Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “you”

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  1. p. 10, line 22You not a reminiscence of the land alone,
  2. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  3. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
  4. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  5. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  6. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
  7. p. 11, line 4YOU who celebrate bygones,
  8. p. 12, line 17Lo, I or you,
  9. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  10. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  11. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
  12. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  13. p. 18, line 4Arouse! for you must justify me.
  14. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  15. p. 18, line 8Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
  16. p. 18, line 9Expecting the main things from you.
  17. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  18. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
  19. p. 20, line 3For you a programme of chants.
  20. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  21. p. 20, line 12And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
  22. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
  23. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  24. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  25. p. 22, line 20What are you doing young man?
  26. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  27. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  28. p. 23, line 2What do you need camerado?
  29. p. 23, line 3Dear son do you think it is love?
  30. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  31. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  32. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  33. p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
  34. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  35. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
  36. p. 25, line 20Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!
  37. p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
  38. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
  39. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  40. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  41. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  42. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  43. p. 27, line 8Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
  44. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  45. p. 27, line 18Here for you! and here for America!
  46. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  47. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  48. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  49. p. 29, line 7And what I assume you shall assume,
  50. p. 29, line 8For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  51. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
  52. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
  53. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  54. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  55. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  56. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  57. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  58. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  59. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  60. p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.
  61. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  62. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  63. p. 33, line 15Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  64. p. 33, line 16It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  65. p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  66. p. 33, line 19And here you are the mothers' laps.
  67. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  68. p. 34, line 3And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  69. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  70. p. 36, line 10You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  71. p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  72. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  73. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  74. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)
  75. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  76. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  77. p. 44, line 3Do you take it I would astonish?
  78. p. 44, line 7I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
  79. p. 44, line 10What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
  80. p. 44, line 11All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  81. p. 45, line 13I laugh at what you call dissolution,
  82. p. 45, line 24Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
  83. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  84. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  85. p. 46, line 16I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
  86. p. 46, line 19Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
  87. p. 46, line 24I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  88. p. 47, line 3Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  89. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
  90. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  91. p. 49, line 7Translucent mould of me it shall be you!
  92. p. 49, line 8Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you!
  93. p. 49, line 9Firm masculine colter it shall be you!
  94. p. 49, line 10Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!
  95. p. 49, line 11You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life!
  96. p. 49, line 12Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you!
  97. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
  98. p. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
  99. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
  100. p. 49, line 17Sun so generous it shall be you!
  101. p. 49, line 18Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you!
  102. p. 49, line 19You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
  103. p. 49, line 20Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!
  104. p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
  105. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  106. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  107. p. 50, line 16Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
  108. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  109. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  110. p. 50, line 24My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am,
  111. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
  112. p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
  113. p. 53, line 3Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.
  114. p. 53, line 5Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
  115. p. 55, line 12I but use you a minute, then I resign you, stallion,
  116. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  117. p. 59, line 19And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will not desert you;
  118. p. 62, line 7Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
  119. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  120. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  121. p. 64, line 3You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
  122. p. 65, line 9Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
  123. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  124. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  125. p. 65, line 25Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
  126. p. 65, line 26Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  127. p. 66, line 1And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
  128. p. 66, line 5You there, impotent, loose in the knees,
  129. p. 66, line 6Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,
  130. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  131. p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  132. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  133. p. 66, line 23I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,
  134. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  135. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  136. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  137. p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  138. p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?
  139. p. 69, line 18I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over,
  140. p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
  141. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  142. p. 70, line 13The past is the push of you, me, all, precisely the same,
  143. p. 70, line 14And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely the same.
  144. p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
  145. p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
  146. 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,
  147. p. 73, line 21But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  148. p. 73, line 22My left hand hooking you round the waist,
  149. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  150. p. 73, line 25You must travel it for yourself.
