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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habit 1

  1. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

had 22

  1. p. v, line 71[…] far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without […]
  2. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  3. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.
  4. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
  5. 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;
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  1. p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
  2. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  3. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  4. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  5. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  6. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  7. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  8. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  9. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  10. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  11. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  12. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  13. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
  14. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  15. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  16. 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,

haggard 1

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

hail 1

  1. p. 32, line 15I am exposed . . . . cut by bitter and poisoned hail,

hair 18

  1. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  2. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  3. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  4. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  5. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
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  1. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
  2. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  3. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  4. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  5. 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.
  6. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  7. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  8. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
  9. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  10. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  11. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
  12. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  13. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;

hairy 1

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

half 4

  1. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  2. p. 46, line 14The bull and the bug never worshipped half enough,
  3. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.
  4. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

half-breed 1

  1. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,

half-burned 1

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

half-door 1

  1. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,

halfenveloped 1

  1. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,

half-frozen 1

  1. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,

half-grown 1

  1. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.

half-held 1

  1. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

half-hid 1

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

half-hidden 1

  1. p. vi, line 97[…] verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of […]

half-killed 1

  1. p. 41, line 2Some half-killed attempted to crawl away,

halfpulled 1

  1. p. 83, line 23And this is some murderer's knife with a halfpulled scabbard.

halfshut 1

  1. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,

halfspread 1

  1. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,

half-starved 1

  1. p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,

half-way 2

  1. p. xii, line 66[…] toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he […]
  2. p. xii, line 69[…] and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual […]

halibut 1

  1. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

hall 1

  1. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;

halls 2

  1. p. viii, line 83[…] of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are […]
  2. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,

halt 2

  1. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  2. p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.

halted 1

  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

halter 1

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

hammer 1

  1. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

hammers 3

  1. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  2. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

hand 35

  1. p. x, line 65[…] the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract […]
  2. p. xi, line 58[…] of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved […]
  3. p. xi, line 59[…] detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after […]
  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. 15, line 32And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
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  1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  3. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  4. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  5. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  6. p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
  7. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  8. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  9. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
  10. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  11. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
  12. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  13. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  14. p. 76, line 13The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,
  15. p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;
  16. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
  17. p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  18. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:

handcuffed 2

  1. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,

handcuffs 1

  1. p. viii, line 71[…] and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs […]

handed 1

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

handfuls 1

  1. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.

handkerchief 1

  1. p. 16, line 10Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,

handpress 1

  1. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,

hands 20

  1. p. iv, line 78[…] and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to it which […]
  2. p. x, line 103[…] mouth or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day […]
  3. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  4. p. 21, line 25The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar,
  5. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
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  1. p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,
  2. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  3. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  4. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  5. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
  6. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
  7. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  8. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
  9. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,
  10. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  11. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  12. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,
  13. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  14. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  15. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,

handsaw 1

  1. p. 53, line 17The maul the oar and the handsaw second my words.

handsome 5

  1. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  3. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
  4. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  5. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,

handsomest 1

  1. p. vi, line 71[…] poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]

hang 5

  1. p. vii, line 23[…] writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains […]
  2. p. vii, line 25[…] the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell […]
  3. p. xi, line 33[…] own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic […]
  4. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  5. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

hanging 3

  1. p. iv, line 36[…] and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides […]
  2. 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;
  3. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

hangman 1

  1. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

hangs 5

  1. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
  2. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
  3. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  4. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.
  5. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

hankering 1

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

happen 1

  1. p. viii, line 2[…] happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any […]

happened 1

  1. p. viii, line 1[…] it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital […]

happens 3

  1. p. vi, line 27[…] an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades […]
  2. p. viii, line 1[…] as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose […]
  3. p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.

happier 1

  1. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.

happiness 6

  1. p. viii, line 20[…] ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and […]
  2. p. viii, line 22[…] soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less […]
  3. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  4. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  5. p. 59, line 19I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  6. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,

happy 4

  1. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  2. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  3. p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  4. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;

hard 2

  1. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  2. p. 47, line 2Ever the hard and unsunk ground,

hardening 1

  1. p. xii, line 47[…] love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who […]

hardly 4

  1. p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing […]
  2. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  4. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.

