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.

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race 5

  1. p. iv, line 5[…] enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Of them a bard is to be commensurate […]
  2. p. xi, line 113[…] full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea […]
  3. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
  4. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  5. p. 40, line 22They were the glory of the race of rangers,

race-course 1

  1. p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

races 4

  1. p. iv, line 5[…] and new for America is the race of races. Of them a bard is to be commensurate with a […]
  2. p. vii, line 103[…] of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between […]
  3. p. xii, line 6[…] is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue […]
  4. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.

racks 1

  1. p. 61, line 25The barn and barn-yard . . the bins and mangers . . the mows and racks:

rafters 1

  1. p. 36, line 11Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, and andirons straddle the hearth-slab, and cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

raftsmen 1

  1. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;

Rage 1

  1. p. vii, line 65[…] is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master […]

rages 1

  1. p. viii, line 69[…] and composed, and knows no discouragement. The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat […]

rags 1

  1. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.

rail 1

  1. p. 38, line 25My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,

railroad 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;

railroads 1

  1. p. 95, line 1Great are marriage, commerce, newspapers, books, freetrade, railroads, steamers, international mails and telegraphs and exchanges.

rails 1

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

rain 3

  1. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
  2. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  3. p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

rain-proof 1

  1. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;

rains 1

  1. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.

rainstorm 1

  1. p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:

raise 1

  1. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.

raised 2

  1. p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?
  2. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

rake 1

  1. p. 61, line 23Grains and manures . . marl, clay, loam . . the subsoil plough . . the shovel and pick and rake and hoe . . irrigation and draining;

raking 1

  1. p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.

ramble 1

  1. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,

rammer 1

  1. 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,

ran 1

  1. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,

ranch 1

  1. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,

range 1

  1. p. 37, line 5Where beehives range on a gray bench in the garden half-hid by the high weeds;

rangers 1

  1. p. 40, line 22They were the glory of the race of rangers,

rank 3

  1. p. ix, line 78[…] shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a […]
  2. p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,
  3. p. 29, line 27Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.

ranks 2

  1. p. xii, line 34[…] needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and […]
  2. p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,

ranting 1

  1. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;

rapid 3

  1. p. iv, line 54[…] coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war […]
  2. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  3. p. 66, line 16Rapid the trot to the cemetery,

rapidly 1

  1. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,

rapport 1

  1. p. vi, line 34[…] from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene […]

rapt 1

  1. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,

rate 6

  1. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  2. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  3. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  4. p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.

rather 3

  1. p. ix, line 3[…] proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men and […]
  2. p. xi, line 71[…] no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at […]
  3. p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,

rats 2

  1. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
  2. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

rattle 1

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

rattles 1

  1. p. 66, line 17Duly rattles the deathbell . . . . the gate is passed . . . . the grave is halted at . . . . the living alight . . . . the hearse uncloses,

rattlesnake 1

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

rays 1

  1. p. vi, line 92[…] The greatest poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and […]

razorbilled 1

  1. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,

razors 1

  1. p. 28, line 1Washes and razors for foofoos . . . . for me freckles and a bristling beard.

razory 1

  1. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,

re 1

  1. p. vi, line 11[…] every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church […]

reach 7

  1. p. v, line 12[…] him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot […]
  2. p. 31, line 3My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
  3. p. 52, line 6It is not far . . . . it is within reach,
  4. p. 54, line 22I reach to the leafy lips . . . . I reach to the polished breasts of melons.
  5. p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;
  6. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.

reached 5

  1. p. x, line 25[…] spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to […]
  2. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  3. p. 19, line 4She had long eyelashes . . . . her head was bare . . . . her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
  4. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.

reachers 1

  1. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,

reaching 3

  1. p. 13, line 18A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms,
  2. p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  3. p. 37, line 25By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

reachings 1

  1. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

read 11

  1. p. vi, line 10[…] the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every […]
  2. p. vi, line 76[…] on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well is to compete with the laws […]
  3. p. ix, line 32[…] one is owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects […]
  4. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
  5. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
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  1. p. 41, line 9Did you read in the seabooks of the oldfashioned frigate-fight?
  2. p. 59, line 14You may read in many languages and read nothing about it;
  3. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  4. p. 84, line 24I read the promise and patiently wait.