  151. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  152. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  153. p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
  154. p. 74, line 9You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
  155. p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
  156. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  157. p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
  158. p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
  159. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
  160. p. 74, line 18Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  161. p. 75, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
  162. p. 75, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  163. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  164. p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  165. p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  166. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  167. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  168. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  169. p. 77, line 11I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  170. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  171. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  172. p. 78, line 6Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
  173. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  174. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
  175. p. 78, line 25If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
  176. p. 79, line 1You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  177. p. 79, line 2But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  178. p. 79, line 6I stop somewhere waiting for you.
  179. p. 80, line 1O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
  180. p. 80, line 15The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
  181. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  182. p. 80, line 19I love you, O you entirely possess me,
  183. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  184. p. 80, line 24(O I willingly stake all for you,
  185. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  186. p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
  187. p. 81, line 15And you stalwart loins.
  188. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
  189. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  190. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  191. p. 84, line 11You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
  192. p. 85, line 6Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
  193. p. 85, line 10Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
  194. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  195. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  196. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  197. p. 85, line 24They shall be stript that you may see them.
  198. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)
  199. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  200. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  201. p. 86, line 13Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
  202. p. 86, line 14Have you ever loved the body of a man?
  203. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  204. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  205. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  206. p. 86, line 22I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
  207. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  208. p. 88, line 2The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,
  209. p. 89, line 1I draw you close to me, you women,
  210. p. 89, line 2I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
  211. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  212. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
  213. p. 89, line 6It is I, you women, I make my way,
  214. p. 89, line 7I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
  215. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  216. p. 89, line 12Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
  217. p. 89, line 13In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
  218. p. 89, line 14On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
  219. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  220. p. 89, line 16The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
  221. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  222. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  223. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  224. p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
  225. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
  226. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
  227. p. 92, line 13Whispering I love you, before long I die,
  228. p. 92, line 14I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
  229. p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
  230. p. 92, line 16For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.
  231. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  232. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  233. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
  234. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
  235. p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
  236. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  237. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
  238. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  239. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  240. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  241. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  242. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
  243. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  244. p. 96, line 14Every year shall you bloom again, out from where you retired you shall emerge again;
  245. 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;
  246. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  247. p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
  248. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
  249. p. 96, line 19Yet you are beautiful to me you faint tinged roots, you make me think of death,
  250. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  251. p. 96, line 25Indeed O death, I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as you mean,
  252. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
  253. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  254. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  255. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
  256. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  257. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
  258. p. 97, line 15That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
  259. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
  260. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  261. p. 97, line 18That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
  262. p. 97, line 19But you will last very long.
  263. p. 97, line 20WHOEVER you are holding me now in hand,
  264. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
  265. p. 97, line 23I am not what you supposed, but far different.
  266. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  267. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  268. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  269. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  270. p. 98, line 9Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
  271. p. 98, line 12Or if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,
  272. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
  273. p. 98, line 15For thus merely touching you is enough, is best,
  274. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
  275. p. 98, line 17But these leaves conning you con at peril,
  276. p. 98, line 18For these leaves and me you will not understand,
  277. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  278. p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
  279. p. 98, line 21Already you see I have escaped from you.
  280. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
  281. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  282. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
  283. p. 99, line 11For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
  284. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  285. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  286. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  287. p. 103, line 12ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
  288. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
  289. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  290. p. 103, line 15Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
  291. p. 103, line 16Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
  292. p. 103, line 17Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
  293. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  294. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  295. p. 103, line 20Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
  296. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  297. p. 104, line 5Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
  298. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  299. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  300. p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
  301. p. 104, line 22From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
  302. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  303. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  304. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  305. p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
  306. p. 106, line 11I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
  307. p. 106, line 13You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
  308. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  309. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  310. 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,
  311. p. 106, line 17I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
  312. p. 106, line 18I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
  313. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  314. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  315. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  316. p. 109, line 7You natural persons old and young!
  317. p. 109, line 8You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi!
  318. p. 109, line 9You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!
  319. p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
  320. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  321. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
  322. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  323. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
  324. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  325. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  326. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  327. p. 110, line 21Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?
  328. p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
  329. p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
  330. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  331. p. 111, line 14O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
  332. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  333. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  334. p. 112, line 2To you yet unborn these, seeking you.
