Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

The 7,190 different words in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

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abandoned 1

  1. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?

abandonment 1

  1. p. x, line 8[…] clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is to […]

abase 1

  1. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,

abased 1

  1. p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.

abed 1

  1. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,

abeyance 1

  1. p. ix, line 91[…] we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of […]

abject 1

  1. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,

able 1

  1. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,

abode 1

  1. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.

aborigines 2

  1. p. iv, line 51[…] and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on […]
  2. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,

about 24

  1. p. v, line 33[…] trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of […]
  2. p. v, line 116[…] million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall […]
  3. p. vi, line 66[…] turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance […]
  4. p. x, line 26[…] Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of […]
  5. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
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  1. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  2. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,
  3. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  4. p. 28, line 2What blurt is it about virtue and about vice?
  5. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  6. p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  7. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  8. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  9. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  10. p. 54, line 6And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  11. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  12. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  13. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
  14. p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
  15. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  16. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,

above 4

  1. p. iv, line 24[…] the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic […]
  2. p. vi, line 37[…] neck of a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead […]
  3. p. vi, line 68[…] one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has […]
  4. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.

abroad 1

  1. p. viii, line 89[…] of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of […]

absence 1

  1. p. ix, line 65[…] poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect […]

absolute 2

  1. p. xii, line 36[…] forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death […]
  2. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.

absorbed 1

  1. p. xii, line 73[…] country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]

absorbs 1

  1. p. xii, line 72[…] proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]

abstract 1

  1. p. v, line 93[…] is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts […]

abstracted 1

  1. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,

accept 5

  1. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  2. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
  3. p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  4. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  5. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;

acceptances 1

  1. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

acceptation 1

  1. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,

accepting 3

  1. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  2. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,

accepts 1

  1. p. iii, line 4[…] the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has […]

accomplished 2

  1. p. ix, line 37[…] large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and […]
  2. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

accouchement 1

  1. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;

accoucheur 1

  1. p. 54, line 17To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,

account 11

  1. p. viii, line 30[…] the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of […]
  2. p. viii, line 33[…] some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one […]
  3. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
  4. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  5. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
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  1. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  2. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  3. p. 68, line 20But there is more account than that . . . . there is strict account of all.
  4. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,

accounts 1

  1. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.

accretion 1

  1. p. 29, line 17Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,

accrue 1

  1. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.

accumulate 1

  1. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,

accuses 1

  1. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.

ache 1

  1. p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?

achieve 1

  1. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?

achieved 2

  1. p. vii, line 9[…] If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of the masters of […]
  2. p. xi, line 20[…] old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person […]

aching 2

  1. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  2. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!

acknowledge 3

  1. p. xii, line 35[…] overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at […]
  2. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  3. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.

acknowledgement 1

  1. p. xii, line 36[…] Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will […]

acknowledges 1

  1. p. 87, line 13The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,

acknowledging 1

  1. p. vi, line 103[…] has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as […]

acknowledgment 1

  1. p. iii, line 51[…] anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of […]

acme 1

  1. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

acquisitive 1

  1. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.

acre 2

  1. p. vi, line 62[…] minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction […]
  2. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,

acres 1

  1. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?

across 2

  1. p. 29, line 25I do not press my finger across my mouth,
  2. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?

act 5

  1. p. xi, line 15[…] satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement […]
  2. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
  3. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  4. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;

action 10

  1. p. iii, line 12[…] it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches […]
  2. p. iii, line 24[…] but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently […]
  3. p. iii, line 81[…] uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if […]
  4. p. vii, line 12[…] the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers […]
  5. p. ix, line 91[…] death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or […]
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  1. p. xi, line 78[…] and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into […]
  2. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.
  3. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  4. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  5. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

actions 2

  1. p. ix, line 23[…] with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all […]
  2. p. x, line 80[…] round . . all will come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and […]

active 1

  1. p. 80, line 4She is all things duly veiled . . . . she is both passive and active . . . . she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and sons as well as daughters.

actor 2

  1. p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,
  2. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,

actress 2

  1. p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,
  2. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,

Adam 1

  1. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;

add 2

  1. p. x, line 66[…] hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big […]
  2. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;

addresses 1

  1. p. v, line 93[…] not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but […]

adherence 2

  1. p. viii, line 48[…] of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes […]
  2. p. viii, line 49[…] men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They […]

adjunct 1

  1. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,

adjuncts 1

  1. p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.

adjusting 1

  1. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,

administrations 1

  1. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

admirable 2

  1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
  2. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,

admiral 1

  1. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?

