Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

Concordance

The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

W

W – Wordsworth · work – wrung

work 71

  1. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
  2. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
  3. p. 51, line 22I hear the train'd soprano (what work with hers is this?)
  4. 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,
  5. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
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  1. p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
  2. p. 77, line 2To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,
  3. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
  4. p. 81, line 4From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
  5. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  6. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
  7. p. 130, line 26The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars,
  8. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  9. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  10. p. 143, line 23The work of fishermen, the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher;
  11. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  12. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  13. p. 145, line 1O to work in mines, or forging iron,
  14. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  15. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  16. p. 150, line 4The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,
  17. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  18. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  19. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  20. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
  21. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  22. p. 165, line 13And here and hence O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
  23. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  24. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
  25. p. 174, line 6The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,
  26. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;
  27. p. 180, line 16Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
  28. p. 185, line 2All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
  29. p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
  30. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
  31. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  32. p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
  33. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  34. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  35. p. 253, line 1SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!
  36. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  37. p. 265, line 24A work remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
  38. p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
  39. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  40. p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.
  41. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
  42. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,
  43. p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
  44. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  45. p. 323, line 26My long and crowded life of active work, not adoration merely;
  46. p. 324, line 12By me and these the work so far accomplish'd,
  47. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  48. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  49. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
  50. p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
  51. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  52. p. 379, line 5(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)
  53. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  54. p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
  55. p. 390, line 22All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work,
  56. p. 410, line 13Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions,
  57. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,
  58. p. 419, line 18Your farm—your work, trade, occupation,
  59. p. 436, line 29[…] spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body […]
  60. p. 437, line 44[…] galleries of old convents, came across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and […]
  61. p. 438, line 3[…] to their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown […]

work-box 1

  1. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,

work'd 4 today: worked

  1. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
  2. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  3. p. 285, line 24Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?
  4. p. 433, line 25[…] my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]

worked see work'd

working 10

  1. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  2. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  3. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  4. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  5. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
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  1. p. 170, line 25Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
  2. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  3. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  4. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,

working-knife 1

  1. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,

working-man 2

  1. p. 118, line 27You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!
  2. p. 435, line 41Without yielding an inch the working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages from first […]

working-man's 1

  1. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,

working-men 1

  1. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.

workings 3

  1. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  2. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,
  3. p. 295, line 31The workings, details, haply human.)

working-woman 2

  1. p. 118, line 27You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!
  2. p. 435, line 41Without yielding an inch the working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages from first to last […]

workman 2

  1. p. 113, line 2I hear the workman singing and the farmer's wife singing,
  2. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!

workmanlike 1

  1. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,

workmanship 1

  1. p. 176, line 15The workmanship of souls is by those inaudible words of the earth,

workmen 16

  1. p. 61, line 3Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
  2. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  3. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  4. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  5. p. 160, line 33But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.
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  1. p. 165, line 13And here and hence O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
  2. p. 169, line 15Workmen and Workwomen!
  3. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  4. p. 185, line 2All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
  5. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  6. p. 258, line 18And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
  7. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
  8. p. 334, line 8A frequent sample of the life and death of workmen,
  9. p. 369, line 11The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,
  10. p. 390, line 22All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work,
  11. p. 397, line 15Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)

work-people 1

  1. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,

works 25

  1. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  2. p. 40, line 17The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  3. p. 47, line 24This is the geologist, this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  4. p. 57, line 19Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well,
  5. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
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  1. p. 154, line 13Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
  2. p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
  3. p. 163, line 7With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world,
  4. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  5. p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
  6. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  7. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,
  8. p. 247, line 25His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works,
  9. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  10. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
  11. p. 301, line 27A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,
  12. p. 315, line 20Singing the strong light works of engineers,
  13. p. 357, line 1What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,
  14. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  15. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often […]
  16. p. 429, line 43[…] conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens […]
  17. p. 431, line 20[…] of history, that our chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but […]
  18. p. 431, line 23[…] most, twilight dimness! What is there in those works that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization […]
  19. p. 432, line 5[…] through the temper and inculcation of the old works as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through […]

workshop 2

  1. p. 129, line 2Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!
  2. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,

workshops 3

  1. p. 164, line 11Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising,
  2. p. 220, line 1From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the doorways,
  3. p. 258, line 18And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.

