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- p. iii, line 6[…] supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed […]
- p. iii, line 10[…] the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a […]
- p. iii, line 13[…] that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest […]
- p. iii, line 14[…] to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
- p. iii, line 19[…] the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last […]
- p. iii, line 20[…] appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of […]
- p. iii, line 22[…] corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming […]
- p. iii, line 25[…] action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality […]
- p. iii, line 28[…] which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance […]
- p. iii, line 29[…] the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the […]
- p. iii, line 32[…] unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing […]
- p. iii, line 33[…] the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must […]
- p. iii, line 34[…] crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches […]
- p. iii, line 36[…] must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground […]
- p. iii, line 48[…] people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage […]
- p. iii, line 54[…] the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility […]
- p. iii, line 55[…] their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they […]
- p. iii, line 60[…] in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the […]
- p. iii, line 61[…] and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking […]
- p. iii, line 64[…] too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
- p. iii, line 69[…] the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor […]
- p. iii, line 71[…] citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning […]
- p. iii, line 78[…] live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its […]
- p. iii, line 80[…] of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of […]
- p. iii, line 81[…] of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary […]
- p. iii, line 84[…] to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the […]
- p. iii, line 87[…] the opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were […]
- p. iii, line 88[…] discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the […]
- p. iii, line 92[…] pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and […]
- p. iii, line 93[…] leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior […]
- p. iii, line 94[…] cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to […]
- p. iv, line 2[…] of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
- p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them […]
- p. iv, line 8[…] contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit […]
- p. iv, line 10[…] to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes […]
- p. iv, line 11[…] incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence […]
- p. iv, line 12[…] Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine […]
- p. iv, line 13[…] and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves […]
- p. iv, line 17[…] blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay […]
- p. iv, line 18[…] Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and […]
- p. iv, line 19[…] Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and […]
- p. iv, line 20[…] Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas […]
- p. iv, line 21[…] and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied […]
- p. iv, line 22[…] Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the […]
- p. iv, line 24[…] waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast […]
- p. iv, line 25[…] him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them […]
- p. iv, line 28[…] spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths […]
- p. iv, line 30[…] solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and […]
- p. iv, line 31[…] of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and […]
- p. iv, line 32[…] and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as […]
- p. iv, line 33[…] and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp […]
- p. iv, line 34[…] and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests […]
- p. iv, line 35[…] tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the […]
- p. iv, line 36[…] or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains […]
- p. iv, line 37[…] from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah […]
- p. iv, line 38[…] the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and […]
- p. iv, line 39[…] as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and […]
- p. iv, line 40[…] and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and […]
- p. iv, line 41[…] that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and […]
- p. iv, line 42[…] and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and […]
- p. iv, line 43[…] and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and […]
- p. iv, line 44[…] and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To […]
- p. iv, line 45[…] and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both […]
- p. iv, line 46[…] and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and […]
- p. iv, line 47[…] To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real things […]
- p. iv, line 48[…] him enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature […]
- p. iv, line 49[…] the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture […]
- p. iv, line 50[…] present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering […]
- p. iv, line 54[…] first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace […]
- p. iv, line 55[…] rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers […]
- p. iv, line 57[…] the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities […]
- p. iv, line 59[…] perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and […]
- p. iv, line 61[…] and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the […]
- p. iv, line 62[…] interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging […]
- p. iv, line 63[…] hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of […]
- p. iv, line 66[…] the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics […]
- p. iv, line 68[…] parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor […]
- p. iv, line 69[…] young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with […]
- p. iv, line 70[…] workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the female with the male […]
- p. iv, line 73[…] the fluid movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the […]
- p. iv, line 74[…] laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of […]
- p. iv, line 76[…] southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading […]
- p. iv, line 77[…] character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the […]
- p. iv, line 78[…] the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till […]
- p. iv, line 80[…] till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of […]
- p. iv, line 82[…] of the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through […]
- p. iv, line 84[…] through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and […]
- p. iv, line 85[…] age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so […]
- p. iv, line 86[…] chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of […]
- p. iv, line 88[…] of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and […]
- p. iv, line 89[…] vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and […]
- p. iv, line 90[…] among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no […]
- p. iv, line 94[…] veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest […]
- p. iv, line 95[…] need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their […]
- p. iv, line 101[…] sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every […]
- p. iv, line 104[…] less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his […]
- p. iv, line 105[…] key. He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants […]
- p. iv, line 106[…] age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out […]
- p. iv, line 108[…] spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting […]
- p. iv, line 109[…] thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal […]
- p. v, line 1[…] municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars […]
- p. v, line 5[…] of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer […]
- p. v, line 7[…] engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make […]
- p. v, line 14[…] he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity […]
- p. v, line 15[…] swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and […]
- p. v, line 16[…] and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out […]
- p. v, line 19[…] offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no […]
- p. v, line 24[…] of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He […]
- p. v, line 26[…] eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does […]
- p. v, line 27[…] prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams […]
- p. v, line 28[…] men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of […]
- p. v, line 30[…] of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and […]
- p. v, line 31[…] and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an […]
- p. v, line 32[…] expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the […]
- p. v, line 34[…] and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet […]
- p. v, line 36[…] a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or […]
- p. v, line 40[…] past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not […]
- p. v, line 48[…] delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness […]
- p. v, line 54[…] before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is […]
- p. v, line 56[…] as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus […]
- p. v, line 64[…] is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance […]