admirant 1

  1. p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,

admire 3

  1. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

admit 1

  1. p. viii, line 11[…] consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine […]

admits 1

  1. p. ix, line 110[…] debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and […]

admitting 2

  1. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  2. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

Adonai 1

  1. p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,

adoration 1

  1. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

adorn 1

  1. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,

adorned 1

  1. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,

adorning 1

  1. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,

adulterous 1

  1. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

advance 5

  1. p. viii, line 70[…] rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the […]
  2. p. ix, line 24[…] actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to […]
  3. p. xii, line 66[…] and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when […]
  4. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  5. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,

advanced 1

  1. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,

advances 5

  1. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  2. p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,
  3. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  4. p. 84, line 9The Lord advances and yet advances:

advancing 2

  1. p. vii, line 41[…] and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems philosophy […]
  2. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;

adventure 1

  1. p. 37, line 27Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure;

advertising 1

  1. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

advise 2

  1. p. viii, line 59[…] them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly […]
  2. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,

afar 4

  1. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  2. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  3. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  4. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,

affairs 2

  1. p. viii, line 5[…] to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every […]
  2. p. ix, line 99[…] propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain […]

affect 1

  1. p. 92, line 23And 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:

affected 1

  1. p. 48, line 25Frivolous sullen moping angry affected disheartened atheistical,

affection 2

  1. p. vii, line 71[…] American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly […]
  2. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

affectionate 4

  1. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  2. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
  3. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,
  4. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

affectionately 1

  1. p. xii, line 73[…] poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]

affections 1

  1. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,

affects 2

  1. p. x, line 40[…] move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a month or […]
  2. p. x, line 42[…] or the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The […]

affirm 3

  1. p. vii, line 55[…] suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not […]
  2. p. 28, line 8I step up to say that what we do is right and what we affirm is right . . . . and some is only the ore of right,
  3. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,

afflatus 1

  1. p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.

affluent 2

  1. p. vii, line 77[…] and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees […]

afire 1

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

afoot 1

  1. p. 35, line 17I am afoot with my vision.

afraid 3

  1. p. 17, line 23Who need be afraid of the merge?
  2. p. 77, line 1Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  3. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;

afresh 1

  1. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.

Africa 3

  1. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  2. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
  3. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,

African 1

  1. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,

aft 1

  1. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.

after 37

  1. p. iii, line 82[…] if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and […]
  2. p. v, line 44[…] attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or […]
  3. p. v, line 69[…] unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit […]
  4. p. vii, line 90[…] first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the […]
  5. p. viii, line 85[…] orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free […]
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  1. p. ix, line 2[…] tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or […]
  2. p. xi, line 50[…] himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does […]
  3. p. xi, line 60[…] his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of […]
  4. p. xii, line 21[…] live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is […]
  5. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  6. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
  7. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  8. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  9. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  10. p. 31, line 3My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
  11. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
  12. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,
  13. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  14. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  15. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  16. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  17. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  18. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  19. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  20. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  21. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  22. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  23. p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,
  24. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  25. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
  26. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  27. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  28. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
  29. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?
  30. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.
  31. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

after-hold 1

  1. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.

afternoon 4

  1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 34, line 8And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake.
  3. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  4. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;

afterward 13

  1. p. vi, line 99[…] that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or […]
  2. p. vii, line 15[…] through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The […]
  3. p. viii, line 28[…] and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow […]
  4. p. ix, line 91[…] nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation […]
  5. p. x, line 43[…] but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great […]
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  1. p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
  2. p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
  3. p. 49, line 4I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  4. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
  5. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  6. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  7. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;
  8. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.

again 36

  1. p. vi, line 86[…] dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and […]
  2. p. x, line 62[…] that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever […]
  3. p. xi, line 26[…] does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither […]
  4. p. xi, line 91[…] the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  5. p. 15, line 13They come to me days and nights and go from me again,
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  1. p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
  2. p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
  3. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  4. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  5. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
  6. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  7. p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
  8. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  9. p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,
  10. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.
  11. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
  12. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  13. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  14. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  15. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  16. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  17. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  18. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
  19. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  20. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
  21. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  22. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  23. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  24. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
  25. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  26. p. 88, line 22They live in brothers, again ready to defy you:
  27. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,
  28. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

against 8

  1. p. viii, line 32[…] a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity […]
  2. p. ix, line 3[…] own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life […]
  3. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,
  4. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
  5. p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  6. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  7. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
  8. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

age 16

  1. p. iv, line 84[…] goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras […]
  2. p. iv, line 105[…] the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what […]
  3. p. ix, line 17[…] exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled […]
  4. p. x, line 17[…] have to do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close […]
  5. p. xi, line 20[…] periled his life and retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself […]
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  1. p. xi, line 31[…] he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not […]
  2. p. xi, line 36[…] demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity […]
  3. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  4. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
  5. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  6. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!
  7. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  8. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.
  9. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  10. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?

