Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

The 7,190 different words in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

O

O 25

  1. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
  2. p. 27, line 8Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  3. p. 27, line 17O unspeakable passionate love!
  4. p. 42, line 25O Christ! My fit is mastering me!
  5. p. 45, line 11O despairer, here is my neck,
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  1. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  2. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
  3. p. 55, line 12Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  4. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  5. p. 72, line 11O hotcheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!
  6. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  7. p. 74, line 17O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  8. p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,
  9. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  10. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  11. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
  12. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!
  13. p. 88, line 21They live in other young men, O kings,
  14. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

oar 1

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

oath 1

  1. p. 18, line 6The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,

oaths 2

  1. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  2. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)

oats 1

  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,

obedience 2

  1. p. v, line 9[…] Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him […]
  2. p. v, line 10[…] custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out […]

obediently 1

  1. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,

obeyed 1

  1. p. 40, line 29None obeyed the command to kneel,

obis 1

  1. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

object 8

  1. p. iv, line 102[…] its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He […]
  2. p. ix, line 15[…] rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the […]
  3. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  4. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  5. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  6. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
  7. 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.

objecting 1

  1. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;

objection 1

  1. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,

objects 6

  1. p. v, line 78[…] and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and […]
  2. p. xi, line 104[…] things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not […]
  3. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  4. p. 26, line 6To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  5. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  6. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:

obliquely 1

  1. p. 30, line 28Scooting obliquely high and low.

oboe 1

  1. 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,

observation 1

  1. p. vii, line 29[…] or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition […]

observe 2

  1. p. x, line 29[…] life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside […]
  2. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

observing 1

  1. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.

obstetric 1

  1. p. 33, line 22They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,

obtain 1

  1. p. viii, line 108[…] or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people […]

occult 1

  1. p. 30, line 7My brain it shall be your occult convolutions,

ocean 3

  1. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  2. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  3. p. 85, line 25The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,

oceanic 1

  1. p. xi, line 31[…] himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land […]

o'clock 3

  1. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  2. p. 41, line 6At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;
  3. 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,

octave 1

  1. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.

octillions 1

  1. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

oculist's 1

  1. p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;

odd 1

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

odds 1

  1. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;

Odin 1

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

odor 5

  1. p. x, line 14[…] and all the loss of the bloom and odor of the earth and of the flowers and atmosphere and […]
  2. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  3. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  4. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,
  5. 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:

odorless 1

  1. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,

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off 29

  1. p. iii, line 62[…] terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him—these too […]
  2. p. iv, line 17[…] sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain […]
  3. p. iv, line 22[…] Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth […]
  4. p. iv, line 99[…] is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of […]
  5. p. v, line 2[…] and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is […]
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  1. p. v, line 3[…] too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the […]
  2. p. v, line 25[…] talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity […]
  3. p. vi, line 6[…] have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any […]
  4. p. xi, line 10[…] prudence if they conform to its ways, puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any […]
  5. p. xi, line 88[…] and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for […]
  6. p. xi, line 94[…] wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the […]
  7. p. xii, line 55[…] polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill […]
  8. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  9. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
  10. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  11. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  12. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  13. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,
  14. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  15. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  16. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
  17. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  18. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  19. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  20. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  21. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  22. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  23. 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:
  24. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

offend 1

  1. p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,

offer 3

  1. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  2. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.

offering 2

  1. p. x, line 87[…] others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or […]
  2. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,

offers 2

  1. p. v, line 18[…] steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His […]
  2. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

office 3

  1. p. viii, line 112[…] to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or […]
  2. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;
  3. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

officers 4

  1. p. x, line 55[…] any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons […]
  2. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  3. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
  4. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,

offices 3

  1. p. viii, line 106[…] sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the […]
  2. p. viii, line 110[…] deference from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a bound […]
  3. p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,

offing 1

  1. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.