- p. v, line 66[…] of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous […]
- p. v, line 67[…] all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is […]
- p. v, line 70[…] once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter […]
- p. v, line 71[…] peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly […]
- p. v, line 72[…] had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
- p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests […]
- p. v, line 75[…] animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small […]
- p. v, line 76[…] of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the […]
- p. v, line 77[…] the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect […]
- p. v, line 81[…] expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as […]
- p. v, line 84[…] of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form […]
- p. v, line 87[…] persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of […]
- p. v, line 88[…] varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They […]
- p. v, line 95[…] good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that […]
- p. v, line 97[…] is that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots […]
- p. v, line 99[…] in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical […]
- p. v, line 101[…] poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take […]
- p. v, line 102[…] loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and […]
- p. v, line 103[…] shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form […]
- p. v, line 104[…] the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments […]
- p. v, line 105[…] shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or […]
- p. v, line 110[…] but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in […]
- p. v, line 114[…] will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles […]
- p. vi, line 1[…] This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that […]
- p. vi, line 3[…] one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants […]
- p. vi, line 4[…] for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have […]
- p. vi, line 5[…] hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing […]
- p. vi, line 9[…] of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the […]
- p. vi, line 13[…] any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have […]
- p. vi, line 14[…] your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but […]
- p. vi, line 16[…] but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion […]
- p. vi, line 17[…] face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his […]
- p. vi, line 20[…] know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He […]
- p. vi, line 23[…] shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
- p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion […]
- p. vi, line 27[…] the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of […]
- p. vi, line 28[…] eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily […]
- p. vi, line 29[…] and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is […]
- p. vi, line 31[…] is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle […]
- p. vi, line 38[…] woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no […]
- p. vi, line 41[…] he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering […]
- p. vi, line 43[…] not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are […]
- p. vi, line 44[…] cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he […]
- p. vi, line 45[…] complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea […]
- p. vi, line 48[…] he is of the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
- p. vi, line 50[…] it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and […]
- p. vi, line 52[…] as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice […]
- p. vi, line 53[…] eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the […]
- p. vi, line 59[…] These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and […]
- p. vi, line 60[…] that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that […]
- p. vi, line 61[…] and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light […]
- p. vi, line 67[…] the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above […]
- p. vi, line 69[…] not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them […]
- p. vi, line 71[…] not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
- p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the […]
- p. vi, line 74[…] brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your […]
- p. vi, line 75[…] and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you […]
- p. vi, line 77[…] is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there […]
- p. vi, line 79[…] What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best and […]
- p. vi, line 80[…] faintest indication is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future […]
- p. vi, line 81[…] best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest […]
- p. vi, line 83[…] then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms […]
- p. vi, line 85[…] what is to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and […]
- p. vi, line 86[…] He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the […]
- p. vi, line 87[…] their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He learns […]
- p. vi, line 92[…] does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the […]
- p. vi, line 93[…] character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can […]
- p. vi, line 105[…] it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company […]
- p. vi, line 109[…] The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style and thoughts […]
- p. vi, line 110The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing […]
- p. vii, line 1[…] of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are […]
- p. vii, line 2[…] the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor […]
- p. vii, line 5[…] to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of […]
- p. vii, line 6[…] rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods […]
- p. vii, line 7[…] of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art […]
- p. vii, line 10[…] the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull […]
- p. vii, line 19[…] The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel […]
- p. vii, line 20[…] of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his […]
- p. vii, line 24[…] originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in […]
- p. vii, line 28[…] purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray […]
- p. vii, line 34[…] my composition. You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me […]
- p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their […]
- p. vii, line 37[…] A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits […]
- p. vii, line 40[…] of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new […]
- p. vii, line 46[…] shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest […]
- p. vii, line 49[…] that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
- p. vii, line 50The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then […]
- p. vii, line 56[…] Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one […]
- p. vii, line 58[…] another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand only of the […]
- p. vii, line 60[…] do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest […]
- p. vii, line 61[…] think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of […]
- p. vii, line 62[…] wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature […]
- p. vii, line 63[…] the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate […]
- p. vii, line 64[…] nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that something in the soul which says […]
- p. vii, line 66[…] Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of […]
- p. vii, line 67[…] everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and […]
- p. vii, line 68[…] the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all pain […]
- p. vii, line 69[…] sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all pain […]
- p. vii, line 71The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or […]
- p. vii, line 74[…] thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege […]
- p. vii, line 75[…] day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is […]
- p. vii, line 83[…] nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western […]
- p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet […]
- p. vii, line 88[…] on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first […]
- p. vii, line 89[…] there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings […]
- p. vii, line 90[…] best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist […]
- p. vii, line 91[…] after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian […]
- p. vii, line 96[…] anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of […]
- p. vii, line 98[…] poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No […]
- p. vii, line 101[…] seed of the conception of it . . . of them and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of […]
- p. vii, line 105[…] races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is […]
- p. vii, line 106[…] and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of […]
- p. vii, line 108[…] father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems […]
- p. vii, line 110[…] In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
- p. vii, line 111[…] is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things […]
- p. vii, line 112[…] of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the […]
- p. vii, line 113[…] of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it […]
- p. vii, line 115[…] president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are […]
- p. vii, line 117[…] depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The […]
- p. vii, line 119[…] nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out of […]
- p. viii, line 1[…] a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all […]