aged 1

  1. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.

agent 1

  1. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.

agents 1

  1. p. 84, line 5I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,

ages 10

  1. p. iii, line 90[…] antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and […]
  2. p. viii, line 51[…] voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided […]
  3. p. x, line 33[…] or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements […]
  4. p. xi, line 65A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all […]
  5. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
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  1. p. 28, line 16Endless unfolding of words of ages!
  2. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  3. p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.
  4. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,

ago 3

  1. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  2. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  3. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,

agonies 2

  1. p. 39, line 21Agonies are one of my changes of garments;
  2. p. 88, line 2Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,

agricultural 1

  1. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?

agriculture 4

  1. p. iii, line 94[…] the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory […]
  2. p. iv, line 50[…] events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels […]
  3. p. iv, line 109[…] rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man […]
  4. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?

ague 1

  1. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?

ah 1

  1. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

ahead 6

  1. p. vi, line 39[…] love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he […]
  2. p. xi, line 49[…] work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time […]
  3. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
  4. p. 49, line 23There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  5. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,

ahold 1

  1. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,

Ahoy 1

  1. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,

aid 1

  1. p. 73, line 19I cannot aid with my wringing fingers;

aimed 1

  1. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,

aimless 2

  1. p. iii, line 90[…] the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United […]
  2. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;

air 21

  1. p. iii, line 56[…] wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt […]
  2. p. v, line 87[…] horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception […]
  3. p. vi, line 10[…] of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine […]
  4. p. ix, line 53[…] conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work […]
  5. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
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  1. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  3. p. 24, line 20This is the common air that bathes the globe.
  4. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
  5. p. 30, line 26The air tastes good to my palate.
  6. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  7. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  8. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  9. p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  10. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  11. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  12. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
  13. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  14. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
  15. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  16. p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,

Alamo 3

  1. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  2. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

alarm 2

  1. p. viii, line 70[…] discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison […]
  2. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.

alarm-bells 1

  1. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,

albescent 1

  1. p. 84, line 29Fill me with albescent honey . . . . bend down to me,

alert 1

  1. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,

alight 1

  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

alike 4

  1. p. x, line 30[…] to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable […]
  2. p. 16, line 15And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  3. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  4. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,

alimentiveness 1

  1. p. ix, line 96[…] comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the […]

alive 7

  1. p. 17, line 3They are alive and well somewhere;
  2. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  3. p. 49, line 5But I know it is sure and alive and sufficient.
  4. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
  5. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  6. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;

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Allah 1

  1. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,

allbaffling 1

  1. p. 81, line 5In that head the allbaffling brain,

alligator 1

  1. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,

allowance 1

  1. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;

allowed 2

  1. p. ix, line 51[…] ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the […]
  2. p. ix, line 52[…] can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air […]

alms 1

  1. p. vi, line 2[…] and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid […]

aloft 2

  1. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  2. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,

alone 5

  1. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  2. p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  3. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  4. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,
  5. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,

along 9

  1. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  2. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  3. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  4. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,
  5. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
  6. p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  7. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
  8. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

aloof 1

  1. p. x, line 86[…] slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the […]

aloud 1

  1. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

already 4

  1. p. 46, line 19By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator!
  2. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  3. p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?
  4. p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,

also 30

  1. p. iv, line 28[…] them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is between them […]
  2. p. viii, line 10[…] each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit […]
  3. p. viii, line 33[…] as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master […]
  4. p. ix, line 13[…] the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper […]
  5. p. ix, line 64The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks […]
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  1. p. xii, line 62[…] do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no […]
  2. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  3. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  4. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  5. p. 20, line 17I go with the team also.
  6. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  7. p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
  8. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  9. p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
  10. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  11. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
  12. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  13. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
  14. p. 52, line 17You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;
  15. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  16. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,
  17. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  18. p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
  19. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
  20. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
  21. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  22. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  23. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  24. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
  25. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

