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.
M
machinery 2
machinist 1
mad 4
- p. 13, line 12I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
- p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!
- p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
- p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
made 12
- p. ix, line 50[…] it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be […]
- p. x, line 26[…] soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability […]
- p. xi, line 58[…] of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand […]
- p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
- p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
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- p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
- p. 61, line 18(What is it that you made money? what is it that you got what you wanted?)
- p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
- p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,
- p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,
- p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,
- p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
madness 1
magazine 1
maggot 1
maggots 1
magnetic 1
magnificently 1
magnifying 1
magnitude 1
maid 1
mails 2
maimed 1
main 1
Maine 2
mainly 1
mainmast 1
main-sledge 1
maintop 1
majesty 1
majorities 2
make 30
- p. iii, line 85[…] of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening […]
- p. v, line 8[…] he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the […]
- p. vi, line 101[…] years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has […]
- p. vi, line 114[…] simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry […]
- p. viii, line 22[…] For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than […]
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- p. viii, line 46In the make of the great masters the idea of political liberty is […]
- p. ix, line 35[…] residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states […]
- p. x, line 40[…] Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a […]
- p. xii, line 67[…] a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest […]
- p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
- p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
- p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
- p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
- p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
- p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
- p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?
- p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
- p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
- p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,
- p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
- p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
- p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
- p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
- p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
- p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
- p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;
- p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
- p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.
- p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.
makes 3
making 6
- p. iv, line 52[…] aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south […]
- p. 22, line 22The child is baptised—the convert is making the first professions,
- p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
- p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
- p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
- p. 81, line 6In it and below it the making of the attributes of heroes.
male 7
- p. iv, line 71[…] the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . . the large amativeness—the fluid movement of the population—the […]
- p. x, line 70[…] last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean […]
- p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
- p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
- p. 76, line 14Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;
- p. 77, line 14The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
- p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
malformed 1
malignant 1
mallet 2
man 94
- p. iii, line 21[…] at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and […]
- p. iii, line 74[…] nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A […]
- p. iv, line 2[…] the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
- p. iv, line 98[…] all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque […]
- p. iv, line 110[…] the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health […]
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- p. v, line 48[…] hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
- p. v, line 66[…] glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and all the instruments and books of the earth and […]
- p. v, line 111[…] If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through […]
- p. vi, line 7[…] to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons […]
- p. vi, line 37[…] with his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and […]
- p. vi, line 55[…] eternally curious of the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that […]
- p. vi, line 94[…] finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond […]
- p. vii, line 50The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only […]
- p. vii, line 77[…] privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by […]
- p. vii, line 108[…] shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the […]
- p. viii, line 91[…] brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at […]
- p. ix, line 72[…] him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins […]
- p. x, line 9[…] abandonment of such a great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking […]
- p. x, line 40[…] is of consequence. Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a […]
- p. x, line 102[…] well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the […]
- p. xi, line 17[…] forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has done […]
- p. xi, line 18[…] has done exceeding well for himself, while the man who has not periled his life and retains it to […]
- p. xi, line 61[…] long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often […]
- p. xi, line 67[…] and for a woman as much as a man and a man as much as a woman. A great […]
- p. xi, line 69[…] woman as much as a man and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no […]
- p. xi, line 71[…] A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied […]
- p. xi, line 86[…] of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the […]
- p. xi, line 97[…] arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches […]
- p. xi, line 98[…] shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their […]
- p. xii, line 39[…] Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate […]
- p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
- p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
- p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
- p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
- p. 20, line 10They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
- p. 23, line 23Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
- p. 25, line 22What is a man anyhow? What am I? and what are you?
- p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
- p. 26, line 29And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
- p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
- p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
- p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
- p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.
- p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
- p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
- p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.
- p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
- p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
- p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
- p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
- p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
- p. 52, line 1But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
- p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
- p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
- p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
- p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.