hardy 1

  1. 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;

harks 1

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

harmlessly 1

  1. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.

harmonies 1

  1. p. ix, line 21[…] with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions […]

harmonious 1

  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?

harmony 1

  1. p. vi, line 54[…] voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only […]

harpoon 1

  1. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,

harshness 1

  1. p. x, line 55[…] means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers […]

harvest 2

  1. p. x, line 3[…] the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid […]
  2. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;

harvest-time 1

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

has 78

  1. p. iii, line 2[…] does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the […]
  2. p. iii, line 5[…] lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and […]
  3. p. iii, line 8[…] literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives […]
  4. p. iii, line 12[…] was fittest for its days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and […]
  5. p. iii, line 87[…] of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than […]
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  1. p. iv, line 88[…] the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans […]
  2. p. v, line 22[…] helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the […]
  3. p. v, line 44[…] or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left […]
  4. p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He […]
  5. p. vi, line 38[…] man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He […]
  6. p. vi, line 69[…] The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems […]
  7. p. vi, line 85[…] consistence of what is to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their […]
  8. p. vi, line 102[…] of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons […]
  9. p. vi, line 104[…] acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances […]
  10. p. vi, line 108[…] art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his […]
  11. p. vii, line 9[…] art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of the masters […]
  12. p. vii, line 17[…] than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of […]
  13. p. vii, line 28[…] have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or […]
  14. p. viii, line 1[…] out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen […]
  15. p. viii, line 35[…] one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself […]
  16. p. viii, line 53[…] is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it […]
  17. p. viii, line 98[…] of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back […]
  18. p. ix, line 70[…] All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for […]
  19. p. ix, line 80[…] be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and […]
  20. p. ix, line 105[…] her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who […]
  21. p. ix, line 111[…] sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much […]
  22. p. x, line 38[…] Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a person does or […]
  23. p. x, line 100[…] begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine […]
  24. p. xi, line 11[…] let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from […]
  25. p. xi, line 18[…] who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has […]
  26. p. xi, line 19[…] exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age […]
  27. p. xi, line 20[…] it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only […]
  28. p. xi, line 22[…] himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and […]
  29. p. xi, line 53[…] of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes […]
  30. p. xi, line 72[…] a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some […]
  31. p. xii, line 2[…] which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and […]
  32. p. xii, line 44[…] the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it […]
  33. p. xii, line 67[…] is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of […]
  34. p. xii, line 73[…] his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]
  35. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  36. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  37. p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  38. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  39. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  40. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  41. p. 28, line 5I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
  42. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
  43. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
  44. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  45. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
  46. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;
  47. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,
  48. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  49. 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;
  50. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  51. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
  52. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.
  53. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  54. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  55. p. 71, line 30My truant lover has come and it is dark.
  56. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  57. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,
  58. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  59. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  60. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  61. 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?
  62. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  63. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  64. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  65. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  66. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
  67. 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?
  68. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  69. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?

hasten 4

  1. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  2. p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  3. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  4. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;

hat 7

  1. p. iii, line 63[…] of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed […]
  2. p. vi, line 6[…] and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or […]
  3. p. viii, line 113[…] the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid […]
  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. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  6. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
  7. p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.

hatches 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,

hate 6

  1. p. vi, line 4[…] crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward […]
  2. p. vii, line 64[…] the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that something in the soul which […]
  3. p. 27, line 31Partaker of influx and efflux . . . . extoler of hate and conciliation,
  4. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
  5. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  6. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,

hated 1

  1. p. ix, line 93[…] formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]

hats 2

  1. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  2. p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,

haughtiest 1

  1. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,

haughty 2

  1. p. iv, line 54[…] or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of […]
  2. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,

haul 1

  1. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,

hauling 3

  1. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  2. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  3. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;