Altamahaw 1

  1. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;

altar 1

  1. p. 21, line 25The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar,

always 33

  1. p. iii, line 45[…] nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships […]
  2. p. iii, line 77[…] reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority […]
  3. p. iv, line 56[…] peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual […]
  4. p. iv, line 57[…] constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf […]
  5. p. v, line 78[…] indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate […]
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  1. p. vi, line 20[…] work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but […]
  2. p. vii, line 87[…] are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there […]
  3. p. vii, line 102[…] by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of […]
  4. p. vii, line 114[…] of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and […]
  5. p. x, line 44[…] afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives […]
  6. p. x, line 110[…] their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring […]
  7. p. 14, line 16Always the procreant urge of the world.
  8. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  9. p. 14, line 18Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.
  10. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  11. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  12. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  13. p. 34, line 36Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  14. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  15. p. 51, line 9Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding,
  16. p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
  17. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  18. p. 75, line 27Peace is always beautiful,
  19. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  20. p. 76, line 4The soul is always beautiful,
  21. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,
  22. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
  23. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
  24. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,

always-ready 1

  1. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!

am 99

  1. p. 13, line 10It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it,
  2. p. 13, line 12I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
  3. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  4. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  5. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
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  1. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  2. p. 17, line 11I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my hat and boots,
  3. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  4. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  5. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.
  6. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
  7. p. 21, line 10I am enamoured of growing outdoors,
  8. p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
  9. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  10. p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  11. p. 25, line 22What is a man anyhow? What am I? and what are you?
  12. p. 26, line 5And I know I am solid and sound,
  13. p. 26, line 8And I know I am deathless,
  14. p. 26, line 11I know I am august,
  15. p. 26, line 15I exist as I am, that is enough,
  16. p. 26, line 24I am the poet of the body,
  17. p. 26, line 25And I am the poet of the soul.
  18. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  19. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
  20. p. 27, line 30I am integral with you . . . . I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  21. p. 27, line 33I am he attesting sympathy;
  22. p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;
  23. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  24. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
  25. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  26. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.
  27. p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,
  28. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  29. p. 33, line 9I am given up by traitors;
  30. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  31. p. 34, line 10And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
  32. p. 35, line 17I am afoot with my vision.
  33. p. 38, line 22I am a free companion . . . . I bivouac by invading watchfires.
  34. p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.
  35. p. 39, line 14All these I feel or am.
  36. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,
  37. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  38. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
  39. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  40. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  41. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  42. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  43. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,
  44. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
  45. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,
  46. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  47. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  48. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  49. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  50. p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
  51. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
  52. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
  53. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
  54. p. 52, line 28I am the teacher of athletes,
  55. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  56. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  57. p. 55, line 21I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.
  58. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  59. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,
  60. p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  61. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.
  62. p. 57, line 13Neither a servant nor a master am I,
  63. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  64. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  65. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  66. p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,
  67. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
  68. p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,
  69. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  70. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  71. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
  72. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
  73. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
  74. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  75. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,
  76. p. 74, line 30I am jealous and overwhelmed with friendliness,
  77. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  78. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  79. p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
  80. p. 83, line 7I see them and complain not and am content with all.
  81. p. 84, line 32Whist! I am fully content.
  82. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  83. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.
  84. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;
  85. p. 93, line 8Great is liberty! Great is equality! I am their follower,
  86. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

amativeness 1

  1. p. iv, line 71[…] of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile […]

amazed 1

  1. p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,

amazement 1

  1. p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,

ambassadors 1

  1. p. iii, line 43[…] in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even […]

ambition 1

  1. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

ambulanza 1

  1. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,

ambushed 1

  1. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!

America 5

  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced […]
  2. p. iii, line 88[…] what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or […]
  3. p. iv, line 5[…] poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them a bard is […]
  4. p. xi, line 109[…] reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]
  5. p. xii, line 56[…] the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have […]

American 16

  1. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is […]
  2. p. iv, line 68[…] of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise […]
  3. p. iv, line 81[…] lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is to […]
  4. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for […]
  5. p. vii, line 79[…] out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or […]
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  1. p. viii, line 60[…] speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent […]
  2. p. viii, line 102[…] these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers […]
  3. p. ix, line 21[…] or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and […]
  4. p. ix, line 37[…] supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure […]
  5. p. x, line 6[…] around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's […]
  6. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough […]
  7. p. xii, line 18[…] long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths […]
  8. p. xii, line 29[…] I know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for […]
  9. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  10. p. 68, line 23The common people of Europe are not nothing . . . . the American aborigines are not nothing,
  11. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,

