Concordance

W 1

1. p. 426, line 1[…] line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it […]

wabash 1

1. p. 27, line 24Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla,

wabbling 1

1. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.

Wacho 1

1. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,

wadding 1

1. p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)

wade 1

1. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,

waded 1

1. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,

wading 3

1. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
2. p. 100, line 3And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
3. 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,

waft 2

1. p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
2. p. 428, line 22[…] that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the future […]

wafted 14

1. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
2. p. 65, line 21They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
3. p. 104, line 12Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;
4. p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
5. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.

wafting 3

1. p. 198, line 20I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,
2. p. 321, line 5Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)
3. p. 410, line 13Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions,

wafts 1

1. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)

wag 2

1. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
2. p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?

waged 1

1. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,

wages 4

1. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
2. p. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,
3. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
4. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,

waggons 1

1. p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,

wagon 4

1. p. 35, line 21The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
2. p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
3. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
4. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,

wagoners 1

1. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,

wagons 3

1. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
2. p. 174, line 12Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,
3. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;

wags 1

1. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,

Wahsatch 2

1. p. 168, line 13From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah,
2. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,

waifs 1

1. p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,

wail 4

1. p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
2. p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
3. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
4. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.

wailing 7

1. p. 149, line 15The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
2. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
3. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
4. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
5. p. 293, line 21The wailing melody again, the singer in the prison sings,
6. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,
7. p. 396, line 21A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment,

wailings 1

1. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,

wainscot 1

1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

waist 6

1. p. 52, line 20Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
2. p. 73, line 22My left hand hooking you round the waist,
3. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
4. p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
5. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
6. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,

waists 2

1. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
2. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,

waist-straps 1

1. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,

wait 33

1. p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
2. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
3. p. 32, line 13I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
4. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
5. p. 45, line 11I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.

waited 8

1. p. 71, line 23I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
2. p. 134, line 7You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
3. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
4. p. 227, line 17I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded,
5. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
6. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
7. p. 336, line 7The guest that was coming, he waited long, he is now housed,

waiter 1

1. p. 81, line 11(Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)

waitest 3

1. p. 321, line 25(O pensive soul of me—O thirst unsatisfied—waitest not there?
2. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
3. p. 366, line 5Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time.

waiting 31

1. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
2. p. 50, line 19Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,
3. p. 65, line 12Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
4. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
5. p. 69, line 22Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,

waiting-camp 1

1. p. 378, line 13Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of all,

waits 26

1. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
2. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
3. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
4. p. 88, line 6A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
5. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,

waive 1

1. p. 426, line 26[…] to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and […]

wake 8

1. 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,
2. p. 131, line 1The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,
3. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
4. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
5. p. 248, line 6There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me;
6. p. 327, line 16Perfume and youth course through me and I am their wake.
7. p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
8. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,

wakedst 1

1. p. 306, line 20In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep,

wakes 1

1. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,

waking 6

1. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
2. p. 160, line 19As in a waking vision,
3. p. 204, line 27Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions,
4. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
5. p. 237, line 27In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing,
6. p. 321, line 14Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,

walk 50

1. p. 24, line 1As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
2. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
3. p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,
4. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
5. p. 78, line 14Who wishes to walk with me?

walk'd 15 today: walked

1. p. 24, line 1As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
2. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
3. p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
4. p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
5. p. 115, line 25I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain,

walk'dst 1

1. p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,

walkers 1

1. p. 126, line 15Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,

walking 23

1. p. 26, line 22Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
2. p. 42, line 10A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,
3. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
4. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
5. p. 68, line 19Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,

walks 23

1. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
2. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
3. p. 45, line 26I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
4. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
5. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,

wall 2

1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
2. p. 168, line 2Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof,

Wallabout 1

1. p. 384, line 12[…] Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After […]

wallachian 1

1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!

