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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label 1

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

labor 2

  1. p. vi, line 4[…] the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience […]
  2. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;

laborers 3

  1. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  2. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
  3. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;

laborsaving 1

  1. p. iv, line 73[…] the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target […]

Labrador 1

  1. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,

lack 3

  1. p. vi, line 114[…] ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of impulse and pierce […]
  2. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  3. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,

lacks 1

  1. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,

lacy 1

  1. p. 56, line 4I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

ladders 1

  1. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

ladies 1

  1. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

lady 3

  1. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  2. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  3. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,

lady's 2

  1. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  2. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

laggards 1

  1. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.

lags 1

  1. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,

laid 2

  1. p. x, line 4[…] it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and […]
  2. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,

lain 1

  1. p. vi, line 108[…] sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they are vital in his style […]

lair 3

  1. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
  2. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

lakes 4

  1. p. iv, line 11[…] its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia […]
  2. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  3. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
  4. 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.

lama 1

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

lambs 1

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

lame 1

  1. p. 44, line 3And know that they who have eyes are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,

lamentable 1

  1. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;

lamentation 2

  1. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
  2. p. 50, line 3What have I to do with lamentation?

lamps 2

  1. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  2. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

lance 1

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

land 12

  1. p. iv, line 105[…] He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking […]
  2. p. v, line 1[…] or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the […]
  3. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of […]
  4. p. xi, line 32[…] and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck […]
  5. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
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  1. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  2. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  3. p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
  4. p. 52, line 8Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
  5. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  6. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.

landed 1

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

landings 1

  1. p. iv, line 52[…] the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the […]

landlord 1

  1. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.

landmarks 1

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

lands 1

  1. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,

landscape 2

  1. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  2. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,

landscapes 2

  1. p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.
  2. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.

language 4

  1. p. xi, line 111The English language befriends the grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and […]
  2. p. xii, line 4[…] and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It […]
  3. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,
  4. p. 94, line 18Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,

languages 1

  1. p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;

lank 1

  1. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,

lanyards 1

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

laps 6

  1. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  2. p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
  3. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  4. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
  5. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

lapses 1

  1. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,

larceny 1

  1. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.

lard 1

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

large 21

  1. p. iv, line 71[…] equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the factories and […]
  2. p. iv, line 108[…] out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and […]
  3. p. viii, line 82[…] old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls […]
  4. p. ix, line 21[…] gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite […]
  5. p. ix, line 27[…] its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than […]
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  1. p. ix, line 36[…] and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive […]
  2. p. ix, line 95Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and children, large […]
  3. p. ix, line 96[…] and comparison and fondness for women and children, large alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of […]
  4. p. x, line 30[…] eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence […]
  5. p. xii, line 25[…] for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models […]
  6. 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;
  7. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
  8. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  9. p. 38, line 27I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  10. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  11. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,
  12. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  13. p. 55, line 21I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.
  14. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  15. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
  16. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,

largeness 3

  1. p. iii, line 20[…] stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings […]
  2. p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding […]
  3. p. iii, line 69[…] or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature […]

larger 1

  1. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,

largescale 1

  1. p. viii, line 117[…] the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own […]

largest 5

  1. p. iii, line 19[…] In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler […]
  2. p. xii, line 68[…] make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to […]
  3. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  4. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  5. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

lashed 1

  1. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.

lashes 1

  1. p. vi, line 16[…] of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of […]

last 26

  1. p. iii, line 20[…] to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with […]
  2. p. vi, line 97[…] extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment […]
  3. p. viii, line 80[…] all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly […]
  4. p. x, line 69[…] the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female […]
  5. p. xi, line 8[…] The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous […]
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  1. p. xi, line 72[…] Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and […]
  2. p. xii, line 46[…] it look with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the […]
  3. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
  4. p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.
  5. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  6. p. 31, line 12I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  7. p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,
  8. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
  9. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,
  10. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  11. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,
  12. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  13. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  14. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  15. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  16. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  17. p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
  18. 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.
  19. p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.