- 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,
- p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
- 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,
- p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,
- p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
- p. 76, line 18The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
- p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
- p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
- p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
- p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
- p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
- p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;
- p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
- p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
- p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
- p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
- p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
- p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
- p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
- p. 85, line 16A YOUNG man came to me with a message from his brother,
- p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
- 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,
- p. 86, line 11A man is a summons and challenge,
- p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
- 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?
- p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.
- p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,
- p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;
- p. 94, line 10Great is the quality of truth in man,
- p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,
- p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.
- p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,
- p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
manfully 1
mangers 1
mangled 1
Manhattan 2
manhood 3
- p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!
- p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
- p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
mania 1
maniacs 1
manifold 3
Manito 1
mankind 4
- p. iv, line 98[…] so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him […]
- p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
- p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
- p. 54, line 6And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God,
manly 6
- p. iii, line 59[…] their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and […]
- p. v, line 85[…] fields, the love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light […]
- p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;
- p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;
- 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?
- p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,
manners 5
- p. iii, line 6[…] that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has […]
- p. iii, line 47[…] but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy […]
- p. xii, line 41[…] his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the […]
- p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
- p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
mano'warsmen 1
man's 4
manufactures 2
- p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
- p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
manure 1
manured 1
manures 1
manuscript 1
many 21
- p. vi, line 100[…] it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications […]
- p. viii, line 69[…] and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy […]
- p. ix, line 15[…] between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process […]
- p. xii, line 44[…] nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality […]
- p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
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- p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
- p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
- p. 29, line 13Through me many long dumb voices,
- p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
- p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
- p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
- p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
- p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
- p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
- p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
- p. 84, line 31The old face of the mother of many children:
- p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
- p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
- p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
maple 1
maps 1
marauder 1
march 4
- p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
- p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
- 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.
- p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?
March-born 1
marched 1
marches 3
- p. xi, line 57[…] either can be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing […]
- p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
- p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
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mare 2
mare's 1
marine 1
mariners 1
mark 6
- p. iii, line 77[…] A live nation can always cut a deep mark and can have the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from […]
- p. iii, line 86[…] mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the […]
- p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
- p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
- p. 88, line 1And you, paid to defile the People . . . . you liars mark:
marked 2
market 1
markets 3
- p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,
- p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
- p. 67, line 20The farms and profits and crops . . the markets and wages and government . . they also are not phantasms;
marks 1
marksman 1
marksmen 1
marl 1
maroontint 1
marriage 4
- p. v, line 1[…] the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close […]
- p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
- p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
- p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.
married 3
- p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
- 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,
- p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
marsh 1
marshal 3
marshalled 1
martyrs 3
marvellous 1 today: marvelous
marvelous see marvellous
Maryland 1
masculine 5
- p. iv, line 14[…] and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than […]
- p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,
- p. 33, line 19Landscapes projected masculine full-sized and golden.
- p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,
- p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
mashed 1
masons 2
mason-work 1
mass 3
- p. viii, line 37[…] health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect […]
- p. ix, line 75[…] never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle […]
- p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,
Massachusetts 2
- p. iv, line 17[…] of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and […]
- p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,
massacred 1
masse 2
masses 3
- p. iii, line 26[…] to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are […]
- p. vi, line 59[…] same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that its finish is to each for itself […]
- p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
massive 2
mastadon 1 today: mastodon
master 15
- p. v, line 11[…] or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he […]
- p. vi, line 22[…] go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all […]
- p. vi, line 23[…] the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
- p. vii, line 66[…] which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky […]
- p. vii, line 67[…] Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter […]
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- p. vii, line 68[…] sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all terror […]
- p. viii, line 34[…] no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master […]
- p. viii, line 35[…] in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for […]
- p. viii, line 41[…] for that is to correspond with it. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are […]
- p. viii, line 92[…] answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy at the […]
- p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
- p. 57, line 13Neither a servant nor a master am I,
- p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
- p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.
