Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

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

B

babe 6

  1. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
  2. p. 17, line 11I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my hat and boots,
  3. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  4. 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.
  5. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  6. 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.

babes 4

  1. p. ix, line 88[…] in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor […]
  2. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  3. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  4. 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;

back 29

  1. p. iii, line 82[…] poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the […]
  2. p. viii, line 99[…] extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers […]
  3. p. x, line 33[…] to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents […]
  4. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,
  5. p. 27, line 22I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
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  1. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  2. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  3. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  4. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
  5. 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;
  6. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  7. 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,
  8. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
  9. 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;
  10. p. 61, line 6Will the whole come back then?
  11. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  12. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;
  13. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  14. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.
  15. 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;
  16. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  17. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
  18. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:
  19. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!
  20. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;
  21. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

backbone 1

  1. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

backing 1

  1. p. 38, line 4Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,

backs 2

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,

backtop 1

  1. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,

backward 4

  1. p. xi, line 4[…] result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the […]
  2. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  3. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  4. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

bad 8

  1. p. iv, line 101[…] is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions […]
  2. p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  3. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  6. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  7. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,
  8. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,

Badger 1

  1. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,

badlooking 1

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

baffled 2

  1. p. x, line 92[…] and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good […]
  2. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,

bafflers 1

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

baffles 1

  1. p. v, line 13[…] he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and […]

baggage 1

  1. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,

bagged 1

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

bakers 1

  1. 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,

bakery 1

  1. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;

baking 1

  1. 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.

balance 6

  1. p. vi, line 67[…] proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another […]
  2. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  3. p. 31, line 12I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  4. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  5. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.

balanced 1

  1. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!

balances 1

  1. p. vi, line 105[…] as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it […]

balk 1

  1. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.

balks 3

  1. p. vi, line 30[…] persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to […]
  2. p. 28, line 18A word of the faith that never balks,
  3. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,

ball 1

  1. 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,

ballasts 1

  1. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,

balloon 1

  1. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;

ballroom 1

  1. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;

balls 1

  1. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.

balsamic 1

  1. p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,

band 1

  1. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,

bandage 1

  1. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.

bandaged 1

  1. p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

band-necked 1

  1. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;

banged 1

  1. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,

banjo 1

  1. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,

bank 3

  1. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  2. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  3. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,

bankrupt 1

  1. p. iii, line 36[…] the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop […]

banks 1

  1. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,

banners 1

  1. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,

baptised 1 today: baptized

  1. p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,

baptized see baptised

bar 1

  1. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

barbarians 1

  1. p. 68, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,

barbaric 1

  1. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

bard 2

  1. p. iv, line 5[…] is the race of races. Of them a bard is to be commensurate with a people. To him the […]
  2. p. vii, line 79[…] of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two […]

bards 2

  1. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging […]
  2. p. vii, line 103[…] fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father […]

bare 6

  1. 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.
  2. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,
  3. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
  4. p. 76, line 15The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
  5. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?

bare-armed 1

  1. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,

barebosomed 1

  1. p. 27, line 5Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night!

bared 1

  1. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,

barefoot 2

  1. p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
  2. 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,

bare-stripped see barestript

barestript 1 today: bare-stripped

  1. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,

bargain 1

  1. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

bargains 1

  1. p. 90, line 12You are mighty cute . . . . and here is one of your bargains.

baritone 1

  1. 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,

bark 1

  1. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;

barleycorn 1

  1. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,

barn 4

  1. 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,
  2. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,
  3. p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:
  4. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.

barns 1

  1. p. 75, line 3The droves and crops increase . . . . the barns are wellfilled.

barnyard 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:
  3. 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.

barred 1

  1. p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.

barroom 1

  1. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,

bars 2

  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

base 1

  1. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,

base-ball 1

  1. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

baseless 1

  1. p. v, line 68[…] marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space […]

bashful 1

  1. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,

basis 1

  1. p. viii, line 18[…] shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the […]

bask 1

  1. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,

baskets 1

  1. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,

bat 1

  1. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;

bath 2

  1. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;
  2. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.