latch 1

  1. p. x, line 1[…] when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of the prudence of life […]

late 4

  1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  3. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  4. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,

lately 1

  1. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

latest 1

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

lath 1

  1. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,

latherers 1

  1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

laths 1

  1. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

latter 1

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

laudanum 1

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

laugh 7

  1. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  2. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  3. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
  4. p. 26, line 22I laugh at what you call dissolution,
  5. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  6. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  7. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

laughed 3

  1. p. viii, line 83[…] away . . . . when the large names of patriots are laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the […]
  2. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
  3. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

laugher 1

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

laughing 2

  1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  2. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,

laughing-gull 1

  1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;

laughingly 1

  1. 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.

laughs 2

  1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  2. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.

laughter 4

  1. p. 36, line 26At he-festivals with blackguard jibes and ironical license and bull-dances and drinking and laughter,
  2. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  3. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
  4. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

launch 2

  1. p. xi, line 88[…] younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit […]
  2. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.

launches 1

  1. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.

lave 1

  1. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,

law 16

  1. p. vi, line 58[…] rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is […]
  2. p. viii, line 40[…] comes common ground. To be under the general law is great for that is to correspond with it. The […]
  3. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  4. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
  5. p. 68, line 10The law of the past cannot be eluded,
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  1. p. 68, line 11The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  2. p. 68, line 12The law of the living cannot be eluded . . . . it is eternal,
  3. p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  4. p. 68, line 14The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  5. p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
  6. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  7. p. 69, line 2I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  8. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  9. p. 69, line 4For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
  10. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.

lawful 1

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

lawgivers 1

  1. p. vii, line 97[…] lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every […]

lawless 1

  1. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;

Lawrence 2

  1. p. iv, line 13[…] chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure […]
  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.

laws 16

  1. p. v, line 101[…] perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs […]
  2. p. vi, line 77[…] do this well is to compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must […]
  3. p. viii, line 2[…] and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for […]
  4. p. viii, line 25[…] less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the […]
  5. p. viii, line 26[…] and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the […]
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  1. p. viii, line 86[…] christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers […]
  2. p. viii, line 87[…] laws of the free are grudgingly permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of […]
  3. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  4. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  5. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
  6. 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?
  7. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
  8. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  9. p. 85, line 24Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
  10. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  11. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,

lawyer 2

  1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
  2. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

lawyers 4

  1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  2. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  3. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
  4. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

lay 10

  1. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
  2. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  3. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  4. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  5. p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
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  1. p. 45, line 16Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  2. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  3. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  4. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  5. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

layers 1

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

laying 2

  1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
  2. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,

lead 8

  1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
  2. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  3. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
  4. p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  5. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
  6. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  7. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,

leadballs 1

  1. p. viii, line 73[…] iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats […]

leaders 1

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

leadings 1

  1. p. 63, line 23I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,

leads 1

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

leaf 2

  1. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  2. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,

leafy 1

  1. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.

leagues 2

  1. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

leaks 2

  1. p. 41, line 18Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon shining and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  2. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,

lean 5

  1. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
  2. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  3. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  4. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
  5. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,

leaned 1

  1. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.

leaning 2

  1. p. vii, line 13[…] action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the […]
  2. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

leans 2

  1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
  2. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,

leaped see le'pt

leaping 3

  1. p. ix, line 68[…] a new cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may […]
  2. p. xi, line 26[…] direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in […]
  3. 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.

learn 4

  1. p. viii, line 60[…] though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men […]
  2. p. xi, line 22[…] only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors […]
  3. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
  4. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?

learned 8

learned 7 · learnt 1

  1. p. x, line 67[…] or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or […]
  2. p. xi, line 22[…] has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul […]
  3. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  4. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
  5. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
  6. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
  7. p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;

learner 1

  1. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,

learning 2

  1. p. iii, line 74[…] nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the […]
  2. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

learns 4

  1. p. vi, line 88[…] before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present […]
  2. p. xi, line 85[…] beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man […]
  3. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  4. p. 92, line 1WHO learns my lesson complete?