  335. p. 112, line 3When you read these I that was visible am become invisible,
  336. p. 112, line 4Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
  337. p. 112, line 5Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;
  338. p. 112, line 6Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)
  339. p. 112, line 11What widens within you Walt Whitman?
  340. p. 113, line 1What do you hear Walt Whitman?
  341. p. 113, line 20What do you see Walt Whitman?
  342. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
  343. p. 118, line 17You whoever you are!
  344. p. 118, line 18You daughter or son of England!
  345. p. 118, line 19You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
  346. p. 118, line 20You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms with me!
  347. p. 118, line 21You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
  348. p. 118, line 22You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
  349. p. 118, line 23You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
  350. p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)
  351. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!
  352. p. 118, line 26You neighbor of the Danube!
  353. p. 118, line 27You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!
  354. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!
  355. p. 118, line 29You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek!
  356. p. 118, line 30You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
  357. p. 118, line 31You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!
  358. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!
  359. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  360. p. 119, line 3You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!
  361. p. 119, line 4You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
  362. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  363. p. 119, line 6You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
  364. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  365. p. 119, line 8You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!
  366. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  367. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
  368. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
  369. p. 119, line 12You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
  370. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
  371. p. 119, line 14All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
  372. p. 119, line 15And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
  373. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  374. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  375. p. 119, line 22You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd hordes!
  376. p. 119, line 23You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!
  377. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
  378. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  379. p. 119, line 26You dwarf'd Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!
  380. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!
  381. p. 120, line 1You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!
  382. p. 120, line 2You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd Bedowee!
  383. p. 120, line 3You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!
  384. p. 120, line 4You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Feejeeman!
  385. p. 120, line 5I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
  386. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  387. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  388. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  389. p. 120, line 12I think I have blown with you you winds;
  390. p. 120, line 13You waters I have finger'd every shore with you,
  391. p. 120, line 19Toward you all, in America's name,
  392. p. 121, line 13You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
  393. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  394. p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
  395. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
  396. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  397. p. 121, line 26I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
  398. p. 121, line 27You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges!
  399. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  400. p. 122, line 1You rows of houses! you window-pierc'd façades! you roofs!
  401. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
  402. p. 122, line 3You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much!
  403. p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
  404. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
  405. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  406. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.
  407. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
  408. p. 122, line 13Do you say Venture not—if you leave me you are lost?
  409. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  410. p. 122, line 15O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
  411. p. 122, line 16You express me better than I can express myself,
  412. p. 122, line 17You shall be more to me than my poem.
  413. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  414. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  415. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
  416. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  417. p. 124, line 6Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?
  418. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  419. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
  420. p. 125, line 4Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!
  421. p. 125, line 5Traveling with me you find what never tires.
  422. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
  423. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
  424. p. 126, line 3Listen! I will be honest with you,
  425. p. 126, line 5These are the days that must happen to you:
  426. p. 126, line 6You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
  427. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
  428. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  429. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  430. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  431. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  432. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  433. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
  434. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  435. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  436. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  437. p. 127, line 11To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
  438. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  439. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
  440. p. 127, line 14To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
  441. p. 128, line 1Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!
  442. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  443. p. 128, line 5Behold through you as bad as the rest,
  444. p. 129, line 5Camerado, I give you my hand!
  445. p. 129, line 6I give you my love more precious than money,
  446. p. 129, line 7I give you myself before preaching or law;
  447. p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
  448. p. 129, line 10FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
  449. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  450. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
  451. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  452. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  453. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  454. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  455. p. 130, line 10Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
  456. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  457. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  458. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
  459. p. 131, line 8These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
  460. p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
  461. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  462. p. 132, line 20Closer yet I approach you,
  463. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  464. p. 132, line 22I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.
  465. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  466. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  467. p. 133, line 5What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
  468. p. 133, line 18Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;
  469. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  470. p. 134, line 1Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are,
  471. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  472. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  473. p. 134, line 7You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
  474. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  475. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  476. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  477. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
  478. p. 134, line 12You furnish your parts toward eternity,
  479. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  480. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  481. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  482. p. 137, line 21The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
  483. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  484. p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
  485. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  486. p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
  487. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  488. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  489. p. 152, line 3What do you think endures?