Americans 1

  1. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have […]

amid 6

  1. p. iii, line 3[…] what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old […]
  2. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,
  3. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
  4. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  5. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
  6. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,

amie 1

  1. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,

amies 1

  1. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.

ammunition 1

  1. p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,

among 9

  1. p. iv, line 89[…] is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and […]
  2. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
  3. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  4. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
  5. p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
  6. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  7. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.

amorous 2

  1. p. vi, line 31[…] fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to […]
  2. p. 27, line 25Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you.

amount 2

  1. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
  2. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?

amour 2

  1. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  2. p. 83, line 1The face of an amour . . . . the face of veneration,

amours 1

  1. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;

ample 2

  1. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
  2. p. 85, line 11Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,

ampler 1

  1. p. iii, line 20[…] most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the […]

amplest 1

  1. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;

amplitude 2

  1. p. xii, line 8[…] express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that shall […]
  2. p. 26, line 23And I know the amplitude of time.

amused 1

  1. p. 15, line 16Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,

amusements 2

  1. p. xii, line 17[…] police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the […]
  2. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

an 49

  1. p. v, line 33[…] There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the […]
  2. p. v, line 87[…] for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and […]
  3. p. vi, line 26[…] and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which […]
  4. p. vi, line 62[…] a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any […]
  5. p. vii, line 44[…] politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest […]
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  1. p. xi, line 44[…] itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of […]
  2. p. xi, line 89[…] off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits […]
  3. p. xii, line 29[…] here? I know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves […]
  4. p. xii, line 66[…] the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he has […]
  5. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  6. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  7. p. 17, line 14I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  8. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  9. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
  10. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  11. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  12. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  13. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  14. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  15. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  16. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  17. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
  18. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  19. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
  20. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
  21. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  22. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  23. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  24. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.
  25. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  26. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  27. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  28. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
  29. p. 83, line 1The face of an amour . . . . the face of veneration,
  30. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,
  31. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,
  32. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  33. p. 83, line 25An unceasing deathbell tolls there.
  34. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
  35. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  36. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  37. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?
  38. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

analyzed 1

  1. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,

anatomist 1

  1. p. vii, line 94[…] goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are […]

anatomist's 1

  1. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,

anchor 2

  1. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  2. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

anchoring 1

  1. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,

anchor-lifters 1

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;

anchors 1

  1. p. xi, line 42[…] of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from […]

ancient 4

  1. p. x, line 94[…] all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the […]
  2. p. x, line 98[…] of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location […]
  3. p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,

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andirons 1

  1. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

angels 1

  1. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;

anger 2

  1. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  2. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,

angered 1

  1. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,

angry 3

  1. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,
  2. p. 48, line 25Frivolous sullen moping angry affected disheartened atheistical,
  3. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

anguish 1

  1. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,

animal 1

  1. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,

animals 10

  1. p. iv, line 62[…] unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and […]
  2. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs […]
  3. p. vi, line 1[…] do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand […]
  4. p. vii, line 6[…] perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the […]
  5. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
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  1. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
  2. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  3. p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  4. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  5. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,

animate 1

  1. p. xi, line 38[…] to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time […]

animus 1

  1. p. xii, line 1[…] withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier […]

anklechain 1

  1. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;

ankle-deep 1

  1. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;

ankles 2

  1. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  2. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,

anklet 1

  1. p. viii, line 72[…] the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause […]

annals 1

  1. p. x, line 96[…] of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of the hundreds of […]

annihilation 1

  1. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?

annual 1

  1. p. iv, line 11[…] natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and […]

anon 1

  1. p. 88, line 31He will soon return . . . . his messengers come anon.

another 22

  1. p. vi, line 52[…] and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from […]
  2. p. vi, line 53[…] proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious […]
  3. p. vi, line 54[…] proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with man […]
  4. p. vi, line 68[…] part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the […]
  5. p. vii, line 56[…] unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men […]
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  1. p. vii, line 57[…] countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand only of […]
  2. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  3. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  4. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  5. p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
  6. p. 56, line 11Missing me one place search another,
  7. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  8. p. 73, line 15Confused . . . . a pastreading . . . . another, but with darkness yet.
  9. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  10. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  11. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  12. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.
  13. p. 92, line 6And that to another . . . . and every one to another still.
  14. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
  15. p. 95, line 16And there is another paradox.

answer 7

  1. p. iv, line 40[…] prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot […]
  2. p. xii, line 30[…] that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part […]
  3. p. xii, line 31[…] for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung […]
  4. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  5. p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
  6. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,

answered 5

  1. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
  2. p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.