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having 1

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

hawk 2

  1. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  2. p. 83, line 4A wild hawk . . his wings clipped by the clipper,

hay 2

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

hay-rick 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,

hazard 2

  1. p. viii, line 58[…] the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh […]
  2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

haze 1

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

he 248

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head 34

  1. p. viii, line 115[…] or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and […]
  2. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
  3. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  4. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  5. 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.
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  1. p. 21, line 30The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  2. p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,
  3. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  4. p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
  5. p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,
  6. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  7. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,
  8. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,
  9. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  10. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;
  11. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  12. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
  13. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  14. p. 46, line 27My head evolves on my neck,
  15. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  16. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  17. 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,
  18. p. 71, line 5The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,
  19. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  20. p. 76, line 3The head wellgrown and proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb,
  21. 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,
  22. p. 78, line 17The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
  23. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
  24. p. 79, line 14A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  25. p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,
  26. p. 81, line 5In that head the allbaffling brain,
  27. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  28. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,
  29. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.

headforemost 1

  1. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.

headland 3

  1. p. 33, line 5Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  2. p. 33, line 8They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  3. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.

heads 8

  1. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  2. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  3. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  4. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  5. 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.
  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. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;
  8. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

headway 2

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;
  2. p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,

heal 1

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

health 7

  1. p. v, line 1[…] soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing […]
  2. p. vii, line 28[…] fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of […]
  3. p. viii, line 36[…] has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees […]
  4. p. ix, line 95Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children […]
  5. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  6. p. 56, line 8But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  7. p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.

healthy 3

  1. p. v, line 85[…] gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses […]
  2. p. ix, line 37[…] rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural […]
  3. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.

heaped 1

  1. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.

hear 27

  1. p. vi, line 76[…] to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well is to compete with […]
  2. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
  3. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  4. p. 31, line 24I hear the sound of the human voice . . . . a sound I love,
  5. 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;
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  1. p. 32, line 5I hear the violincello or man's heart's complaint,
  2. p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
  3. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!
  4. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;
  5. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  6. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  7. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  8. p. 52, line 17You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;
  9. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  10. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  11. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  12. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.
  13. 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.
  14. p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.
  15. p. 84, line 13I hear victorious drums.
  16. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
  17. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  18. p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.
  19. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  20. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

heard 12

  1. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 19, line 6I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
  3. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  4. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  5. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
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  1. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
  2. p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
  3. p. 45, line 22Heard it and heard of several thousand years;
  4. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  5. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  6. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

hearing 4

  1. p. vi, line 52[…] the eyesight proceeds another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice […]
  2. p. vi, line 53[…] another eyesight and from the hearing proceeds another hearing and from the voice proceeds another voice eternally curious of […]
  3. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  4. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,

hears 2

  1. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  2. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.

hearse 2

  1. p. 66, line 14A hearse and stages . . . . other vehicles give place,
  2. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

heart 13

  1. p. viii, line 116[…] and firm eyes and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal […]
  2. p. x, line 101[…] time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or […]
  3. p. xii, line 21[…] a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain […]
  4. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  5. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
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  1. p. 29, line 26I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  2. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  3. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  4. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  5. p. 65, line 19When the breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  6. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:
  7. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
  8. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

heart-beat 1

  1. p. 72, line 10I hear the heart-beat . . . . I follow . . I fade away.

hearth-slab 1

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

hearts 5

  1. p. 32, line 5I hear the violincello or man's heart's complaint,
  2. p. 38, line 27I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  3. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  4. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  5. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

hearty 3

  1. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  2. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,

heat 5

  1. p. vii, line 28[…] sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What […]
  2. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  3. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  4. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  5. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,

heater 1

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

heave 2

  1. p. vii, line 1[…] for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects […]
  2. 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;

heaved 1

  1. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,

heave'e'yo 1

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;

heaven 14

  1. p. v, line 75[…] the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not […]
  2. p. vi, line 34[…] to nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the […]
  3. p. vii, line 15[…] or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more […]
  4. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  5. p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,
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  1. p. 30, line 30Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  2. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  3. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  4. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  5. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  6. p. 75, line 28The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  7. p. 75, line 29The myth of heaven indicates the soul;
  8. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
  9. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

heaves 1

  1. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,

heaviest 1

  1. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,

heavily 1

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

heavy 2

  1. p. v, line 7[…] ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every […]
  2. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,

heavy-lipped 1

  1. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,

hectic 1

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

heels 2

  1. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  2. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.