  490. p. 152, line 4Do you think a great city endures?
  491. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
  492. p. 154, line 20Whose is that blood upon you so wet and sticky?)
  493. p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
  494. p. 155, line 5(America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
  495. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.
  496. p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
  497. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  498. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  499. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  500. p. 161, line 1Here shall you trace in flowing operation,
  501. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  502. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  503. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  504. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  505. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
  506. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  507. p. 161, line 11The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.
  508. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
  509. p. 162, line 16To you ye reverent sane sisters,
  510. p. 166, line 19You untold life of me,
  511. p. 166, line 20And all you venerable and innocent joys,
  512. p. 167, line 16To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
  513. p. 167, line 17You promis'd long, we pledge, we dedicate.
  514. p. 167, line 18You occult deep volitions,
  515. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  516. p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
  517. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  518. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  519. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  520. p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
  521. p. 167, line 26You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures,
  522. p. 167, line 28We pledge, we dedicate to you.
  523. p. 167, line 29For man of you, your characteristic race,
  524. p. 169, line 1But more in you than these, lands of the Western shore,
  525. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  526. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  527. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  528. p. 169, line 23I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
  529. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  530. p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  531. p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
  532. p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
  533. p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
  534. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  535. p. 170, line 8Why what have you thought of yourself?
  536. p. 170, line 9Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  537. p. 170, line 10Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
  538. p. 170, line 11Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  539. p. 170, line 12(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,
  540. p. 170, line 13Or that you are diseas'd, or rheumatic, or a prostitute,
  541. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  542. p. 170, line 15Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
  543. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  544. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  545. p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
  546. p. 171, line 3I bring what you much need yet always have,
  547. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  548. p. 171, line 11You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
  549. p. 171, line 12You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  550. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
  551. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
  552. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  553. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  554. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  555. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  556. p. 172, line 18It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life,
  557. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  558. p. 172, line 20The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are,
  559. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  560. p. 172, line 22The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them,
  561. p. 172, line 23The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,
  562. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
  563. p. 173, line 2Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,
  564. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  565. p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
  566. p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
  567. p. 173, line 7All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
  568. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
  569. p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  570. p. 173, line 14Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
  571. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  572. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  573. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
  574. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  575. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  576. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  577. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  578. p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
  579. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  580. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  581. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  582. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  583. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  584. p. 176, line 2Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?
  585. p. 176, line 4They are in the air, they are in you.
  586. p. 176, line 5Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?
  587. p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
  588. p. 177, line 7Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
  589. p. 177, line 8Will you squat and stifle there?)
  590. p. 178, line 20Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you,
  591. p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
  592. p. 178, line 22Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
  593. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  594. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  595. p. 178, line 25For none more than you is immortality.
  596. p. 180, line 2It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
  597. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
  598. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  599. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  600. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  601. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  602. p. 180, line 23You shall be fully glorified in them.
  603. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  604. p. 183, line 7Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
  605. p. 183, line 13O you youths, Western youths,
  606. p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
  607. p. 185, line 21O you daughters of the West!
  608. p. 185, line 22O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
  609. p. 185, line 23Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
  610. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
  611. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  612. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  613. p. 186, line 9WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
  614. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  615. p. 186, line 14Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
  616. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  617. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  618. p. 186, line 19I should have blabb'd nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.
  619. p. 186, line 20I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
  620. p. 186, line 21None has understood you, but I understand you,
  621. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  622. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  623. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  624. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  625. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  626. p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,
  627. p. 187, line 8What you have done returns already in mockeries,
  628. p. 187, line 10The mockeries are not you,
  629. p. 187, line 11Underneath them and within them I see you lurk,
  630. p. 187, line 12I pursue you where none else has pursued you,
  631. p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
  632. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
  633. p. 187, line 17There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you,
  634. p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
  635. p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
  636. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  637. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  638. p. 187, line 22Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
  639. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  640. p. 187, line 24These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they,
  641. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
  642. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,
  643. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  644. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
  645. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
  646. p. 189, line 24(Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
  647. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?
