
  1869. p. 429, line 41[…] I know well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and […]
  1870. p. 430, line 1[…] have done, or could do. But it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism […]
  1871. p. 430, line 5[…] their point of view,* the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the […]
  1872. p. 430, line 6[…] them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of one, not only […]
  1873. p. 430, line 9[…] but the born child of the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and […]
  1874. p. 430, line 12[…] chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature. Not to carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot of […]
  1875. p. 430, line 15[…] has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation of […]
  1876. p. 430, line 19[…] the bequests of the past, it still remains to be said that there is even towards all those a […]
  1877. p. 430, line 21[…] a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and […]
  1878. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if […]
  1879. p. 430, line 31[…] of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation […]
  1880. p. 430, line 32[…] of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as […]
  1881. p. 430, line 35[…] through what they prelude and necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories […]
  1882. p. 430, line 38[…] the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of […]
  1883. p. 431, line 2[…] epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or displace those voices from our ear and area […]
  1884. p. 431, line 8[…] from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization from […]
  1885. p. 431, line 9[…] were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization from all the hitherto ages, I am […]
  1886. p. 431, line 16[…] consistent with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be? Is there one whose underlying basis is not a […]
  1887. p. 431, line 17[…] underlying basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this era […]
  1888. p. 431, line 21[…] poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out […]
  1889. p. 431, line 26[…] most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for […]
  1890. p. 431, line 29[…] of the singers life has yet given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief […]
  1891. p. 431, line 36[…] changed—that in these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that […]
  1892. p. 431, line 39[…] the past. I willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of […]
  1893. p. 432, line 8[…] outcome of the past, so I would dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment […]
  1894. p. 432, line 9[…] dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems […]
  1895. p. 432, line 25[…] ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way for good or bad. Not till […]
  1896. p. 432, line 31[…] forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
  1897. p. 432, line 32[…] to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
  1898. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down […]
  1899. p. 432, line 34[…] at a stretch, down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores—there, in the presence of outdoor influences […]
  1900. p. 433, line 2[…] the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library or indoor […]
  1901. p. 433, line 18[…] music bells, ringing from lower b flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones […]
  1902. p. 433, line 26[…] short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]
  1903. p. 433, line 31[…] the trunk and centre whence the answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far a distance […]
  1904. p. 433, line 36[…] whether I have shown it or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present both the […]
  1905. p. 433, line 40[…] much more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus […]
  1906. p. 433, line 42[…] and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is certain, I say, that, although I had […]
  1907. p. 434, line 6I went down to the war fields in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in […]
  1908. p. 434, line 22[…] reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I […]
  1909. p. 434, line 23[…] as I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or […]
  1910. p. 434, line 25[…] the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for […]
  1911. p. 434, line 30[…] given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of […]
  1912. p. 434, line 32[…] what amount of faith report these things? Up to how recent a date is the song carried? What the […]
  1913. p. 434, line 39[…] can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor […]
  1914. p. 434, line 40[…] or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill […]
  1915. p. 434, line 41[…] depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give […]
  1916. p. 434, line 43[…] radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving […]
  1917. p. 434, line 44[…] growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all. Fortunately there is […]
  1918. p. 435, line 3[…] buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to and relied on […]
  1919. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal […]
  1920. p. 435, line 11[…] allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because […]
  1921. p. 435, line 13[…] amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant […]
  1922. p. 435, line 16[…] pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more or less a motif of nearly all my […]
  1923. p. 435, line 17[…] all my verse. I think this pride indispensable to an American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility […]
  1924. p. 435, line 21[…] powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a […]
  1925. p. 435, line 22[…] clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought of my song […]
  1926. p. 435, line 23[…] While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is […]
  1927. p. 435, line 30[…] and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old […]
  1928. p. 435, line 32[…] foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only […]
  1929. p. 435, line 38[…] same. The times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the […]
  1930. p. 435, line 42[…] yielding an inch the working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek […]
  1931. p. 435, line 45[…] and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show […]
  1932. p. 436, line 1[…] endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the […]
  1933. p. 436, line 2[…] show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any […]
  1934. p. 436, line 4[…] I will also want my utterances (I said to myself before beginning) to be in spirit the poems of the morning. (They have […]
  1935. p. 436, line 6[…] midday of my life.) I will want them to be the poems of women entirely as much as men […]
  1936. p. 436, line 7[…] entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete Union of the States in my songs […]
  1937. p. 436, line 15[…] and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of this […]
  1938. p. 436, line 18[…] of those lines so gives breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might […]
  1939. p. 436, line 21[…] be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards […]
  1940. p. 436, line 24[…] a theme in literature. I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by […]
  1941. p. 436, line 27[…] symphony. At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all […]
  1942. p. 436, line 37[…] serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if […]
  1943. p. 436, line 38[…] to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now […]
  1944. p. 436, line 39[…] there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals […]
  1945. p. 436, line 40[…] convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine can do […]
  1946. p. 437, line 3[…] my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance […]
  1947. p. 437, line 5[…] worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the […]
  1948. p. 437, line 8[…] as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly […]
  1949. p. 437, line 17[…] and all materialism, through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown […]
  1950. p. 437, line 22[…] the crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call […]
  1951. p. 437, line 23[…] help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it, or the need of it—is the beginning, middle […]
  1952. p. 437, line 25[…] In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows […]
  1953. p. 437, line 31[…] of the past—are in my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting […]
  1954. p. 437, line 34[…] already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of men. But my volume is a candidate […]
  1955. p. 437, line 39[…] elsewhere—lives on its own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]
  1956. p. 437, line 41[…] illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old […]
  1957. p. 438, line 1[…] it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening to the criticisms of his suite of students, he said to […]
  1958. p. 438, line 2[…] criticisms of his suite of students, he said to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not […]
  1959. p. 438, line 5[…] has given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted anything but this one picture […]
  1960. p. 438, line 10[…] and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter […]
  1961. p. 438, line 15[…] literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my […]
  1962. p. 438, line 23[…] Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old […]
  1963. p. 438, line 25[…] Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material […]
  1964. p. 438, line 26[…] autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and political success, and minister to […]
  1965. p. 438, line 27[…] define their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class […]
  1966. p. 438, line 29[…] the free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]
  1967. p. 438, line 34[…] when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like […]
  1968. p. 438, line 38[…] that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]