Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

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  1. p. iii, line 12[…] while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart […]
  2. p. iii, line 14[…] who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
  3. p. iii, line 74[…] nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences […]
  4. p. iv, line 5[…] American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them a bard […]
  5. p. iv, line 8[…] continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to […]
  6. p. iv, line 81[…] of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be […]
  7. p. v, line 35[…] of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be […]
  8. p. v, line 49[…] hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
  9. p. v, line 58[…] one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the […]
  10. p. v, line 85[…] orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion […]
  11. p. v, line 86[…] form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied […]
  12. p. vi, line 3[…] alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to […]
  13. p. vi, line 30[…] pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions […]
  14. p. vi, line 42[…] experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death […]
  15. p. vi, line 57[…] in the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest themselves just the same […]
  16. p. vi, line 59[…] and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and […]
  17. p. vi, line 95[…] that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the […]
  18. p. vi, line 99[…] sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make […]
  19. p. vi, line 114[…] is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse […]
  20. p. vii, line 26[…] the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle […]
  21. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be […]
  22. p. vii, line 71[…] shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy […]
  23. p. vii, line 73[…] to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful of […]
  24. p. vii, line 84[…] most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern […]
  25. p. viii, line 3[…] the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried […]
  26. p. viii, line 4[…] all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle […]
  27. p. viii, line 21[…] clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only […]
  28. p. viii, line 37[…] nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the […]
  29. p. viii, line 40[…] To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond with it. The master knows that […]
  30. p. viii, line 42[…] and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them […]
  31. p. viii, line 80[…] the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When […]
  32. p. viii, line 87[…] of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the […]
  33. p. viii, line 106[…] doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or […]
  34. p. ix, line 31[…] legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the […]
  35. p. ix, line 72[…] candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer […]
  36. p. ix, line 95[…] organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with […]
  37. p. ix, line 108[…] applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful life without […]
  38. p. x, line 4[…] the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead […]
  39. p. x, line 29[…] of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little and large […]
  40. p. x, line 31[…] aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a […]
  41. p. x, line 88[…] the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts […]
  42. p. xi, line 11[…] its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath […]
  43. p. xi, line 18[…] life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life […]
  44. p. xi, line 21[…] in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no […]
  45. p. xi, line 59[…] to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he […]
  46. p. xi, line 65A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and […]
  47. p. xi, line 66[…] is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and […]
  48. p. xi, line 67[…] and complexions and all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and a man […]
  49. p. xi, line 89[…] together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the […]
  50. p. xii, line 24[…] Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions? Is it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud […]
  51. p. xii, line 28[…] of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I know that what answers […]
  52. p. xii, line 29[…] me today here? I know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation […]
  53. p. xii, line 30[…] what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is […]
  54. p. xii, line 38[…] and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and […]
  55. p. xii, line 41[…] independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it […]
  56. p. xii, line 57[…] no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect […]
  57. p. 13, line 3For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  58. p. 13, line 10It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it,
  59. p. 13, line 12I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
  60. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  61. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  62. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  63. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  64. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  65. p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  66. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  67. p. 17, line 22For me children and the begetters of children.
  68. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,
  69. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
  70. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
  71. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  72. p. 21, line 15Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  73. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  74. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
  75. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  76. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  77. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  78. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  79. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
  80. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  81. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  82. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
  83. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
  84. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  85. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
  86. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  87. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  88. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  89. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  90. p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
  91. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  92. p. 27, line 15Smile, for your lover comes!
  93. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.
  94. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!
  95. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  96. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  97. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  98. p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  99. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  100. p. 32, line 33Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  101. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  102. p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.
  103. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  104. p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,
  105. p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  106. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  107. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  108. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  109. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  110. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  111. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  112. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,
  113. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  114. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  115. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  116. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  117. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  118. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  119. p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
  120. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  121. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  122. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  123. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  124. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  125. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
  126. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  127. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
  128. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  129. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  130. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  131. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  132. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  133. p. 49, line 2And the night is for you and me and all,
  134. p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
  135. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  136. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
  137. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  138. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  139. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
  140. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  141. p. 52, line 5You must travel it for yourself.
  142. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  143. p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
  144. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  145. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  146. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  147. p. 54, line 7For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  148. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  149. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  150. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  151. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
  152. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  153. p. 56, line 12I stop some where waiting for you
  154. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.
  155. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  156. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  157. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  158. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  159. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
  160. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  161. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?
  162. p. 60, line 12I do not say they are not grand and good—for they are,
  163. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  164. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  165. p. 60, line 22The Congress convenes every December for you,
  166. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
  167. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
  168. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:
  169. p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,
  170. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;
  171. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  172. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  173. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  174. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
  175. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  176. p. 67, line 16What will be will be well—for what is is well,
  177. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  178. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  179. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  180. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,
  181. p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.
  182. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  183. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
  184. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;
  185. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
  186. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
  187. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
  188. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  189. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,
  190. 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?
  191. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,
  192. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  193. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.
  194. p. 82, line 7For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  195. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
  196. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,
  197. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;
  198. p. 84, line 4And I knew for my consolation what they knew not;
  199. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;
  200. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
  201. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,
  202. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  203. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  204. p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  205. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  206. p. 88, line 2Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
  207. p. 88, line 3For court thieving in its manifold mean forms,
  208. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
  209. 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;
  210. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,
  211. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
  212. p. 89, line 3Way for the federal foot and dragoons . . . . and the phantoms afterward.
  213. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
  214. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  215. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  216. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  217. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,
  218. p. 90, line 6Here is a centrepiece for them:
  219. 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.
  220. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  221. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
  222. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,
  223. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,