bathe 2

  1. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,

bather 1

  1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,

bathes 1

  1. p. 24, line 20This is the common air that bathes the globe.

baton 1

  1. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.

battered 1

  1. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;

battery 1

  1. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,

battle 1

  1. p. viii, line 69[…] positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and […]

battlefield 1

  1. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,

battlefields 1

  1. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,

battle-lanterns 1

  1. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.

battles 2

  1. p. vii, line 61[…] grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements and […]
  2. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

bay 5

  1. p. iv, line 18[…] sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron […]
  2. p. vii, line 12[…] contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the […]
  3. p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  4. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  5. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

bayonets 1

  1. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;

bayou 1

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

bays 2

  1. p. iii, line 38[…] ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
  2. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,

be 215

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beach 4

  1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  2. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  3. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  4. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,

beach-parties 1

  1. p. 36, line 29At musters and beach-parties and friendly bees and huskings and house-raisings;

beadbags 1

  1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,

beams 4

  1. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  2. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  3. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  4. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,

bean 1

  1. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

bear 9

  1. p. vi, line 75[…] and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To […]
  2. p. viii, line 65[…] the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon […]
  3. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  4. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  5. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
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  1. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  2. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
  3. p. 88, line 17And all these things bear fruits . . . . and they are good.
  4. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

beard 6

  1. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  2. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  3. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.
  4. p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.

bearded 4

  1. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  2. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,
  3. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  4. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;

beards 3

  1. p. iii, line 28[…] forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves […]
  2. p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  3. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,

bearer 2

  1. 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.
  2. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.

bearhunt 1

  1. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;

bearing 1

  1. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?

bears 1

  1. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,

beat 6

  1. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  2. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  3. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
  4. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  5. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  6. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.

beating 3

  1. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  2. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
  3. 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,

beats 2

  1. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  2. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;

beautiful 42

  1. p. iv, line 13[…] Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more […]
  2. p. iv, line 90[…] decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid […]
  3. p. v, line 110[…] not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man […]
  4. p. ix, line 56[…] completion of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean […]
  5. p. ix, line 69[…] a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who […]
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  1. p. xi, line 45[…] an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general […]
  2. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  3. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  4. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  5. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  6. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  7. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  8. p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;
  9. 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.
  10. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  11. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  12. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  13. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,
  14. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,
  15. p. 75, line 24I swear they are all beautiful,
  16. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  17. p. 75, line 27Peace is always beautiful,
  18. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  19. p. 76, line 4The soul is always beautiful,
  20. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  21. 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,
  22. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,
  23. p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
  24. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  25. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  26. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  27. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  28. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  29. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
  30. 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.
  31. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  32. p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
  33. p. 93, line 11Great is today, and beautiful,

beautify 1

  1. p. ix, line 43[…] patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices […]

beauty 19

  1. p. iii, line 83[…] generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of […]
  2. p. v, line 77[…] of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they […]
  3. p. v, line 82[…] and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity […]
  4. p. v, line 88[…] old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people […]
  5. p. v, line 109[…] or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the […]
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  1. p. vi, line 48[…] of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
  2. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable […]
  3. p. vi, line 66[…] the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need […]
  4. p. vii, line 110[…] and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
  5. p. ix, line 16[…] or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade […]
  6. p. ix, line 20[…] under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with […]
  7. p. xi, line 108[…] perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America […]
  8. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  9. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  10. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  11. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  12. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
  13. 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,
  14. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,

beaver 1

  1. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;

became 8

  1. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,
  4. 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.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  7. 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,
  8. p. 94, line 7Great is the earth, and the way it became what it is,

because 3

  1. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  2. 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?
  3. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

become 18

  1. p. 13, line 11I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  2. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  3. p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  4. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  5. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
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  1. p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
  2. p. 42, line 32I become as much more as I like.
  3. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
  4. 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?
  5. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  6. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  7. p. 71, line 14And I become the other dreamers.
  8. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
  9. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,
  10. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  11. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
  12. 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;

becomes 11

  1. p. v, line 6[…] best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he […]
  2. p. vi, line 81[…] is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not […]
  3. p. vi, line 91[…] the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays […]
  4. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  5. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
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  1. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
  2. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  3. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;
  4. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
  5. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,
  6. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

becoming 1

  1. p. 46, line 19By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator!