- p. viii, line 3[…] enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any […]
- p. viii, line 6[…] in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of […]
- p. viii, line 7[…] where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns them […]
- p. viii, line 8[…] grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring […]
- p. viii, line 9[…] are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not […]
- p. viii, line 10[…] miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with the […]
- p. viii, line 13[…] in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
- p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken as they […]
- p. viii, line 15[…] are simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall […]
- p. viii, line 16[…] they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect […]
- p. viii, line 17[…] past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy […]
- p. viii, line 21[…] inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward […]
- p. viii, line 25[…] whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow […]
- p. viii, line 27[…] that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or […]
- p. viii, line 33[…] or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all […]
- p. viii, line 41[…] The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is […]
- p. viii, line 43[…] for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just as […]
- p. viii, line 48[…] Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from […]
- p. viii, line 51[…] more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the […]
- p. viii, line 53[…] the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and […]
- p. viii, line 54[…] must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great […]
- p. viii, line 56[…] of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of […]
- p. viii, line 58[…] wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though […]
- p. viii, line 59[…] hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the […]
- p. viii, line 65[…] of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites […]
- p. viii, line 67[…] invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The […]
- p. viii, line 68[…] nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud […]
- p. viii, line 70[…] The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron […]
- p. viii, line 72[…] triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong […]
- p. viii, line 76[…] toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When […]
- p. viii, line 85[…] christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly […]
- p. viii, line 87[…] the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when […]
- p. viii, line 89[…] to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at […]
- p. viii, line 91[…] sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with […]
- p. viii, line 92[…] our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight […]
- p. viii, line 97[…] retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word […]
- p. viii, line 98[…] communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the […]
- p. viii, line 108[…] or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices […]
- p. viii, line 112[…] it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest […]
- p. viii, line 115[…] farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or […]
- p. viii, line 116[…] firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government […]
- p. ix, line 4[…] chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then […]
- p. ix, line 9[…] of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of […]
- p. ix, line 11[…] possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with […]
- p. ix, line 14[…] volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or […]
- p. ix, line 21[…] sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest […]
- p. ix, line 22[…] and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets […]
- p. ix, line 23[…] gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through […]
- p. ix, line 24[…] poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are […]
- p. ix, line 25[…] the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve […]
- p. ix, line 27[…] of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall […]
- p. ix, line 31[…] holds a legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library who can read […]
- p. ix, line 33[…] the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and […]
- p. ix, line 34[…] styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful […]
- p. ix, line 35[…] ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American […]
- p. ix, line 36[…] force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall […]
- p. ix, line 37[…] and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models […]
- p. ix, line 39[…] receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings […]
- p. ix, line 49[…] beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great […]
- p. ix, line 53[…] to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and […]
- p. ix, line 54[…] flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the completion […]
- p. ix, line 55[…] of the work and come irrepressibly from it and are necessary to the completion of the work. Most works […]
- p. ix, line 58[…] Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural […]
- p. ix, line 60[…] natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to […]
- p. ix, line 65[…] known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo […]
- p. ix, line 68[…] candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is […]
- p. ix, line 73[…] we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never since […]
- p. ix, line 74[…] world and that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass […]
- p. ix, line 77[…] particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state […]
- p. ix, line 78[…] a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states […]
- p. ix, line 80[…] a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never […]
- p. ix, line 81[…] that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod […]
- p. ix, line 82[…] been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only […]
- p. ix, line 83[…] of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of […]
- p. ix, line 95[…] or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and […]
- p. ix, line 96[…] large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness […]
- p. ix, line 97[…] for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature […]
- p. ix, line 98[…] a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs […]
- p. ix, line 102[…] from his birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes […]
- p. ix, line 106[…] the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a […]
- p. ix, line 108[…] to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest […]
- p. ix, line 110[…] without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food […]
- p. ix, line 111[…] economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think […]
- p. x, line 3[…] not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum […]
- p. x, line 5[…] of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and […]
- p. x, line 6[…] overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and […]
- p. x, line 7[…] easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a […]
- p. x, line 9[…] being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days […]
- p. x, line 11[…] years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of […]
- p. x, line 12[…] and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while […]
- p. x, line 14[…] of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere […]
- p. x, line 15[…] of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and men you […]
- p. x, line 16[…] and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth […]
- p. x, line 17[…] to do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of […]
- p. x, line 18[…] youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation […]
- p. x, line 19[…] close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty […]
- p. x, line 21[…] majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts […]
- p. x, line 22[…] upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the […]
- p. x, line 23[…] the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads […]
- p. x, line 24[…] moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the […]
- p. x, line 27[…] about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for […]
- p. x, line 29[…] the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the […]
- p. x, line 33[…] eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and […]
- p. x, line 34[…] back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far […]
- p. x, line 35[…] certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can […]
- p. x, line 44[…] indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body […]
- p. x, line 61[…] on the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor […]
- p. x, line 62[…] and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or […]
- p. x, line 70[…] a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him […]
- p. x, line 71[…] or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her […]
- p. x, line 72[…] her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage […]
- p. x, line 80[…] come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the […]
- p. x, line 81[…] war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the […]
- p. x, line 82[…] relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of […]
- p. x, line 83[…] and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of […]
- p. x, line 84[…] to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood […]
- p. x, line 86[…] of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering […]
- p. x, line 91[…] by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes […]
- p. x, line 94[…] in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of annals […]
