Concordance

gab 1

1. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.

gables 1

1. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

gaggery 1

1. p. v, line 114[…] fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who […]

gaily 2

1. p. x, line 36[…] as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else […]
2. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,

gain 3

1. p. x, line 53[…] of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any […]
2. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
3. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,

gained 1

1. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,

gains 1

1. p. ix, line 106[…] was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed […]

gainsayed 1

1. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

gait 2

1. p. 28, line 4My gait is no faultfinder's or rejecter's gait,

gall 1

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

gallivant 1

1. p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,

galls 1

1. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

gambler 1

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

gambols 1

1. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,

game 3

1. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
2. p. 18, line 26Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,
3. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

gamut 1

1. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,

gander 1

1. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,

gang 3

1. p. 48, line 22One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang,
2. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
3. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,

gangs 2

1. p. xi, line 95[…] A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place […]
2. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,

gape 1

1. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,

gaping 1

1. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,

garbage 1

1. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;

garden 5

1. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
2. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
3. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,
4. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
5. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

gardening 1

1. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,

gardens 1

1. p. v, line 84[…] tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for […]

garments 1

1. p. 39, line 21Agonies are one of my changes of garments;

garret 1

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

garrote 1

1. p. viii, line 72[…] handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the […]

gases 1

1. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

gashed 1

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

gashes 1

1. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.

gaslight 1

1. p. 62, line 8City and country . . fireplace and candle . . gaslight and heater and aqueduct;

gasp 2

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

gasps 1

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

gate 3

1. p. x, line 1[…] few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the […]
2. 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.
3. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

gatekeeper 1

1. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,

gates 5

1. p. 37, line 7Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery;
2. p. 70, line 13The newborn emerging from gates and the dying emerging from gates,
3. p. 80, line 2You are the gates of the body and you are the gates of the soul.

gather 2

1. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
2. p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,

gathered 4

1. p. ix, line 75[…] single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication […]
2. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
3. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
4. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.

gathering 1

1. p. 34, line 36Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,

gaunt 1

1. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,

gauze 1

1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.

gave 9

1. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
2. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
3. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
4. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
5. 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,
6. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
7. p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,
8. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.

gay 1

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

gayer 1

1. p. xii, line 3[…] it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful […]

gayest 1

1. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,

gay-pennanted 1

1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

gaze 1

1. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,

gazing 3

1. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
2. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
3. p. 70, line 8Pausing and gazing and bending and stopping.

geese 1

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

gelder 1

1. p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

geldings 1

1. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,

general 4

1. p. iv, line 69[…] of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general ardor and friendliness and enterprise—the perfect equality of the […]
2. p. viii, line 39[…] shape comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond with it […]
3. p. xi, line 46[…] of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of […]
4. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,

generally 1

1. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.

generals 1

1. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.

generation 3

1. p. iii, line 82[…] As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty […]
2. p. iii, line 83[…] it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness […]
3. p. xi, line 93[…] is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall […]

generations 2

1. p. 29, line 14Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
2. p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,

generosity 2

1. p. iii, line 70[…] nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming […]
2. p. vii, line 70The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos […]

generous 5

1. p. iii, line 64[…] are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
2. p. viii, line 115[…] head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the […]
3. p. xii, line 26[…] lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of […]
4. p. 30, line 11Sun so generous it shall be you,
5. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,

genitals 2

1. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
2. p. 76, line 2Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

genius 4

1. p. iii, line 41[…] states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in […]
2. p. v, line 35[…] and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a […]
3. p. ix, line 60[…] of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned […]
4. p. xi, line 53[…] Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery […]

gentility 1

1. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A […]

gentle 2

1. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
2. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;

gentleman 3

1. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
2. 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,
3. p. 87, line 13The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,

gentleman's 1

1. 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?

gentlemen 4

1. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
2. p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,
3. p. 81, line 1Gentlemen look on this curious creature,
4. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?

gentler 1

1. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,

gently 2

1. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
2. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

genuineness 1

1. p. ix, line 10[…] pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts […]

geography 2

1. p. iii, line 94[…] commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized […]
2. p. iv, line 10[…] responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual […]

geologist 2

1. p. vii, line 95[…] The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but […]
2. p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.

George's 1

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

Georgian 1

1. p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,

German 1

1. p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.

gestation 1

1. p. iv, line 64[…] the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the […]

get 6

1. p. viii, line 109[…] and natural deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be […]
2. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
3. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;
4. p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
5. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
6. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,

getting 1

1. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,

ghastly 2

1. p. x, line 19[…] a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the […]
2. p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,

ghosts 1

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

giant 2

1. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
2. p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?

gibberish 1

1. p. 54, line 30Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.