answerer 1

  1. p. 86, line 9He is the answerer,

answering 1

  1. p. viii, line 91[…] with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when […]

answers 4

  1. p. xi, line 8[…] is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is […]
  2. p. xii, line 29[…] to me today here? I know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or […]
  3. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  4. p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.

antecedent 2

  1. p. xi, line 3[…] result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without […]
  2. p. xi, line 4[…] its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a […]

antipodal 1

  1. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,

antipodes 1

  1. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,

antique 2

  1. p. iii, line 89[…] were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride […]
  2. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,

antiques 1

  1. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,

antiseptic 1

  1. p. v, line 29[…] women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves […]

ants 1

  1. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,

anvil 2

  1. p. 20, line 5Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  2. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

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anyhow 3

  1. p. 25, line 22What is a man anyhow? What am I? and what are you?
  2. p. 89, line 26I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  3. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;

anything 10

  1. p. iii, line 50[…] their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the […]
  2. p. viii, line 12[…] of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  3. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  4. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
  5. p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  6. p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,
  7. p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?
  8. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

anytime 1

  1. p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,

anywhere 4

  1. p. ix, line 46[…] prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts […]
  2. p. ix, line 92[…] nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  3. p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  4. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,

apart 3

  1. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  2. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
  3. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.

apex 1

  1. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,

apices 1

  1. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,

apologize 1

  1. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,

apparition 1

  1. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;

appear 3

  1. p. iii, line 19[…] the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here […]
  2. p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

appearance 2

  1. p. vii, line 14[…] leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of […]
  2. p. vii, line 15[…] of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you […]

appeared 1

  1. p. 17, line 6And ceased the moment life appeared.

appearing 2

  1. p. 38, line 4Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
  2. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.

appears 8

  1. p. x, line 28[…] wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when […]
  2. p. xii, line 19[…] of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a live […]
  3. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;
  4. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  5. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  6. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  7. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?

appetite 2

  1. p. x, line 54[…] gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to […]
  2. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,

appetites 1

  1. p. 29, line 28I believe in the flesh and the appetites,

applause 1

  1. p. vii, line 110[…] beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]

apple-blossomed 1

  1. p. 27, line 14Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!

apple-orchard 1

  1. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,

apple-pealings 1

  1. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,

apples 1

  1. p. iii, line 37[…] grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon […]

appleshaped 1

  1. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;

appletrees 1

  1. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

applications 1

  1. p. vi, line 101[…] The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that […]

applied 2

  1. p. ix, line 99[…] nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float […]
  2. p. ix, line 106[…] that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and […]

applying 1

  1. p. 45, line 24Magnifying and applying come I,

appointed 1

  1. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.

appointments 1

  1. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,

apprentice 1

  1. p. 92, line 2Boss and journeyman and apprentice? . . . . churchman and atheist?

apprenticeboy 1

  1. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

apprentice-boys 1

  1. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

apprenticed 1

  1. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,

approach 2

  1. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  2. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,

approaches 1

  1. p. iii, line 13[…] descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]

approaching 3

  1. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;
  2. p. 36, line 22Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island,
  3. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,

appropriate 1

  1. p. vii, line 45[…] mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever […]

April 2

  1. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  2. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

apron 1

  1. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

aqueduct 1

  1. p. 62, line 8City and country . . fireplace and candle . . gaslight and heater and aqueduct;

arbiter 1

  1. p. iv, line 103[…] proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is […]

arch 1

  1. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,

arched 1

  1. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;

arches 1

  1. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?

architect 1

  1. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

architecture 3

  1. p. xii, line 16[…] legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men […]
  2. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  3. p. 61, line 1All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;

arctic 2

  1. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  2. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,

ardor 1

  1. p. iv, line 69[…] all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female […]

ardors 1

  1. p. 32, line 12It wrenches unnamable ardors from my breast,

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area 1

  1. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.

argue 2

  1. p. vi, line 4[…] your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people […]
  2. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;

arguer 1

  1. p. v, line 20[…] brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges […]

argument 2

  1. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  2. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,

arguments 2

  1. p. x, line 65[…] else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add […]
  2. p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.

arise 2

  1. p. xi, line 97[…] shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every […]
  2. p. xi, line 108[…] beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of […]

