Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “no”

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  1. p. iii, line 76[…] the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut […]
  2. p. iv, line 91[…] forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  3. p. v, line 20[…] His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge […]
  4. p. v, line 48[…] of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or […]
  5. p. vi, line 39[…] he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals […]
  6. p. vi, line 49The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life […]
  7. p. vi, line 94[…] and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is […]
  8. p. vii, line 48[…] example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
  9. p. vii, line 52[…] Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we […]
  10. p. vii, line 81[…] wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the […]
  11. p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet but always his encouragement and […]
  12. p. vii, line 99[…] construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed […]
  13. p. viii, line 30[…] or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system […]
  14. p. viii, line 33[…] against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in […]
  15. p. viii, line 67[…] any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive […]
  16. p. viii, line 68[…] and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and […]
  17. p. viii, line 77[…] and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is not the first to […]
  18. p. viii, line 84[…] lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and […]
  19. p. viii, line 91[…] numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we are elated with noble joy […]
  20. p. viii, line 110[…] the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a bound booby and […]
  21. p. ix, line 38[…] states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not permit […]
  22. p. ix, line 63[…] soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
  23. p. ix, line 72[…] of him who has perfect candor. Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness […]
  24. p. ix, line 74[…] inner and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself […]
  25. p. x, line 50[…] not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish […]
  26. p. x, line 65[…] reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is […]
  27. p. x, line 77[…] young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is […]
  28. p. x, line 78[…] less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will […]
  29. p. x, line 100[…] was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out […]
  30. p. xi, line 1[…] its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now […]
  31. p. xi, line 2[…] exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result […]
  32. p. xi, line 11[…] conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the […]
  33. p. xi, line 15[…] every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man […]
  34. p. xi, line 22[…] worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real […]
  35. p. xi, line 54[…] genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of […]
  36. p. xi, line 70[…] much as a woman. A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning […]
  37. p. xi, line 74[…] and realize and be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither […]
  38. p. xi, line 80[…] grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn […]
  39. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile […]
  40. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory […]
  41. p. xii, line 19[…] and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it […]
  42. p. xii, line 55[…] reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors […]
  43. p. xii, line 62[…] soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal from […]
  44. p. xii, line 63[…] its work. No disguise can pass on it . . no disguise can conceal from it. It rejects none, it permits […]
  45. p. xii, line 71[…] its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other […]
  46. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  47. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  48. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  49. p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
  50. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  51. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  52. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  53. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  54. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  55. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  56. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  57. p. 28, line 4My gait is no faultfinder's or rejecter's gait,
  58. p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
  59. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
  60. p. 29, line 27Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  61. p. 32, line 21Mine is no callous shell,
  62. p. 32, line 32Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  63. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  64. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  65. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
  66. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
  67. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  68. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
  69. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  70. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  71. p. 50, line 2All has been gentle with me . . . . . . I keep no account with lamentation;
  72. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.
  73. p. 51, line 14There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage;
  74. p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  75. p. 51, line 27I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
  76. p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
  77. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  78. p. 53, line 18No shuttered room or school can commune with me,
  79. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  80. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  81. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  82. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  83. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  84. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  85. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  86. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
  87. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
  88. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  89. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  90. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  91. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  92. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  93. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  94. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
  95. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  96. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;
  97. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  98. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  99. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  100. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  101. p. 76, line 10The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
  102. 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,
  103. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
  104. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  105. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,
  106. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
  107. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
  108. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  109. p. 92, line 5It is no lesson . . . . it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
  110. 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;
  111. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,