Concordance

ca 1

1. p. vi, line 113[…] is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo […]

cabin 1

1. p. 42, line 14Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin,

cabinet 1

1. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,

cache 2

1. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.

cackles 1

1. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,

cactus 1

1. p. iv, line 33[…] hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled […]

cadaverous 1

1. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?

cakes 1

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

calculated 1

1. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

calf 1

1. 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.

California 2

1. p. iv, line 22[…] and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of […]
2. 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?

Californians 1

1. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,

call 17

1. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
2. p. 26, line 22I laugh at what you call dissolution,
3. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
4. p. 32, line 18And that we call Being.
5. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.

called 10

1. p. ix, line 99[…] same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain of the world […]
2. 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?
3. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,
4. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
5. p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;
6. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,

calling 3

1. p. viii, line 91[…] of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble […]
2. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
3. p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,

callous 2

1. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
2. p. 32, line 21Mine is no callous shell,

calls 1

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

calm 6

1. p. iv, line 57[…] the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd […]
2. p. vii, line 115[…] itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest […]
3. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
4. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
5. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,
6. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;

calming 1

1. p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;

calmly 1

1. 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,

calmness 4

1. p. iii, line 4[…] or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the […]
2. p. viii, line 67[…] itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement […]
3. p. 39, line 9The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
4. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;

calves 1

1. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,

Camanche 1 today: Comanche

1. p. 68, line 24A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Camanche is not nothing,

came 11

1. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
2. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
3. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
4. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
5. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.

camera 1

1. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,

camphor-smell 1

1. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,

camping 1

1. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,

camp-meeting 1

1. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;

can 56

1. p. iii, line 77[…] No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best […]
2. p. iii, line 78[…] nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own […]
3. p. v, line 8[…] heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in […]
4. p. v, line 90[…] residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but […]
5. p. v, line 91[…] poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity […]

Canadian 2

1. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
2. p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?

canal-boy 1

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

candid 1

1. p. viii, line 115[…] from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state […]

candle 2

1. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
2. p. 62, line 8City and country . . fireplace and candle . . gaslight and heater and aqueduct;

candor 6

1. p. iii, line 48[…] Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their […]
2. p. viii, line 17[…] be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet […]
3. p. ix, line 66[…] tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine […]
4. p. ix, line 69[…] voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect […]
5. p. ix, line 70[…] may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have […]
6. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:

cane 1

1. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

canebrake 1

1. p. iv, line 34[…] and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles […]

canister 1

1. p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.

cannon 8

1. p. viii, line 65[…] power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no […]
2. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
3. p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,
4. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.
5. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,
6. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
7. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
8. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,

cannot 36

1. p. vi, line 43[…] nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried […]
2. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
3. p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
4. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
5. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,

can't 1

1. p. 89, line 23Worse and worse . . . . Can't you stand it? Are you retreating?

canvass 1

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

caoutchouc 1

1. p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.

cap 2

1. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
2. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:

cape 1

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

capital 1

1. p. iii, line 72[…] and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor […]

capitol 2

1. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
2. p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,

capitols 1

1. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,

capitulation 1

1. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.

capricious 1

1. p. 27, line 29Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty sea!

caps 2

1. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:
2. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,

captain 6

1. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
2. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
3. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
4. p. 42, line 6Serene stood the little captain,
5. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
6. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,

car 3

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. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;
3. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:

carbines 1

1. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,

carbon 1

1. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.

cards 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;

care 1

1. p. 50, line 22Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

careful 2

1. p. vii, line 74[…] equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege […]
2. p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?

carefully 4

1. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
2. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,
3. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
4. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

cares 1

1. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?

caresser 1

1. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,

caresses 1

1. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,

carlacue 1 today: curlicue

1. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.

carman 1

1. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

carnival 1

1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

carouse 2

1. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;

carpenter 1

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

carpenter's 2

1. p. ix, line 17[…] the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper […]
2. p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,

carpet 1

1. 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:

carpets 1

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

carriage 2

1. p. iii, line 49[…] of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous […]
2. p. 77, line 17It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,

carriages 1

1. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

carried 7

1. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
2. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
3. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
4. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
5. 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.
6. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;

carries 2

1. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
2. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.

carrots 1

1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,

carry 3

1. p. vii, line 1[…] for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and […]
2. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
3. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.