bed 14

  1. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  2. 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.
  3. p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  4. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  5. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,
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  1. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;
  2. 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:
  3. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
  4. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  7. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  8. p. 72, line 3He rises with me silently from the bed.

bedclothes 1

  1. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,

bedfellow 1

  1. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,

bedhouse 1

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

bedowee 1

  1. 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,

bedroom 3

  1. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
  2. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  3. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,

beds 1

  1. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.

bedside 2

  1. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;

beef 2

  1. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  2. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

beehives 1

  1. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;

been 23

  1. p. iii, line 5[…] with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners […]
  2. p. vi, line 12[…] of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss […]
  3. p. vi, line 85[…] of what is to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins […]
  4. p. ix, line 81[…] and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without […]
  5. p. ix, line 105[…] mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied […]
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  1. p. x, line 101[…] or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or […]
  2. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  3. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  4. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
  5. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
  6. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
  7. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  8. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;
  9. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,
  10. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  11. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  12. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  13. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  14. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,
  15. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  16. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  17. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

bees 1

  1. p. 36, line 29At musters and beach-parties and friendly bees and huskings and house-raisings;

beetles 1

  1. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.

before 19

  1. p. v, line 53[…] If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of […]
  2. p. vi, line 88[…] he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson […]
  3. p. ix, line 46[…] or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest […]
  4. p. x, line 25[…] features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation […]
  5. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
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  1. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
  2. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  3. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  4. p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
  5. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  6. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
  7. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  8. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  9. p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,
  10. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  11. 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,
  12. 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.
  13. p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,
  14. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

befriends 1

  1. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber […]

beg 1

  1. p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.

began 1

  1. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;

beget 1

  1. p. iii, line 38[…] apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]

begetters 1

  1. p. 17, line 22For me children and the begetters of children.

beggar 1

  1. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

beginning 5

  1. p. xi, line 6[…] farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth […]
  2. p. xi, line 71[…] to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under […]
  3. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  4. p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  5. p. 24, line 3A novice beginning experient of myriads of seasons,

beginningless 1

  1. p. 65, line 5Is today nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?

begins 1

  1. p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

begotten 1

  1. p. vii, line 103[…] of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love […]

begun 2

  1. p. x, line 99[…] date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any […]
  2. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.

behave 1

  1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.

behaved 1

  1. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,

behaves 1

  1. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,

behaving 1

  1. p. 32, line 32Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,

behavior see behaviour

behaviour 6 today: behavior

  1. p. vii, line 44[…] the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or […]
  2. p. xi, line 55[…] at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked […]
  3. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public […]
  4. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  5. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  6. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?

behind 12

  1. p. iii, line 84[…] beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not make […]
  2. p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  3. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  4. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  5. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;
  3. p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,
  4. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;
  7. p. 88, line 10Yet behind all, lo, a Shape,

behold 7

  1. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  2. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  3. p. 30, line 24To behold the daybreak!
  4. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  5. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  6. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
  7. p. 85, line 7Behold a woman!

beholds 1

  1. p. xi, line 84[…] lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of […]

being 6

  1. p. viii, line 32[…] or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble […]
  2. p. viii, line 37[…] with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular […]
  3. p. ix, line 93[…] any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  4. p. x, line 9[…] prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of […]
  5. p. xi, line 3[…] impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent […]
  6. p. 32, line 18And that we call Being.