least 5

  1. p. vi, line 72Without effort and without exposing in the least how it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit […]
  2. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  3. p. 48, line 8My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  4. p. 49, line 16Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
  5. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,

leatherdressing 1

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

leave 6

  1. p. xii, line 55[…] and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the […]
  2. p. 24, line 9And breathe the air and leave plenty after me,
  3. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
  4. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  5. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,
  6. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

leaves 11

  1. p. iii, line 92[…] middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns […]
  2. p. vi, line 10[…] and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of […]
  3. p. vi, line 38[…] above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious […]
  4. 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,
  5. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
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  1. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  2. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
  3. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
  4. p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
  5. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.

leaving 2

  1. p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?
  2. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.

leavings 1

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

lecture 1

  1. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,

lecture-rooms 1

  1. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?

lecturers 1

  1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

lectures 1

  1. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,

led 2

  1. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  2. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,

ledger 1

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

ledges 1

  1. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,

left 10

  1. p. v, line 45[…] that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness […]
  2. p. xi, line 59[…] willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long […]
  3. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  4. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  5. p. 33, line 7They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
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  1. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
  2. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  3. p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  4. 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,

leg 2

  1. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  2. 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,

legends 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?

leggings 1

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

legislation 2

  1. p. v, line 10[…] in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters […]
  2. p. xii, line 15[…] of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs […]

legislators 1

  1. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,

legislatures 2

  1. p. iii, line 42[…] not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches […]
  2. p. viii, line 107[…] their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a […]

legs 4

  1. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  4. p. 81, line 10Flakes of breastmuscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, goodsized arms and legs,

leisure 3

  1. p. vi, line 38[…] or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is […]
  2. 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?

lemonade 1

  1. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

length 1

  1. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,

lengthen 1

  1. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,

le'pt 1 today: leaped

  1. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

less 31

  1. p. iii, line 89[…] transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless […]
  2. p. iv, line 103[…] or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is […]
  3. p. v, line 26[…] equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees […]
  4. p. vi, line 75[…] and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or […]
  5. p. vii, line 17[…] you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts […]
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  1. p. viii, line 24[…] the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or […]
  2. p. viii, line 25[…] laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the […]
  3. p. viii, line 28[…] drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of […]
  4. p. x, line 77[…] farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor […]
  5. p. x, line 78[…] prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round. All […]
  6. p. xi, line 9[…] glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they conform to its ways, puts […]
  7. p. xii, line 33[…] needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure […]
  8. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  9. p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
  10. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  11. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
  12. p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
  13. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  14. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  15. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  16. p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,
  17. p. 58, line 7Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  18. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  19. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  20. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  21. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  22. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  23. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
  24. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  25. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

lesser 1

  1. p. xi, line 90[…] orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings […]

lesson 7

  1. p. iii, line 4[…] of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed […]
  2. p. vi, line 89[…] that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest […]
  3. p. viii, line 60[…] or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is […]
  4. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  5. p. 92, line 1WHO learns my lesson complete?
  6. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

lessons 1

  1. p. vi, line 103[…] measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as […]

let 21

  1. p. iv, line 84[…] Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and […]
  2. p. vii, line 26[…] tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I […]
  3. p. ix, line 72[…] forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that […]
  4. p. xi, line 46[…] of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement […]
  5. p. 13, line 8The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
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  1. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  2. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  3. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
  4. p. 32, line 17Let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
  5. p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
  6. p. 45, line 9Let the physician and the priest go home.
  7. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
  8. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
  9. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  10. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  11. p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
  12. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
  13. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  14. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
  15. p. 88, line 28Liberty let others despair of you . . . . I never despair of you.
  16. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;

lethargic 1

  1. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,

lets 2

  1. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
  2. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,

lettering 1

  1. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,

letters 3

  1. p. vi, line 112[…] expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make […]
  2. p. 39, line 3And chalked in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you;
  3. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,

let-up 1

  1. p. xi, line 11[…] to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular […]

levee 2

  1. p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  2. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,

level 4

  1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  2. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  3. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
  4. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?