- p. 88, line 29Is the house shut? Is the master away?
master-at-arms 1
mastering 2
masters 5
- p. v, line 11[…] never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a […]
- p. vii, line 10[…] it you have looked on one of the masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall […]
- p. viii, line 46In the make of the great masters the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the […]
- p. 68, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go . . . . the heroes and good-doers are well,
- p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
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- p. xii, line 40[…] a woman to be his perfect and independent mate? Does it improve manners? Is it for the nursing of […]
- p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
- p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,
- p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
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- p. vii, line 99[…] underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of […]
- p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
- p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?
- p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
- p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
- 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;
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- p. iii, line 74[…] prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet […]
- p. iii, line 76[…] of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep […]
- p. v, line 36[…] a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist […]
- p. v, line 91[…] never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled […]
- p. vi, line 21[…] ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly […]
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- p. vi, line 88[…] past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where […]
- p. vii, line 27[…] tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have […]
- p. vii, line 54[…] we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme […]
- p. viii, line 2[…] What has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are […]
- p. ix, line 69[…] their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let […]
- p. xi, line 93[…] no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by […]
- p. xii, line 69[…] of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The […]
- p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
- p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
- p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
- p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
- p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
- p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
- p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
- p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
- p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
- 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,
- p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
- p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
- p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
- p. 81, line 8They shall be stript that you may see them.
- p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
- p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
- p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,
- 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,
- 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.
- p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?
- p. 94, line 4That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as the coldest may be without words,
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- p. x, line 8[…] dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great […]
- p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
- 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,
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- p. iii, line 51[…] their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by […]
- p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
- p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
- p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
- 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,
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- p. 68, line 15The law of drunkards and informers and mean persons cannot be eluded.
- p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
- p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
- p. 88, line 3For court thieving in its manifold mean forms,
- p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,
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- p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
- p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
- p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
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- p. vi, line 71[…] is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
- p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.
- p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;
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- p. vi, line 102[…] he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its […]
- p. vi, line 104[…] but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and […]
- 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,
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- p. v, line 18[…] out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate […]
- p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
- p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
- p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
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- p. viii, line 113[…] at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and […]
- p. x, line 77[…] wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less […]
- p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
- p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
- p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
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- p. iv, line 68[…] uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the general […]
- p. 46, line 9By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born;
- p. 59, line 3Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, sailors, mano'warsmen, merchantmen, coasters,
- p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
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- p. xi, line 26[…] good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency […]
- p. xii, line 69[…] and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is […]
- 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,
- 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?
- p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
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- p. v, line 94[…] uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these […]
- p. x, line 8[…] supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as […]
- p. xii, line 6[…] It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen […]
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- p. iii, line 38[…] drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
- p. iii, line 85[…] fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As […]
- p. iv, line 2[…] exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
- p. v, line 18[…] he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is […]
- p. v, line 27[…] a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as […]
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- p. v, line 28[…] in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic […]
- p. v, line 81[…] indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as well […]
- p. vi, line 8[…] unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young […]
- p. vii, line 58[…] more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of […]
- p. viii, line 7[…] of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect […]
- p. viii, line 13[…] anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
- p. viii, line 14Men and women and the earth and all upon it are […]
- p. viii, line 48[…] indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome […]
- p. viii, line 61[…] faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two […]
- p. viii, line 75[…] are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each […]
- p. ix, line 4[…] when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth […]
- p. x, line 16[…] of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth or […]
- p. x, line 53[…] not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not […]
- p. x, line 55[…] of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons […]
- p. x, line 92[…] love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and […]
- p. xi, line 100[…] under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos […]
- p. xi, line 102[…] the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall […]
- p. xii, line 17[…] songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American […]
- p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
- p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
- p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
- p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
- p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
- p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
- p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
- p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
- p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
- p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
- p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
- p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
- p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
- p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
- p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
- p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
- p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
- p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
- p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
- p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
- p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
- p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
- p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
- p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.
- p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
- p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
- p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
- p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.