beings 1

  1. p. ix, line 48[…] which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of […]

belched 1

  1. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,

believe 7

  1. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  2. p. 20, line 24. . . . I believe in those winged purposes,
  3. p. 27, line 22I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
  4. p. 29, line 28I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  5. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  6. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  7. p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,

believing 2

  1. p. v, line 31[…] people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and […]
  2. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,

bell 2

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

bellies 1

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,

belly 2

  1. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
  2. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,

belong 1

  1. p. 89, line 26I do not think you belong here anyhow.

belonging 2

  1. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  2. p. 48, line 21Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.

belongs 3

  1. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  2. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  3. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?

beloved 1

  1. p. xi, line 59[…] the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young […]

below 8

  1. p. iv, line 23[…] tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied […]
  2. p. iv, line 24[…] below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches […]
  3. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  4. p. 38, line 9My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  5. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,
  6. p. 50, line 7All below duly traveled—and still I mount and mount.
  7. p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
  8. 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.

Belus 1

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

bench 2

  1. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
  2. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,

bend 5

  1. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  3. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  4. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  5. p. 84, line 29Fill me with albescent honey . . . . bend down to me,

bending 5

  1. p. 20, line 1They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  2. p. 20, line 19To niches aside and junior bending.
  3. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  4. p. 70, line 8Pausing and gazing and bending and stopping.
  5. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

bends 1

  1. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,

beneath 4

  1. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  2. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?
  3. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,
  4. 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,

benevolent 4

  1. p. x, line 71[…] male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or […]
  2. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,
  3. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
  4. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,

bent 3

  1. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,
  2. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  3. 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,

bequeath 1

  1. p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

besides 1

  1. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,

best 26

  1. p. iii, line 41[…] the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its […]
  2. p. iii, line 78[…] cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is […]
  3. p. v, line 6[…] and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and […]
  4. p. vi, line 68[…] not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe […]
  5. p. vi, line 80[…] the faintest indication is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and […]
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  1. p. vii, line 90[…] arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The […]
  2. p. x, line 80[…] come round . . all will come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives […]
  3. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
  4. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  5. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  6. p. 21, line 9They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  7. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.
  8. p. 32, line 33Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  9. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  10. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  11. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,
  12. p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.
  13. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  14. p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
  15. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
  16. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
  17. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  18. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
  19. p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,

bestow 3

  1. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  2. p. 44, line 28And any thing I have I bestow.
  3. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,

bestowing 1

  1. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,

bestows 2

  1. p. iv, line 102[…] and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more […]
  2. 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:

betimes 2

  1. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  2. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;

betrayal 1

  1. p. x, line 50[…] gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women […]

better 11

  1. p. vi, line 113[…] the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for […]
  2. p. vii, line 52[…] then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy […]
  3. p. viii, line 110[…] get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at […]
  4. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  5. p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
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  1. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  2. p. 53, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  3. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  4. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  5. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  6. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.

between 20

  1. p. iv, line 27[…] stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is […]
  2. p. iv, line 28[…] from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths […]
  3. p. v, line 79[…] objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty […]
  4. p. vi, line 16[…] silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and […]
  5. p. vii, line 24[…] effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing […]
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  1. p. vii, line 105[…] bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of […]
  2. p. vii, line 107[…] greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the […]
  3. p. ix, line 14[…] lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each […]
  4. 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,
  5. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  6. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  7. p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,
  8. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  9. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  10. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  14. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,
  15. 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.

betweendays 1

  1. p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,

betwixt 2

  1. p. vi, line 108[…] the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style and thoughts […]
  2. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,

beyond 14

  1. p. vi, line 95[…] tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is […]
  2. p. x, line 3[…] it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money […]
  3. p. xii, line 26[…] communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the […]
  4. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
  5. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,
  3. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  4. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  5. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  6. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
  7. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

bibles 2

  1. p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
  2. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,

bidders 1

  1. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,

bids 2

  1. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  2. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,

big 5

  1. p. x, line 67[…] subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick […]
  2. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  3. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  4. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,
  5. p. 33, line 23The insignificant is as big to me as any,

bigger 1

  1. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,

billiards 1

  1. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

billowy 1

  1. p. 27, line 24Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,

bins 1

  1. p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:

birds 4

  1. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains […]
  2. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  3. p. 34, line 10And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
  4. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

birth 7

  1. p. ix, line 88[…] sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of […]
  2. p. ix, line 101[…] be parts of the greatest poet from his birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out […]
  3. p. ix, line 102[…] out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It […]
  4. p. xi, line 84[…] dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings […]
  5. 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,
  6. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  7. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.