  648. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
  649. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  650. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
  651. p. 190, line 13I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
  652. 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;)
  653. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  654. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
  655. p. 191, line 7There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)
  656. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  657. p. 192, line 9You and me arrived—America arrived and making this year,
  658. p. 192, line 11O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You,
  659. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  660. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
  661. p. 193, line 6And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
  662. p. 193, line 15But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad.
  663. p. 194, line 27The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores,
  664. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  665. p. 195, line 24And you Libertad of the world!
  666. p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
  667. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  668. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  669. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,
  670. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  671. p. 196, line 10Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
  672. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  673. p. 198, line 7I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.
  674. p. 198, line 23Following you my brother.
  675. p. 198, line 35Loud I call to you, my love!
  676. p. 199, line 2Surely you must know who is here, is here,
  677. p. 199, line 3You must know who I am, my love.
  678. p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
  679. p. 199, line 12Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.
  680. p. 199, line 16Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
  681. p. 199, line 25And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,
  682. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,
  683. p. 199, line 32This gentle call is for you my love, for you.
  684. p. 200, line 29Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
  685. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  686. p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
  687. p. 201, line 2O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,
  688. p. 201, line 14Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you sea-waves?
  689. p. 202, line 3As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
  690. p. 202, line 15These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
  691. p. 203, line 4You oceans both, I close with you,
  692. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  693. p. 203, line 7You friable shore with trails of debris,
  694. p. 203, line 8You fish-shaped island, I take what is underfoot,
  695. p. 203, line 13I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island.
  696. p. 203, line 15I cling to you so that you cannot unloose me,
  697. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  698. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
  699. p. 203, line 21Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,
  700. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  701. p. 203, line 24I mean tenderly by you and all,
  702. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  703. p. 204, line 11You up there walking or sitting,
  704. p. 204, line 12Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.
  705. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  706. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
  707. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,
  708. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  709. p. 210, line 10What troubles you Yankee phantoms? what is all this chattering of bare gums?
  710. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
  711. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  712. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  713. p. 210, line 17Worse and worse—can't you stand it? are you retreating?
  714. p. 210, line 18Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  715. p. 210, line 21I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  716. p. 210, line 22But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  717. p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
  718. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  719. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,
  720. p. 211, line 11You are mighty cute—and here is one of your bargains.
  721. p. 211, line 19And you, paid to defile the People—you liars, mark!
  722. p. 212, line 18They live in brothers again ready to defy you,
  723. p. 212, line 24Liberty, let others despair of you—I never despair of you.
  724. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  725. p. 213, line 11Such from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
  726. p. 215, line 8That you are here—that life exists and identity,
  727. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  728. p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
  729. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  730. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  731. p. 216, line 4WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept,
  732. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  733. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
  734. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
  735. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  736. p. 221, line 9And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
  737. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
  738. p. 221, line 12But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
  739. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
  740. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  741. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  742. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  743. p. 222, line 3I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
  744. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
  745. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
  746. p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
  747. p. 223, line 17Words! book-words! what are you?
  748. p. 224, line 5Nothing my babe you see in the sky,
  749. p. 224, line 6And nothing at all to you it says—but look you my babe,
  750. p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
  751. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  752. p. 225, line 2What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much it displeases me;
  753. p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
  754. p. 226, line 22Child of mine you fill me with anguish,
  755. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  756. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  757. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  758. p. 227, line 20Insensate! insensate! (yet I at any rate chant you,) O banner!
  759. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  760. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  761. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  762. p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
  763. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  764. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
  765. p. 228, line 7O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
  766. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
  767. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  768. p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
  769. p. 229, line 7'Twas well, O soul—'twas a good preparation you gave me,
  770. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  771. p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
  772. p. 229, line 26Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,
  773. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  774. p. 230, line 23When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
  775. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
  776. p. 231, line 9Behold me—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!