Arkansas 1

  1. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,

Arkansian 1

  1. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,

arm 7

  1. p. vi, line 36[…] the presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love […]
  2. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  3. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  4. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  5. p. 76, line 15The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
  6. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  7. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,

armchair 1

  1. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

armed 1

  1. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:

armfuls 1

  1. p. 18, line 18The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow:

arm-pits 1

  1. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,

arms 18

  1. p. vii, line 89[…] The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he […]
  2. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  3. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  4. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;
  5. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
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  1. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  2. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
  3. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  4. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  5. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  6. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
  7. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  8. p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  9. p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,
  10. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,
  11. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
  12. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;

army 2

  1. p. xii, line 15[…] people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police […]
  2. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.

aroma 1

  1. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,

arose 2

  1. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  2. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,

around 17

  1. p. v, line 21[…] the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has […]
  2. p. x, line 5[…] aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned […]
  3. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  4. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  5. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.
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  1. p. 20, line 23They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  2. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
  3. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  4. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  5. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  6. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  7. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  8. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  9. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  10. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  11. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,

arouse 1

  1. p. v, line 7[…] becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood […]

arouses 1

  1. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;

arrangements 1

  1. p. xii, line 12[…] behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed […]

array 1

  1. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.

arrest 1

  1. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,

arrests 1

  1. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

arrival 1

  1. p. xi, line 54[…] now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed […]

arrivals 1

  1. p. 59, line 3Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, sailors, mano'warsmen, merchantmen, coasters,

arrive 2

  1. p. iv, line 7[…] with a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and […]
  2. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.

arrived 2

  1. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
  2. p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;

arriving 1

  1. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,

arrogant 1

  1. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.

art 8

  1. p. vi, line 107[…] company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close […]
  2. p. vi, line 110The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light […]
  3. p. vii, line 8[…] by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it […]
  4. p. vii, line 21[…] free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in […]
  5. p. vii, line 44[…] philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is […]
  6. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  7. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,

articulate 1

  1. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.

articulation 1

  1. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.

articulations 1

  1. p. vii, line 2[…] pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak […]

artillerist 1

  1. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.

artillery 1

  1. p. v, line 5[…] recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes […]

artist 6

  1. p. v, line 36[…] for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest […]
  2. p. v, line 37[…] just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by […]
  3. p. xii, line 59[…] be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are […]
  4. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
  5. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  6. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

artists 4

  1. p. vii, line 10[…] looked on one of the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the […]
  2. p. vii, line 40[…] the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free […]
  3. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,
  4. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,

arts 2

  1. p. iv, line 109[…] vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality […]
  2. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

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ascend 5

  1. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  2. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  3. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  4. p. 55, line 1I ascend from the moon . . . . I ascend from the night,

ascended 1

  1. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,

ascending 1

  1. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

ascends 2

  1. p. vi, line 93[…] over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man […]
  2. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,

ashamed 2

  1. p. 72, line 16I feel ashamed to go naked about the world,
  2. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,

ash-colored 1

  1. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.

ashes 3

  1. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
  2. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;
  3. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.

Asia 2

  1. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  2. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,

Asiatic 1

  1. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,

aside 6

  1. p. x, line 4[…] Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles […]
  2. p. x, line 30[…] all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What […]
  3. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  4. p. 20, line 19To niches aside and junior bending.
  5. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  6. p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,

ask 4

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  3. p. 45, line 1I do not ask who you are . . . . that is not important to me,
  4. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.

asked 1

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

askers 2

  1. p. 15, line 7Trippers and askers surround me,
  2. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,

asking 3

  1. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
  2. p. 52, line 17You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;
  3. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,

asks 2

  1. p. vi, line 2[…] despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income […]
  2. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;

asleep 2

  1. p. viii, line 73[…] and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the […]
  2. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.

aspirations 1

  1. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

aspire 1

  1. p. xii, line 6[…] proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem […]

assassin 1

  1. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,

assault 1

  1. p. xii, line 48[…] and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]

assessors 1

  1. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.

assist 1

  1. p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.

assisted 1

  1. p. v, line 91[…] poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can […]

associates 1

  1. p. 15, line 10My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,

association 1

  1. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,

associations 1

  1. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.

assorted 1

  1. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

assume 4

  1. p. 13, line 2And what I assume you shall assume,
  2. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  3. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.

assured 1

  1. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,

assuredly 2

  1. p. xi, line 24[…] and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does […]
  2. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,

astern 1

  1. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

asteroids 1

  1. p. ix, line 85[…] planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the […]

astonish 3

  1. p. 25, line 15Do you take it I would astonish?
  2. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  3. p. 25, line 17Do I astonish more than they?