- p. x, line 96[…] ancient nations whose fragments of annals we inherit . . and all the good of the hundreds of far mightier and […]
- p. x, line 97[…] the good of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date […]
- p. x, line 103[…] or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day on […]
- p. x, line 109[…] you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will […]
- p. x, line 110[…] these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities from which they sprung […]
- p. xi, line 3[…] now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest […]
- p. xi, line 4[…] long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit […]
- p. xi, line 8[…] the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways […]
- p. xi, line 17[…] the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the […]
- p. xi, line 19[…] the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age in riches and ease has […]
- p. xi, line 20[…] and retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and […]
- p. xi, line 21[…] has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence to learn […]
- p. xi, line 23[…] who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the […]
- p. xi, line 24[…] things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil […]
- p. xi, line 25[…] and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting […]
- p. xi, line 26[…] what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries […]
- p. xi, line 31[…] the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and […]
- p. xi, line 32[…] he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable […]
- p. xi, line 33[…] his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his […]
- p. xi, line 34[…] and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and […]
- p. xi, line 35[…] and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if […]
- p. xi, line 36[…] if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives […]
- p. xi, line 37[…] the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which […]
- p. xi, line 38[…] which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and […]
- p. xi, line 39[…] locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the […]
- p. xi, line 40[…] time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held […]
- p. xi, line 41[…] and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes […]
- p. xi, line 42[…] is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to […]
- p. xi, line 43[…] passage from what was to what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an […]
- p. xi, line 45[…] the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave […]
- p. xi, line 46[…] wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or […]
- p. xi, line 49[…] remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does […]
- p. xi, line 52[…] still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now […]
- p. xi, line 55[…] science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be […]
- p. xi, line 57[…] looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand […]
- p. xi, line 59[…] years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long […]
- p. xi, line 60[…] hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think […]
- p. xi, line 62[…] Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the […]
- p. xi, line 63[…] and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
- p. xi, line 65A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects […]
- p. xi, line 66[…] and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a woman as much […]
- p. xi, line 67[…] for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and a man as much as a woman. A great poem […]
- p. xi, line 73[…] could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full? To no such terminus […]
- p. xi, line 74[…] authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring […]
- p. xi, line 76[…] bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he […]
- p. xi, line 81[…] thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into […]
- p. xi, line 83[…] and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the […]
- p. xi, line 84[…] vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now […]
- p. xi, line 85[…] him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a […]
- p. xi, line 86[…] shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how […]
- p. xi, line 87[…] tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together […]
- p. xi, line 89[…] the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and […]
- p. xi, line 90[…] unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet […]
- p. xi, line 91[…] the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
- p. xi, line 95[…] shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order […]
- p. xi, line 97[…] take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man […]
- p. xi, line 98[…] and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built […]
- p. xi, line 100[…] their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and […]
- p. xi, line 101[…] Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and […]
- p. xi, line 102[…] new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today […]
- p. xi, line 104[…] in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God […]
- p. xi, line 108[…] of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and […]
- p. xi, line 109[…] of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]
- p. xi, line 112[…] the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a […]
- p. xi, line 113[…] American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who […]
- p. xii, line 3[…] liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance […]
- p. xii, line 6[…] sense. It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to […]
- p. xii, line 9[…] self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh express […]
- p. xii, line 18[…] of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign […]
- p. xii, line 21[…] it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built […]
- p. xii, line 25[…] Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond […]
- p. xii, line 35[…] old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement […]
- p. xii, line 36[…] and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it […]
- p. xii, line 38[…] acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man […]
- p. xii, line 39[…] and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does […]
- p. xii, line 40[…] man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the […]
- p. xii, line 45[…] children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the […]
- p. xii, line 46[…] with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and […]
- p. xii, line 47[…] last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength […]
- p. xii, line 48[…] those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of […]
- p. xii, line 52[…] surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the […]
- p. xii, line 53[…] be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and […]
- p. xii, line 54[…] and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance […]
- p. xii, line 55[…] The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for […]
- p. xii, line 56[…] and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is […]
- p. xii, line 58[…] not intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the […]
- p. xii, line 61[…] are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also does […]
- p. xii, line 65[…] permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An […]
- p. xii, line 68[…] a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet […]
- p. xii, line 69[…] nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of […]
- p. 13, line 2And what I assume you shall assume,
- p. 13, line 4I loafe and invite my soul,
- p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
- p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
- p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
- p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
- p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,
- p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
- p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
- p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
- p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
- p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
- p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
- p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
- p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
- p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
- p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
- p. 14, line 15Urge and urge and urge,
- p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
- p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
- p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
- p. 14, line 23Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
- p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
- p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
- p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
- p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
- p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
- p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
- p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
- p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
- p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
- p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
- p. 15, line 5And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
- p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
- p. 15, line 7Trippers and askers surround me,
- p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
- p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
- p. 15, line 13They come to me days and nights and go from me again,
- p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
- p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
- p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
- p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
- p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.