birthed 1

  1. 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,

births 2

  1. p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
  2. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.

biscuits 1

  1. p. 52, line 20Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,

bit 4

  1. p. xi, line 5[…] backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the […]
  2. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,
  3. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  4. 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:

bite 1

  1. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,

bits 2

  1. p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,
  2. 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,

bitten 1

  1. p. 83, line 22This face is bitten by vermin and worms,

bitter 4

  1. p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,
  2. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.
  3. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,
  4. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:

bitterness 1

  1. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,

bivouac 1

  1. p. 38, line 22I am a free companion . . . . I bivouac by invading watchfires.

blab 1

  1. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,

black 14

  1. p. x, line 67[…] Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration […]
  2. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
  3. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  4. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.
  5. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
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  1. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  2. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
  3. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  4. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  5. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  6. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
  7. 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,
  8. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
  9. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,

blackbellied 1

  1. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,

blackberry 1

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

blackbird 1

  1. p. iv, line 44[…] cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle […]

blackboard 1

  1. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:

blackguard 2

  1. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  2. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,

blackguards 1

  1. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.

blacksmiths 1

  1. p. 20, line 5Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,

blanched 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

blank 1

  1. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.

blanket 1

  1. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,

blankets 1

  1. 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;

blatherers 1

  1. p. iv, line 57[…] of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants […]

blessed 1

  1. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.

blessing 1

  1. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

blind 5

  1. p. iii, line 25[…] nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here […]
  2. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!
  3. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  4. p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
  5. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,

blinding 1

  1. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;

blinds 1

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

bliss 1

  1. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

block 1

  1. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,

blockmaker 1

  1. p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,

blocks 1

  1. 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.

blood 22

  1. p. v, line 8[…] he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or […]
  2. p. v, line 110[…] independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction […]
  3. p. vii, line 12[…] the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk […]
  4. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by […]
  5. p. viii, line 74[…] the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when […]
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  1. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  2. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;
  3. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  4. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  5. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
  6. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  7. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  8. p. 56, line 9And filter and fibre your blood.
  9. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  10. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
  11. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,
  12. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  13. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  14. p. 87, line 13The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,

bloodiest 1

  1. p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.

bloodless 1

  1. p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

bloodmoney 1

  1. p. viii, line 88[…] are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I […]

bloody 4

  1. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
  2. p. 43, line 20That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!
  3. p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  4. p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:

bloom 1

  1. p. x, line 14[…] others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and […]

blossoms 2

  1. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  2. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

blotching 1

  1. p. x, line 22[…] the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening […]

blow 2

  1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  2. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

blowing 3

  1. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  2. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  3. 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:

blows 4

  1. p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  2. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;
  4. p. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;

bludgeons 1

  1. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!

blue 6

  1. p. iv, line 16[…] themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and […]
  2. p. iv, line 23[…] California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of […]
  3. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
  4. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  5. 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.
  6. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?

blue-flowered 1

  1. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;

blunts 1

  1. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;

blurred 1

  1. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;

blurt 1

  1. p. 28, line 2What blurt is it about virtue and about vice?

blushing 1

  1. p. 72, line 11O hotcheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!

blushingly 1

  1. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,

board 1

  1. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;

boat 5

  1. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  2. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  3. 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;
  4. 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.
  5. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

boated 1

  1. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,

boatman 1

  1. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,

boatmen 2

  1. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
  2. p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

boats 1

  1. p. x, line 87[…] and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old […]

bobs 1

  1. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,

bodies 9

  1. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.
  2. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  3. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;
  4. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  5. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  6. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,
  7. p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
  8. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?

