Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “have”

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  1. p. iii, line 16[…] all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are […]
  2. p. iii, line 56[…] their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand […]
  3. p. iii, line 78[…] can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul […]
  4. p. iv, line 95[…] poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall […]
  5. p. v, line 69[…] is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given […]
  6. p. vi, line 5[…] to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat […]
  7. p. vi, line 11[…] year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book […]
  8. p. vi, line 14[…] very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in […]
  9. p. vii, line 8[…] is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked […]
  10. p. vii, line 9[…] looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of the masters of the artists of […]
  11. p. vii, line 22[…] I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to […]
  12. p. vii, line 24[…] me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What […]
  13. p. vii, line 27[…] or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be […]
  14. p. ix, line 72[…] let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and […]
  15. p. ix, line 75[…] since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or […]
  16. p. x, line 17[…] of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth or middle age, and the […]
  17. p. xi, line 57[…] so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years […]
  18. p. xii, line 57[…] with composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that is to be […]
  19. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
  20. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
  21. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  22. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  23. p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
  24. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  25. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  26. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  27. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  28. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  29. p. 24, line 28Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  30. p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,
  31. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  32. p. 25, line 13Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  33. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  34. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
  35. p. 26, line 32We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  36. p. 27, line 1Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
  37. p. 27, line 16Prodigal! you have given me love! . . . . therefore I to you give love!
  38. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  39. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  40. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  41. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  42. p. 33, line 7They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  43. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  44. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  45. p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  46. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
  47. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  48. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  49. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
  50. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
  51. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  52. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,
  53. p. 44, line 28And any thing I have I bestow.
  54. p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  55. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  56. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  57. p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
  58. p. 50, line 3What have I to do with lamentation?
  59. p. 50, line 14Immense have been the preparations for me,
  60. p. 50, line 15Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.
  61. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,
  62. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  63. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
  64. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
  65. p. 52, line 22Long enough have you dreamed contemptible dreams,
  66. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,
  67. p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
  68. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  69. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  70. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  71. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  72. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?
  73. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  74. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  75. p. 58, line 6Why what have you thought of yourself?
  76. p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
  77. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  78. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  79. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  80. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
  81. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
  82. p. 65, line 4Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
  83. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  84. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  85. 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;
  86. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  87. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.
  88. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  89. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  90. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  91. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  92. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  93. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
  94. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  95. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  96. p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  97. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  98. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  99. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  100. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,
  101. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
  102. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
  103. p. 77, line 2I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
  104. p. 79, line 6I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
  105. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  106. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  107. p. 81, line 26Have you ever loved a woman?
  108. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  109. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  110. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  111. p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
  112. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;
  113. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  114. 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;
  115. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
  116. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,