offset 2

  1. p. iv, line 29[…] between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and hemlock and liveoak […]
  2. p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,

offspring 7

  1. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  2. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  3. p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  4. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,
  5. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  6. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

often 4

  1. p. xi, line 62[…] he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him […]
  2. p. xi, line 63[…] often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the old think […]
  3. 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?
  4. p. 95, line 13Great is wickedness . . . . I find I often admire it just as much as I admire goodness:

Ohio 2

  1. p. iv, line 12[…] freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson […]
  2. 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,

oilcloths 1

  1. p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;

old 65

  1. p. iii, line 3[…] politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient […]
  2. p. iv, line 4The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of […]
  3. p. v, line 87[…] light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of […]
  4. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be […]
  5. p. viii, line 81[…] is the last. . . When the memories of the old martyrs are faded utterly away . . . . when the large names of […]
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  1. p. ix, line 17[…] process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the […]
  2. p. x, line 81[…] to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick […]
  3. p. x, line 88[…] offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all […]
  4. p. xi, line 19[…] not periled his life and retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for […]
  5. p. xi, line 63[…] of him? and do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
  6. p. xi, line 81[…] the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him […]
  7. p. xii, line 26[…] brothers and lovers, large, well-united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh […]
  8. p. xii, line 34[…] the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does […]
  9. p. xii, line 44[…] mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same […]
  10. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  11. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  12. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  13. p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  14. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  15. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  16. p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  17. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  18. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  19. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  20. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  21. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
  22. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  23. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  24. p. 37, line 15Pleased with the native and pleased with the foreign . . . . pleased with the new and old,
  25. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  26. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  27. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  28. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  29. p. 44, line 19Say old topknot! what do you want?
  30. p. 45, line 25Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
  31. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
  32. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  33. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!
  34. p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
  35. 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,
  36. p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
  37. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  38. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  39. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.
  40. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  41. p. 73, line 23Now of the old war-days . . the defeat at Brooklyn;
  42. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  43. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  44. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,
  45. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  46. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  47. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  48. p. 84, line 31The old face of the mother of many children:
  49. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  50. 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?
  51. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;
  52. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
  53. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  54. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!
  55. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  56. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  57. 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;
  58. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  59. p. 93, line 24Do you know that old age may come after you with equal grace and force and fascination?
  60. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.

oldest 2

  1. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  2. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,

old-faced 1

  1. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;

oldfashioned 1

  1. p. 41, line 9Did you read in the seabooks of the oldfashioned frigate-fight?

omnibus 2

  1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

omnific 1

  1. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,

omnigenous 1

  1. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;

omniverous 1 today: omnivorous

  1. p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,

omnivorous see omniverous

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onanist 2

  1. p. x, line 48[…] sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not […]
  2. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,

onanists 1

  1. p. 70, line 11The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

once 6

  1. p. v, line 69[…] impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience […]
  2. p. ix, line 81[…] despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the […]
  3. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  4. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
  5. 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?
  6. 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.

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one-cent 1

  1. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

oneness 1

  1. p. ix, line 98[…] and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied […]

ones 1

  1. 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,

one's-self 1

  1. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

one-two-three 1

  1. p. 63, line 10The blows of the fighting-man . . the upper cut and one-two-three;