body 33

  1. p. vi, line 17[…] and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work […]
  2. p. vii, line 83[…] truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than […]
  3. p. ix, line 9[…] poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess […]
  4. p. x, line 45[…] as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body. Not […]
  5. p. x, line 46[…] just as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal […]
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  1. p. xi, line 23[…] learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following […]
  2. p. xi, line 32[…] if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with […]
  3. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  4. p. 26, line 24I am the poet of the body,
  5. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  6. p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.
  7. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  8. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
  9. p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,
  10. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  11. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  12. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;
  13. 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,
  14. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  15. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
  16. p. 73, line 5I see his white body . . . . I see his undaunted eyes;
  17. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,
  18. p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
  19. p. 80, line 2You are the gates of the body and you are the gates of the soul.
  20. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
  21. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  22. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  23. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  24. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  25. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
  26. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.

boilermaking 1

  1. p. 63, line 5Leatherdressing, coachmaking, boilermaking, ropetwisting, distilling, signpainting, limeburning, coopering, cottonpicking,

boiling 1

  1. 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.

bold 1

  1. p. 52, line 26Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,

bombardment 1

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

bond 1

  1. p. xi, line 39[…] animate and inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and […]

bones 3

  1. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  2. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,
  3. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:

bonfire 1

  1. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;

bon-mot 1

  1. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

bonnet 2

  1. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  2. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,

booby 1

  1. p. viii, line 112[…] when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the […]

book 4

  1. p. vi, line 12[…] told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh […]
  2. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  3. p. 59, line 11It is not to be put in a book . . . . it is not in this book,

bookbinder's 1

  1. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;

bookkeeper 1

  1. p. 22, line 20The canal-boy trots on the towpath—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread,

books 8

  1. p. v, line 66[…] investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what […]
  2. p. ix, line 41[…] mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or […]
  3. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  4. p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  5. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  8. p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.

bookshelves 1

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

boots 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
  3. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,

bootsoles 2

  1. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,
  2. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

bore 2

  1. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  2. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,

born 11

  1. p. xii, line 46[…] look with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant […]
  2. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  3. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  4. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  5. p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
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  1. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
  4. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
  5. 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.

borne 5

  1. p. iii, line 9[…] new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives […]
  2. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  3. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;
  4. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,
  5. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.

bosom 1

  1. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,

bosom-bone 1

  1. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,

bosoms 2

  1. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
  2. 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;

boss 4

  1. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  2. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,
  3. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
  4. p. 92, line 2Boss and journeyman and apprentice? . . . . churchman and atheist?

bosses 3

  1. p. x, line 57[…] to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes […]
  2. p. xii, line 14[…] arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the […]
  3. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!

boss-tooth 1

  1. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,

Boston 4

  1. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
  2. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.
  3. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  4. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

both 7

  1. p. iv, line 47[…] and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the […]
  2. p. vi, line 109[…] twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style and thoughts […]
  3. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  4. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
  5. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  6. 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.
  7. p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.

bottomless 1

  1. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,

boughs 2

  1. p. iv, line 36[…] with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of […]
  2. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,

bought 1

  1. p. ix, line 30[…] who holds a legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is […]

bound 5

  1. p. viii, line 110[…] no . . . . when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than […]
  2. 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,
  3. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  4. p. 75, line 12The homeward bound and the outward bound,

boundary 2

  1. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.

boundlessly 1

  1. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,

bow 2

  1. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  2. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,

bowels 2

  1. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  2. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,

box 4

  1. p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,
  2. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  3. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  4. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

boy 7

  1. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  2. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  3. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  4. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,
  5. p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
  6. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
  7. 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,

boys 8

  1. p. viii, line 84[…] from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after […]
  2. p. x, line 57[…] of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of […]
  3. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  4. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
  5. p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,
  6. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,
  7. 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,

brace 1

  1. p. vii, line 90[…] there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and […]

braced 2

  1. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  2. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,