- p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
- p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
- p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
- 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;
- p. 15, line 32And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
- p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
- p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
- p. 16, line 3And that a kelson of the creation is love;
- p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
- p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
- p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.
- p. 16, line 11A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
- p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
- p. 16, line 15And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
- p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
- p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
- p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
- p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
- p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
- p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
- p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
- p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
- p. 17, line 3They are alive and well somewhere;
- p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
- p. 17, line 6And ceased the moment life appeared.
- p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,
- p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
- 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,
- p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
- p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
- p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
- p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
- p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
- p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
- p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
- p. 17, line 22For me children and the begetters of children.
- p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
- p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.
- p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
- p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
- p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,
- p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;
- p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
- p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
- p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
- p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
- p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
- p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
- p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
- p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
- p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
- p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
- p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
- p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,
- p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
- p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
- p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
- p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
- p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
- p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
- p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
- p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
- p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
- p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
- p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
- p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
- p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
- p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
- p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
- p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
- p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
- p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
- p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
- p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
- p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
- p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
- p. 20, line 4I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and breakdown.
- p. 20, line 5Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
- p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
- p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
- p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
- p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
- p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
- p. 20, line 19To niches aside and junior bending.
- p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,
- p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
- p. 20, line 26And consider the green and violet and the tufted crown intentional;
- p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
- p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
- p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
- p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
- p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
- p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
- p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
- p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,
- p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
- p. 21, line 14What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me,
- p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
- p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,
- p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
- p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
- p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
- p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
- p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
- p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
- p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
- p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
- p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
- p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
- p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
- p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
- p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
- p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
- p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
- p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
- p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,
- p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
- p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
- p. 23, line 3The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
- 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!
- p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
- p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
- p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
- p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
- p. 23, line 16The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
- p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
- p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
- p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
- p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
- p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
- p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
- p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,
- p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
- p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,
- p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
- p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
- p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,
- p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
- p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
- p. 24, line 11The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,
- p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
- p. 24, line 13The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.
- p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
- p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
- p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
- p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
- p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
- p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
- p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
- p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.
- p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
- p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
- p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,
- p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.
- p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
- p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,
- p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
- p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
- p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
- p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
- p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
- p. 25, line 22What is a man anyhow? What am I? and what are you?
- p. 25, line 26That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
- p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
- p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
- p. 25, line 30Shall I pray? Shall I venerate and be ceremonious?
- p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
- p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
- p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
- p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
- p. 26, line 5And I know I am solid and sound,
- p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
- p. 26, line 8And I know I am deathless,
- p. 26, line 17And if each and all be aware I sit content.
- p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
- p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
- p. 26, line 21My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,
- p. 26, line 23And I know the amplitude of time.
- p. 26, line 25And I am the poet of the soul.
- p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,
- p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
- p. 26, line 29And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
- p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
- p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
- p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
- p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
- p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
- p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
- p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
- p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
- p. 27, line 18Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight!
- p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
- p. 27, line 27Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
- p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!
- p. 27, line 29Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty sea!
- p. 27, line 30I am integral with you . . . . I too am of one phase and of all phases.
- p. 27, line 31Partaker of influx and efflux . . . . extoler of hate and conciliation,
- p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
- p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
- p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;
- p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
- p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.
- p. 28, line 2What blurt is it about virtue and about vice?
- p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,
- p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
- 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,
- p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
- p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
- p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
- p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
- p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.
- p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.
- p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;
- p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
- p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,
- p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
- p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
- p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
- p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
- p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
- p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,
- p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
- p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
- p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
- p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.
- p. 29, line 15Voices of prostitutes and of deformed persons,
- p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,
- p. 29, line 17Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
- p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
- p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
- p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
- p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
- p. 29, line 23Voices of sexes and lusts . . . . voices veiled, and I remove the veil,
- p. 29, line 24Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured.
- p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
- p. 29, line 28I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
- p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
- p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
- p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,
- p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,
- p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
- p. 30, line 13You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you,
- p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
- p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
- p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
- p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
- p. 30, line 28Scooting obliquely high and low.