- p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
- p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
- p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;
- p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
- p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
- 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;
- 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,
- p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
- p. 85, line 15The justified mother of men!
- p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
- p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
- p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:
- p. 88, line 18Those corpses of young men,
- p. 88, line 21They live in other young men, O kings,
- p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
- p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
- p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
- p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;
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- p. 61, line 4It is not the violins and the cornets . . . . it is not the oboe nor the beating drums— nor the notes of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza . . . . nor those of the men's chorus, nor those of the women's chorus,
- p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
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- p. iii, line 23[…] of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is […]
- p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
- p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
- p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
- 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,
- p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
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- p. xi, line 46[…] sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the […]
- p. 17, line 23Who need be afraid of the merge?
- p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
- p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
- p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
- p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.
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- p. iv, line 21[…] Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off […]
- p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
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- p. iii, line 90[…] the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth […]
- p. x, line 17[…] or have to do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the […]
- p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
- p. 73, line 8Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
- p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
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- p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
- p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
- p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
- p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
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- p. 25, line 19I might not tell everybody but I will tell you.
- p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
- p. 44, line 21And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
- p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
- p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
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- p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
- p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
- 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.
- p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
- p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
- p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
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- p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
- p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
- p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
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- p. v, line 114[…] universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments […]
- p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
- p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
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- p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
- p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
- p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.
- p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
- p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
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- p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
- p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
- p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
- p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.
- p. 32, line 21Mine is no callous shell,
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- p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
- p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
- p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
- p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
- p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
- p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
- p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
- p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,
- p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
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- p. vi, line 61[…] profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the […]
- p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
- p. 33, line 29A minute and a drop of me settle my brain;
- p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
- p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
- p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
- p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
- p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
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- p. viii, line 5[…] cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme […]
- p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
- p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,
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- p. viii, line 9[…] and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its […]
- p. viii, line 36[…] The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the […]
- p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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- p. iv, line 11[…] geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and […]
- 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?
- p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.
- 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.
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- p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
- p. 80, line 5As I see my soul reflected in nature . . . . as I see through a mist one with inexpressible completeness and beauty . . . . see the bent head and arms folded over the breast . . . . the female I see,
- p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,
- p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
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- p. iv, line 45[…] water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor and night-heron and eagle. To him […]
- p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
- p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
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- p. v, line 40[…] is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is […]
- p. ix, line 39[…] shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or […]
- p. ix, line 59[…] and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every day. . . . . Great genius and […]
- p. xii, line 26[…] and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out […]
- p. xii, line 27[…] proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or […]
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- p. x, line 21[…] serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization […]
- p. xii, line 34[…] ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and […]
- p. 28, line 17And mine a word of the modern . . . . a word en masse.
- p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
- p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
- p. 48, line 9Enclosing all worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern,
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- p. vi, line 96[…] for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his […]
- p. vi, line 98[…] smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged […]
- p. x, line 112[…] you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or […]
- p. 17, line 6And ceased the moment life appeared.
- p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.
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- p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
- p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
- p. 49, line 19The clock indicates the moment . . . . but what does eternity indicate?
- p. 51, line 1Lighting on every moment of my life,
- 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,
- p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
- p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
- p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
- p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
- 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?
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- 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,
- p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
- p. 61, line 18(What is it that you made money? what is it that you got what you wanted?)