levels 1

  1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;

lexicographer 2

  1. p. vii, line 96[…] chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets […]
  2. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

liar 1

  1. p. viii, line 26[…] than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless […]

liars 2

  1. p. 69, line 3And that murderers and drunkards and liars shall be under the present and past law;
  2. p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:

liberally 1

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

liberty 14

  1. p. viii, line 47[…] of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist […]
  2. p. viii, line 51[…] poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to […]
  3. p. viii, line 60[…] advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled […]
  4. p. viii, line 66[…] bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in […]
  5. p. viii, line 76[…] ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes […]
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  1. p. viii, line 77[…] gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to go nor the […]
  2. p. ix, line 6[…] the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth […]
  3. p. xi, line 106[…] or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They […]
  4. p. xii, line 1[…] of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted […]
  5. p. xii, line 2[…] political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and […]
  6. p. xii, line 35[…] by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought […]
  7. p. 88, line 28Liberty let others despair of you . . . . I never despair of you.
  8. p. 93, line 8Great is liberty! Great is equality! I am their follower,

libidinous 1

  1. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,

libraries 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?

library 3

  1. p. ix, line 29[…] than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it […]
  2. p. ix, line 32[…] one and every one is owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of […]
  3. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,

lice 1

  1. p. viii, line 104[…] yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment […]

license 1

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

licentious 1

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

licked 1

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

lie 14

  1. p. ix, line 72[…] perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and […]
  2. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  3. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  4. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
  5. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
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  1. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  2. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  3. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  4. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
  5. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.
  6. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  7. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  8. p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:
  9. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,

lies 8

  1. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
  2. p. 43, line 9Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last gasp,
  3. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
  4. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  5. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  6. 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.
  7. 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;
  8. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

life 56

  1. p. iii, line 7[…] to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life […]
  2. p. iii, line 8[…] served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly […]
  3. p. iv, line 10[…] country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing […]
  4. p. iv, line 73[…] movement of the population—the factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and […]
  5. p. iv, line 75[…] firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the northwest and […]
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  1. p. v, line 54[…] thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual […]
  2. p. v, line 95[…] melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul […]
  3. p. vi, line 11[…] air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or […]
  4. p. vi, line 50[…] of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and plumb as gravitation. From the eyesight […]
  5. p. viii, line 27[…] liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time […]
  6. p. ix, line 4[…] smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged […]
  7. p. ix, line 89[…] nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that follows what we term death […]
  8. p. ix, line 109[…] himself and his family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits […]
  9. p. x, line 2[…] the gate. The premises of the prudence of life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and […]
  10. p. x, line 19[…] and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a […]
  11. p. x, line 28[…] mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all […]
  12. p. x, line 88[…] of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake […]
  13. p. xi, line 17[…] that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while […]
  14. p. xi, line 19[…] while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age in riches and ease […]
  15. p. xi, line 42[…] and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was […]
  16. p. xii, line 38[…] absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung […]
  17. p. 14, line 18Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.
  18. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
  19. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  20. p. 17, line 6And ceased the moment life appeared.
  21. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
  22. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
  23. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  24. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
  25. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!
  26. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
  27. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;
  28. 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.
  29. p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?
  30. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  31. 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?
  32. p. 51, line 1Lighting on every moment of my life,
  33. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  34. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  35. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  36. p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
  37. p. 60, line 17It is not they who give the life . . . . it is you who give the life;
  38. p. 61, line 20The jaunt of hunting or fishing, or the life of hunting or fishing,
  39. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
  40. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  41. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  42. p. 69, line 28I cannot define my life . . yet it is so.
  43. p. 70, line 3And all preparation is for it . . and identity is for it . . and life and death are for it.
  44. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  45. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
  46. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.
  47. p. 95, line 17Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,
  48. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;
  49. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

lifeboat 1

  1. p. 84, line 14This face is a lifeboat;

life-car 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,

lifelit 1

  1. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,

life-lumps 1

  1. p. 46, line 19By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator!