Brahma 1

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

brahmin 1

  1. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

brain 9

  1. p. v, line 19[…] firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not […]
  2. p. v, line 110[…] beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or […]
  3. p. ix, line 100[…] are called up of the float of the brain of the world to be parts of the greatest poet […]
  4. p. 30, line 7My brain it shall be your occult convolutions,
  5. p. 33, line 29A minute and a drop of me settle my brain;
  6. 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?
  7. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  8. p. 81, line 5In that head the allbaffling brain,

brains 2

  1. p. ix, line 69[…] joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of […]
  2. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,

branch 1

  1. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,

branches 2

  1. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;
  2. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,

brave 2

  1. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
  2. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.

bravely 1

  1. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.

braves 1

  1. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

bravuras 1

  1. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.

brawn 1

  1. p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,

brawny 2

  1. p. xi, line 112[…] language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock […]
  2. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

bread 1

  1. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;

breadth 5

  1. p. iii, line 33[…] of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it […]
  2. p. iv, line 16[…] more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the […]
  3. p. iv, line 23[…] and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above […]
  4. p. iv, line 24[…] breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the […]
  5. 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,

breakdown 1

  1. p. 20, line 4I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and breakdown.

breakfast 1

  1. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;

breakfasttime 1

  1. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,

breaking 1

  1. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

breaks 1

  1. p. vi, line 30[…] and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and […]

breast 9

  1. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
  2. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,
  3. p. 32, line 12It wrenches unnamable ardors from my breast,
  4. p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  5. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
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  1. p. 76, line 15The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
  2. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.

breastbone 1

  1. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,

breastmuscle 1

  1. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

breasts 5

  1. p. xii, line 43[…] the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too the […]
  2. p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  3. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,
  4. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.
  5. 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;

breastworks 1

  1. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,

breath 10

  1. p. 13, line 13The smoke of my own breath,
  2. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  3. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  4. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  5. p. 45, line 13I dilate you with tremendous breath . . . . I buoy you up;
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  1. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
  2. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  3. p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
  4. 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,

breathe 3

  1. p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
  2. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  3. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.

breathes 1

  1. p. v, line 52[…] poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates […]

breathing 3

  1. p. 27, line 27Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
  2. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  3. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,

breaths 1

  1. p. 27, line 27Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!

breed 6

  1. p. iv, line 1[…] geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
  2. p. xi, line 94[…] or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets […]
  3. p. xi, line 101[…] of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of […]
  4. p. xii, line 39[…] nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be […]
  5. p. 14, line 18Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.
  6. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.

breeding 1

  1. p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,

breeze 1

  1. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;

brewed 1

  1. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:

bribed 1

  1. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,

brickkiln 1

  1. p. 62, line 17The pump, the piledriver, the great derrick . . the coalkiln and brickkiln,

bride 5

  1. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  3. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  4. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  5. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?

bridegroom 3

  1. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  2. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  3. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?

bridegroom-night 1

  1. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

bridge 1

  1. 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.

bridle 1

  1. p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,

brig 1

  1. p. 36, line 19Where the half-burned brig is riding on unknown currents,

brigades 1

  1. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,

bright 2

  1. p. 30, line 30Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  2. p. 89, line 7How bright shine the foremost with cutlasses,

brighter 1

  1. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!

brine 1

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

bring 14

  1. p. viii, line 44[…] instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just as great […]
  2. p. x, line 65[…] thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to […]
  3. p. xi, line 75[…] To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The […]
  4. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.
  5. p. 38, line 13My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
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  1. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  2. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  3. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  4. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  5. p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
  6. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
  7. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  8. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,

bringing 3

  1. p. viii, line 65[…] show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty […]
  2. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  3. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.

brings 4

  1. p. vi, line 73[…] least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and […]
  2. p. xi, line 75[…] such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of […]
  3. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  4. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

bristling 1

  1. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.

brittle 1

  1. 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.

