Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

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

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dab 1

  1. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,

dabs 1

  1. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,

daguerreotype 1

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

daguerreotyping 1

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

daily 4

  1. p. vi, line 29[…] possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others […]
  2. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  3. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,
  4. 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;

daintier 1

  1. p. xii, line 2[…] all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is […]

dainty 1

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

damages 1

  1. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,

damn 1

  1. p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,

damp 2

  1. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  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,

dance 2

  1. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  2. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

dancer 1

  1. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

dancers 1

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

dancing 2

  1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  2. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,

Dane 1

  1. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

dangerous 1

  1. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,

dangle 1

  1. p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,

dare 1

  1. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,

daring 1

  1. p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.

dark 13

  1. p. vi, line 62[…] is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it […]
  2. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  3. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  4. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
  5. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
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  1. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  2. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  3. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  4. 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,
  5. p. 71, line 30My truant lover has come and it is dark.
  6. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
  7. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  8. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,

dark-cheeked 1

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

darkcolored 1

  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,

darker 1

  1. p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,

darkey 1

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

darkness 9

  1. p. vi, line 43[…] for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy […]
  2. p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  3. p. 71, line 31Double yourself and receive me darkness,
  4. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  5. p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?
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  1. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  2. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  3. p. 73, line 15Confused . . . . a pastreading . . . . another, but with darkness yet.
  4. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

darn 1

  1. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

dash 4

  1. p. 27, line 25Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you.
  2. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  3. p. 66, line 11Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf,
  4. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.

date 1

  1. p. x, line 98[…] ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it […]

daughter 4

  1. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  2. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,
  3. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  4. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,

daughters 6

  1. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  2. 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.
  3. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?

dawn 3

  1. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  2. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  3. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

day 51

  1. p. iii, line 22[…] that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a […]
  2. p. vii, line 74[…] to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they […]
  3. p. ix, line 60[…] the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never […]
  4. p. x, line 40[…] make that affects him or her in a day or a month or any part of the direct lifetime […]
  5. p. x, line 104[…] all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of the globe . . or […]
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  1. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  2. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  3. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  4. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  5. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  6. 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;
  7. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  8. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  9. p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.
  10. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  11. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  12. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  13. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  14. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  15. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  16. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  17. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  18. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
  19. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  20. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  21. p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,
  22. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;
  23. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  24. p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
  25. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
  26. p. 71, line 5The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,
  27. p. 75, line 16The great already known, and the great anytime after to day,
  28. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  29. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  30. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  31. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.
  32. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  33. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  34. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
  35. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
  36. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,
  37. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  38. 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.
  39. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  40. 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,
  41. 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.
  42. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  43. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

daybreak 3

  1. p. vi, line 35[…] is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence […]
  2. p. 30, line 24To behold the daybreak!
  3. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

daylight 3

  1. p. ix, line 13[…] themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between […]
  2. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  3. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,

daylong 1

  1. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,

days 15

  1. p. iii, line 12[…] the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped […]
  2. p. iii, line 14[…] and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
  3. p. x, line 11[…] of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded […]
  4. p. 15, line 13They come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  5. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
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  1. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  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. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  4. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!
  5. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  6. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  7. 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,
  8. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  9. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,

daytime 1

  1. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,

dazzle 2

  1. p. vi, line 92[…] becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally […]
  2. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

dazzling 2

  1. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  2. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,

deacons 1

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

dead 17

  1. p. vi, line 86[…] what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their […]
  2. p. xi, line 13[…] or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the […]
  3. p. xi, line 83[…] that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth and progress […]
  4. 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,
  5. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
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  1. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  2. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  3. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  4. p. 40, line 1Distant and dead resuscitate,
  5. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  6. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  7. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  8. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
  9. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  10. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
  11. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  12. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?

deadliest 1

  1. p. vii, line 61[…] the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury of the elements […]

dead-like 1

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

deadly 1

  1. p. v, line 4[…] far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and […]

deaf 1

  1. p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,

deal 1

  1. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.