astronomer 1

  1. p. vii, line 95[…] comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets […]

astronomical 1

  1. p. viii, line 25[…] less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief […]

asylum 2

  1. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
  2. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

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atheist 1

  1. p. 92, line 2Boss and journeyman and apprentice? . . . . churchman and atheist?

atheistical 1

  1. p. 48, line 25Frivolous sullen moping angry affected disheartened atheistical,

athletes 1

  1. p. 52, line 28I am the teacher of athletes,

athwart 1

  1. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,

Atlantic 2

  1. p. iv, line 25[…] below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he […]
  2. p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.

atmosphere 4

  1. p. x, line 15[…] of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of […]
  2. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  3. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  4. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,

atom 2

  1. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  2. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?

atonement 1

  1. p. xi, line 16[…] its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life […]

atop 1

  1. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,

attach 2

  1. p. v, line 78[…] more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the […]
  2. p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,

attached 1

  1. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,

attachment 2

  1. p. iii, line 49[…] the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or […]
  2. p. vi, line 24[…] of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]

attack 1

  1. p. v, line 39[…] used by him but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose […]

attacked 1

  1. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.

attacking 1

  1. p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,

attainment 1

  1. p. x, line 53[…] any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite […]

attempted 1

  1. p. 41, line 2Some half-killed attempted to crawl away,

attempts 1

  1. p. v, line 44[…] conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there […]

attentions 1

  1. p. x, line 1[…] he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the […]

attesting 1

  1. p. 27, line 33I am he attesting sympathy;

attitude 1

  1. p. viii, line 54[…] and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify […]

attitudes 2

  1. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  2. p. 86, line 6He puts things in their attitudes,

attract 1

  1. p. xi, line 32[…] vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang […]

attracted 2

  1. p. ix, line 76[…] a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade […]
  2. p. xii, line 2[…] is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more […]

attraction 3

  1. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
  2. p. 79, line 15It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
  3. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,

attracts 1

  1. p. 79, line 15It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,

attribute 1

  1. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,

attributes 3

  1. p. ix, line 8As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real […]
  2. p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
  3. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,

auction 2

  1. p. 80, line 24A slave at auction!
  2. p. 81, line 20A woman at auction,

auctioneer 1

  1. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.

audacity 1

  1. p. iii, line 31[…] performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its […]

audible 1

  1. p. xii, line 36[…] science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life […]

audience 2

  1. p. v, line 70[…] opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had […]
  2. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

august 1

  1. p. 26, line 11I know I am august,

auk 1

  1. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,

aureola 1

  1. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

aurist's 1

  1. p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;

austere 1

  1. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,

author 2

  1. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  2. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

authority 3

  1. p. iii, line 78[…] a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the […]
  2. p. vii, line 38[…] and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood […]
  3. p. xi, line 73[…] he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content […]

authors 4

  1. p. iii, line 43[…] executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its […]
  2. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  3. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  4. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,

autumn 2

  1. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  2. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,

avail 3

  1. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  2. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  3. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?

average 1

  1. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,

averaged 1

  1. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,

aversion 1

  1. p. iii, line 50[…] their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment […]

avoids 1

  1. p. xi, line 28[…] spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]

awaits 1

  1. p. iii, line 64[…] to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]

awake 5

  1. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
  2. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  3. p. 76, line 25The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  4. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
  5. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

awakens 1

  1. p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,

awakes 1

  1. p. 55, line 10To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.

aware 5

  1. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  2. p. 26, line 17And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  3. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  4. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
  5. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,

away 27

  1. p. viii, line 82[…] memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in […]
  2. p. xii, line 51[…] poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be […]
  3. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.
  4. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  5. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
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  1. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  2. p. 33, line 1Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
  3. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  4. p. 38, line 13My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  5. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  6. p. 41, line 2Some half-killed attempted to crawl away,
  7. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  8. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.
  9. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.
  10. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
  11. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
  12. p. 49, line 21They pour and they pour and they exhale away.
  13. p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?
  14. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.
  15. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  16. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  17. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  18. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  19. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  20. p. 88, line 29Is the house shut? Is the master away?
  21. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

awhile 6

  1. p. viii, line 59[…] and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn […]
  2. p. xi, line 93[…] priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A […]
  3. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  4. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  5. p. 52, line 19Sit awhile wayfarer,
  6. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;

awkwardness 1

  1. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,

awl 1

  1. p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;

axe 4

  1. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  2. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  3. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;
  4. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,

axes 1

  1. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,