life-swelling 1

  1. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

lifetime 2

  1. p. x, line 41[…] a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him […]
  2. p. x, line 43[…] him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the […]

lift 5

  1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.
  3. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  4. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  5. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;

lifted 3

  1. p. vii, line 89[…] and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after […]
  2. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  3. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,

lifts 1

  1. p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,

light 26

  1. p. v, line 12[…] out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the […]
  2. p. v, line 87[…] seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign […]
  3. p. vi, line 62[…] that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea […]
  4. p. vi, line 112[…] glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing […]
  5. p. viii, line 25[…] that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that […]
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  1. p. viii, line 68[…] no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle […]
  2. p. ix, line 12[…] they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the […]
  3. p. ix, line 13[…] light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes […]
  4. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  5. p. 18, line 17The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  6. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
  7. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  8. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  9. p. 39, line 31The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
  10. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  11. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  12. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  13. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  14. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  15. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  16. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
  17. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  18. p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,
  19. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  20. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
  21. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

lighting 3

  1. p. iv, line 110[…] cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or […]
  2. p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,
  3. p. 51, line 1Lighting on every moment of my life,

lightly 3

  1. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  2. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  3. 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?

lightness 1

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

lightning 3

  1. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  2. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  3. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

lights 2

  1. p. xi, line 83[…] ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds the birth […]
  2. 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,

light-yellow 1

  1. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

like 33

  1. p. v, line 26[…] plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity […]
  2. p. vii, line 24[…] in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not […]
  3. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household […]
  4. p. xii, line 65[…] toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual is as […]
  5. p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
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  1. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
  2. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  3. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
  4. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  5. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  6. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;
  7. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
  8. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  9. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;
  10. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  11. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
  12. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  13. p. 42, line 32I become as much more as I like.
  14. p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
  15. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  16. p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  17. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  18. p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;
  19. p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
  20. p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  21. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,
  22. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  23. p. 79, line 6I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
  24. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  25. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,
  26. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  27. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  28. 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.

likely 1

  1. 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?

likened 1

  1. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.

likeness 1

  1. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,

likes 1

  1. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

likewise 2

  1. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
  2. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

liking 2

  1. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.

lilac 1

  1. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;

lilacs 2

  1. p. v, line 102[…] bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact […]
  2. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,

lily's 1

  1. p. 84, line 25This is a fullgrown lily's face,

limb 1

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

limber 1

  1. p. xi, line 112[…] grand American expression . . . . it is brawny enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race […]

limberest 1

  1. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,

limber-hip'd 2 today: limber-hipped

  1. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
  2. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,

limber-hipped see limber-hip'd

limbs 14

  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. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  3. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,
  4. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
  5. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
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  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  2. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
  3. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  4. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  5. p. 54, line 30Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
  6. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  7. p. 77, line 16It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  8. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
  9. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?

limeburning 1

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

limetree 1

  1. p. iv, line 32[…] locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind […]

limitless 5

  1. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  2. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  3. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  4. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  5. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

limpers 1

  1. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!

limpid 2

  1. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  2. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,

limping 1

  1. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,

limpsey 1

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

line 3

  1. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
  2. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;
  3. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.

linen 2

  1. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
  2. p. 85, line 11Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,

lines 8

  1. p. vi, line 15[…] only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of […]
  2. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.
  3. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  4. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  5. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  6. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,

linger 1

  1. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.

lingers 1

  1. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.