broad 5

  1. p. 16, line 15And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  2. p. 27, line 27Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
  3. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
  4. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  5. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,

broadcast 1

  1. p. iii, line 22[…] the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely […]

broadcloth 1

  1. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,

Broadway 1

  1. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,

broiling 1

  1. p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,

broke 1

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

broken 2

  1. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  2. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

brood 6

  1. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
  2. 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,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
  5. p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,

brook 1

  1. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,

Brooklyn 2

  1. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  2. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;

brooks 1

  1. p. 30, line 13You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you,

brother 12

  1. p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
  2. 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:
  3. p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
  4. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  5. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
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  1. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
  2. p. 84, line 5I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
  3. p. 85, line 16A YOUNG man came to me with a message from his brother,
  4. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  5. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
  6. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;

brotherhood 1

  1. p. vii, line 39[…] suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer […]

brotherly 1

  1. p. 35, line 4Choosing to go with him on brotherly terms.

brothers 9

  1. p. viii, line 90[…] stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and […]
  2. p. xii, line 25[…] distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous […]
  3. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  4. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  5. p. 55, line 12Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
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  1. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  4. p. 88, line 22They live in brothers, again ready to defy you:

brought 4

  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  2. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  3. p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
  4. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;

brown 8

  1. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  2. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  3. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  4. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  5. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  6. 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.
  7. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  8. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

brows 1

  1. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

browse 1

  1. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;

bruised 3

  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  2. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
  3. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,

brush 2

  1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;

brushes 1

  1. p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,

brutish 1

  1. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,

buck 2

  1. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. 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;

buckets 1

  1. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,

Buckeye 1

  1. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,

buckshot 1

  1. p. 39, line 13The murderous buckshot and the bullets,

buckwheat 1

  1. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,

bud 1

  1. p. v, line 101[…] show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses […]

buds 1

  1. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?

buffalo 1

  1. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;

bug 1

  1. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,

bugle 1

  1. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;

builders 1

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

building 7

  1. p. iv, line 108[…] speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and […]
  2. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  3. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  4. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  5. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  6. 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;
  7. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;

buildings 1

  1. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

builds 1

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

built 4

  1. p. xi, line 99[…] man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and […]
  2. p. xii, line 22[…] heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with my country? Are its […]
  3. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  4. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

bulged 1

  1. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

bulging 1

  1. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,

bulk 2

  1. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,

bull 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,

bull-dances 1

  1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,

bullets 2

  1. p. 39, line 13The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  2. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

bull's 1

  1. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,

bunches 2

  1. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,

bundle 1

  1. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;

bunkroom 1

  1. p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;

buoy 1

  1. p. 45, line 13I dilate you with tremendous breath . . . . I buoy you up;

burdens 1

  1. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,

bureaus 1

  1. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,

burial 2

  1. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
  2. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,

burial-money 1

  1. p. x, line 4[…] independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on […]

buried 8

  1. p. vi, line 45[…] him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The […]
  2. p. vi, line 46[…] and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the […]
  3. p. xi, line 60[…] he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the […]
  4. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  5. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  6. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  7. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.

burned see burnt

burning 2

  1. p. vi, line 31[…] balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the […]
  2. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;

burnt 3 today: burned

  1. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  2. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  3. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,

burst 2

  1. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  2. 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.

bush 2

  1. p. v, line 102[…] and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts […]
  2. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

bush-boy 1

  1. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;

bush-life 1

  1. p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?

bushy 1

  1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,

business 8

  1. p. iii, line 71[…] swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the […]
  2. p. 15, line 10My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
  3. p. 57, line 4This is unfinished business with me . . . . how is it with you?
  4. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  5. 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?
  6. 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;
  7. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.
  8. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

busses 1

  1. p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,

bussing 1

  1. p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,

buster 1

  1. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.

bustle 1

  1. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.

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butcher 1

  1. 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;

butcher-boy 1

  1. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,

butcher's 1

  1. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

buy 1

  1. p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,

buying 2

  1. p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,
  2. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;

buzzard 2

  1. p. iv, line 45[…] qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary […]
  2. p. 34, line 18In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,

buzzed 1

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,

buzzer 1

  1. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,

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byroad 1

  1. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,