  777. p. 231, line 10I have rejected nothing you offer'd me—whom you adopted I have adopted,
  778. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  779. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  780. p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
  781. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
  782. p. 231, line 23Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
  783. p. 231, line 24Do you hear the clank of the muskets?
  784. p. 231, line 25Why what comes over you now old man?
  785. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
  786. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  787. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  788. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  789. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  790. p. 234, line 27I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.
  791. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  792. p. 235, line 8In the midst of you stands an encampment very old,
  793. p. 236, line 24(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
  794. p. 236, line 25Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
  795. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  796. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  797. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  798. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  799. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  800. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  801. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  802. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  803. p. 240, line 10Who are you my dear comrade?
  804. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  805. p. 240, line 12Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
  806. p. 240, line 14Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,
  807. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
  808. p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
  809. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
  810. p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
  811. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  812. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  813. p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
  814. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  815. p. 245, line 2Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,
  816. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  817. p. 246, line 29O strong dead-march you please me!
  818. p. 246, line 30O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
  819. p. 246, line 32What I have I also give you.
  820. p. 246, line 33The moon gives you light,
  821. p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
  822. p. 246, line 36My heart gives you love.
  823. p. 247, line 5Sons of the Mother of All, you shall yet be victorious,
  824. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
  825. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  826. p. 247, line 19I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.
  827. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
  828. p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
  829. p. 249, line 7Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
  830. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  831. p. 250, line 12Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
  832. p. 250, line 14You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other,
  833. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  834. p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  835. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  836. p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
  837. p. 251, line 11Nor the bayonet stab what you really are;
  838. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
  839. p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
  840. p. 252, line 3Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
  841. p. 252, line 4How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
  842. p. 252, line 7Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
  843. p. 252, line 9DID you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
  844. p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
  845. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  846. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  847. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  848. p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
  849. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
  850. p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
  851. p. 253, line 15Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close,
  852. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,
  853. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  854. p. 253, line 20You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
  855. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  856. p. 254, line 14But what remains remains for singers for you—wars to come are for you,
  857. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  858. p. 254, line 18Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
  859. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
  860. p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
  861. p. 257, line 3I give you my sprig of lilac.
  862. p. 257, line 4(Nor for you, for one alone,
  863. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  864. p. 257, line 8O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,
  865. p. 257, line 11With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
  866. p. 257, line 12For you and the coffins all of you O death.)
  867. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
  868. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  869. p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
  870. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  871. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
  872. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
  873. p. 257, line 26I hear, I come presently, I understand you,
  874. p. 259, line 4Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,
  875. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  876. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
  877. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
  878. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
  879. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  880. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  881. p. 264, line 25Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
  882. p. 265, line 2All is for individuals, all is for you,
  883. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
  884. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
  885. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
  886. p. 265, line 15O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
  887. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  888. p. 268, line 10And your port immovable where you stand,
  889. p. 268, line 12And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you,
  890. p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
  891. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
  892. p. 268, line 20O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
  893. p. 270, line 17I sing you over all, flying beckoning through the fight—O the hard-contested fight!
  894. p. 270, line 22Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
  895. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  896. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  897. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
  898. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  899. 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?
  900. p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?
  901. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  902. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  903. p. 271, line 8Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
  904. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  905. p. 271, line 10Are you not of some coterie? some school or mere religion?
  906. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
  907. p. 271, line 12Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
  908. p. 271, line 13Have you too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality?
  909. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  910. p. 271, line 15What is this you bring my America?
  911. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  912. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  913. p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
  914. p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
  915. p. 273, line 22It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one,
  916. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
  917. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  918. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  919. p. 274, line 13Underneath all to me is myself, to you yourself, (the same monotonous old song.)
  920. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  921. p. 274, line 15Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me,
  922. p. 274, line 16Its crimes, lies, thefts, defections, are you and me,
  923. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
  924. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
  925. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  926. p. 274, line 20Natural and artificial are you and me,
  927. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
  928. p. 274, line 22Past, present, future, are you and me.
  929. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  930. p. 275, line 12Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)
  931. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
  932. p. 275, line 21Copious as you are I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself,
  933. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  934. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  935. p. 276, line 20You by my charm I invoke.