he-festivals 1

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

heft 1

  1. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,

hefts 1

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

heifers 1

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

height 1

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

heights 1

  1. p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,

heir 2

  1. p. iii, line 13[…] action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his […]
  2. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;

held 4

  1. p. xi, line 41[…] in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present […]
  2. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  3. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  4. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.

hell 7

  1. p. v, line 47[…] of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall […]
  2. p. v, line 48[…] or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or […]
  3. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  4. p. 26, line 26The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me,
  5. p. 39, line 16Hell and despair are upon me . . . . crack and again crack the marksmen,
  6. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
  7. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

helmsmen 1

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

help 10

  1. p. x, line 80[…] the best actions of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old […]
  2. p. xii, line 38[…] at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to […]
  3. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
  4. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  5. p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
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  1. p. 38, line 10I help myself to material and immaterial,
  2. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  3. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  4. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  5. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.

helped 2

  1. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  2. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,

helping 1

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

helpless 5

  1. p. v, line 22[…] judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most […]
  2. p. viii, line 99[…] the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into […]
  3. p. 33, line 7They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  4. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
  5. 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,

helplessly 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.

helps 1

  1. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,

hem'd 1 today: hemmed

  1. p. iv, line 58[…] impregnable—the perpetual coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and […]

hemlock 1

  1. p. iv, line 30[…] offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory […]

hemmed see hem'd

hen 1

  1. p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,

hence 1

  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.

henceforth 3

  1. p. ix, line 71[…] be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen […]
  2. p. x, line 106[…] there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought or done by you whoever you […]
  3. p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,

henceforward 2

  1. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  2. p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.

her 84

  1. p. ix, line 102[…] birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought […]
  2. p. x, line 40[…] man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a month or any part of […]
  3. p. x, line 42[…] of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always […]
  4. p. x, line 72[…] is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the […]
  5. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  3. 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;
  4. 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.
  5. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  6. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  7. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  8. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
  9. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
  10. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  11. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  12. p. 22, line 18The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing;
  13. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  14. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  15. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  16. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  17. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  18. p. 34, line 8And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake.
  19. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  20. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;
  21. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  22. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  23. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  24. p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  25. p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
  26. p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
  27. p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  28. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  29. 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;
  30. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:
  31. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  32. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
  33. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  34. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  35. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;
  36. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
  37. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  38. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  39. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  40. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
  41. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  42. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  43. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
  44. p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
  45. p. 76, line 15The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
  46. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  47. 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?
  48. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  49. p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
  50. 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?
  51. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
  52. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  53. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  54. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  55. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  56. p. 85, line 11Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,
  57. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
  58. 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,
  59. 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,
  60. 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:
  61. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.

herbs 1

  1. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,

Hercules 1

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

herd 1

  1. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,

herding 1

  1. p. 61, line 21Pasturelife, foddering, milking and herding, and all the personnel and usages;

herds 1

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

here 49

  1. p. iii, line 20[…] and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that […]
  2. p. iii, line 23[…] the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of […]
  3. p. iii, line 24[…] a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and […]
  4. p. iii, line 26[…] particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the […]
  5. p. iii, line 28[…] Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and […]
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  1. p. iii, line 30[…] and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity […]
  2. p. iv, line 87[…] Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one […]
  3. p. iv, line 88[…] Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision […]
  4. p. vii, line 66[…] says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and […]
  5. p. vii, line 113[…] depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of […]
  6. p. x, line 106[…] fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought or done […]
  7. p. xii, line 28[…] from the sea for use to me today here? I know that what answers for me an American must […]
  8. p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
  9. p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
  10. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  11. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  12. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,
  13. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
  14. p. 45, line 11O despairer, here is my neck,
  15. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  16. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  17. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
  18. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  19. p. 52, line 20Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
  20. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?
  21. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  22. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  23. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  24. p. 60, line 27If you were not breathing and walking here where would they all be?
  25. p. 61, line 8Does all sit there with you and here with me?
  26. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  27. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
  28. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  29. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  30. p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
  31. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  32. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;
  33. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
  34. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  35. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  36. p. 89, line 26I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  37. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  38. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,
  39. p. 90, line 6Here is a centrepiece for them:
  40. p. 90, line 12You are mighty cute . . . . and here is one of your bargains.
  41. 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;

hereby 1

  1. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,

hereditary 1

  1. p. iv, line 46[…] condor and night-heron and eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the […]

here's 1

  1. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.