Walla-Walla 1

1. p. 27, line 24Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla,

wallow 1

1. p. 44, line 14That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.

walls 12

1. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
2. p. 60, line 13Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
3. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
4. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
5. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,

walnut-husks 1

1. p. 91, line 3The walnut-trunk, the walnut-husks, and the ripening or ripen'd long-round walnuts,

walnuts 1

1. p. 91, line 3The walnut-trunk, the walnut-husks, and the ripening or ripen'd long-round walnuts,

walnut-tree 1

1. p. 57, line 19Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well,

walnut-trunk 1

1. p. 91, line 3The walnut-trunk, the walnut-husks, and the ripening or ripen'd long-round walnuts,

walrus 1

1. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

Walt 7

1. p. 48, line 5Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
2. p. 50, line 16Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
3. p. 112, line 7O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman!
4. p. 112, line 11What widens within you Walt Whitman?
5. p. 113, line 1What do you hear Walt Whitman?
6. p. 113, line 20What do you see Walt Whitman?
7. p. 299, line 21BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,

Walter 2

1. p. 415, line 7Shakspere, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson,
2. p. 432, line 29[…] page octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic […]

waltz 1

1. p. 313, line 15The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,

wan 2

1. p. 148, line 16WEAPON shapely, naked, wan,
2. p. 167, line 11Not wan from Asia's fetiches,

wand 1

1. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)

wander 4

1. p. 94, line 17Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
2. p. 99, line 24Collecting, dispensing, singing, there I wander with them,
3. p. 325, line 12I WANDER all night in my vision,
4. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.

wander'd 10 today: wandered

1. p. 95, line 8Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,
2. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
3. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
4. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
5. p. 240, line 16AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,

wandering 17

1. p. 36, line 2Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
2. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
3. p. 92, line 26Undestroy'd, wandering immortal,
4. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
5. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,

wanderings 5

1. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,
2. p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
3. p. 410, line 7Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—here at the west a voice triumphant—justifying all,
4. p. 415, line 1The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas,
5. p. 437, line 43[…] Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one of his wanderings through the galleries of old convents, came across a singular […]

wanes 1

1. p. 388, line 20But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,

waning 3

1. p. 199, line 20Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!
2. p. 384, line 26[…] With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In […]
3. p. 390, line 1Last of ebb, and daylight waning,

want 11

1. p. 32, line 17Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,
2. p. 65, line 25Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
3. p. 78, line 25If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
4. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
5. p. 199, line 12Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.

wanted 6

1. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
2. p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
3. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
4. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
5. p. 297, line 16They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.

wanting 4

1. p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
2. p. 132, line 9The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,
3. p. 132, line 10The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,
4. p. 132, line 11Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting,

wants 3

1. p. 269, line 15He supplies what wants supplying, he checks what wants checking,
2. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,

war 94

1. p. 9, line 18And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
2. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
3. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
4. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
5. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,

warble 7

1. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
2. p. 258, line 1O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
3. p. 259, line 7Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
4. p. 293, line 24WARBLE me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,)
5. p. 294, line 21A warble for joy of lilac-time, returning in reminiscence.
6. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
7. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,

warbles 1

1. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,

warbling 4

1. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
2. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
3. p. 256, line 5A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
4. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)

warblings 1

1. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,

ward 2

1. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
2. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,

war-days 2

1. p. 328, line 21Now of the older war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,
2. p. 400, line 10"Let me return again to my war-days,

war-dress 1

1. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,

war-drum 1

1. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)

wards 2

1. p. 411, line 36[…] of punctually visiting those at that time populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect […]
2. p. 411, line 41[…] then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]

ware 1

1. p. 159, line 25She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!

wares 1

1. p. 41, line 9The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,

warily 1

1. p. 209, line 5That savage trinity warily watching.

warlike 14

1. p. 21, line 16Resolute warlike One including and over all,
2. p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,
3. p. 184, line 15Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
4. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
5. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,

warm 6

1. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
2. 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,)
3. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
4. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
5. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
6. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,

warm-blooded 1

1. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,

warm'd 1 today: warmed

1. p. 145, line 6To behold his calmness—to be warm'd in the rays of his smile!