  936. p. 277, line 13In you whoe'er you are my book perusing,
  937. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  938. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.
  939. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
  940. p. 279, line 25O you regiments so piteous, with your mortal diarrhoea, with your fever,
  941. p. 280, line 7Nor do I forget you Departed,
  942. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  943. p. 281, line 22With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you.
  944. p. 281, line 24The Mother of All, yet here as ever she watches you.
  945. p. 284, line 15You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead between your knees,
  946. p. 284, line 16O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd,
  947. p. 284, line 17For know you the one you mourn is not in that grave,
  948. p. 284, line 18It was an illusion, the son you love was not really dead,
  949. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  950. p. 284, line 21What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grave,
  951. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  952. p. 285, line 21How can you be alive you growths of spring?
  953. p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
  954. p. 285, line 23Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you?
  955. p. 285, line 25Where have you disposed of their carcasses?
  956. p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
  957. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  958. p. 288, line 8For till all ceases neither must you cease.
  959. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  960. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  961. p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
  962. p. 296, line 3Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
  963. p. 296, line 4By you, your banks Connecticut,
  964. p. 296, line 5By you and all your teeming life old Thames,
  965. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
  966. p. 296, line 7You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone,
  967. p. 296, line 11This common curtain of the face contain'd in me for me, in you for you, in each for each,
  968. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,
  969. p. 296, line 23To you whoe'er you are—a look.
  970. p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
  971. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,
  972. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
  973. p. 297, line 7Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
  974. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  975. p. 298, line 6I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
  976. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  977. p. 298, line 17YOU felons on trial in courts,
  978. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,
  979. p. 298, line 21You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,
  980. p. 298, line 22Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
  981. p. 299, line 2(O admirers, praise not me—compliment not me—you make me wince,
  982. p. 299, line 3I see what you do not—I know what you do not.)
  983. p. 299, line 15What do you suppose creation is?
  984. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  985. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  986. p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
  987. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  988. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  989. 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,
  990. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  991. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  992. p. 302, line 11IS reform needed? is it through you?
  993. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  994. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  995. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  996. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  997. p. 303, line 11To you your name also;
  998. p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
  999. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  1000. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  1001. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
  1002. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  1003. p. 307, line 17See you! some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking;
  1004. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  1005. p. 308, line 3Now only do I know you,
  1006. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?
  1007. p. 308, line 16And you America,
  1008. p. 308, line 17Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
  1009. p. 309, line 4Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
  1010. p. 309, line 5Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?
  1011. p. 310, line 5Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
  1012. p. 310, line 16Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,
  1013. p. 310, line 17You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert,
  1014. p. 310, line 19You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses,
  1015. p. 310, line 20You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient,
  1016. p. 310, line 21You undertone of rivers, roar of pouring cataracts,
  1017. p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
  1018. p. 310, line 25Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?
  1019. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!
  1020. p. 314, line 15To you a new bard caroling in the West,
  1021. p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,
  1022. p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
  1023. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  1024. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  1025. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
  1026. p. 316, line 15You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!
  1027. p. 316, line 16You too with joy I sing.
  1028. p. 316, line 24You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,
  1029. p. 316, line 25You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,
  1030. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  1031. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  1032. p. 319, line 16The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,
  1033. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  1034. p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
  1035. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
  1036. p. 322, line 27Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!
  1037. p. 322, line 28Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!
  1038. p. 322, line 29Of you O prairies! of you gray rocks!
  1039. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  1040. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
  1041. p. 322, line 33Passage to you!
  1042. p. 327, line 5I roll myself upon you as upon a bed, I resign myself to the dusk.
  1043. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  1044. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  1045. p. 328, line 5What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
  1046. p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  1047. p. 330, line 4O love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me,
  1048. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  1049. p. 332, line 13Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  1050. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  1051. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  1052. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  1053. p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
  1054. p. 333, line 4Have you dreaded these earth-beetles?