dearest 2

  1. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,

death 30

  1. p. vi, line 43[…] Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy […]
  2. p. vii, line 68[…] the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all pain […]
  3. p. ix, line 90[…] in that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of […]
  4. p. x, line 20[…] or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern […]
  5. p. x, line 42[…] of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through […]
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  1. p. xi, line 28[…] in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
  2. p. xii, line 38[…] and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and […]
  3. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  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. 29, line 27Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  6. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,
  7. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
  8. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.
  9. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  10. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  11. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  12. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.
  13. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  14. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
  15. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
  16. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,
  17. p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.
  18. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.
  19. p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.
  20. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
  21. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.
  22. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;
  23. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

deathbell 2

  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
  2. p. 83, line 25An unceasing deathbell tolls there.

deathless 3

  1. p. iii, line 49[…] physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft […]
  2. p. 26, line 8And I know I am deathless,
  3. p. 47, line 20The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,

death-messages 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,

deaths 1

  1. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,

death-sentence 1

  1. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,

debouch 1

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

debris 1

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

debt 1

  1. p. ix, line 109[…] his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies […]

decanter 1

  1. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;

decay 1

  1. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,

decease 1

  1. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,

deceit 1

  1. p. ix, line 75[…] our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the […]

deceits 1

  1. p. x, line 11[…] days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing […]

December 3

  1. p. iv, line 65[…] of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the […]
  2. p. 60, line 22The Congress convenes every December for you,
  3. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,

decently 1

  1. p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?

decided 1

  1. p. 68, line 2It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided;

decillions 2

  1. p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  2. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,

decision 2

  1. p. iv, line 90[…] one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of […]
  2. p. xii, line 9[…] faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It is the medium that shall well nigh […]

decisive 1

  1. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,

deck 3

  1. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  3. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

deckhand 1

  1. 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.

deckhands 1

  1. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,

decks 1

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

declared 1

  1. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,

decline 1

  1. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.

declines 1

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

decorum 1

  1. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,

deed 4

  1. p. viii, line 98[…] and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe […]
  2. p. x, line 46[…] the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of […]
  3. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  4. p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?

deeds 4

  1. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  2. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
  3. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,

deep 4

  1. p. iii, line 77[…] either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely […]
  2. p. ix, line 14[…] is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold […]
  3. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  4. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.

deeper 2

  1. p. ix, line 14[…] deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or […]
  2. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

deerskin 1

  1. p. 23, line 28A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deerskin leggings,

defeat 1

  1. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;

defend 1

  1. p. xi, line 105[…] past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty […]

deference 1

  1. p. viii, line 109[…] presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no […]

defiance 4

  1. p. iv, line 54[…] south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the […]
  2. p. vii, line 41[…] inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of poems […]
  3. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
  4. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,

defile 2

  1. p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,
  2. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:

defiled 2

  1. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?

defiles 2

  1. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  2. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.

define 3

  1. p. 69, line 16Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
  2. p. 69, line 27I cannot define my satisfaction . . yet it is so,
  3. p. 69, line 28I cannot define my life . . yet it is so.

definite 1

  1. p. ix, line 22[…] of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos […]

definitenessTo 1

  1. p. vi, line 114[…] up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths […]

deformed 1

  1. p. 29, line 15Voices of prostitutes and of deformed persons,

defy 1

  1. p. 88, line 22They live in brothers, again ready to defy you:

degrade 1

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

degraded 2

  1. p. v, line 49[…] of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
  2. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;

degrades 4

  1. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  2. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  3. p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.

degrees 2

  1. p. xi, line 66[…] ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a […]
  2. p. xi, line 94[…] perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of […]

deific 2

  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. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,

deign 1

  1. p. xi, line 105[…] of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things […]

Delaware 1

  1. 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.