warmer 1

1. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,

warmly 1

1. p. 330, line 11They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,

warmth 3

1. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
2. p. 120, line 17What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,
3. p. 197, line 23Pour down your warmth, great sun!

warn 2

1. p. 205, line 20Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place.
2. p. 407, line 30[…] able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my brain more and more […]

warning 10

1. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
2. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
3. p. 125, line 22Allons! yet take warning!
4. p. 205, line 18An ocean-bell—O a warning bell, rock'd by the waves.
5. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)

warp 4

1. p. 80, line 31From sex, from the warp and from the woof,
2. p. 336, line 4The threads that were spun are gather'd, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
3. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
4. p. 425, line 21[…] weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]

war-party 1

1. p. 140, line 17The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march,

war-produced 1

1. p. 428, line 8[…] profounder far than the material or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and […]

warrantee 1

1. p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,

warrior 1

1. p. 151, line 14The antique European warrior with his axe in combat,

warriors 7

1. p. 12, line 23Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils,
2. p. 116, line 14I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,
3. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
4. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
5. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
6. p. 396, line 15I see swarms of stalwart chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,
7. p. 435, line 8[…] the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the centuries of European feudalism) it […]

wars 36

1. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
2. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
3. 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.
4. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
5. p. 128, line 18Allons! through struggles and wars!

Warsaw 1

1. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,

war-scenes 1

1. p. 416, line 2Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,

war-ships 1

1. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,

war-strife 1

1. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)

war-vessels 1

1. p. 43, line 14And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!

war-worn 1

1. p. 263, line 16And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,

wary 1

1. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,

wash 7

1. p. 74, line 15Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
2. p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,
3. p. 202, line 3As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
4. p. 227, line 2Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
5. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
6. p. 243, line 10I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,
7. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;

wash'd 6 today: washed

1. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
2. p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,
3. p. 154, line 28I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe,
4. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,
5. p. 278, line 3Wash'd on America's shores?
6. p. 328, line 19I search with the crowd, not one of the company is wash'd to us alive,

wash'd-up 1

1. p. 202, line 22I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift,

washing 2

1. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
2. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,

Washington 10

1. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
2. p. 234, line 23And is this the ground Washington trod?
3. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
4. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
5. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,

Washington's 3

1. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
2. p. 384, line 35[…] Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To […]
3. p. 391, line 25Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.

wast 2

1. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
2. p. 368, line 25Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?

waste 1

1. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.

wasted 2

1. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
2. p. 326, line 31The stammerer, the well-form'd person, the wasted or feeble person.

wastes 1

1. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,

watch 14

1. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
2. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
3. p. 114, line 20Some are in storms, some in the night with the watch on the lookout,
4. p. 130, line 1Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
5. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,

watch'd 13 today: watched

watch'd 12 · watched 1

1. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
2. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
3. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
4. p. 228, line 16Long I roam'd the woods of the north, long I watch'd Niagara pouring,
5. p. 228, line 20I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves,

watches 3

1. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
2. p. 281, line 24The Mother of All, yet here as ever she watches you.
3. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,

watchfires 1

1. p. 59, line 10I am a free companion, I bivouac by invading watchfires,

watchful 1

1. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,

watching 16

1. p. 32, line 11Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
2. p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
3. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
4. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!
5. 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,

water 50

1. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
2. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
3. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
4. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
5. p. 43, line 5This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,

water-bays 1

1. p. 361, line 2Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,

water-blue 1

1. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

water-plants 1

1. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.

waters 50

1. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
2. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
3. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
4. p. 114, line 4I see plenteous waters,
5. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,

water-shore 1

1. p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,

watery 2

1. p. 207, line 17All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
2. p. 331, line 14The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood waits,

wave 9

1. p. 198, line 25Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
2. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
3. p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
4. p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
5. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
6. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
7. p. 408, line 10[…] feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten—probably […]

waved 1

1. p. 139, line 15The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind,

wavering 1

1. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,

waves 65

1. p. 10, line 7With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
2. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
3. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
4. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
5. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,