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‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

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  1. p. iii, line 5[…] the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions […]
  2. p. iii, line 82[…] and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation […]
  3. p. iii, line 83[…] back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall […]
  4. p. iii, line 85[…] demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any […]
  5. p. iii, line 86[…] not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery and […]
  6. p. iv, line 7[…] a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his […]
  7. p. iv, line 34[…] and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice […]
  8. p. iv, line 38[…] peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and […]
  9. p. iv, line 97[…] shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is […]
  10. p. v, line 14[…] with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time […]
  11. p. v, line 20[…] no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a […]
  12. p. v, line 21[…] He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees […]
  13. p. v, line 22[…] as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His […]
  14. p. v, line 28[…] women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul […]
  15. p. v, line 36[…] one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to […]
  16. p. v, line 37[…] artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is […]
  17. p. v, line 56[…] he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He […]
  18. p. v, line 82[…] and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators […]
  19. p. v, line 101[…] growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush […]
  20. p. v, line 102[…] and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons […]
  21. p. v, line 103[…] on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears […]
  22. p. vi, line 50[…] chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the […]
  23. p. vi, line 51[…] inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the […]
  24. p. vi, line 76[…] some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well is to […]
  25. p. vi, line 104[…] lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither […]
  26. p. vii, line 28[…] or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go […]
  27. p. vii, line 120[…] with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever […]
  28. p. viii, line 15[…] all upon it are simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present […]
  29. p. viii, line 32[…] God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no […]
  30. p. viii, line 44[…] them up well . . . that to be is just as great as to perceive or tell […]
  31. p. ix, line 8As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in […]
  32. p. ix, line 11[…] superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the […]
  33. p. ix, line 62[…] these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of […]
  34. p. ix, line 110[…] The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has […]
  35. p. x, line 9[…] of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years […]
  36. p. x, line 35[…] rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running gaily […]
  37. p. x, line 36[…] and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you […]
  38. p. x, line 44[…] through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as […]
  39. p. x, line 45[…] direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word […]
  40. p. x, line 106[…] wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be well […]
  41. p. xi, line 31[…] does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract […]
  42. p. xi, line 67[…] all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and a man as much as a woman […]
  43. p. xi, line 69[…] as much as a man and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a […]
  44. p. xii, line 64[…] It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will […]
  45. p. xii, line 65[…] none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance […]
  46. p. xii, line 66[…] itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a […]
  47. p. xii, line 73[…] a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]
  48. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  49. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  50. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  51. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  52. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  53. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
  54. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  55. p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
  56. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  57. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  58. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  59. p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
  60. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  61. p. 23, line 23Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
  62. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,
  63. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  64. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  65. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  66. p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  67. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
  68. p. 26, line 15I exist as I am, that is enough,
  69. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  70. p. 26, line 29And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  71. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  72. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  73. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  74. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  75. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  76. 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;
  77. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  78. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  79. p. 32, line 33Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  80. p. 33, line 23The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  81. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
  82. 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.
  83. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  84. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  85. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  86. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
  87. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  88. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
  89. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  90. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  91. p. 42, line 32I become as much more as I like.
  92. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  93. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  94. p. 45, line 23It is middling well as far as it goes . . . . but is that all?
  95. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  96. p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
  97. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  98. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  99. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
  100. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  101. p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
  102. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  103. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  104. p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  105. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  106. 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.
  107. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
  108. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.
  109. p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  110. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  111. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  112. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  113. 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.
  114. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  115. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  116. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  117. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  118. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  119. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
  120. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  121. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  122. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
  123. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  124. 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?
  125. 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.
  126. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  127. 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;
  128. p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
  129. 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,
  130. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
  131. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  132. p. 65, line 21They are palpable as the living are palpable.
  133. 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;
  134. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  135. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  136. p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
  137. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
  138. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  139. p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
  140. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  141. 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.
  142. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  143. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  144. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  145. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  146. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  147. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  148. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  149. 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;
  150. 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;
  151. 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,
  152. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
  153. 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,
  154. 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.
  155. 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,
  156. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  157. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  158. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,
  159. p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.
  160. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  161. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  162. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  163. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  164. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  165. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  166. 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:
  167. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
  168. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,
  169. 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:
  170. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  171. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
  172. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  173. 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.
  174. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
  175. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
  176. 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.
  177. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,
  178. p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?
  179. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
  180. 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.
  181. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:
  182. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;
  183. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.