delicate 4

  1. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  2. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
  3. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  4. 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;

delicious 3

  1. p. vi, line 29[…] or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his […]
  2. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
  3. p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;

deliciously 1

  1. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,

delight 7

  1. p. iii, line 59[…] of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native […]
  2. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  3. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  4. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,
  5. p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  6. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
  7. p. 93, line 5GREAT are the myths . . . . I too delight in them,

delineate 1

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

delirious 1

  1. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

delivery 1

  1. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,

deluding 1

  1. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,

delusion 1

  1. p. v, line 47[…] the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man […]

demand 1

  1. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,

demanded 1

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

demeaned 1

  1. p. ix, line 61[…] the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there […]

demeanor 1

  1. p. xii, line 53[…] and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms of the polished […]

demented 1

  1. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

demerits 1

  1. p. xi, line 35[…] plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and […]

democracy 2

  1. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;
  2. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,

demonstrable 3

  1. p. iii, line 84[…] As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men […]
  2. p. vii, line 108[…] love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and […]
  3. p. 27, line 35I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable and of immortality;

demonstration 1

  1. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!

denial 1

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

denied 1

  1. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,

denies 1

  1. p. 33, line 28Only what nobody denies is so.

denouement 1

  1. p. v, line 26[…] less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not […]

density 2

  1. p. viii, line 29[…] stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account […]
  2. p. ix, line 86[…] of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in […]

dented 1

  1. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

dentist's 1

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

deny 1

  1. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.

depart 1

  1. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,

departed 1

  1. p. 27, line 10Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!

department 2

  1. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,

departments 1

  1. p. xi, line 66[…] and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a […]

departs 1

  1. p. vii, line 120[…] twined with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and […]

depend 1

  1. 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.

dependent 1

  1. p. v, line 108[…] or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain […]

deposit see deposite

deposite 1 today: deposit

  1. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,

deposited 1

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

depravity 1

  1. p. x, line 52[…] yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by […]

deprecating 2

  1. p. xii, line 54[…] vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no […]
  2. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,

depressed 1

  1. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,

depressions 1

  1. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,

depriving 1

  1. p. 32, line 33Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,

depth 1

  1. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,

depths 4

  1. p. vii, line 2[…] on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common […]
  2. p. vii, line 112[…] of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the […]
  3. p. vii, line 115[…] poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are […]
  4. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.

deputed 1

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

deputies 1

  1. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best […]

derived 1

  1. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,

derrick 1

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

descend 2

  1. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  2. p. 72, line 22I descend my western course . . . . my sinews are flaccid,

descended 3

  1. p. iii, line 12[…] fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that […]
  2. 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.
  3. p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.

descending 1

  1. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.

descends 3

  1. p. iv, line 47[…] night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of […]
  2. p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
  3. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

descent 1

  1. p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.

descriptive 1

  1. p. iv, line 83[…] is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more […]

desert 4

  1. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,
  2. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  3. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  4. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:

designedly 1

  1. p. 16, line 11A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,

designs 1

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

desire 3

  1. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
  2. p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  3. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.

desires 2

  1. p. vii, line 64[…] of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that something […]
  2. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

desk 4

  1. p. 22, line 20The canal-boy trots on the towpath—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread,
  2. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  3. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;
  4. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

despair 4

  1. p. v, line 45[…] him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of […]
  2. p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
  3. p. 88, line 28Liberty let others despair of you . . . . I never despair of you.

despairer 1

  1. p. 45, line 11O despairer, here is my neck,

despairing 1

  1. p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,

desperate 1

  1. p. x, line 18[…] or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or […]

despise 2

  1. p. vi, line 2[…] Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up […]
  2. p. 48, line 7I do not despise you priests;

despised 3

  1. p. ix, line 80[…] sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and […]
  2. p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
  3. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,

despots 1

  1. p. viii, line 56[…] poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet […]

destiny 1

  1. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?

destroy 3

  1. p. v, line 38[…] perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the […]
  2. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  3. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.

destruction 2

  1. p. 46, line 7Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
  2. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:

destructiveness 1

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

detail 2

  1. p. xii, line 14[…] treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of […]
  2. p. xii, line 15[…] bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or […]

details 1

  1. p. iii, line 25[…] untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which […]

detector 1

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

determined 1

  1. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

detested 1

  1. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,

detours 1

  1. p. xi, line 58[…] and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his […]

developed 2

  1. p. xii, line 33[…] or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid […]
  2. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.