- p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;
- p. 86, line 1All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,
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- p. vii, line 15[…] journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him […]
- p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
- p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
- 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,
- p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
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- p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
- p. 55, line 1I ascend from the moon . . . . I ascend from the night,
- p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,
- p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
- p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,
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- p. iv, line 15[…] Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the […]
- p. iv, line 23[…] by the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by […]
- p. iv, line 84[…] epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted […]
- p. iv, line 103[…] every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and […]
- p. v, line 77[…] but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb […]
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- p. v, line 97[…] that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into […]
- p. vi, line 75[…] events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as […]
- p. vii, line 16[…] the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has […]
- p. vii, line 19[…] poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution […]
- p. vii, line 57[…] and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be […]
- p. vii, line 84[…] most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the […]
- p. vii, line 85[…] more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
- p. viii, line 12[…] that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
- p. viii, line 50[…] takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of […]
- p. viii, line 84[…] of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors […]
- p. ix, line 13[…] over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising […]
- p. ix, line 28[…] proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is […]
- p. ix, line 63[…] as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
- p. x, line 77[…] mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no […]
- p. x, line 78[…] if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come […]
- p. x, line 97[…] good of the hundreds of far mightier and more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or […]
- p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps […]
- p. xii, line 3[…] terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it […]
- p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
- p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
- p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
- p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
- p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
- p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
- p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
- p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
- p. 25, line 17Do I astonish more than they?
- p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
- p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
- p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
- p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
- p. 29, line 27Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
- p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
- p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
- p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
- p. 34, line 36Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
- 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.
- p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
- p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
- p. 42, line 32I become as much more as I like.
- p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
- p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
- p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
- p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
- p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
- p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
- p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
- p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
- p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
- p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
- p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
- p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
- p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
- p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
- p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
- p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
- p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?
- p. 68, line 20But there is more account than that . . . . there is strict account of all.
- p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
- p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
- p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
- p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
- p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
- p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
- p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
- p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
- p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
- p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
- p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.
- p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
- p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
- p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
- p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
- p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,
- p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,
- p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.
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- p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
- 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.
- p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
- p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
- p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
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- p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;
- p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
- p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,
- p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
- 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.
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- p. iii, line 19[…] history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and […]
- p. iii, line 42[…] of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or […]
- p. iii, line 45[…] even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the […]
- p. iv, line 94[…] United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use […]
- p. v, line 3[…] too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse […]
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- p. v, line 23[…] As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of […]
- p. vi, line 69[…] singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not […]
- p. vi, line 96[…] a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that […]
- p. vii, line 76[…] riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that […]
- p. vii, line 77[…] perceive who the most affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he […]
- p. vii, line 82[…] out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body […]
- p. vii, line 83[…] strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the […]
- p. ix, line 56[…] are necessary to the completion of the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology […]
- p. x, line 28[…] of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe […]
- p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
- p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
- p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
- p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.
- p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
- p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
- p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
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- p. xii, line 44[…] of the nipples of the breasts of the mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance […]
- p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
- p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
- p. 39, line 10The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on;
- p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
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- p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
- p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
- 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,
- p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
- p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
- p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
- p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
- p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
- p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
- p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
- p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
- p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
- p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
- p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
- p. 84, line 31The old face of the mother of many children:
- p. 85, line 15The justified mother of men!
- p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,
- p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:
- p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
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- p. iv, line 47[…] eagle. To him the hereditary countenance descends both mother's and father's. To him enter the essences of the real […]
- p. vi, line 9[…] persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every […]
- p. ix, line 101[…] greatest poet from his birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution […]
- p. ix, line 102[…] womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that […]
- p. x, line 91[…] the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all […]
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- p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
- p. 16, line 23And here you are the mothers' laps.
- p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
- p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
- p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
- p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
- p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
- p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
- p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
- p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
- p. 92, line 20I know it is wonderful . . . . but my eyesight is equally wonderful . . . . and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
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- p. vi, line 17[…] the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend […]
- p. vii, line 63[…] and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and […]
- p. viii, line 6[…] inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits […]
- p. viii, line 25[…] than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the […]
- p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
- p. 80, line 20The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
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- p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
- p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
- 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,
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- p. 30, line 2Translucent mould of me it shall be you,
- p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;
- p. 89, line 14Cocked hats of mothy mould and crutches made of mist,
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- p. iv, line 37[…] in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or […]
- p. v, line 75[…] sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of […]
- p. 18, line 23Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
- p. 27, line 10Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
- p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
- p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
- 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?
- p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.