workwomen 2

  1. p. 169, line 15Workmen and Workwomen!
  2. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,

world 154

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worldly 1

  1. p. 425, line 31[…] the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been […]

world's 14

  1. p. 50, line 13With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  2. p. 50, line 25Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 204, line 32(Myself a speck, a point on the world's floating vast.)
  5. p. 207, line 16All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
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  1. p. 311, line 24The players playing, all the world's musicians,
  2. p. 325, line 5Of newer better worlds, their mighty parturition,
  3. p. 368, line 12Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
  4. p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,
  5. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  6. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  7. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)
  8. p. 429, line 44[…] divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend […]

world-spreading 1

  1. p. 371, line 4With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands;

worm 1

  1. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.

worming 1

  1. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,

worms 4

  1. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
  2. 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,
  3. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  4. p. 354, line 5This face is bitten by vermin and worms,

worn 7

  1. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
  2. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  3. p. 245, line 16Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)
  4. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  5. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  6. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,
  7. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,

worry 1

  1. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.

worse 6

  1. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  2. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  3. p. 210, line 17Worse and worse—can't you stand it? are you retreating?
  4. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  5. p. 425, line 32[…] point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on the book and […]

worship 6

  1. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
  2. p. 69, line 20Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,
  3. p. 213, line 31Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
  4. p. 316, line 23A worship new I sing,
  5. p. 350, line 2Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worship—thee in no single bible, saviour, merely,
  6. p. 358, line 25Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!

worship'd 1 today: worshiped

  1. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,

worshiped see worship'd

worshipp'd 1 today: worshipped

  1. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,

worshipped see worshipp'd

worshippers 1

  1. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,

worst 3

  1. p. 31, line 10Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
  2. p. 351, line 3Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face with hectic,
  3. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,

worst-suffering 1

  1. p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,

worth 5

  1. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  2. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 407, line 16[…] all clear that, as here collated, it is worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while […]
  5. p. 413, line 37[…] soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long […]

worthier 2

  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. 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.

worthily 2

  1. p. 428, line 22[…] of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the future […]
  2. p. 438, line 34[…] the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that […]

worthy 10

  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 22, line 18(Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion,
  3. p. 88, line 19I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
  4. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  5. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  3. p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,
  4. 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.
  5. p. 437, line 4[…] I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the […]

would 108

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wouldst 3

  1. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  2. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  3. p. 306, line 22In that thou couldst not, wouldst not, wear the usual chains,

wound 5

  1. p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
  2. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
  3. p. 243, line 14I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep,
  4. p. 243, line 21The fractur'd thigh, the knee, the wound in the abdomen,
  5. p. 403, line 17Of life or death, or soldier's wound, of country's loss or safety,

wounded 20

  1. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  2. p. 61, line 15Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
  3. p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
  4. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  5. p. 240, line 19Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand,)
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  1. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  2. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  3. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
  4. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  5. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  6. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  7. p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
  8. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,
  9. p. 367, line 16Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,)
  10. p. 391, line 2The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and the dead,
  11. p. 400, line 15To the wounded, the fallen, the heat, the suspense,
  12. p. 408, line 21[…] the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests […]
  13. p. 408, line 25[…] volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those […]
  14. p. 411, line 37[…] effect of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a […]

wounding 1

  1. p. 313, line 25I see again the wild old Corybantian dance, the performers wounding each other,

wounds 8

  1. p. 104, line 22From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
  2. p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
  3. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  4. p. 235, line 5Baptized that day in many a young man's bloody wounds,
  5. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
  6. p. 252, line 26But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,
  7. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)
  8. p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;

woven 2

  1. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,

wrap 2

  1. p. 89, line 13In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
  2. p. 327, line 21A shroud I see and I am the shroud, I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,

wrapped see wrapt

wrapping 1

  1. p. 182, line 25Love like the light silently wrapping all,

wraps 1

  1. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!