carrying 1

1. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;

cars 1

1. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;

cart 2

1. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;
2. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,

cartouches 1

1. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

carts 1

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

carved 1

1. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

carver 1

1. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

carvings 1

1. p. ix, line 40[…] not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books […]

case 5

1. p. viii, line 3[…] laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded […]
2. p. xi, line 11[…] off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living […]
3. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
4. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,

cases 1

1. p. viii, line 4[…] are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs […]

cast 1

1. p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,

caste 1

1. p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,

castes 1

1. p. iii, line 3[…] or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is […]

casting 1

1. p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,

castrated 1

1. p. 83, line 3The face withdrawn of its good and bad . . a castrated face,

casual 1

1. p. viii, line 63[…] or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp […]

cat 1

1. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

cataract 1

1. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;

catbrier 1

1. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.

catch 1

1. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;

cat-owl 1

1. p. iv, line 43[…] redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird […]

cattle 3

1. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
2. p. 23, line 3The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
3. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,

causality 1

1. p. ix, line 97[…] women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and […]

cause 5

1. p. viii, line 73[…] scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own […]
2. p. x, line 88[…] of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains […]
3. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
4. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.

causes 2

1. p. 31, line 12I underlying causes to balance them at last,
2. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,

caution 4

1. p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison […]
2. p. ix, line 104[…] and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the […]
3. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
4. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

cautioning 2

1. p. 38, line 3Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning,
2. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.

cautious 2

1. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
2. p. 45, line 25Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,

cautiously 1

1. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,

cease 4

1. p. iv, line 79[…] the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the […]
2. p. iv, line 80[…] speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to […]
3. p. 42, line 3Not a moment's cease,
4. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,

ceased 1

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

ceaseless 3

1. p. xi, line 91[…] orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
2. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
3. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;

ceaselessly 1

1. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,

ceases 3

1. p. iv, line 79[…] to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips […]
2. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,

cedar 2

1. p. iv, line 30[…] growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress […]
2. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;

cedar-roofed 1

1. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,

ceilings 1

1. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:

celebrate 1

1. p. 13, line 1I CELEBRATE myself,

celestial 1

1. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?

cemetery 2

1. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
2. p. 66, line 16Rapid the trot to the cemetery,

census 1

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

cent 3

1. p. 15, line 5And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
2. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,
3. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,

central 1

1. p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.

centre 1 today: center

1. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;

centrepiece 1 today: centerpiece

1. p. 90, line 6Here is a centrepiece for them:

centrifugal 1

1. p. 48, line 22One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang,

centripetal 1

1. p. 48, line 22One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang,

centuries 4

1. p. xi, line 49[…] or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of […]
2. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
3. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
4. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?

ceremonious 1

1. p. 25, line 30Shall I pray? Shall I venerate and be ceremonious?

certain 5

1. p. x, line 34[…] out by ages and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear […]
2. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
3. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
4. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
5. 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.

certainly 4

1. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
2. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
3. p. 84, line 2You'll be unmuzzled . . . . you certainly will.
4. p. 95, line 14Do you call that a paradox? It certainly is a paradox.

certainty 1

1. p. v, line 35[…] noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as […]

cessation 1

1. p. xi, line 76[…] does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells […]

chafe 1

1. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;

chaff 1

1. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

chafing 1

1. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.

chain 1

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

chair 3

1. p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
2. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
3. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

chairs 2

1. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
2. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;

chalked 1

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

challenge 2

1. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
2. p. 86, line 11A man is a summons and challenge,

chamber 1

1. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;

Champlain 1

1. p. iv, line 18[…] and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and […]

chance 5

1. p. vi, line 27[…] consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and […]
2. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it […]
3. p. ix, line 3[…] duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the […]
4. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
5. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;

chances 1

1. p. 21, line 15Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,

change 2

1. p. xi, line 114[…] tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which […]
2. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,

changed 3

1. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
2. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;

changes 5

1. p. ix, line 89[…] of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that follows what we […]
2. p. xi, line 50[…] ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still […]
3. p. 39, line 21Agonies are one of my changes of garments;
4. p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
5. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,

changing 1

1. p. iv, line 12[…] rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with […]

channel 2

1. p. vii, line 19[…] less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is […]
2. p. vii, line 21[…] without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not […]

chant 2

1. p. 26, line 31I chant a new chant of dilation or pride,

chanted 1

1. p. iv, line 85[…] the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish […]

chaos 2

1. p. xi, line 86[…] be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they […]
2. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.