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- p. x, line 102[…] of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all […]
- p. 13, line 10It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it,
- p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
- p. 29, line 25I do not press my finger across my mouth,
- p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
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- p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
- p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
- p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
- p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.
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- p. xii, line 20[…] Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every […]
- p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
- p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
- p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
- p. 50, line 22Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
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- p. x, line 39[…] does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or […]
- p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
- p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
- p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
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- p. vii, line 5[…] with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees […]
- p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always his […]
- p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,
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- p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
- p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
- p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
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- p. iii, line 25[…] strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates […]
- p. iv, line 80[…] ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American […]
- p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
- p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,
- p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
- p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
- p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.
- 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;
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- p. iv, line 84[…] or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be […]
- p. iv, line 97[…] Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet […]
- p. v, line 95[…] precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme […]
- p. viii, line 98[…] the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a […]
- p. ix, line 112[…] notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of […]
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- p. x, line 45[…] The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body. Not one name of […]
- p. x, line 71[…] is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order […]
- p. xi, line 67[…] departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and a man as much as a […]
- p. xi, line 69[…] much as a man and a man as much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to […]
- p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
- p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
- p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
- p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.
- p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
- p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.
- p. 42, line 32I become as much more as I like.
- p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
- p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
- p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
- p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
- p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
- p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
- p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
- p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
- p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
- p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
- p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
- p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
- p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
- p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
- p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
- p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
- p. 67, line 8To think how much pleasure there is!
- p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
- p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
- p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
- p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
- p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?
- p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
- p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:
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- p. x, line 50[…] rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the […]
- p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
- p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
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- p. iv, line 54[…] settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and peace and […]
- p. xi, line 34[…] neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not […]
- p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
- p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
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- p. iii, line 59[…] the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of […]
- p. v, line 106[…] fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All […]
- p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
- p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
- p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!
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- p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
- p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
- p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
- p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,
- p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.
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- p. iii, line 35[…] its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and […]
- p. iii, line 84[…] if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical! As if men do […]
- p. vi, line 78[…] pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be […]
- p. vi, line 79[…] surely be there and the clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of […]
- p. vii, line 102[…] visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall […]
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- p. viii, line 53[…] idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can […]
- p. ix, line 39[…] no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in […]
- p. ix, line 50[…] human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing […]
- p. ix, line 61[…] Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are […]
- p. xii, line 29[…] know that what answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a […]
- p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
- p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.
- p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
- p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
- p. 26, line 7All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
- p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
- p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
- p. 52, line 5You must travel it for yourself.
- p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
- p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
- p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
- p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
- p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
- 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,
- p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
- p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
- p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
- p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
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- p. 13, line 1I CELEBRATE myself,
- p. 13, line 7I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
- p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
- 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,
- p. 15, line 14But they are not the Me myself.
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- p. 17, line 15I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
- p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
- p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
- p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
- p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
- p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
- p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
- p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
- p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
- p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
- p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
- p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
- p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
- p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.
- p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
- p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
- p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,
- p. 36, line 14Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft . . . . floating in it myself and looking composedly down;
- p. 38, line 10I help myself to material and immaterial,
- p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
- p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
- p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
- p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
- p. 43, line 17I discover myself on a verge of the usual mistake.
- p. 44, line 24What I give I give out of myself.
- p. 45, line 17I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
- p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
- p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
- p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
- p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
- p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
- p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.
- p. 47, line 25And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
- p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
- p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
- p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
- p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
- p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
- p. 55, line 19Do I contradict myself?
- p. 55, line 20Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
- p. 56, line 5I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
- p. 70, line 7Wandering and confused . . . . lost to myself . . . . ill-assorted . . . . contradictory,
- p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
- p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
- p. 73, line 14I turn but do not extricate myself;
- p. 74, line 31And will go gallivant with the light and the air myself,
- p. 77, line 1Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
- p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
- p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
- p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
- p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
- p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.
- p. 93, line 16Great are yourself and myself,
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- p. v, line 61[…] does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this […]
- p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
- p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.