readiest 1

  1. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?

readily 1

  1. p. xii, line 42[…] the young of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts […]

reading 1

  1. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:

ready 11

  1. p. vi, line 20[…] He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured . . . . others may not know it but he […]
  2. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  3. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
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  1. p. 46, line 17The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious,
  2. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  3. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
  4. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;
  5. p. 88, line 22They live in brothers, again ready to defy you:
  6. p. 88, line 30Nevertheless be ready . . . . be not weary of watching,

real 15

  1. p. iv, line 48[…] father's. To him enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity […]
  2. p. v, line 78[…] beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects . . . . they expect him to indicate the path between reality […]
  3. p. ix, line 9[…] the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they […]
  4. p. x, line 44[…] lifetime. The indirect is always as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just […]
  5. p. xi, line 23[…] prudence to learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and […]
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  1. p. xi, line 103[…] and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall […]
  2. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  3. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  4. p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,
  5. p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.
  6. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  7. p. 84, line 8And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharmed, every inch as good as myself.
  8. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  9. p. 95, line 17Great is life . . and real and mystical . . wherever and whoever,

reality 5

  1. p. v, line 81[…] they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well […]
  2. p. viii, line 11[…] place. It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in […]
  3. p. xi, line 108[…] things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be […]
  4. p. 28, line 20A word of reality . . . . materialism first and last imbueing.
  5. p. 47, line 26My words are words of a questioning, and to indicate reality;

realization 1

  1. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,

realize 7

  1. p. vi, line 88[…] Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the […]
  2. p. viii, line 102[…] all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the […]
  3. p. ix, line 28[…] conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of […]
  4. p. xi, line 74[…] due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full? To no such terminus does […]
  5. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  6. p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  7. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.

realized 1

  1. p. x, line 61[…] stamped on the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they […]

really 3

  1. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  2. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,
  3. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!

reaps 1

  1. p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,

rear 2

  1. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  2. p. 89, line 13Uncountable phantoms gather by flank and rear of it,

reason 3

  1. p. vi, line 66[…] nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision […]
  2. p. x, line 64[…] ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification […]
  3. p. 48, line 6Sermons and creeds and theology . . . . but the human brain, and what is called reason, and what is called love, and what is called life?

reasoning 1

  1. p. v, line 67[…] instruments and books of the earth and all reasoning. What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or […]

reasons 4

  1. p. 34, line 11And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  2. p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
  3. p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
  4. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,

rebel 1

  1. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,

recedes 1

  1. p. 71, line 10The earth recedes from me into the night,

receding 1

  1. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,

receive 7

  1. p. ix, line 38[…] American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations of natural models and must not […]
  2. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  3. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  4. p. 28, line 26Gentlemen I receive you, and attach and clasp hands with you,
  5. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
  6. p. 71, line 31Double yourself and receive me darkness,
  7. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.

received 3

  1. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  2. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  3. p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,

receives 2

  1. p. x, line 45[…] great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to […]
  2. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.

receiving 2

  1. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  2. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,

reception 2

  1. p. iv, line 8[…] other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds […]
  2. p. vi, line 32[…] contact and amorous joy. Other proportions of the reception of pleasure dwindle to nothing to his proportions. All expected […]

recitations 1

  1. p. v, line 106[…] the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from beautiful […]

recitative 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,

reckon 3

  1. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  2. p. 54, line 23And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  3. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,

reckoned 4

  1. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
  2. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  3. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?

recline 1

  1. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.

reclined 1

  1. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,

reclines 1

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

recompense 1

  1. p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

reconnoissance 1

  1. p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

recorded 1

  1. p. x, line 92[…] of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few […]

records 2

  1. p. iii, line 83[…] trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must […]
  2. p. 60, line 26The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same;

recovering 1

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

recruits 2

  1. p. v, line 4[…] the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best […]

rectified 1

  1. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?