one-year 1

  1. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,

onion-patch 1

  1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,

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  1. p. v, line 56[…] himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not […]
  2. p. vi, line 15[…] great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its […]
  3. p. vi, line 56[…] things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand for the […]
  4. p. vi, line 91[…] future becomes present. The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he […]
  5. p. vii, line 51[…] woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than […]
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  1. p. vii, line 54[…] may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and […]
  2. p. vii, line 58[…] and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do […]
  3. p. viii, line 23[…] eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever […]
  4. p. ix, line 5[…] discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part […]
  5. p. ix, line 59[…] Clean and vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural forms are […]
  6. p. ix, line 82[…] without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any […]
  7. p. x, line 37[…] look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to […]
  8. p. x, line 112[…] spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts […]
  9. p. xi, line 21[…] achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning . . and that only that person has no great prudence to learn who has […]
  10. p. xii, line 52[…] The expectation of the vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great […]
  11. p. xii, line 64[…] from it. It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of […]
  12. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
  13. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
  14. p. 26, line 33I show that size is only developement.
  15. p. 27, line 36And am not the poet of goodness only . . . . I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  16. p. 28, line 8I step up to say that what we do is right and what we affirm is right . . . . and some is only the ore of right,
  17. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  18. p. 33, line 28Only what nobody denies is so.
  19. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  20. p. 41, line 25Only three guns were in use,
  21. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  22. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  23. 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.
  24. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  25. 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,
  26. p. 63, line 8The snowplough and two engines pushing it . . . . the ride in the express train of only one car . . . . the swift go through a howling storm:
  27. p. 71, line 20Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could;
  28. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  29. p. 77, line 15The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
  30. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  31. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  32. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  33. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  34. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,

Ontario 1

  1. p. iv, line 19[…] bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan […]

onward 9

  1. p. vi, line 60[…] its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there […]
  2. p. x, line 42[…] death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as […]
  3. p. xi, line 26[…] and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and who in his […]
  4. p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,
  5. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  6. p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
  7. p. 71, line 24Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy.
  8. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

ooze 1

  1. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,

open 16

  1. p. v, line 87[…] of horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing […]
  2. p. vi, line 10[…] mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re […]
  3. p. ix, line 53[…] that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the […]
  4. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  5. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
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  1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  2. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  3. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  4. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  5. 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.
  6. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  7. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;
  8. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  9. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
  10. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
  11. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

opened 2

  1. p. v, line 69[…] baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far […]
  2. p. xi, line 36[…] age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations […]

openhandedness 1

  1. p. iii, line 61[…] native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off […]

opening 1

  1. p. iii, line 86[…] mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery and what has transpired […]

openness 1

  1. p. ix, line 72[…] of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is […]

opera 1

  1. p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;

operas 1

  1. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:

opinions 2

  1. p. iii, line 6[…] been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its […]
  2. p. x, line 89[…] old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors […]

opium 1

  1. p. 22, line 28The opium eater reclines with rigid head and just-opened lips,

opposite 3

  1. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  2. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  3. p. 64, line 11When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,

opposition 1

  1. p. iv, line 78[…] of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or […]

oppressed 1

  1. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,

oppresses 1

  1. p. 74, line 22I have been wronged . . . . I am oppressed . . . . I hate him that oppresses me,

oppression 1

  1. p. viii, line 117[…] or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on […]

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oracles 1

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

orange 1

  1. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;

oranges 1

  1. p. v, line 103[…] as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to […]

orations 2

  1. p. v, line 106[…] ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes […]
  2. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

orators 1

  1. p. viii, line 84[…] the public halls from the lips of the orators . . . . when the boys are no more christened after the same […]

oratory 1

  1. p. xii, line 12[…] literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or […]

orb 1

  1. p. 50, line 21For it the nebula cohered to an orb . . . . the long slow strata piled to rest it on . . . . vast vegetables gave it sustenance,

orbic 1

  1. p. 32, line 9The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.

orbit 3

  1. p. xi, line 89[…] fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of […]
  2. p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
  3. 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;

orbits 1

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

orbs 2

  1. p. v, line 75[…] and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but […]
  2. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?

orchard-oriole 1

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

orchards 3

  1. p. iii, line 37[…] while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget […]
  2. p. v, line 84[…] hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of healthy women for the manly […]
  3. p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,

orchestra 2

  1. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  2. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.

ordained 1

  1. p. 21, line 25The deacons are ordained with crossed hands at the altar,

order 3

  1. p. x, line 72[…] profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it […]
  2. p. xi, line 97[…] en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man […]
  3. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,

orderly 3

  1. p. iii, line 19[…] the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is […]
  2. p. 89, line 22See how well-dressed . . . . see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  3. p. 90, line 7Look! all orderly citizens . . . . look from the windows women.