developement 2 today: development

  1. p. xi, line 47[…] merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or […]
  2. p. 26, line 33I show that size is only developement.

development see developement

devote 1

  1. p. vi, line 3[…] asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not […]

devours 1

  1. 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,

dews 1

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

diagrams 1

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

dial 1

  1. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.

dialect 1

  1. p. xii, line 5[…] the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the proud […]

diameter 1

  1. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,

diaphanous 1

  1. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,

dicker 1

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

dictionary 1

  1. p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.

dictum 1

  1. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,

did 18

  1. p. vii, line 54[…] you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm […]
  2. p. ix, line 106[…] citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful […]
  3. p. x, line 112[…] identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The […]
  4. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  5. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
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  1. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  2. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
  3. p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?
  4. p. 41, line 9Did you read in the seabooks of the oldfashioned frigate-fight?
  5. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  6. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  7. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  8. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  9. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  10. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  11. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  12. 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;
  13. p. 93, line 18What the best and worst did we could do,

die 3

  1. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  2. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  3. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,

died 5

  1. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  2. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  3. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  4. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.
  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,

difference 5

  1. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  2. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
  3. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  4. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;

different 3

  1. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  2. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.

diffuse 1

  1. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,

diffused 3

  1. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  2. 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?

dig 1

  1. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:

dignity 2

  1. p. v, line 78[…] poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him […]
  2. p. vii, line 64[…] and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that something in the […]

dilate 2

  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  2. p. 45, line 13I dilate you with tremendous breath . . . . I buoy you up;

dilates 1

  1. p. v, line 53[…] any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is […]

dilation 1

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

dim 1

  1. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,

dime 1

  1. p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,

dimensions 1

  1. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,

dimes 1

  1. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,

diminution 1

  1. p. vii, line 20[…] channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to […]

dimly 1

  1. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,

dimness 1

  1. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,

dinner 4

  1. p. 15, line 10My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
  2. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
  3. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;
  4. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,

dinnerkettles 1

  1. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,

dinner-table 1

  1. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,

direct 5

  1. p. iv, line 83[…] new. It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to […]
  2. p. x, line 41[…] or a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects […]
  3. p. x, line 44[…] is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as […]
  4. p. xi, line 25[…] same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and […]
  5. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is […]

directed 1

  1. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,

direction 3

  1. p. vi, line 63[…] the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any […]
  2. p. x, line 36[…] as far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself […]
  3. p. xi, line 52[…] on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no […]

directions 2

  1. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  2. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,

directly 1

  1. p. vi, line 21[…] know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of […]

directory 1

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

dirt 4

  1. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
  2. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
  3. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
  4. p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

disappearing 1

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

discarded 1

  1. p. 17, line 24Undrape . . . . you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,

discharged 2

  1. p. ix, line 5[…] all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the […]
  2. p. ix, line 6[…] then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]

discolorations 1

  1. p. x, line 47[…] word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid […]

discouraged 1

  1. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,

discouragement 1

  1. p. viii, line 68[…] light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent […]

discover 1

  1. p. 43, line 17I discover myself on a verge of the usual mistake.

discovered 1

  1. p. ix, line 80[…] states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once […]

discoveries 1

  1. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,

discovering 1

  1. p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,

discovery 2

  1. p. iii, line 87[…] if the opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America […]
  2. p. xi, line 54[…] similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and […]

discreditable 1

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

discuss 1

  1. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.

discussed 1

  1. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

discussing 1

  1. p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

discussion 1

  1. p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,

disdain 2

  1. p. xii, line 48[…] and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  2. p. 39, line 9The disdain and calmness of martyrs,

disdaining 1

  1. p. iii, line 30[…] nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds […]

diseased 2

  1. p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,
  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?

disembodied 1

  1. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,

disguise 2

  1. p. xii, line 62[…] of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal from it […]
  2. p. xii, line 63[…] work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal from it. It rejects none, it permits all […]

disguises 1

  1. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.

