Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  2. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
  3. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  4. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
  5. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
  6. p. 21, line 8And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
  7. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  8. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  9. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  10. p. 21, line 18I will acknowledge contemporary lands,
  11. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  12. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  13. p. 21, line 21And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
  14. p. 21, line 22I will sing the song of companionship,
  15. p. 21, line 23I will show what alone must finally compact these,
  16. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  17. p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,
  18. p. 21, line 27I will give them complete abandonment,
  19. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
  20. p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
  21. 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.
  22. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  23. p. 24, line 15I will make the true poem of riches,
  24. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  25. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  26. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  27. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  28. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  29. p. 25, line 1And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
  30. p. 25, line 3I will not make poems with reference to parts,
  31. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  32. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  33. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  34. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  35. p. 28, line 6These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise,
  36. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  37. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  38. p. 32, line 10Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
  39. p. 33, line 15Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  40. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  41. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  42. p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
  43. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  44. p. 44, line 7I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
  45. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  46. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  47. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  48. p. 51, line 1Now I will do nothing but listen,
  49. p. 59, line 19And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will not desert you;
  50. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  51. p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  52. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  53. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
  54. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  55. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  56. p. 71, line 10And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  57. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  58. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
  59. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  60. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  61. p. 74, line 18Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  62. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  63. 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.
  64. p. 76, line 25Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
  65. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
  66. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
  67. p. 79, line 1You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  68. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  69. p. 88, line 16Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
  70. 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,
  71. p. 88, line 19I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
  72. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  73. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
  74. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  75. p. 94, line 11I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,
  76. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  77. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  78. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  79. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  80. p. 97, line 6I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States,
  81. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  82. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  83. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
  84. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  85. p. 97, line 19But you will last very long.
  86. p. 97, line 21Without one thing all will be useless,
  87. p. 98, line 12Or if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,
  88. p. 98, line 18For these leaves and me you will not understand,
  89. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  90. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
  91. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
  92. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  93. p. 99, line 1COME, I will make the continent indissoluble,
  94. p. 99, line 2I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
  95. p. 99, line 3I will make divine magnetic lands,
  96. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  97. p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
  98. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  99. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
  100. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  101. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  102. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  103. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  104. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  105. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  106. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  107. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  108. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  109. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  110. p. 121, line 12I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
  111. p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  112. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  113. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  114. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  115. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  116. p. 125, line 15We will sail pathless and wild seas,
  117. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  118. p. 126, line 3Listen! I will be honest with you,
  119. p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
  120. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  121. p. 130, line 1Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
  122. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  123. p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
  124. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  125. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  126. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  127. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  128. p. 135, line 3All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy,
  129. p. 142, line 18I will have thousands of globes and all time.
  130. p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
  131. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  132. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  133. p. 169, line 23I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
  134. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  135. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  136. p. 173, line 12Will the whole come back then?
  137. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  138. p. 177, line 7Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
  139. p. 177, line 8Will you squat and stifle there?)
  140. p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
  141. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  142. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  143. p. 180, line 17It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
  144. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  145. p. 186, line 20I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
  146. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  147. p. 189, line 4And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
  148. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
  149. p. 189, line 9I will run transpose it in words, to justify it,
  150. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
  151. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
  152. p. 189, line 21Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
  153. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?
  154. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  155. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  156. p. 193, line 15But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad.
  157. p. 199, line 12Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.
  158. p. 201, line 11A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
  159. p. 203, line 20Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,)
  160. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  161. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  162. p. 210, line 23I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
  163. p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
  164. p. 212, line 27He will soon return, his messengers come anon.
  165. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
  166. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  167. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  168. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  169. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  170. p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
  171. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  172. p. 237, line 13At present low, but will soon be better.
  173. p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
  174. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  175. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  176. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
  177. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  178. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  179. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  180. p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?
  181. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  182. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  183. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  184. p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
  185. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  186. p. 274, line 10I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
  187. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  188. p. 275, line 6I will not be outfaced by irrational things,
  189. p. 275, line 7I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me,
  190. p. 275, line 8I will make cities and civilizations defer to me,
  191. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,
  192. p. 275, line 14I will know if I am to be less than they,
  193. p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
  194. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  195. p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,
  196. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  197. 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.
  198. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  199. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  200. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  201. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
  202. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
  203. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  204. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,
  205. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
  206. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  207. p. 288, line 10But I will search carefully for it even in being foil'd,
  208. p. 290, line 14The interest will come round—all will come round.
  209. 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,
  210. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  211. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  212. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  213. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  214. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  215. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  216. p. 320, line 4Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
  217. p. 323, line 8And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
  218. p. 324, line 8The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will,
  219. p. 324, line 34Let the old timbers part, I will not part,
  220. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  221. p. 327, line 4Receive me and my lover too, he will not let me go without him.
  222. p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  223. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.
  224. p. 332, line 17I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
  225. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  226. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  227. p. 335, line 5To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  228. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  229. p. 335, line 13What will be will be well, for what is is well,
  230. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
  231. p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
  232. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  233. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  234. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  235. p. 344, line 15The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.
  236. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  237. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  238. p. 354, line 14You'll be unmuzzled, you certainly will.
  239. p. 358, line 2Thou melt'st my heart, my brain—thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;
  240. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  241. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  242. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  243. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  244. p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
  245. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  246. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  247. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,
  248. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
  249. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
  250. 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;)
  251. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)
  252. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  253. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
  254. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  255. p. 408, line 27[…] trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the future—will this vast rich Union […]
  256. p. 408, line 28[…] mainly unknown—Will the America of the future—will this vast rich Union ever realize what itself cost, back […]
  257. p. 409, line 4(I will not call it our concluding voyage,
  258. p. 413, line 34[…] or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last […]
  259. p. 413, line 35[…] secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of the now dead […]
  260. p. 416, line 21Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
  261. p. 425, line 20[…] years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with […]
  262. p. 429, line 2[…] strange as it may sound at first, I will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far […]
  263. p. 430, line 17[…] lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the […]
  264. p. 434, line 21[…] could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as […]
  265. p. 436, line 3[…] now than any times of old were. I will also want my utterances (I said to myself before beginning […]
  266. p. 436, line 6[…] forenoon and early midday of my life.) I will want them to be the poems of women entirely as […]
  267. p. 436, line 15[…] along with those words are behind all, and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into […]
  268. p. 436, line 20[…] unwritten were those lines omitted. Difficult as it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve […]
  269. p. 437, line 41[…] an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote […]
  270. p. 438, line 16[…] feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as […]
  271. p. 438, line 27[…] success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]