linguists 1

  1. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,

lips 17

  1. p. iv, line 80[…] the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is […]
  2. p. vi, line 16[…] words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and […]
  3. p. viii, line 83[…] laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened […]
  4. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  5. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
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  1. p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,
  2. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  3. p. 31, line 20With the hush of my lips I confound the topmost skeptic.
  4. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  5. p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  6. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  7. p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,
  8. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.
  9. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  10. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
  11. 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,
  12. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

liquid 3

  1. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  2. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  3. 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.

liquor 2

  1. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.

lisp 1

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

list 1

  1. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?

listen 5

  1. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  2. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
  3. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  4. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.
  5. p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.

listener 1

  1. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?

listening 2

  1. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
  2. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,

lit 1

  1. p. ix, line 13[…] are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting […]

literary 1

  1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

literature 3

  1. p. iii, line 6[…] slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into […]
  2. p. vii, line 4[…] common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of […]
  3. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social […]

lithe 2

  1. p. vi, line 69[…] is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in […]
  2. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,

lithographing 1

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

litter 4

  1. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  3. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
  4. 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.

little 23

  1. p. iii, line 11[…] of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its […]
  2. p. x, line 4[…] harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards […]
  3. p. x, line 29[…] for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of […]
  4. p. x, line 67[…] add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or […]
  5. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
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  1. p. 17, line 27The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  2. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.
  3. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  4. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  5. p. 41, line 23I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain,
  6. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,
  7. p. 42, line 6Serene stood the little captain,
  8. p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
  9. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
  10. p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  11. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  12. p. 53, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  13. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  14. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  15. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
  16. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  17. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,
  18. p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;

live 17

  1. p. iii, line 77[…] the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have […]
  2. p. xi, line 51[…] performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the […]
  3. p. xi, line 79[…] takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the […]
  4. p. xii, line 20[…] the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after that which […]
  5. p. 15, line 8People I meet . . . . . the effect upon me of my early life . . . . of the ward and city I live in . . . . of the nation,
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  1. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  2. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!
  3. p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
  4. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  5. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,
  6. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  7. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  8. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  9. p. 88, line 21They live in other young men, O kings,
  10. p. 88, line 22They live in brothers, again ready to defy you:
  11. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.

lived 4

  1. p. x, line 112[…] shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no […]
  2. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  3. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  4. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,

liveoak 2

  1. p. iv, line 30[…] growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree […]
  2. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,

lives 4

  1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,
  3. p. 81, line 17Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  4. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!

livid 2

  1. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  2. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

living 17

  1. p. xi, line 12[…] no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is […]
  2. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  3. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  4. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  5. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
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  1. p. 65, line 17When the faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  2. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  3. p. 65, line 21They are palpable as the living are palpable.
  4. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  5. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  6. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,
  7. p. 68, line 12The law of the living cannot be eluded . . . . it is eternal,
  8. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  9. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  10. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  11. p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
  12. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?

lo 1

  1. p. 88, line 10Yet behind all, lo, a Shape,

load 1

  1. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,

loads 1

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

loaf see loafe

loafe 4 today: loaf

  1. p. 13, line 4I loafe and invite my soul,
  2. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
  3. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  4. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,

loafed 1

  1. p. 35, line 13What I guessed when I loafed on the grass,

loafing 2

  1. p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,

loam 1

  1. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

loan 1

  1. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,

loath see loth

location 2

  1. p. x, line 99[…] unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or […]
  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;

locations 1

  1. p. xi, line 38[…] eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and inanimate forms, and which is […]

locks 3

  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. 29, line 6Unscrew the locks from the doors!
  3. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,

locust 1

  1. p. iv, line 31[…] pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak and locust and chestnut and cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood […]

lodge-hut 1

  1. p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:

log 1

  1. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,

loghouses 1

  1. p. iv, line 61[…] cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the […]

log-huts 1

  1. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,

logic 1

  1. p. 33, line 25Logic and sermons never convince,

logs 2

  1. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  2. p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,

loiter 1

  1. p. 20, line 4I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and breakdown.