- p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
- p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
- p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
- p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
- p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
- p. 31, line 18Writing and talk do not prove me,
- p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
- p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
- p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
- p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
- 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,
- p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
- p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
- p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
- p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,
- p. 32, line 18And that we call Being.
- p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
- p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
- p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
- p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
- p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
- p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
- p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
- p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,
- p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,
- p. 33, line 5Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
- p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
- p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
- p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
- p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,
- p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.
- p. 33, line 25Logic and sermons never convince,
- p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
- p. 33, line 29A minute and a drop of me settle my brain;
- p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
- p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
- p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
- p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
- p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
- p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
- p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,
- p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
- p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
- p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,
- p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,
- 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.
- p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
- p. 34, line 10And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
- p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
- p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
- p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
- p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
- p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
- p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
- p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
- p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
- p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
- p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
- p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
- p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
- p. 34, line 36Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
- p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
- p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
- p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
- p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
- p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
- p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
- p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
- p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
- 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.
- p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
- p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
- p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,
- p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
- p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
- p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
- p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
- p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
- p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
- p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,
- p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
- p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
- 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;
- p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
- p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
- p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
- p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;
- p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,
- p. 36, line 29At musters and beach-parties and friendly bees and huskings and house-raisings;
- p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
- p. 36, line 31Where the hay-rick stands in the barnyard, and the dry-stalks are scattered, and the brood cow waits in the hovel,
- 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,
- p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
- p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
- p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
- p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;
- p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
- p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
- p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
- p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;
- p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
- p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
- p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
- p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
- p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
- p. 37, line 27Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure;
- p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
- p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
- p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
- p. 38, line 4Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
- p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.
- p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,
- p. 38, line 7And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
- p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,
- p. 38, line 10I help myself to material and immaterial,
- p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
- p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
- p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
- 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.
- p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
- p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
- p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.
- p. 38, line 28The courage of present times and all times;
- p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
- p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
- p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
- p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
- p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
- p. 39, line 9The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
- p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
- p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
- p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
- p. 39, line 13The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
- p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
- p. 39, line 18I fall on the weeds and stones,
- p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,
- p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
- p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
- p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
- p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
- p. 40, line 1Distant and dead resuscitate,
- p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
- p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
- p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,
- p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
- p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,
- p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
- p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,
- p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
- p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
- p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
- p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
- p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
- p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
- p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
- p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
- p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
- p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
- p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
- p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
- p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
- p. 41, line 8And that was a jetblack sunrise.
- p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
- p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
- p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
- p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
- p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,
- p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
- p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.
- p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
- p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
- p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
- p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,
- p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
- p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,
- p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
- p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,
- p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,
- p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
- p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
- p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
- p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
- p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
- p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
- p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
- p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
- p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
- p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
- p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,
- p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.
- p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,
- p. 43, line 14The whirling and whirling is elemental within me.
- p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
- p. 43, line 18That I could forget the mockers and insults!
- p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
- p. 43, line 20That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!
- p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,
- p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
- p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
- p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
- p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
- p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
- p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
- p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
- p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
- p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
- p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
- p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,
- p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
- p. 44, line 21And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
- p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
- p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
- p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,
- p. 44, line 28And any thing I have I bestow.
- p. 45, line 2You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
- p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
- p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
- p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
- p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
- p. 45, line 15Sleep! I and they keep guard all night;
- p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
- p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
- p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
- p. 45, line 22Heard it and heard of several thousand years;
- p. 45, line 24Magnifying and applying come I,
- p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
- p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
- p. 45, line 28Lithographing Kronos and Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
- p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,
- p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,
- p. 45, line 31With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and all idols and images,
- p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
- p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
- p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
- p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
- p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
- p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
- p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
- p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
- p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
- p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
- p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,
- p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
- p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
- p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
- p. 46, line 22My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
- p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,
- p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.
- p. 47, line 2Ever the hard and unsunk ground,
- p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
- p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
- p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
- p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
- p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
- p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
- p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
- p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
- p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.
- 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,
- p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.
- p. 47, line 20The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
- p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
- p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,
- p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
- p. 47, line 26My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality;
- p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
- p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
- p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
- p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
- p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
- p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?
- p. 48, line 6Sermons and creeds and theology . . . . but the human brain, and what is called reason, and what is called love, and what is called life?
- p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
- p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,
- p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
- p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,
- p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
- p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;
- p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
- p. 48, line 22One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang,
- p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
- p. 48, line 24Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,
- p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,
- p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
- p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
- p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,
- p. 49, line 2And the night is for you and me and all,
- p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
- p. 49, line 4I do not know what is untried and afterward,
- p. 49, line 5But I know it is sure and alive and sufficient.
- p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
- p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
- p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
- p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
- p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
- p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
- p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,
- p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
- p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
- p. 49, line 21They pour and they pour and they exhale away.
- p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
- p. 49, line 23There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
- p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
- p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
- p. 49, line 26I do not call one greater and one smaller,
- p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
- p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
- p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
- p. 50, line 7All below duly traveled—and still I mount and mount.
- p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
- p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
- p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.