disheartened 1

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

dishes 4

  1. p. v, line 17[…] by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and […]
  2. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  3. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;
  4. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,

disjoined 1

  1. p. vi, line 83[…] indication. Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what […]

disjointed 1

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

dismalest 1

  1. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,

dismay 1

  1. 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.

dismemberments 1

  1. p. vii, line 60[…] you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the wildest fury […]

dismiss 1

  1. p. vi, line 12[…] at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall […]

disorder 1

  1. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,

disorderly 1

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

dispatched 1

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

displayed 1

  1. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?

disposals 1

  1. p. xii, line 23[…] Is it uniform with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of […]

disposition 1

  1. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

dispositions 1

  1. p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.

dissatisfied 1

  1. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

dissolution 1

  1. p. 26, line 22I laugh at what you call dissolution,

dissolve 1

  1. p. ix, line 26[…] to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You […]

distaff 1

  1. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

distance 1

  1. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;

distanced 1

  1. p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,

distant 4

  1. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,
  2. p. 24, line 18If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  3. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
  4. p. 40, line 1Distant and dead resuscitate,

distend 1

  1. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,

distillation 2

  1. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
  2. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,

distilled 1

  1. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will […]

distilling 1

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

distinct 1

  1. p. viii, line 10[…] perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It is also not consistent with […]

distinction 1

  1. p. 14, line 18Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.

distinctions 1

  1. p. xii, line 24[…] with my country? Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers […]

distinguished 1

  1. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,

distorts 1

  1. p. ix, line 47[…] the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or […]

distressed 1

  1. p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,

disturb 1

  1. p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,

disturbed 1

  1. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.

dive 1

  1. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.

divers 1

  1. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;

diverse 3

  1. p. iv, line 104[…] nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of […]
  2. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.

diversity 3

  1. p. iv, line 49[…] and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red […]
  2. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  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;

divide 1

  1. p. x, line 66[…] specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white […]

divides 1

  1. p. xi, line 12[…] any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from […]

dividing 1

  1. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,

divine 12

  1. p. viii, line 12[…] there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  2. p. ix, line 68[…] folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All […]
  3. p. x, line 101[…] any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth […]
  4. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  5. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
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  1. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  2. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  3. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,
  4. p. 79, line 14A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  5. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.

divinity 2

  1. p. x, line 102[…] the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great […]
  2. p. xi, line 100[…] the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of […]

dizzy 1

  1. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.

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dockbuilding 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

doctors 1

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

doctrine 2

  1. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,

doctrines 1

  1. p. 60, line 24All doctrines, all politics and civilization exurge from you,

dodgings 1

  1. p. x, line 12[…] nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve […]

does 45

  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under […]
  2. p. v, line 11[…] or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of […]
  3. p. v, line 28[…] he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith […]
  4. p. v, line 40[…] attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step […]
  5. p. v, line 57[…] He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of […]
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  1. p. v, line 59[…] is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows […]
  2. p. v, line 61[…] What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the […]
  3. p. vi, line 67[…] beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer […]
  4. p. vi, line 91[…] where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and […]
  5. p. vi, line 100[…] terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the […]
  6. p. vii, line 56[…] there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another […]
  7. p. x, line 39[…] reference to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can a […]
  8. p. x, line 70[…] of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much […]
  9. p. xi, line 1[…] of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist […]
  10. p. xi, line 25[…] the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who […]
  11. p. xi, line 30[…] be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast […]
  12. p. xi, line 32[…] as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself […]
  13. p. xi, line 51[…] performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and […]
  14. p. xi, line 61[…] beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young […]
  15. p. xi, line 75[…] be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered […]
  16. p. xii, line 31[…] that serves for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs […]
  17. p. xii, line 35[…] of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set […]
  18. p. xii, line 41[…] woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the […]
  19. p. xii, line 42[…] the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples […]
  20. p. xii, line 45[…] it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the last born […]
  21. p. xii, line 62[…] their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise […]
  22. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  23. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  24. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  25. p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
  26. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  27. p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  28. p. 61, line 8Does all sit there with you and here with me?
  29. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  30. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
  31. p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
  32. p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,
  33. 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,
  34. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  35. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.
  36. p. 85, line 14The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
  37. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  38. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
  39. 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.