orders 1

  1. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

ordinances 1

  1. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,

ordnance 1

  1. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

ordure 1

  1. p. 49, line 12Nor the numberless slaughtered and wrecked . . . . nor the brutish koboo, called the ordure of humanity,

ore 1

  1. p. 28, line 8I step up to say that what we do is right and what we affirm is right . . . . and some is only the ore of right,

Oregon 2

  1. p. iv, line 22[…] seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters […]
  2. 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?

organ 3

  1. p. vi, line 70[…] one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take […]
  2. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  3. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.

organic 1

  1. p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and fondness for women and […]

organloft 1

  1. p. 21, line 19The pure contralto sings in the organloft,

origin 1

  1. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,

original 2

  1. p. vii, line 47[…] greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original practical example. The cleanest expression is that which finds no […]
  2. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,

originality 1

  1. p. vii, line 23[…] in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest […]

Orleans 1

  1. 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,

ornament 1

  1. p. ix, line 56[…] the work. Most works are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous […]

ornamental 1

  1. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?

ornaments 5

  1. p. v, line 105[…] the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations […]
  2. p. v, line 117[…] will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love […]
  3. p. ix, line 51[…] great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those […]
  4. p. ix, line 52[…] work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of […]
  5. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;

orotund 1

  1. p. 46, line 22My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.

orshows 1

  1. p. iii, line 94[…] and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography orshows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men […]

orthodox 1

  1. p. 82, line 14The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows . . . . the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,

Osiris 1

  1. p. 45, line 29Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai,

other 44

  1. p. iii, line 3[…] it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions […]
  2. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of […]
  3. p. iii, line 52[…] of one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and […]
  4. p. iv, line 7[…] be commensurate with a people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their […]
  5. p. iv, line 85[…] much more. Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated […]
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  1. p. v, line 62[…] knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof […]
  2. p. vi, line 31[…] his burning progress to contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to […]
  3. p. vi, line 105[…] as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in […]
  4. p. vi, line 107[…] far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The […]
  5. p. viii, line 58[…] hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or […]
  6. p. viii, line 76[…] eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never […]
  7. p. xi, line 6[…] coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of […]
  8. p. xii, line 50The poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass […]
  9. p. xii, line 71[…] of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his […]
  10. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  11. p. 15, line 23And you must not be abased to the other.
  12. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  13. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  14. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  15. p. 22, line 30The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  16. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
  17. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  18. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  19. p. 27, line 19We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
  20. p. 30, line 6Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you,
  21. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,
  22. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  23. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  24. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  25. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,
  26. p. 66, line 14A hearse and stages . . . . other vehicles give place,
  27. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  28. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  29. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  30. p. 71, line 13I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
  31. p. 71, line 14And I become the other dreamers.
  32. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  33. 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.
  34. p. 88, line 21They live in other young men, O kings,
  35. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  36. p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.

others 20

  1. p. v, line 56[…] is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and […]
  2. p. vi, line 4[…] and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence […]
  3. p. vi, line 20[…] the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go […]
  4. p. vi, line 30[…] hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact and amorous […]
  5. p. x, line 13[…] or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor […]
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  1. p. x, line 87[…] stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance […]
  2. p. 23, line 22Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
  3. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  4. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  5. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  6. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  7. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  8. p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
  9. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  10. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  11. p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
  12. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
  13. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
  14. p. 88, line 28Liberty let others despair of you . . . . I never despair of you.

otherwise 1

  1. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;

otter 1

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

ought 1

  1. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;

our 22

  1. p. viii, line 91[…] compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no man master—and when we […]
  2. p. ix, line 74[…] is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge […]
  3. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  4. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
  5. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
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  1. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  2. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  3. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
  4. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  5. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  6. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  7. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  8. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  9. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  10. p. 60, line 11We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand;
  11. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  12. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  13. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  14. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  15. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.

ourselves 1

  1. p. 93, line 19What they felt . . do not we feel it in ourselves?