character 8

1. p. iv, line 67[…] all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen […]
2. p. iv, line 76[…] the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery […]
3. p. vi, line 76[…] and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well is […]
4. p. vi, line 92[…] poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all […]
5. p. viii, line 102[…] states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers […]
6. p. xi, line 48[…] Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead […]
7. p. 85, line 13The melodious character of the earth!
8. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?

characterise 1 today: characterize

1. p. viii, line 34[…] is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt […]

characters 1

1. p. iv, line 86[…] other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the […]

charge 1

1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

charges 1

1. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.

charitable 1

1. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?

charity 2

1. p. x, line 63[…] they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the […]
2. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,

Charleston 1

1. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,

charred 1

1. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

charters 1

1. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.

charts 1

1. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?

chasing 1

1. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,

chasms 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.

Chattahoochee 1

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

chatter 1

1. p. x, line 20[…] life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great […]

chattering 1

1. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?

cheap 1

1. p. ix, line 68[…] perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How […]

cheapest 2

1. p. iii, line 78[…] mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of […]
2. p. 21, line 14What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me,

checking 1

1. p. iv, line 106[…] supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the […]

checks 2

1. p. iv, line 106[…] and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of […]
2. p. vii, line 87Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and support […]

cheek 2

1. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
2. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

cheeks 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. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.

cheer 2

1. p. viii, line 55[…] it. The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks […]
2. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;

cheerful 1

1. p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

cheerfully 1

1. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.

cheerfulness 1

1. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.

cheese-cloth 1

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

chef-d'ouvre 1 today: chef-d'oeuvre

1. p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,

chemist 2

1. p. vii, line 94[…] and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not […]
2. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

chemistry 1

1. p. 76, line 26They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.

chestnut 1

1. p. iv, line 31[…] cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree […]

chestnuts 1

1. p. v, line 103[…] take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume […]

chests 1

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

chickadee 1

1. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

chief 3

1. p. x, line 76[…] is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young […]
2. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;
3. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

child 22

1. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
2. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
3. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
4. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
5. p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,

childhood 2

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.
2. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,

children 20

1. p. iii, line 38[…] or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
2. p. vi, line 36[…] of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a […]
3. p. viii, line 43[…] nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just […]
4. p. ix, line 58[…] be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the […]
5. p. ix, line 96[…] hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense […]

child's 1

1. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.

chill 1

1. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,

chilled 1

1. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.

chin 1

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

Chinese 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,

chip 1

1. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,

chirping 1

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

chisel 1

1. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;

choir 1

1. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,

choked 1

1. p. viii, line 74[…] the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes […]

cholera 1

1. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,

choose 1

1. p. 93, line 9Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft . . . . where you sail I sail,

choosing 2

1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
2. p. 35, line 4Choosing to go with him on brotherly terms.

chops 1

1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,

chords 1

1. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.

chorus 4

1. p. v, line 57[…] do not. He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the […]
2. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!
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,

chosen 3

1. p. xii, line 7[…] and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness […]
2. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,
3. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,

chowder-kettle 1

1. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.

Christ 1

1. p. 42, line 25O Christ! My fit is mastering me!

christened 2

1. p. viii, line 84[…] the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead […]
2. p. viii, line 85[…] are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the […]

chromatic 1

1. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;

chuff 1

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

church 3

1. p. vi, line 12[…] all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul […]
2. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,
3. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;

churches 5

1. p. iii, line 43[…] in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but […]
2. p. xi, line 98[…] every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men […]
3. p. xi, line 99[…] churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall […]
4. p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
5. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,

churchman 1

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

chutes 1

1. p. iv, line 12[…] and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the […]

cider-mill 1

1. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,

cinder-strewed 1

1. p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,

cipher 2

1. p. 15, line 5And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
2. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.

ciphering 1

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

circle 2

1. p. 20, line 23They rise together, they slowly circle around.
2. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

circles 1

1. p. ix, line 21[…] full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the […]

circling 2

1. p. vii, line 113[…] the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president […]
2. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,

circuit 2

1. p. 48, line 21Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.
2. p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,

circuits 1

1. p. 48, line 21Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.

circumstance 1

1. p. xi, line 114[…] of a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the […]

cities 8

1. p. iii, line 93[…] States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the […]
2. p. iv, line 59[…] the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings […]
3. p. iv, line 109[…] peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study […]
4. 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.
5. p. 52, line 10Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
6. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
7. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
8. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;

citizen 3

1. p. iii, line 70[…] largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor […]
2. p. ix, line 105[…] enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for […]

citizens 7

1. p. iii, line 52[…] soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment […]
2. p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
3. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
4. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,
5. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.