dog 1

  1. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.

dogs 2

  1. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,
  2. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;

doing 3

  1. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  2. p. 73, line 7What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
  3. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

doings 2

  1. p. iii, line 21[…] stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the […]
  2. p. iii, line 22[…] doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a […]

dollar 1

  1. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

dollars 1

  1. p. x, line 7[…] lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy […]

domestic 1

  1. 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;

domiciles 1

  1. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;

done 11

  1. p. vi, line 73[…] without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all […]
  2. p. viii, line 17[…] and future shall be unintermitted and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking […]
  3. p. x, line 104[…] hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of the […]
  4. p. x, line 107[…] that is henceforth to be well thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one—these […]
  5. p. xi, line 18[…] composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not […]
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  1. p. xi, line 93[…] soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping […]
  2. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  3. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  4. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,
  5. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  6. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,

don't 1

  1. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?

Doodle 1

  1. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

door 4

  1. p. iii, line 11[…] that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action […]
  2. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  3. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  4. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,

doors 4

  1. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  2. p. 29, line 6Unscrew the locks from the doors!
  3. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
  4. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.

door-slab 1

  1. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.

door-step 1

  1. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,

dote 1

  1. p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,

dots 1

  1. p. v, line 29[…] not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the […]

double 1

  1. p. 71, line 31Double yourself and receive me darkness,

doubt 2

  1. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  2. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

doubters 2

  1. p. 48, line 24Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,
  2. p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,

doubtless 2

  1. p. iv, line 95[…] of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents […]
  2. p. viii, line 28[…] glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the […]

doubts 2

  1. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,

douceurs 1

  1. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,

doughfaces 1

  1. p. viii, line 104[…] not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own […]

down 28

  1. p. x, line 69[…] illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all […]
  2. p. xi, line 56[…] or his so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands […]
  3. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  4. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  5. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
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  1. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
  2. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  3. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  4. p. 32, line 13It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,
  5. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  6. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  7. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
  8. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  9. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  10. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  11. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  12. 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;
  13. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  14. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,
  15. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  16. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,
  17. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  18. p. 84, line 29Fill me with albescent honey . . . . bend down to me,
  19. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  20. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  21. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  22. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,
  23. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

down-hearted 1

  1. p. 48, line 24Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,

downward 1

  1. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,

downwards 1

  1. 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;

drafts 2

  1. p. x, line 23[…] blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and […]
  2. p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,

drag 1

  1. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,

draggles 1

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

dragoons 2

  1. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  2. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

drags 1

  1. p. vi, line 85[…] be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again […]

drained 1

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

draining 2

  1. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  2. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

drank 2

  1. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,
  2. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;

drape 1

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

draped 2

  1. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.
  2. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,

draw 3

  1. p. v, line 8[…] it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience […]
  2. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  3. p. 92, line 4Draw nigh and commence,

drawn 3

  1. p. xii, line 28[…] something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I […]
  2. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  3. 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,

draws 1

  1. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,

dray 2

  1. p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
  2. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

dread 1

  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,

dreaded 1

  1. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?

dream 4

  1. p. vii, line 120[…] or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or […]
  2. p. 71, line 13I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
  3. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,

dreamed 7

  1. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
  2. p. 52, line 22Long enough have you dreamed contemptible dreams,
  3. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  4. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  5. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  6. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  7. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?

dreamers 2

  1. p. 71, line 13I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
  2. p. 71, line 14And I become the other dreamers.