gibbet 1

1. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

gibbets 1

1. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

gift 1

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

gifts 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,

gigantic 3

1. p. iii, line 64[…] these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
2. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
3. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,

gilt 1

1. p. v, line 114[…] prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself […]

gingham 1

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

girdling 1

1. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,

girl 10

1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
2. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
3. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
4. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,
5. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,

girls 3

1. p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,
2. p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
3. p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

gist 1

1. p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;

give 23

1. p. v, line 31[…] the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable […]
2. p. vi, line 2[…] earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the […]
3. p. vii, line 2[…] heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very […]
4. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
5. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,

given 7

1. p. v, line 70[…] just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near and to the sunset and […]
2. p. x, line 81[…] best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and […]
3. p. 27, line 16Prodigal! you have given me love! . . . . therefore I to you give love!
4. p. 33, line 9I am given up by traitors;
5. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,
6. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.
7. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;

gives 7

1. p. iv, line 7[…] him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His […]
2. p. ix, line 112[…] higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch […]
3. p. x, line 45[…] from the body just as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed […]
4. p. xi, line 37[…] to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate […]
5. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
6. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
7. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

givesa 1

1. p. ix, line 112[…] than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The […]

giving 3

1. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
2. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
3. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.

glad 1

1. p. vii, line 73[…] They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals […]

glade 1

1. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;

glance 4

1. p. v, line 65[…] the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all […]
2. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
3. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
4. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

glass 2

1. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
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,

glassblowing 1

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

glasses 2

1. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;
2. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.

glaziers 1

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

gleam 1

1. p. ix, line 22[…] the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with […]

gleams 1

1. p. ix, line 20[…] clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of […]

glee 1

1. p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,

glimpse 1

1. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;

glistened 1

1. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,

glitter 1

1. p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,

globe 7

1. p. ix, line 84[…] up in any of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon […]
2. p. x, line 104[…] on any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars […]
3. p. 24, line 20This is the common air that bathes the globe.
4. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
5. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
6. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
7. 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;

gloom 1

1. p. 31, line 10Waiting in gloom protected by frost,

glory 3

1. p. vi, line 110The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters […]
2. p. 40, line 22They were the glory of the race of rangers,
3. p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,

glossy 1

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

gloves 1

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

glows 1

1. p. vi, line 95[…] they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful […]

glue 1

1. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

gluepot 1

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

glut 1

1. p. xi, line 8[…] greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of […]

glutton 2

1. p. viii, line 27[…] laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or […]
2. 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,

gluttons 1

1. p. x, line 48[…] the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder […]

gnarl 1

1. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.

gnat 1

1. p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,

gnawing 1

1. p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,

gneiss 1

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

go 51

1. p. vi, line 8[…] or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and […]
2. p. vi, line 21[…] not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust […]
3. p. vii, line 30[…] of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition. You […]
4. p. viii, line 79[…] liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for […]
5. p. viii, line 80[…] to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old […]

god 25

1. p. v, line 25[…] the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees […]
2. p. vi, line 5[…] labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your […]
3. p. viii, line 31[…] strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against […]
4. p. xi, line 105[…] They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite […]
5. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,

gods 3

1. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
2. p. 48, line 11Waiting responses from oracles . . . . honoring the gods . . . . saluting the sun,
3. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,

goes 24

1. p. iv, line 83[…] not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars […]
2. p. viii, line 79[…] out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the second […]
3. p. ix, line 14[…] the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination […]
4. p. ix, line 104[…] her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen […]
5. p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,

going 6

1. p. 21, line 15Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
2. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
3. p. 59, line 2The naive . . . . the simple and hardy . . . . he going to the polls to vote . . . . he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time;
4. 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.
5. 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;
6. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;

goings 1

1. p. vii, line 90[…] him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer […]

gold 2

1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
2. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,

goldbug 1

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

gold-digging 2

1. p. iv, line 63[…] the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress […]
2. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,

golden 1

1. p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.

gone 6

1. p. viii, line 77[…] when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it […]
2. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
3. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
4. p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
5. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
6. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,

gong 1

1. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.

good 60

1. p. iii, line 60[…] manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the […]
2. p. iv, line 101[…] their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on […]
3. p. v, line 56[…] is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not […]
4. p. v, line 94[…] addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else […]
5. p. vii, line 58[…] eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within […]

goodbye 2

1. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
2. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.

good-doers 3

1. p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
2. p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
3. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,

goodfellow 1

1. p. 66, line 21He was a goodfellow,

goodnatured 1

1. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

goodness 5

1. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
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 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
4. p. 95, line 11Great is goodness;
5. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

goods 3

1. p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,
2. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;
3. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,

goodshaped 1

1. p. xii, line 39[…] life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect […]

goodsized 1

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

goodwill 2

1. p. xii, line 57[…] leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not […]
2. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,

gore 2

1. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,
2. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;

gospels 1

1. p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,

gossip 1

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

got 3

1. p. 34, line 33I do not know where they got those tokens,
2. p. 61, line 18(What is it that you made money? what is it that you got what you wanted?)
3. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.

government 8

1. p. iv, line 111[…] man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too […]
2. p. viii, line 117[…] servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can […]
3. p. ix, line 21[…] beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions […]
4. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
5. p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
6. p. 89, line 2Way for the President's marshal! Way for the government cannon!
7. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
8. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,

governor 1

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

governors 1

1. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,

gown 2

1. p. 85, line 11Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,
2. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:

grace 3

1. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!
2. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,
3. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?

