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.

Q

qua-bird 1

  1. p. iv, line 44[…] white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant and qua-bird and pied-sheldrake and blackbird and mockingbird and buzzard and condor […]

quadrangular 1

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

quadrillions 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,

quadroon 1

  1. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,

quadrupeds 1

  1. p. 34, line 10And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,

quahaug 1 today: quahog

  1. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.

quahog see quahaug

quail 1

  1. p. 36, line 6Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot,

quaker 2

  1. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
  2. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.

quakeress 1

  1. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,

qualities 6

  1. p. vii, line 112[…] and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of […]
  2. p. xii, line 67[…] superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest […]
  3. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
  4. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  5. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  6. p. 94, line 19It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;

quality 6

  1. p. iv, line 83[…] and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and […]
  2. p. iv, line 102[…] is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the […]
  3. p. v, line 92[…] some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses […]
  4. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  5. p. 94, line 10Great is the quality of truth in man,
  6. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,

quarrelsome 1

  1. p. 91, line 2And the schoolmistress that passed on her way to the school . . and the friendly boys that passed . . and the quarrelsome boys . . and the tidy and freshcheeked girls . . and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

quart 1

  1. p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;

quarter 1

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

quarters 1

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

quelled 1

  1. p. viii, line 61[…] poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of […]

query 1

  1. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,

questioning 2

  1. p. 47, line 26My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality;
  2. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,

questions 1

  1. p. 52, line 17You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;

quick 3

  1. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  2. p. 90, line 1Dig out King George's coffin . . . . unwrap him quick from the graveclothes . . . . box up his bones for a journey:
  3. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

quickbroken 1

  1. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;

quickly 2

  1. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;
  2. p. 34, line 22I follow quickly . . . . I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.

quicktempered 1

  1. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,

quid 1

  1. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;

quiet 2

  1. p. xi, line 91[…] through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  2. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.

quietly 2

  1. p. x, line 30[…] at all when little and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality […]
  2. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,

quill 1

  1. p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;

quintillions 3

  1. p. 38, line 7And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
  2. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,

quite 2

  1. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  2. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

quits 2

  1. p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.

quivering 2

  1. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
  2. p. 79, line 21Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white-blow and delirious juice,