citrons 1

1. p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,

city 13

1. p. viii, line 106[…] of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or […]
2. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
3. p. 23, line 16The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
4. p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
5. 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.

city's 1

1. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,

civilization 4

1. p. x, line 21[…] or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably […]
2. p. x, line 23[…] and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it […]
3. p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
4. p. 60, line 24All doctrines, all politics and civilization exurge from you,

clack 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.

claiming 1

1. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.

claims 3

1. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
2. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,
3. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

clamdiggers 1

1. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,

clank 1

1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,

clap 2

1. p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.

clapboards 1

1. p. x, line 5[…] laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil […]

clarified 1

1. p. 29, line 24Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured.

clasp 1

1. p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,

clasping 1

1. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.

class 1

1. p. vii, line 81[…] of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata […]

clay 1

1. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

clean 9

1. p. ix, line 58[…] ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those […]
2. p. x, line 71[…] female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in […]
3. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
4. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
5. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
6. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
7. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
8. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:

cleanest 1

1. p. vii, line 48[…] who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself […]

cleanhaired 1

1. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,

cleansetting 1

1. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,

cleanshaped 1

1. p. ix, line 19[…] carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams […]

clear 11

1. p. viii, line 6[…] of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and […]
2. p. viii, line 21[…] all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal […]
3. p. x, line 35[…] with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in […]
4. p. 14, line 23Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
5. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,

cleared 2

1. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
2. p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.

clearer 2

1. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
2. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.

clearest 1

1. p. vi, line 81[…] indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but […]

clearing 2

1. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
2. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,

clearings 1

1. p. iv, line 61[…] superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce […]

cleave 1

1. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.

cleaving 1

1. p. vii, line 113[…] investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet […]

clerk 1

1. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

click 1

1. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;

cliff 1

1. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.

climates 1

1. p. iv, line 66[…] December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young […]

climax 2

1. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;
2. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.

clinging 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.

clinking 1

1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

clipped 1

1. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,

clipper 5

1. p. ix, line 19[…] its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched […]
2. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
3. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,
4. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,

clock 4

1. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
2. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
3. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
4. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,

clods 1

1. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,

close 21

1. p. v, line 2[…] freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off […]
2. p. vi, line 108[…] with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style and […]
3. p. x, line 18[…] the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly […]
4. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
5. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.

closed 1

1. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,

closer 4

1. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
2. p. 57, line 1COME closer to me,
3. p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.

closest 2

1. p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
2. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,

clot 1

1. p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.

cloth 2

1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
2. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,

clothes 7

1. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
2. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
3. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
4. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,
5. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
6. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:
7. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:

clothing 1

1. p. x, line 7[…] the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such […]

clouds 4

1. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
2. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
3. 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,
4. 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,

clover 2

1. p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
2. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,

cluck 1

1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,

clue 1

1. p. vi, line 79[…] the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is […]

clusters 1

1. p. 94, line 6Great is the greatest nation . . the nation of clusters of equal nations.

clutch 1

1. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,

coaches 1

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

coachmaking 1

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

coal 1

1. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,

coalkiln 1

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

coalmen 1

1. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;

coalscreener 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;

coarse 4

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. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
3. p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
4. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,

coast 2

1. p. iv, line 25[…] is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily […]
2. p. iv, line 26[…] long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south […]

coasters 1

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

coasts 2

1. p. iv, line 53[…] entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and […]
2. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,

coat 1

1. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;

coated 1

1. p. iv, line 35[…] tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and […]

coats 2

1. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
2. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,

coaxes 1

1. p. 56, line 2It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

cobwebs 1

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

cock 2

1. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
2. p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,

cocked 1

1. p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,

coffeehouse 1

1. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,

coffin 5

1. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,
2. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
3. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
4. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:

coffined 1

1. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;

coffins 2

1. p. vi, line 86[…] is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to […]
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,

cohered 3

1. p. xi, line 86[…] the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger […]
2. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
3. p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?

cohering 2

1. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
2. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

cold 7

1. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
2. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
3. 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,
4. p. 66, line 11Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf,
5. 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,
6. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
7. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,

coldest 1

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

coldly 1

1. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

collapses 1

1. p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,

collars 1

1. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,

collections 1

1. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?

colleges 1

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

colonel 1

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

color 3

1. p. v, line 47[…] exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and […]
2. 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,
3. p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;

colored 2