- p. 50, line 13Long I was hugged close . . . . long and long.
- p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
- p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;
- p. 50, line 22Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
- p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,
- p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!
- p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,
- p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
- p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
- p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,
- p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
- p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
- p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
- p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
- p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
- p. 51, line 9Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding,
- p. 51, line 10Outward and outward and forever outward.
- p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,
- p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
- p. 51, line 14There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage;
- 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,
- p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
- p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
- p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
- p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;
- p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
- p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
- p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
- p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
- p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
- p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
- p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
- p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
- p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
- p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
- p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
- p. 52, line 17You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;
- p. 52, line 20Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
- p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
- p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
- 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.
- p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
- 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.
- p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
- p. 53, line 17The maul the oar and the handsaw second my words.
- p. 53, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
- p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
- p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
- p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
- p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
- p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
- p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
- p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
- p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
- p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
- p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
- p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
- p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
- p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
- p. 54, line 6And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God,
- p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
- p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
- p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
- p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
- p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
- p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
- p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.
- p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
- p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
- p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,
- p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
- 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?
- p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
- p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,
- p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
- p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;
- p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
- p. 55, line 12Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
- p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
- p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
- p. 55, line 15And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
- p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
- p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
- p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.
- p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
- p. 56, line 2It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
- p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
- p. 56, line 9And filter and fibre your blood.
- p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,
- p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.
- p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
- p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
- 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.
- p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
- p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
- p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
- p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
- p. 57, line 15I will be even with you, and you shall be even with me.
- p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
- p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
- p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
- p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
- p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
- p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
- p. 58, line 13What is there you cannot give and take?
- p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
- p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
- p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
- p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
- p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
- p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
- p. 59, line 2The naive . . . . the simple and hardy . . . . he going to the polls to vote . . . . he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time;
- p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
- p. 59, line 5None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.
- p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
- p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
- p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,
- p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
- p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
- p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
- p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
- 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;
- p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
- p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
- p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
- p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
- p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
- 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,
- p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
- p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
- 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?
- p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
- p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
- p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
- p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
- p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
- p. 60, line 11We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand;
- p. 60, line 12I do not say they are not grand and good—for they are,
- p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
- p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
- p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
- p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;
- p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
- p. 60, line 24All doctrines, all politics and civilization exurge from you,
- p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
- p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;
- p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
- p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
- p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
- p. 61, line 4It is not the violins and the cornets . . . . it is not the oboe nor the beating drums— nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza . . . . nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus,
- p. 61, line 5It is nearer and farther than they.
- p. 61, line 8Does all sit there with you and here with me?
- p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,
- p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
- p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,
- p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
- p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
- 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;
- p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;
- p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,
- p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;
- p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,
- p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:
- p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
- p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;
- p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
- p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
- p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;
- p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;
- p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:
- p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:
- p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:
- p. 62, line 8City and country . . fireplace and candle . . gaslight and heater and aqueduct;
- p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;
- p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
- p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;
- p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;
- p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,
- p. 62, line 17The pump, the piledriver, the great derrick . . the coalkiln and brickkiln,
- p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;
- p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;
- p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,
- p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,
- p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;
- p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;
- p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;
- p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,
- p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;
- p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:
- p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;
- p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;
- p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:
- p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
- p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,
- p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
- p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
- p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
- p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
- p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,
- p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
- p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
- p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,
- p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
- p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
- p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
- p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.
- 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;
- p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
- p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
- p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
- p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
- p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
- p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
- p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
- p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
- p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
- 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;
- p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
- p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
- p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
- p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
- p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,
- p. 66, line 14A hearse and stages . . . . other vehicles give place,
- p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,
- p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,
- p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.
- p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,
- p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,
- p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
- p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
- p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
- p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
- p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
- p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
- p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
- p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;
- p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
- p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
- p. 67, line 19The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses—they are not phantasms . . they have weight and form and location;
- p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
- p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
- p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
- p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
- p. 67, line 24Yourself! Yourself! Yourself forever and ever!
- p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
- p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
- p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
- p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
- p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
- p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
- p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
- p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
- 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.
- p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
- p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
- p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
- p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
- p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
- p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
- p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
- p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
- p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
- p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
- p. 69, line 15Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
- p. 69, line 18The past and the present indicate that it is good.
- p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
- p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
- p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
- p. 69, line 22The vegetables and minerals are all perfect . . and the imponderable fluids are perfect;
- p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
- p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
- p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
- p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
- p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.
- p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
- p. 70, line 7Wandering and confused . . . . lost to myself . . . . ill-assorted . . . . contradictory,
- p. 70, line 8Pausing and gazing and bending and stopping.
- p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
- p. 70, line 13The newborn emerging from gates and the dying emerging from gates,
- p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.
- p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
- p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
- p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
- p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
- p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
- p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.
- p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,
- p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
- p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
- p. 71, line 14And I become the other dreamers.
- p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,
- p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
- p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
- p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
- p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
- p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
- p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
- p. 71, line 25I am the actor and the actress . . . . the voter . . the politician,
- p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,
- p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
- p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
- p. 71, line 30My truant lover has come and it is dark.
