Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “us”

us 112 Back to U

  1. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  2. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  5. p. 36, line 10You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  6. p. 52, line 5(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
  7. p. 53, line 24And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
  8. p. 62, line 12Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.
  9. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  10. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
  11. p. 71, line 3It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.
  12. p. 71, line 9Births have brought us richness and variety,
  13. p. 71, line 10And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  14. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  15. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  16. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  17. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  18. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
  19. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  20. p. 119, line 18Each of us inevitable,
  21. p. 119, line 19Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
  22. p. 119, line 20Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
  23. p. 119, line 21Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
  24. p. 124, line 23Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
  25. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  26. p. 128, line 26Allons! the road is before us!
  27. p. 131, line 13What is it then between us?
  28. p. 131, line 14What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
  29. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  30. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  31. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  32. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  33. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  34. p. 182, line 31In Thy ensemble, whatever else withheld withhold not from us,
  35. p. 183, line 11We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
  36. p. 184, line 19Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
  37. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  38. p. 184, line 30Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
  39. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  40. p. 185, line 17These are of us, they are with us,
  41. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  42. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  43. p. 192, line 15All swings around us, there is as much darkness as light,
  44. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  45. p. 192, line 17Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
  46. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  47. p. 194, line 7Comrade Americanos! to us, then at last the Orient comes.
  48. p. 194, line 8To us, my city,
  49. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
  50. p. 194, line 18As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing before us.
  51. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  52. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  53. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  54. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  55. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  56. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  57. p. 231, line 20Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
  58. p. 232, line 23It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here,
  59. p. 232, line 30Twenty thousand were brought against us,
  60. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
  61. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
  62. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  63. p. 233, line 24Till we turn'd menacing here, and then he left us.
  64. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
  65. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
  66. p. 239, line 4Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,
  67. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  68. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
  69. p. 260, line 6The gray-brown bird I know receiv'd us comrades three,
  70. p. 263, line 16And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
  71. p. 264, line 20Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
  72. p. 264, line 23If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
  73. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  74. p. 289, line 10Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
  75. 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,
  76. p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
  77. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
  78. p. 298, line 14They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
  79. p. 315, line 5Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
  80. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  81. p. 318, line 21Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
  82. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  83. p. 328, line 19I search with the crowd, not one of the company is wash'd to us alive,
  84. p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
  85. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
  86. p. 338, line 8Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,
  87. p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
  88. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  89. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  90. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;
  91. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,
  92. p. 378, line 15And of each of us O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fought,
  93. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
  94. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  95. p. 412, line 2Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us:
  96. p. 413, line 45[…] whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]
  97. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  98. p. 418, line 16Thou waters that encompass us!
  99. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!
  100. p. 418, line 26In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.
  101. p. 429, line 17[…] future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of […]
  102. p. 430, line 23[…] current or gone-by life and art is for us the only means of their assimilation consistent with the Western […]
  103. p. 431, line 5[…] sun of literature is in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current character […]