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‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  2. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
  3. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  4. p. 22, line 20What are you doing young man?
  5. p. 33, line 16It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  6. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  7. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  8. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  9. p. 37, line 2Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
  10. p. 37, line 6Which of the young men does she like the best?
  11. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  12. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  13. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  14. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  15. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  16. p. 41, line 24The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  17. p. 42, line 3I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  18. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
  19. p. 51, line 15I hear the violoncello, ('tis the young man's heart's complaint,)
  20. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  21. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  22. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  23. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  24. p. 75, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me, he knows me well,
  25. p. 76, line 3The young mother and old mother comprehend me,
  26. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  27. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
  28. p. 87, line 2Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
  29. p. 90, line 18The limpid liquid within the young man,
  30. p. 90, line 22The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes,
  31. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  32. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  33. p. 94, line 5I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,
  34. p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
  35. p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
  36. p. 109, line 7You natural persons old and young!
  37. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  38. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
  39. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  40. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  41. p. 134, line 16A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
  42. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  43. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  44. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  45. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  46. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  47. p. 150, line 24The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,
  48. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  49. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
  50. p. 165, line 4Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands,
  51. p. 170, line 25Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
  52. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
  53. p. 185, line 22O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
  54. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  55. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  56. p. 196, line 4Young Libertad! with the venerable Asia, the all-mother,
  57. p. 196, line 7Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.
  58. p. 205, line 16A young steersman steering with care.
  59. p. 208, line 5Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,
  60. p. 208, line 19Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old,
  61. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
  62. p. 212, line 11Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves, bloody corpses of young men,
  63. p. 212, line 14Those corpses of young men,
  64. p. 212, line 17They live in other young men O kings!
  65. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  66. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  67. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  68. p. 217, line 9The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.
  69. p. 220, line 4The young men falling in and arming,
  70. p. 222, line 21Mind not the old man beseeching the young man,
  71. p. 235, line 5Baptized that day in many a young man's bloody wounds,
  72. p. 240, line 14Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,
  73. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  74. p. 242, line 6O maidens and young men I love and that love me,
  75. p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
  76. p. 245, line 16Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)
  77. p. 248, line 16Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,)
  78. p. 253, line 9As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders,
  79. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  80. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  81. p. 270, line 7They live in the feelings of young men and the best women,
  82. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  83. p. 279, line 20With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks and your muskets;
  84. p. 284, line 19The Lord is not dead, he is risen again young and strong in another country,
  85. p. 286, line 14The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs,
  86. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
  87. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  88. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  89. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  90. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  91. p. 295, line 20Were groups of friendly journeymen, mechanics young and old,
  92. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  93. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  94. p. 308, line 6These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives,
  95. p. 308, line 24This common marvel I beheld—the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young,
  96. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  97. p. 320, line 29The young maturity of brood and bloom,
  98. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  99. p. 341, line 19Old age, alarm'd, uncertain—a young woman's voice, appealing to me for comfort;
  100. p. 341, line 20A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
  101. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  102. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  103. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  104. p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
  105. p. 378, line 11In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,
  106. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  107. p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
  108. p. 387, line 17All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,
  109. p. 398, line 16(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, unspecified, readers belov'd,
  110. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  111. p. 417, line 21We mourn the old, the young untimely drawn to thee,
  112. p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.
  113. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the […]
  114. p. 437, line 7[…] felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to […]
  115. p. 438, line 35[…] worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric […]