Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “one”

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  1. p. iii, line 34[…] breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer […]
  2. p. iii, line 52[…] mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness […]
  3. p. iv, line 2[…] to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
  4. p. iv, line 88[…] theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science […]
  5. p. v, line 36[…] genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and […]
  6. p. v, line 57[…] it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation […]
  7. p. vi, line 2[…] the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote […]
  8. p. vi, line 25The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes […]
  9. p. vi, line 67[…] expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The […]
  10. p. vi, line 69[…] above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ . . . the pleasure […]
  11. p. vi, line 98[…] that flash of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for […]
  12. p. vi, line 105[…] sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while […]
  13. p. vii, line 9[…] who has achieved it you have looked on one of the masters of the artists of all nations and […]
  14. p. vii, line 49[…] finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]
  15. p. vii, line 55[…] enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that […]
  16. p. vii, line 56[…] affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails […]
  17. p. vii, line 57[…] one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good or […]
  18. p. vii, line 73[…] secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not be […]
  19. p. vii, line 81[…] bard shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love […]
  20. p. viii, line 35[…] and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to […]
  21. p. viii, line 37[…] miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence […]
  22. p. viii, line 58[…] their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and […]
  23. p. viii, line 62[…] by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or […]
  24. p. viii, line 67[…] penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and […]
  25. p. ix, line 29[…] shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who […]
  26. p. ix, line 31[…] it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library who can read the same […]
  27. p. x, line 46[…] much as it gives to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or […]
  28. p. x, line 109[…] by you whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure […]
  29. p. xi, line 45[…] of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him […]
  30. p. xi, line 72[…] or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority […]
  31. p. xi, line 85[…] the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered […]
  32. p. xii, line 39[…] for life and death? Will it help breed one goodshaped and wellhung man, and a woman to be his […]
  33. p. xii, line 71[…] There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a […]
  34. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  35. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
  36. p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,
  37. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  38. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  39. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  40. p. 17, line 27The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  41. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  42. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  43. p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
  44. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  45. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  46. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  47. p. 26, line 18One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  48. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  49. p. 27, line 30I am integral with you . . . . I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  50. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  51. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  52. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  53. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  54. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  55. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  56. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  57. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
  58. p. 35, line 3Picking out here one that shall be my amie,
  59. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
  60. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  61. p. 39, line 21Agonies are one of my changes of garments;
  62. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  63. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  64. p. 41, line 26One was directed by the captain himself against the enemy's mainmast,
  65. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  66. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  67. p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
  68. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  69. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  70. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  71. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  72. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  73. p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
  74. p. 48, line 22One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang,
  75. p. 48, line 26I know every one of you, and know the unspoken interrogatories,
  76. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  77. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  78. p. 49, line 26I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  79. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  80. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
  81. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  82. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  83. p. 56, line 11Missing me one place search another,
  84. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  85. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  86. p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
  87. 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:
  88. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  89. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  90. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  91. p. 68, line 6The preparations have every one been justified;
  92. p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  93. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  94. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  95. p. 73, line 21I search with the crowd . . . . not one of the company is washed to us alive;
  96. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
  97. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,
  98. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  99. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  100. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  101. p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
  102. p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
  103. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  104. 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,
  105. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  106. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  107. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  108. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  109. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  110. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
  111. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  112. p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
  113. 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?
  114. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  115. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  116. p. 90, line 12You are mighty cute . . . . and here is one of your bargains.
  117. p. 92, line 6And that to another . . . . and every one to another still.
  118. 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;
  119. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
  120. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
  121. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,