rectitude 1

  1. p. vii, line 5[…] But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness […]

recuperated 1

  1. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,

red 24

  1. p. iv, line 51[…] temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings […]
  2. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved […]
  3. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  4. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  5. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
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  1. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  4. p. 33, line 7They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  5. p. 36, line 28At apple-pealings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  6. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  7. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
  8. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  9. p. 63, line 12The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . the white and red pork in the pork-store;
  10. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,
  11. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  12. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  13. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
  14. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
  15. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  16. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
  17. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,
  18. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,

redcoat 1

  1. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,

redeeming 1

  1. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,

redfaced 1

  1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,

redshouldered-hawk 1

  1. p. iv, line 42[…] highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl and water-pheasant […]

redstart 1

  1. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?

red-trickled 1

  1. p. 73, line 7What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?

reduced 1

  1. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,

reed 1

  1. p. 37, line 11Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well;

reeds 1

  1. p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.

referee 1

  1. p. iv, line 97[…] greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the […]

reference 2

  1. p. x, line 38[…] the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks […]
  2. p. xii, line 32[…] materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the […]

referring 1

  1. p. viii, line 9[…] that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each distinct and in its place. It […]

refined 1

  1. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;

reflected 2

  1. p. 55, line 2And perceive of the ghastly glitter the sunbeams reflected,
  2. 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,

reflecting 1

  1. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,

reflectors 1

  1. p. xii, line 54[…] great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America […]

reflects 1

  1. p. iv, line 28[…] between them also from east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that […]

reform 1

  1. p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,

reformation 1

  1. p. ix, line 92[…] vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]

reformer 1

  1. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,

reformers 1

  1. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,

refrain 1

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;

refreshing 1

  1. p. 47, line 4Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing and wicked and real,

refuse 3

  1. p. 27, line 22I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
  2. p. 31, line 15My final merit I refuse you . . . . I refuse putting from me the best I am.

regal 1

  1. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

regard 1

  1. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,

regardful 1

  1. p. 23, line 22Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,

regarding 1

  1. p. viii, line 19[…] philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with […]

regardless 4

  1. p. vii, line 29[…] or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from […]
  2. p. 23, line 22Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
  3. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  4. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.

regatta 1

  1. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!

regiments 1

  1. p. 36, line 21Where the striped and starred flag is borne at the head of the regiments;

regions 2

  1. p. xi, line 79[…] he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space […]
  2. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,

regulation 2

  1. p. v, line 58[…] the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does […]
  2. p. v, line 59[…] for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to […]

reinforcements 1

  1. p. x, line 34[…] coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as […]

reins 1

  1. p. 20, line 11The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses . . . . the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,

rejecter's 1

  1. p. 28, line 4My gait is no faultfinder's or rejecter's gait,

rejections 1

  1. p. 18, line 13Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

rejects 1

  1. p. xii, line 64[…] it . . no disguise can conceal from it. It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself […]

relate 1

  1. p. 21, line 9They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

relates 1

  1. p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,

relations 1

  1. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;

relatives 1

  1. p. x, line 81[…] of war and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and […]

release 2

  1. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  2. p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.

relief 1

  1. p. 54, line 19I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors . . . . and mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.

relies 1

  1. p. viii, line 66[…] soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness […]

relieved 1

  1. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

religion 3

  1. p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,
  2. p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
  3. p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,

religions 3

  1. p. iii, line 4[…] or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as […]
  2. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  3. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

relishing 1

  1. p. 53, line 3Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,

remain 1

  1. p. xii, line 22[…] that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with my country? Are its disposals without […]

remainder 1

  1. p. xi, line 109[…] in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]

remains 3

  1. p. x, line 26[…] kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of the mere […]
  2. p. xi, line 48[…] test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer […]
  3. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

remark 1

  1. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?

remarkable 2

  1. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.

remember 5

  1. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  2. p. 19, line 12And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  3. p. 43, line 21I remember . . . . I resume the overstaid fraction,
  4. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?

remembered 1

  1. p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,

remembers 1

  1. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,

remembrance 3

  1. p. vii, line 88[…] always his encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and […]
  2. p. xii, line 55[…] and the polite float off and leave no remembrance. America prepares with composure and goodwill for the visitors that […]
  3. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.