dreams 7

  1. p. v, line 28[…] he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it […]
  2. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
  3. p. 52, line 22Long enough have you dreamed contemptible dreams,
  4. p. 71, line 13I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
  5. p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,
  6. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,
  7. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,

drench 1

  1. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

dress 7

  1. p. iii, line 47[…] most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque […]
  2. p. 15, line 10My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
  3. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  4. p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
  5. 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,
  6. 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;
  7. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

dressed 5

dressed 4 · drest 1

  1. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
  2. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  3. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,
  4. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  5. 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,

dresses 1

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

dressmaker's 1

  1. p. 63, line 13The milliner's ribbons . . the dressmaker's patterns . . . . the tea-table . . the home-made sweetmeats:

drew 1

  1. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,

dribs 1

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

dried 1

  1. p. 18, line 16The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,

drift 2

  1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
  2. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;

drifting 1

  1. p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,

drifts 1

  1. p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.

drink 5

  1. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
  2. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  3. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 52, line 20Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,

drinkers 1

  1. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,

drinking 4

  1. p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,
  2. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,
  3. p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,
  4. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,

drip 2

  1. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  2. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,

dripping 1

  1. p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.

driver 2

  1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,

drivers 4

  1. p. v, line 86[…] healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air […]
  2. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,
  3. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.
  4. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.

drives 3

  1. p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
  2. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  3. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

driving 1

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

drooping 2

  1. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  2. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,

drop 5

  1. p. iii, line 37[…] corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children […]
  2. p. viii, line 75[…] choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other […]
  3. p. x, line 30[…] observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for […]
  4. p. 33, line 29A minute and a drop of me settle my brain;
  5. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,

dropped 3

dropped 2 · dropt 1

  1. p. 16, line 11A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
  2. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
  3. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,

dropping 2

  1. p. xi, line 94[…] may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place […]
  2. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

drops 4

  1. p. v, line 96[…] soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of […]
  2. p. 21, line 33What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
  3. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  4. 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,

drove 1

  1. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,

drover 1

  1. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,

droves 2

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

drowned 1

  1. p. 38, line 26They fetch my man's body up dripping and drowned.

drowse 1

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

drowsy 1

  1. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

drudge 1

  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,

druggist's 1

  1. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

drugshelf 1

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

drum 1

  1. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;

drummers 1

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

drums 3

  1. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 84, line 13I hear victorious drums.

drunk 1

  1. 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?

drunkard 5

  1. p. viii, line 27[…] the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast […]
  2. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,
  3. p. 76, line 8The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
  4. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

drunkards 3

  1. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
  2. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  3. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

dry 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. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  3. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  4. p. 54, line 30Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.

dry-stalks 1

  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,

ducking 1

  1. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,

duck-shooter 1

  1. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,

ductile 1

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

duds 1

  1. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;

due 3

  1. p. xi, line 72[…] fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be […]
  2. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
  3. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.

dues 1

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

dug 1

  1. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;

dull 5

  1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  2. p. 43, line 3And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  3. p. 48, line 24Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,
  4. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,

dullface 1

  1. p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?

dullfaced 1

  1. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?

duly 10

  1. p. iv, line 65[…] the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all climates and the uttermost parts . . . . the […]
  2. p. v, line 72[…] all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
  3. p. ix, line 2[…] be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape […]
  4. p. x, line 61[…] be stamped on the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and […]
  5. p. 50, line 7All below duly traveled—and still I mount and mount.
4 more lines
  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
  2. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  3. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  4. 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.

dumb 4

  1. p. v, line 78[…] the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between […]
  2. p. 29, line 13Through me many long dumb voices,
  3. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
  4. p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,

dumbly 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;

dung 3

  1. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
  2. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
  3. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;

duplicate 1

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,

duplicates 1

  1. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.

during 2

  1. p. ix, line 89[…] the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that follows […]
  2. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.

dusk 5

  1. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
  2. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  3. p. 56, line 2It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
  4. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  5. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,

dusky 1

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

dusting 1

  1. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,

Dutchman 1

  1. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;

duty 2

  1. p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  2. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,

dwarfs 1

  1. p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,

dwelling 2

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

dwindle 1

  1. p. vi, line 32[…] joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or […]

dying 7

  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. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
  3. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  4. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!
  5. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  6. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  7. p. 70, line 13The newborn emerging from gates and the dying emerging from gates,