hero 1

  1. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,

heroes 11

  1. p. iii, line 27[…] masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness […]
  2. p. viii, line 48[…] liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence […]
  3. 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.
  4. p. 38, line 27I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  5. p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
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  1. p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
  2. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  3. p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
  4. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?

heroic 1

  1. p. vii, line 37[…] poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that […]

heron 1

  1. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;

herself 3

  1. p. 34, line 18In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  2. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  3. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,

hiatus 1

  1. p. viii, line 38[…] being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground […]

hickory 1

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

hide 2

  1. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  2. p. 77, line 17It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,

hideous-faced 1

  1. p. 45, line 31With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and all idols and images,

hides 3

  1. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  3. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;

hiding 1

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

hieroglyphic 1

  1. p. 16, line 14Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,

higgles 1

  1. p. 22, line 25The pedlar sweats with his pack on his back—the purchaser higgles about the odd cent,

high 16

  1. p. v, line 11[…] Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light […]
  2. p. viii, line 112[…] bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his […]
  3. p. 30, line 28Scooting obliquely high and low.
  4. p. 35, line 6Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
  5. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;
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  1. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  2. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  3. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  4. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  5. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  6. p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  7. p. 81, line 2Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for him,
  8. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,
  9. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  10. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  11. 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;

higher 2

  1. p. ix, line 111[…] the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when […]
  2. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;

highest 4

  1. p. vi, line 34[…] proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak […]
  2. p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,
  3. p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  4. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

highhold 1

  1. p. iv, line 41[…] screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk […]

highland 1

  1. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,

hill 2

  1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  2. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,

hills 6

  1. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,
  2. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  3. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
  4. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,
  5. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;
  6. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!

hillsides 1

  1. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,

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himself 24

  1. p. v, line 41[…] he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what is […]
  2. p. v, line 55[…] seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees […]
  3. p. v, line 116[…] a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what […]
  4. p. vi, line 39[…] leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure […]
  5. p. vi, line 89[…] realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet does not […]
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  1. p. vii, line 21[…] or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome […]
  2. p. vii, line 79[…] by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor […]
  3. p. viii, line 37[…] to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus […]
  4. p. ix, line 106[…] the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his […]
  5. p. ix, line 108[…] himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and completed a lawful life without debt […]
  6. p. xi, line 18[…] and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and […]
  7. p. xi, line 21[…] riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great […]
  8. p. xi, line 30[…] poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and […]
  9. p. xi, line 33[…] attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge […]
  10. p. xi, line 35[…] merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened […]
  11. p. xi, line 49[…] character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes […]
  12. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
  13. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  14. 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,
  15. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
  16. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,
  17. p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.
  18. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
  19. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:

hindways 1

  1. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,

hinge 1

  1. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

hinted 1

  1. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?

hints 4

  1. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  2. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  3. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.

hip 3

  1. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  2. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,

hipband 1

  1. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,

hips 3

  1. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  2. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  3. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,

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hiss 1

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

historian 1

  1. p. vii, line 95[…] the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers […]

histories 2

  1. p. ix, line 62[…] never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
  2. 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;

history 2

  1. p. iii, line 18[…] themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear […]
  2. p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?

hit 2

  1. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact […]
  2. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,

hitherto 1

  1. p. iii, line 18[…] greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to […]

hits 1

  1. p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.

hod 1

  1. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;

hoe 2

  1. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;
  2. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

hoeing 2

  1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,
  2. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,

hoes 1

  1. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;

hog's 1

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

hoisting 1

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

hold 4

  1. p. xi, line 51[…] Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of […]
  2. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,
  3. p. 27, line 18Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight!
  4. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.