- p. 71, line 31Double yourself and receive me darkness,
- p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
- p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
- p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
- p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
- p. 72, line 11O hotcheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!
- p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
- 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.
- p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
- p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:
- p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
- p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
- p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
- p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
- p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
- p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
- p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
- p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
- p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
- 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.
- p. 73, line 9Steady and long he struggles;
- p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
- p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
- p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
- p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
- p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.
- p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
- p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
- p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,
- p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
- p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
- p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
- p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
- p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
- p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
- p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
- p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
- p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
- p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
- p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
- p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
- p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
- p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.
- p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
- p. 74, line 30I am jealous and overwhelmed with friendliness,
- p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,
- p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
- p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,
- p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,
- p. 75, line 3The droves and crops increase . . . . the barns are wellfilled.
- p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
- p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
- p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;
- p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;
- p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,
- p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
- p. 75, line 12The homeward bound and the outward bound,
- p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
- p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,
- p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,
- p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
- p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
- p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
- p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
- p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.
- p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
- p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
- p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
- p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,
- p. 76, line 6What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
- p. 76, line 8The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
- 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,
- p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
- p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,
- p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;
- 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,
- p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,
- p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
- p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,
- p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
- p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
- p. 76, line 25The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
- p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
- p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
- p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
- p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
- p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
- p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
- p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
- p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
- p. 77, line 14The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
- p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
- p. 77, line 17It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,
- p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
- p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.
- p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
- p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
- p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
- p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;
- p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
- p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
- p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,
- p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
- p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
- p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
- p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
- p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.
- p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
- p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
- p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
- p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
- p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
- 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;
- p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
- p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
- p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,
- 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,
- 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,
- p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,
- p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,
- p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
- p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
- p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.
- p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
- p. 80, line 2You are the gates of the body and you are the gates of the soul.
- p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
- 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.
- 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,
- p. 80, line 6I see the bearer of the great fruit which is immortality . . . . the good thereof is not tasted by roues, and never can be.
- p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
- p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,
- p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
- p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;
- p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
- p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
- p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
- p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
- p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?
- p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.
- p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
- p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
- p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,
- p. 81, line 11And wonders within there yet.
- p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:
- p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?
- p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
- p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
- p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
- p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
- p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
- p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
- p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
- p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
- p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
- p. 82, line 7For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
- p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
- p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,
- p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,
- p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
- p. 83, line 7I see them and complain not and am content with all.
- p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.
- p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.
- p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
- p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
- p. 83, line 22This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
- p. 83, line 23And this is some murderer's knife with a halfpulled scabbard.
- p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
- p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?
- p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
- p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
- p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
- p. 84, line 4And I knew for my consolation what they knew not;
- p. 84, line 5I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
- p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
- p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
- p. 84, line 9The Lord advances and yet advances:
- p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
- p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
- p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;
- p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.
- p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
- p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.
- p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,
- p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.
- p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
- p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
- p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
- p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
- p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
- p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
- p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
- p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,
- p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
- p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
- p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,
- p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,
- p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
- p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
- p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
- p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
- p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
- 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.
- p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.
- p. 86, line 11A man is a summons and challenge,
- p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
- p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
- p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
- p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
- p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
- 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:
- p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
- p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
- p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
- p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
- p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
- p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
- p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;
- p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
- p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.
- p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.
- p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
- p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
- p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
- p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
- p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
- p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:
- p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
- p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:
- p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.
- p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
- p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,
- p. 88, line 17And all these things bear fruits . . . . and they are good.
- p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
- p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.
- p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
- p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
- p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
- p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
- p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.
- p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,
- p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,
- p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
- p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
- p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
- p. 89, line 23Worse and worse . . . . Can't you stand it? Are you retreating?
- p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,
- p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,
- p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.
- p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
- p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
- p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
- p. 90, line 12You are mighty cute . . . . and here is one of your bargains.
- p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
- p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
- p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,
- p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.
- 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,
- p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;
- p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
- p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
- p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
- p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,
- p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
- p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:
- p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,
- p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,
- p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
- p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
- p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,
- p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;
- p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
- p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;
- p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;
- 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,
- p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
- p. 92, line 2Boss and journeyman and apprentice? . . . . churchman and atheist?
- p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?
- p. 92, line 4Draw nigh and commence,
- p. 92, line 6And that to another . . . . and every one to another still.
- p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,
- p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.
- p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
- p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;
- p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
- p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
- 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.
- 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;
- 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:
- p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
- p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
- p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
- p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
- 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.
- p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;
- p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.
- p. 93, line 11Great is today, and beautiful,
- p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,
- p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,
- p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.
- p. 93, line 16Great are yourself and myself,
- p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
- p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,
- p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
- p. 93, line 22Great is wealth and great is poverty . . . . great is expression and great is silence.
- p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,
- p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?
- p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,
- p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
- p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:
- p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
- p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
- p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
- p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.
- p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,
- p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?
- p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.
- p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.
- p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;
- p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
- p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.
- p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.
- p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,
- p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.
- p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,
- p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,
- p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.
- p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,
- p. 95, line 16And there is another paradox.
- p. 95, line 17Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,