loitering 1

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

lonesome 2

  1. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
  2. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,

long 37

  1. p. iv, line 25[…] and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer […]
  2. p. xi, line 3[…] no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward […]
  3. p. xi, line 59[…] left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man […]
  4. p. xi, line 60[…] for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often […]
  5. p. xii, line 17[…] amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether […]
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  1. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
  2. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  3. 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.
  4. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  5. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!
  6. p. 29, line 13Through me many long dumb voices,
  7. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  8. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  9. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  10. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  11. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  12. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  13. p. 50, line 13Long I was hugged close . . . . long and long.
  14. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
  15. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  16. p. 52, line 22Long enough have you dreamed contemptible dreams,
  17. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,
  18. p. 55, line 6I sleep . . . . I sleep long.
  19. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  20. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
  21. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  22. p. 73, line 9Steady and long he struggles;
  23. 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,
  24. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  25. p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  26. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  27. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

longer 5

  1. p. iv, line 25[…] by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with […]
  2. p. iv, line 26[…] coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  5. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.

longleaved 1

  1. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;

longlived 2

  1. p. xi, line 23[…] to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives […]
  2. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;

long-stretching 1

  1. p. 36, line 22Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island,

long-threaded 1

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

look 35

  1. p. vii, line 34[…] composition. You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me […]
  2. p. x, line 36[…] faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul […]
  3. p. xii, line 46[…] the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the last born and on […]
  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. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
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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. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  3. 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.
  4. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  5. p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,
  6. p. 38, line 7And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
  7. p. 43, line 20That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!
  8. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  9. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  10. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  11. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  12. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  13. p. 61, line 1All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
  14. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  15. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  16. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  17. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  18. 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.
  19. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
  20. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  21. 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.
  22. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
  23. p. 81, line 1Gentlemen look on this curious creature,
  24. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  25. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  26. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.
  27. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;

looked 10

  1. p. vii, line 8[…] the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has achieved it you have looked on […]
  2. p. vii, line 9[…] on him who has achieved it you have looked on one of the masters of the artists of all […]
  3. p. xi, line 56[…] him or his so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and […]
  4. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  5. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
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  1. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  2. p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  3. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  4. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  5. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

looking 9

  1. p. viii, line 18[…] perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all […]
  2. p. 31, line 17I crowd your noisiest talk by looking toward you.
  3. p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
  4. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
  5. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,
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  1. p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
  2. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  3. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  4. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,

lookingglass 1

  1. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?

looks 11

  1. p. x, line 58[…] or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by […]
  2. p. xi, line 89[…] new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps […]
  3. p. 15, line 10My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues,
  4. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  5. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,
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  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  3. p. 66, line 2But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  4. p. 76, line 1It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world;
  5. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  6. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,

loose 5

  1. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  2. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  3. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  4. p. 45, line 30In my portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah on a leaf, and the crucifix engraved,
  5. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,

loosed 1

  1. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,

loosefingered 1

  1. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.

loose-gowned 1

  1. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,

loosely 1

  1. p. v, line 101[…] laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes […]

loosen 1

  1. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,

loosened 1

  1. p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

looseness 1

  1. p. iii, line 49[…] freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion […]

loosens 1

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

loosing 1

  1. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.

Lord 2

  1. p. 16, line 10Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
  2. p. 84, line 9The Lord advances and yet advances:

loss 2

  1. p. x, line 14[…] shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of […]
  2. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,

lost 9

  1. p. v, line 117[…] troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun […]
  2. p. xi, line 17[…] young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done exceeding well for himself, while the man […]
  3. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  4. 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.
  5. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
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  1. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  2. p. 70, line 7Wandering and confused . . . . lost to myself . . . . ill-assorted . . . . contradictory,
  3. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,
  4. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.