holding 4

  1. p. 27, line 18Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight!
  2. p. 32, line 34Unbuttoning my clothes and holding me by the bare waist,
  3. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
  4. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,

holds 12

  1. p. ix, line 30[…] owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought and paid for […]
  2. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
  5. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
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  1. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.
  4. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;

hole 2

  1. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  2. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

hollow 1

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

hollows 1

  1. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,

holy 1

  1. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;

home 17

  1. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  2. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
  3. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  4. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  5. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,
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  1. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  2. p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
  3. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  4. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
  5. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  6. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  7. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;
  8. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.
  9. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  10. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,

homeliest 1

  1. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

homely 2

  1. p. 37, line 16Pleased with women, the homely as well as the handsome,
  2. p. 75, line 17The stammerer, the sick, the perfectformed, the homely,

home-made 1

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

homestead 2

  1. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  2. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,

homeward 1

  1. p. 75, line 12The homeward bound and the outward bound,

honest 3

  1. p. ix, line 47[…] human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies […]
  2. p. x, line 92[…] sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur […]
  3. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.

honestly 2

  1. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
  2. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.

honey 2

  1. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  2. p. 84, line 29Fill me with albescent honey . . . . bend down to me,

honeyed 1

  1. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,

honorable 1

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

honoring 1

  1. p. 48, line 11Waiting responses from oracles . . . . honoring the gods . . . . saluting the sun,

honors 1

  1. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

hooded 1

  1. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!

hook 1

  1. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;

hook-and-ladder 1

  1. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,

hooks 2

  1. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  2. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;

Hoosier 1

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

hoot 2

  1. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;

hope 4

  1. p. viii, line 58[…] are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they […]
  2. p. ix, line 95[…] caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness […]
  3. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
  4. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

hopeful 1

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

hordes 1

  1. p. 68, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,

horizon's 1

  1. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

horribly 2

  1. p. 21, line 33What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
  2. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.

horrify 1

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

horror 1

  1. p. 32, line 13It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,

horse 4

  1. p. v, line 5[…] force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that […]
  2. p. vii, line 13[…] bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or […]
  3. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  4. p. 40, line 23Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper or a courtship,

horse-block 1

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

horse-cloth 1

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

horseman 1

  1. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

horses 7

  1. p. v, line 86[…] for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is […]
  2. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  3. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  4. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,
  5. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,
  6. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,
  7. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,

hose-carts 1

  1. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,

hospitable 1

  1. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,

hospital 3

  1. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  3. p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,

hospitality 3

  1. p. iii, line 27[…] magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards […]
  2. p. x, line 2[…] of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond […]
  3. p. 93, line 27Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and hospitality:

host 1

  1. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?

hostess 1

  1. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?

hostler 2

  1. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  2. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

hot 5

  1. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  2. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
  3. p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  4. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,
  5. p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,

hotcheeked 1

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

hottest 1

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

hounded 2

  1. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  2. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,

hour 10

  1. p. x, line 42[…] any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward […]
  2. p. xi, line 44[…] to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the […]
  3. p. 25, line 18This hour I tell things in confidence,
  4. p. 53, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour;
  5. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
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  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;
  2. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  3. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  4. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

hourly 1

  1. p. vi, line 29[…] of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel […]

house 19

  1. p. iii, line 10[…] from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door […]
  2. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  3. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  4. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  5. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
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  1. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  2. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  3. p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
  4. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  5. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  6. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,
  7. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  8. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  9. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
  10. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
  11. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  12. p. 88, line 29Is the house shut? Is the master away?
  13. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

housechairs 1

  1. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:

housed 1

  1. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,

household 3

  1. p. xii, line 12[…] of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of […]
  2. p. 46, line 24Come my boys and girls, and my women and household and intimates,
  3. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.