wrapt 6 today: wrapped

  1. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
  2. p. 238, line 19My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,
  3. p. 296, line 20Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)
  4. p. 325, line 25And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt.
  5. p. 344, line 24The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets;
  6. p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)

wrath 3

  1. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,
  2. p. 386, line 13Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,
  3. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;

wreath 2

  1. p. 406, line 11[…] Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the […]
  2. p. 411, line 10So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,

wreaths 2

  1. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
  2. p. 399, line 26Wreaths of roses and branches of palm.

wreck 6

  1. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  2. p. 208, line 30(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)
  3. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  4. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,
  5. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  6. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,

wreck'd 5 today: wrecked

  1. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  2. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  3. p. 323, line 13A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man,
  4. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
  5. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

wrecked see wreck'd

wreck-guns 1

  1. p. 328, line 14The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,

wreck-place 1

  1. p. 205, line 20Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place.

wrecks 6

  1. p. 203, line 13I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island.
  2. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  3. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  4. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,

wren 1

  1. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

wrench'd 1 today: wrenched

  1. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,

wrenched see wrench'd

wrenches 1

  1. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,

wrenching 2

  1. p. 108, line 8Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
  2. p. 408, line 24[…] in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South […]

wrestle 4

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  2. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  3. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  4. p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,

wrestled 1

  1. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,

wrestlers 2

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  2. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.

wrestling 1

  1. p. 53, line 4Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!

wretched 2

  1. p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  2. p. 403, line 19What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!)

wrig 1

  1. p. 353, line 19Some milk-nosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

wringing 1

  1. p. 328, line 17I cannot aid with my wringing fingers,

wrings 1

  1. p. 292, line 18Cries, help! O help! and wrings her hands,

wrinkled 1

  1. p. 327, line 17It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,

wrist 2

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
  2. p. 332, line 1The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,

wrist-chains 1

  1. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,

wrist-joints 1

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,

wrists 5

  1. p. 82, line 1It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  2. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  3. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
  4. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  5. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.

write 10

  1. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  2. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  3. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
  4. p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
  5. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
5 more lines
  1. p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
  2. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  3. p. 346, line 16The words the Dead I write,
  4. p. 407, line 17[…] worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d year—hours […]
  5. p. 427, line 37[…] verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an article on Wordsworth, in one of […]

writers 1

  1. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,

writes 1

  1. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!

writhes 1

  1. p. 164, line 5How the ash writhes under those muscular arms!

writing 7

  1. p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  2. p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
  3. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  4. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  5. p. 308, line 11Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?
  6. p. 384, line 9[…] Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The […]
  7. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,

writing-pen 1

  1. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,

writings 1

  1. p. 434, line 38[…] the profoundest service that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy […]

written 11

  1. p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  2. p. 68, line 8Easily written loose-finger'd chords—I feel the thrum of your climax and close.
  3. p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
  4. p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
  5. p. 110, line 17Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
6 more lines
  1. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  2. p. 202, line 30With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
  3. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  4. p. 429, line 9[…] so "Leaves of Grass," before a line was written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands […]
  5. p. 432, line 3[…] of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in […]
  6. p. 436, line 5[…] the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my life […]

wrong 1

  1. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,

wrong'd 3 today: wronged

  1. p. 267, line 19The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when wrong'd,
  2. p. 330, line 24The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wrong'd,
  3. p. 332, line 3The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong'd is made right,

wronged see wrong'd

wrongs 3

  1. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  2. p. 358, line 7Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feuds and hatreds,
  3. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)

wrote 1

  1. 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.

wrought 1

  1. p. 166, line 31We welcome what we wrought for through the past,

wrought-out 1

  1. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?

wrung 1

  1. p. 233, line 18I saw how he wrung his hands in anguish.