lot 4

  1. p. x, line 6[…] few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply […]
  2. p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
  3. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;
  4. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

loth 1 today: loath

  1. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,

loud 3

  1. p. viii, line 69[…] no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the […]
  2. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  3. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

loudest 1

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

Louisianian 1

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

lounged 1

  1. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,

lounger 1

  1. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,

louse 1

  1. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,

love 57

  1. p. v, line 85[…] cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers […]
  2. p. vi, line 1[…] fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give […]
  3. p. vi, line 37[…] the neck of a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room […]
  4. p. vi, line 38[…] a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself […]
  5. p. vi, line 47[…] than he is of the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty […]
47 more lines
  1. p. vii, line 64[…] of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It is that something in the soul which says, Rage […]
  2. p. vii, line 82[…] two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the […]
  3. p. vii, line 105[…] sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and the son and if […]
  4. p. vii, line 107[…] the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In […]
  5. p. viii, line 108[…] congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they get the […]
  6. p. x, line 91[…] at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in […]
  7. p. xi, line 33[…] himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits […]
  8. p. xii, line 46[…] and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature […]
  9. p. 13, line 10It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it,
  10. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  11. p. 16, line 3And that a kelson of the creation is love;
  12. p. 17, line 18For me all that have been boys and that love women,
  13. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  14. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  15. p. 27, line 16Prodigal! you have given me love! . . . . therefore I to you give love!
  16. p. 27, line 17O unspeakable passionate love!
  17. p. 31, line 24I hear the sound of the human voice . . . . a sound I love,
  18. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,
  19. 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?
  20. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  21. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  22. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  23. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
  24. p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  25. 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?
  26. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  27. p. 60, line 14But I am eternally in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  28. p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,
  29. 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,
  30. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  31. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  32. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  33. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,
  34. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  35. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  36. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,
  37. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  38. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  39. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
  40. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;
  41. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  42. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
  43. p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.
  44. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  45. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.
  46. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
  47. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,

loved 8

  1. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  2. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  3. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  4. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  5. 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;
  6. p. 81, line 26Have you ever loved a woman?

loveflesh 1

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

love-grip 1

  1. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;

lover 12

  1. p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal […]
  2. p. vi, line 40[…] of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the […]
  3. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
  4. p. 27, line 15Smile, for your lover comes!
  5. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
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  1. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  2. p. 71, line 30My truant lover has come and it is dark.
  3. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  4. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  5. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  6. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  7. 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,

loveroot 1

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,

lovers 6

  1. p. xii, line 25[…] it for the evergrowing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all […]
  2. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  3. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  4. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  5. p. 50, line 26My lovers suffocate me!
  6. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,

loves 4

  1. p. iii, line 29[…] space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous […]
  2. p. 71, line 3The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  3. p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
  4. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,

loving 7

  1. p. ix, line 82[…] never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and […]
  2. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  3. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,
  4. p. 30, line 15Broad muscular fields, branches of liveoak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you,
  5. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!
  6. p. 38, line 3Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning,
  7. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,

lovingest 1

  1. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

lovingly 2

  1. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  2. p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,

low 7

  1. p. 30, line 28Scooting obliquely high and low.
  2. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  3. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
  4. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
  5. p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
  6. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
  7. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,

lowered 2

  1. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
  2. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,

lower-gun-deck 1

  1. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.

lowspirited 1

  1. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,

Lucifer 1

  1. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;

luck 2

  1. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,

luckier 1

  1. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

lucky 2

  1. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  2. p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

lull 1

  1. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

lulled 1

  1. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,

lulls 1

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

lumbermen 1

  1. p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,

lunatic 1

  1. p. 21, line 28The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,

lungs 2

  1. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  2. 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,

lure 1

  1. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

luscious 1

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

lust 1

  1. 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,

lusts 2

  1. p. 29, line 23Voices of sexes and lusts . . . . voices veiled, and I remove the veil,
  2. p. 88, line 2Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,

lusty 3

  1. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;
  2. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  3. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,

luxuriant 2

  1. p. v, line 97[…] it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its […]
  2. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,

lying 2

  1. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  2. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,