housekeepers 1

  1. p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,

house-raisings 1

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

houses 6

  1. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  2. p. 34, line 18In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  3. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,
  4. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  5. 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;
  6. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,

housesill 1

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

housework 2

  1. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  2. 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;

hovel 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,

how 55

  1. p. iii, line 57[…] air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the […]
  2. p. v, line 7[…] the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks […]
  3. p. v, line 35[…] expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred […]
  4. p. vi, line 73Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of […]
  5. p. ix, line 69[…] and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him […]
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  1. p. xi, line 87[…] the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new […]
  2. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
  3. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  4. p. 17, line 16They do not know how immortal, but I know.
  5. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  6. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  7. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  8. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  9. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  10. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  11. p. 31, line 9Do you not know how the buds beneath are folded?
  12. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,
  13. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  14. p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,
  15. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  16. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  17. p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
  18. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
  19. p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  20. p. 48, line 28How the flukes splash!
  21. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  22. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  23. 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?
  24. p. 57, line 4This is unfinished business with me . . . . how is it with you?
  25. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  26. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
  27. p. 67, line 8To think how much pleasure there is!
  28. p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;
  29. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  30. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  31. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
  32. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  33. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
  34. p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
  35. p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,
  36. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
  37. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  38. p. 77, line 4I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
  39. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  40. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  41. p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.
  42. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  43. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  44. p. 89, line 7How bright shine the foremost with cutlasses,
  45. p. 89, line 22See how well-dressed . . . . see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  46. p. 91, line 12The doubts of daytime and the doubts of nighttime . . . the curious whether and how,
  47. p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  48. 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.

howitzers 1

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

howler 1

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

howling 1

  1. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:

howls 2

  1. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  2. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.

hub 1

  1. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,

hucksters 1

  1. p. 45, line 25Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,

Hudson 2

  1. p. iv, line 14[…] Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they […]
  2. 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.

hue 1

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

hug 1

  1. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.

huge 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. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  3. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;

hugehulled 1

  1. p. ix, line 18[…] the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail […]

hugged 1

  1. p. 50, line 13Long I was hugged close . . . . long and long.

hulls 1

  1. p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,

hum 2

  1. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
  2. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,

human 10

  1. p. vii, line 64[…] motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that […]
  2. p. ix, line 46[…] of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or […]
  3. p. ix, line 49[…] contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be […]
  4. p. ix, line 57[…] beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only […]
  5. p. ix, line 99[…] the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the […]
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  1. p. 31, line 24I hear the sound of the human voice . . . . a sound I love,
  2. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  3. p. 48, line 6Sermons and creeds and theology . . . . but the human brain, and what is called reason, and what is called love, and what is called life?
  4. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  5. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,

humanity 2

  1. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
  2. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,

humbles 1

  1. p. v, line 34[…] freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. The […]

hummer 1

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

hummingbird 1

  1. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;

hundred 5

  1. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  2. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
  3. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  4. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  5. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,

hundreds 2

  1. p. x, line 97[…] we inherit . . and all the good of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us […]
  2. p. xi, line 57[…] down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right […]

hung 1

  1. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?

Hungarian 1

  1. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,

hunger 2

  1. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  2. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.

hungry 1

  1. p. vii, line 73[…] glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be careful […]

hunt 2

  1. p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  2. 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,

hunter 1

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

hunters 6

  1. p. iv, line 62[…] the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and […]
  2. p. v, line 83[…] as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields […]
  3. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  4. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,
  5. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  6. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

hunting 3

  1. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. p. 61, line 20The jaunt of hunting or fishing, or the life of hunting or fishing,

Huron 2

  1. p. iv, line 19[…] over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican […]
  2. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,

hurrah 1

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

hurrahs 1

  1. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,

hurried 4

  1. p. viii, line 4[…] case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in […]
  2. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  3. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  4. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;

hurries 1

  1. p. xi, line 28[…] in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]

hurry 2

  1. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  2. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,

hurrying 2

  1. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
  2. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;

hurt 4

  1. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  2. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  3. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.

husband 6

  1. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  2. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  3. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  4. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  5. p. 75, line 15The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has failed,

husbands 1

  1. p. x, line 57[…] to sons or sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy […]

hush 3

  1. p. 31, line 20With the hush of my lips I confound the topmost skeptic.
  2. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  3. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.

huskings 1

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

husky 1

  1. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,

hymns 1

  1. p. v, line 23[…] has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the […]