out 93

  1. p. iii, line 86[…] As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western […]
  2. p. iv, line 100[…] or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in its place […]
  3. p. iv, line 107[…] what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty […]
  4. p. v, line 11[…] not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns […]
  5. p. v, line 17[…] he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows […]
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  1. p. v, line 99[…] itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show […]
  2. p. vi, line 86[…] has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet […]
  3. p. vii, line 37[…] heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him […]
  4. p. vii, line 78[…] confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall […]
  5. p. vii, line 82[…] no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth […]
  6. p. vii, line 120[…] all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has ever happened […]
  7. p. viii, line 51[…] are the voice and exposition of liberty. They out of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it […]
  8. p. viii, line 77[…] they pass each other . . . . and is liberty gone out of that place? No never. When liberty goes it is […]
  9. p. ix, line 46[…] put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings […]
  10. p. ix, line 53[…] facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from […]
  11. p. ix, line 101[…] parts of the greatest poet from his birth out of his mother's womb and from her birth out of […]
  12. p. ix, line 102[…] of his mother's womb and from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has […]
  13. p. x, line 33[…] or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain time with […]
  14. p. x, line 69[…] inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that […]
  15. p. x, line 101[…] that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity […]
  16. p. xi, line 86[…] meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and […]
  17. p. xii, line 27[…] beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use […]
  18. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  19. p. 15, line 19Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
  20. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  21. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  22. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  23. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  24. p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  25. p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  26. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
  27. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  28. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  29. p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
  30. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  31. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  32. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  33. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  34. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  35. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  36. p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
  37. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  38. p. 33, line 33And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  39. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,
  40. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  41. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  42. p. 36, line 18Where the ground-shark's fin cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  43. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  44. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  45. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  46. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  47. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  48. p. 42, line 2They all held out bravely during the whole of the action.
  49. p. 43, line 5It is I let out in the morning and barred at night.
  50. p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  51. p. 44, line 24What I give I give out of myself.
  52. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  53. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  54. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;
  55. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  56. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  57. p. 50, line 19Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
  58. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  59. p. 51, line 5Every condition promulges not only itself . . . . it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  60. p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
  61. p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
  62. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  63. p. 57, line 8Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
  64. 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,
  65. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
  66. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  67. 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,
  68. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  69. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  70. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  71. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
  72. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  73. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  74. 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,
  75. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
  76. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  77. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
  78. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  79. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
  80. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  81. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,
  82. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  83. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  84. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.
  85. p. 90, line 4Now call the President's marshal again, and bring out the government cannon,

outbidding 1

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

outdoor 1

  1. p. v, line 90[…] and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be assisted by poets to perceive […]

outdoors 3

  1. p. 21, line 10I am enamoured of growing outdoors,
  2. p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?
  3. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.

outer 1

  1. p. ix, line 73[…] have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that […]

outgallop 1

  1. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,

outhouse 1

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

outlawed 2

  1. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?

outlet 3

  1. p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
  2. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  3. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.

outlines 1

  1. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.

outposts 1

  1. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;

outre 1

  1. p. ix, line 51[…] made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed that […]

outset 1

  1. p. vii, line 88[…] poet but always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him […]

outside 5

  1. p. xii, line 48[…] on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  2. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  3. p. 36, line 24Upon a door-step . . . . upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  4. p. 48, line 20Looking forth on pavement and land, and outside of pavement and land,
  5. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,

outstretching 1

  1. 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,

outstripped see outstript

outstript 1 today: outstripped

  1. p. 27, line 1Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?