graceful 1

1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

grading 1

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

graft 1

1. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.

grain 1

1. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

grains 2

1. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
2. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

grammar 1

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

grand 10

1. p. vii, line 58[…] another . . and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What […]
2. p. viii, line 52[…] liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must sustain […]
3. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full […]
4. 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;
5. p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,

granddaughters 1

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

grandeur 4

1. p. iii, line 81[…] individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were […]
2. p. v, line 53[…] was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he […]
3. p. vii, line 60[…] within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks […]
4. p. x, line 94[…] baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient nations whose fragments of […]

grand-opera 3

1. p. vii, line 45[…] behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever […]
2. p. ix, line 18[…] old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam […]
3. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!

grandson 1

1. p. 45, line 28Lithographing Kronos and Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,

grandsons 6

1. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
2. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
3. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
4. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
5. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,

granite 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. 26, line 21My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,

grant 1

1. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,

grape 1

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

grappler 1

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

grasp 1

1. p. xi, line 79[…] Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they […]

grass 18

1. p. vii, line 7[…] the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If […]
2. p. viii, line 7[…] scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and […]
3. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
4. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
5. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;

grave 4

1. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
2. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
3. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
4. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

graveclothes 1

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

graves 8

1. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
2. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!
3. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
4. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
5. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
6. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
7. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
8. p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:

graveyards 1

1. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;

gravitation 2

1. p. vi, line 51[…] as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing […]
2. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,

gravity 2

1. 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?
2. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,

gray 7

1. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
2. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
3. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
4. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
5. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
6. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,
7. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

graygull 1

1. p. vii, line 11[…] You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood […]

graze 1

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

greasy 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?

great 92

1. p. iv, line 87[…] and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and […]
2. p. iv, line 98[…] as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off […]
3. p. v, line 36[…] sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the […]
4. p. vi, line 14[…] soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its […]
5. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person […]

greater 10

1. p. viii, line 43[…] are unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that […]
2. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
3. p. 49, line 26I do not call one greater and one smaller,
4. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
5. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

greatest 27

1. p. iii, line 18[…] nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest […]
2. p. iv, line 95[…] most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be […]
3. p. iv, line 96[…] doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much […]
4. p. v, line 37[…] be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used […]
5. p. v, line 42[…] not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts […]

greatness 2

1. p. vii, line 106[…] the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the greatness of […]
2. p. vii, line 107[…] of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet […]

greatnesses 1

1. p. v, line 111[…] beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is […]

greed 2

1. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
2. 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,

greedy 1

1. p. x, line 58[…] wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised […]

green 6

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. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
3. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
4. p. 20, line 26And consider the green and violet and the tufted crown intentional;
5. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
6. p. 38, line 7And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

greenshine 1

1. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;

grenades 1

1. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,

grew 3

1. p. ix, line 83[…] is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of the globe nor […]
2. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
3. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;

grimed 1

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

grinding 1

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

gripe 1

1. p. viii, line 100[…] put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those […]

gripers 1

1. p. viii, line 100[…] helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts […]

grit 2

1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
2. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,

groan 2

1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
2. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.

groans 2

1. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
2. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.

grocery 1

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,

gross 1

1. p. 25, line 20Who goes there! hankering, gross, mystical, nude?

grotesque 1

1. p. iv, line 99[…] in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of […]

ground 14

1. p. iii, line 37[…] never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish […]
2. p. v, line 99[…] conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems […]
3. p. vi, line 19[…] in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know […]
4. p. viii, line 39[…] singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that […]
5. p. viii, line 76[…] the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out […]

grounds 1

1. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

ground-shark's 1

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

ground-swells 1

1. p. 27, line 26Sea of stretched ground-swells!

ground-tackle 1

1. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,

group 2

1. p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
2. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,

groupings 1

1. p. iii, line 32[…] in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and […]

groups 1

1. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,

grow 5

1. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
2. p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
3. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
4. 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.
5. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.

growing 6

1. p. 16, line 16Growing among black folks as among white,
2. p. 21, line 10I am enamoured of growing outdoors,
3. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
4. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
5. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
6. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,

grown 8

1. p. xii, line 27[…] models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea […]
2. p. 28, line 5I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
3. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
4. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
5. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
6. p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
7. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
8. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.

grows 5

1. p. iii, line 37[…] winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the […]
2. p. v, line 18[…] dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He […]
3. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
4. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
5. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

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1. p. v, line 100[…] and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and […]
2. p. xii, line 7[…] aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and […]
3. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
4. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?

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1. p. iv, line 29[…] what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock […]
2. p. iv, line 30[…] On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust […]

grudgingly 1

1. p. viii, line 87[…] instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to […]

grunting 1

1. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,

guard 4

1. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.
2. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
3. p. 45, line 15Sleep! I and they keep guard all night;
4. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

guarded 1

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

guess 8

1. p. x, line 112[…] which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does […]
2. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
3. p. 16, line 10Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
4. p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
5. p. 16, line 14Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
6. p. 25, line 13Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
7. p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
8. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?

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