  1055. p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
  1056. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  1057. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,
  1058. p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
  1059. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  1060. p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
  1061. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  1062. p. 335, line 11Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are,
  1063. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  1064. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  1065. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  1066. p. 336, line 1It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided,
  1067. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  1068. p. 336, line 3You are henceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
  1069. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  1070. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  1071. p. 341, line 16I understand your anguish, but I cannot help you,
  1072. p. 342, line 9(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
  1073. p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
  1074. p. 343, line 19And you O my soul where you stand,
  1075. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  1076. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
  1077. p. 344, line 7FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
  1078. p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
  1079. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  1080. p. 344, line 10Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,
  1081. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  1082. p. 344, line 15The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.
  1083. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  1084. p. 344, line 18You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
  1085. p. 344, line 19You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,
  1086. p. 344, line 20I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,
  1087. p. 344, line 21I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.
  1088. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  1089. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
  1090. p. 354, line 10Well, you cannot trick me.
  1091. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  1092. p. 354, line 14You'll be unmuzzled, you certainly will.
  1093. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  1094. p. 361, line 13The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form'd, beautiful-faced, looking you straight in the eyes,
  1095. p. 362, line 14Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss,
  1096. p. 364, line 2Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
  1097. p. 364, line 4You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,
  1098. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)
  1099. p. 364, line 6You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,
  1100. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)
  1101. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!
  1102. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  1103. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  1104. p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
  1105. p. 366, line 16O forenoon purple of the hills, before I close, of you!
  1106. p. 366, line 17O deathless grass, of you!
  1107. p. 371, line 5What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
  1108. p. 372, line 4Nor you drummers, neither at reveillé at dawn,
  1109. p. 372, line 6Nothing from you this time O drummers bearing my warlike drums.
  1110. p. 374, line 16Inflating my throat, you divine average,
  1111. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  1112. p. 375, line 15Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself!
  1113. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
  1114. p. 377, line 3Yet certain remembrances of the war for you, and after you,
  1115. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  1116. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  1117. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  1118. p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,
  1119. p. 377, line 14And you mountain sides, and the woods where my dear children's blood trickling redden'd,
  1120. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  1121. p. 379, line 11To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,
  1122. p. 379, line 14With you O soul.
  1123. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  1124. p. 381, line 6I announce a man or woman coming, perhaps you are the one, (So long!)
  1125. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.
  1126. p. 382, line 10It is I you hold and who holds you,
  1127. p. 382, line 18Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
  1128. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  1129. p. 382, line 24I love you, I depart from materials,
  1130. p. 384, line 24[…] Pilot in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning […]
  1131. p. 384, line 26[…] of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan […]
  1132. p. 384, line 64[…] Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone […]
  1133. p. 386, line 4Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
  1134. p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
  1135. p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
  1136. p. 389, line 18You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,
  1137. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
  1138. p. 389, line 21What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all?
  1139. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
  1140. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  1141. p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
  1142. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
  1143. p. 390, line 18Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,
  1144. p. 391, line 9Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:
  1145. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  1146. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
  1147. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
  1148. p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
  1149. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  1150. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)
  1151. p. 398, line 16(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, unspecified, readers belov'd,
  1152. p. 400, line 3I cast a reminiscence—(likely 'twill offend you,
  1153. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  1154. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  1155. p. 402, line 1You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs,
  1156. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  1157. p. 402, line 4You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time,
  1158. p. 408, line 6[…] deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there […]
  1159. p. 408, line 32[…] a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you […]
  1160. p. 409, line 10AND whence and why come you?
  1161. p. 413, line 1ADD to your show, before you close it, France,
  1162. p. 416, line 10You million unwrit names all, all—you dark bequest from all the war,
  1163. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
  1164. p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
  1165. p. 419, line 6Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every life;
  1166. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
  1167. p. 422, line 4Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
  1168. p. 422, line 17May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning—so now finally,
  1169. p. 426, line 1[…] I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that […]
  1170. p. 433, line 3[…] or indoor room—it makes such difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions I could get […]
  1171. p. 434, line 24[…] any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there […]
  1172. p. 438, line 29[…] free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]