outward 6

  1. p. 17, line 7All goes onward and outward . . . . and nothing collapses,
  2. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  3. p. 51, line 10Outward and outward and forever outward.
  4. p. 75, line 12The homeward bound and the outward bound,

over 60

  1. p. iv, line 16[…] than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea […]
  2. p. iv, line 18[…] and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan […]
  3. p. iv, line 19[…] Manhattan bay and over Champlain and Erie and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the […]
  4. p. iv, line 20[…] Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and […]
  5. p. iv, line 21[…] and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by […]
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  1. p. vi, line 92[…] greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes […]
  2. p. vii, line 12[…] shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse […]
  3. p. viii, line 98[…] and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and deed that put back a helpless innocent […]
  4. p. ix, line 11[…] of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are […]
  5. p. ix, line 12[…] romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile light […]
  6. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  7. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  8. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.
  9. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  10. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
  11. p. 22, line 19The pavingman leans on his twohanded rammer—the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the notebook—the signpainter is lettering with red and gold,
  12. p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
  13. p. 25, line 25I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  14. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
  15. p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  16. p. 30, line 32The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  17. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  18. p. 34, line 10And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
  19. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  20. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;
  21. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
  22. p. 36, line 1Over the western persimmon . . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax;
  23. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  24. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  25. p. 36, line 23Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance;
  26. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  27. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;
  28. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  29. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  30. p. 40, line 28The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  31. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  32. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  33. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  34. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  35. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  36. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  37. p. 65, line 12When the dull nights are over, and the dull days also,
  38. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
  39. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  40. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  41. 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.
  42. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  43. p. 75, line 26The wildest and bloodiest is over and all is peace.
  44. p. 76, line 12They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
  45. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  46. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  47. 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,
  48. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  49. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  50. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  51. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.

overalls 1

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

overcome 1

  1. p. 25, line 3And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes, and the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known.

overfed 1

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

overhand 3

  1. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,

overhead 4

  1. p. x, line 6[…] and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy […]
  2. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  3. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  4. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,

overlaid 1

  1. p. xii, line 34[…] of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with […]

overlay 1

  1. p. 50, line 20My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it;

oversee 1

  1. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

overseer 1

  1. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;

overstaid 1

  1. p. 43, line 21I remember . . . . I resume the overstaid fraction,

overtakes 1

  1. p. v, line 14[…] the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections […]

overthrow 1

  1. p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,

overwhelmed 1

  1. p. 74, line 30I am jealous and overwhelmed with friendliness,

ovum 1

  1. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.

owes 1

  1. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,

own 58

  1. p. iii, line 35[…] and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never […]
  2. p. iii, line 79[…] the best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of […]
  3. p. iv, line 8[…] gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates […]
  4. p. v, line 64[…] this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single […]
  5. p. v, line 98[…] of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and […]
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  1. p. vi, line 13[…] or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem […]
  2. p. vi, line 104[…] consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and […]
  3. p. viii, line 74[…] asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground […]
  4. p. viii, line 106[…] of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary […]
  5. p. ix, line 1[…] small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest […]
  6. p. xi, line 11[…] puts off nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day […]
  7. p. xi, line 32[…] tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its […]
  8. p. xi, line 98[…] of man, and every man shall be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the […]
  9. p. xii, line 49[…] disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  10. p. 13, line 13The smoke of my own breath,
  11. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  12. p. 15, line 32And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
  13. p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
  14. p. 17, line 17Every kind for itself and its own . . . . for me mine male and female,
  15. p. 18, line 24Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  16. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  17. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  18. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  19. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  20. p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  21. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  22. p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  23. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  24. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
  25. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  26. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  27. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,
  28. p. 38, line 2Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly;
  29. p. 41, line 15My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
  30. p. 43, line 20That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!
  31. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  32. p. 46, line 22My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  33. p. 47, line 23I know perfectly well my own egotism,
  34. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  35. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  36. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  37. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  38. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
  39. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  40. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  41. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,
  42. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  43. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  44. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  45. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  46. p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  47. 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:
  48. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  49. 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,

owned 1

  1. p. x, line 6[…] shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing […]

owner 2

  1. p. ix, line 29[…] or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal […]
  2. p. ix, line 31[…] for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library who can read the same through all […]

owner's 2

  1. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  2. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,

owning 2

  1. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  2. p. 47, line 13A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.

owns 2

  1. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  2. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;

oxen 1

  1. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?