remembrancer 1

  1. p. 16, line 11A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,

remembrancers 1

  1. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,

remind 1

  1. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,

reminded 1

  1. p. 61, line 3All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments,

reminder 2

  1. p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,

reminiscences 2

  1. p. iii, line 76[…] ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a […]
  2. 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.

remould 1

  1. p. v, line 38[…] the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power of […]

remove 1

  1. p. 29, line 23Voices of sexes and lusts . . . . voices veiled, and I remove the veil,

removed 3

  1. p. v, line 63[…] The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities […]
  2. p. 21, line 33What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
  3. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.

rendezvous 1

  1. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.

renew 1

  1. 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.

renowned 1

  1. p. 60, line 28The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

rent 2

  1. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,
  2. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,

repairs 1

  1. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,

repartee 1

  1. p. 20, line 4I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and breakdown.

repay 2

  1. p. 27, line 25Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you.
  2. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;

repeated 1

  1. p. 23, line 2The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

repel 1

  1. p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms […]

replenished 1

  1. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,

reported 1

  1. 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,

reporter's 1

  1. 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,

reports 1

  1. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,

representation 1

  1. p. xi, line 44[…] what shall be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of […]

representative 2

  1. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
  2. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.

repress 1

  1. p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,

republic 3

  1. p. iv, line 87[…] verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes […]
  2. p. ix, line 79[…] and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered […]
  3. p. xii, line 42[…] for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the […]

republics 2

  1. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  2. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,

requirements 1

  1. p. iii, line 7[…] and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms […]

resentment 1

  1. p. iii, line 53[…] all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful […]

reservoirs 1

  1. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,

residence 2

  1. p. v, line 88[…] the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence of the poetic in outdoor people. They can never be […]
  2. p. ix, line 34[…] in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and […]

resign 3

  1. p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
  2. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  3. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.

resist 2

  1. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  2. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,

resistance 2

  1. p. xii, line 4[…] elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It is the […]
  2. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,

resistless 1

  1. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.

resolves 1

  1. 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:

resonance 1

  1. p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.

re-sow 1

  1. p. 88, line 25Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.

respect 1

  1. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;

respectability 1

  1. p. x, line 28[…] prudence. The prudence of the mere wealth and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the […]

respectable 1

  1. p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

respiration 1

  1. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,

respond 2

  1. p. vi, line 55[…] the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to […]
  2. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.

responded 1

  1. p. xi, line 109[…] soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth […]

responds 1

  1. p. iv, line 9[…] their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural […]

response 3

  1. p. viii, line 108[…] judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference from the people whether they […]
  2. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,
  3. p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.

responses 1

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

responsive 2

  1. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  2. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.

rest 33

  1. p. v, line 59[…] of regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery […]
  2. p. v, line 61[…] does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other […]
  3. p. vi, line 57[…] committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection […]
  4. p. vii, line 24[…] hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way […]
  5. p. viii, line 50[…] never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition […]
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  1. p. viii, line 80[…] third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go . . it is the last. . . When the memories of […]
  2. p. xi, line 73[…] sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full […]
  3. p. xi, line 80[…] into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the […]
  4. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  5. p. 15, line 17Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  6. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  7. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  8. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  9. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  10. p. 27, line 1Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
  11. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  12. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
  13. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  14. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  15. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,
  16. 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,
  17. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  18. p. 53, line 27The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  19. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  20. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  21. p. 69, line 7I shall go with the rest,
  22. p. 79, line 7To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  23. 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?
  24. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,
  25. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
  26. 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.

rested 1

  1. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,

restless 2

  1. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,
  2. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.

restored 1

  1. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.

restoring 1

  1. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

restrained 1

  1. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,

rests 1

  1. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,

result 2

  1. p. xi, line 2[…] no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and […]
  2. p. xi, line 3[…] exists now without being from its long antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the […]

resume 3

  1. p. 43, line 21I remember . . . . I resume the overstaid fraction,
  2. p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
  3. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;

resumed 2

  1. p. vii, line 117[…] and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of […]
  2. p. 76, line 22The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,

resuscitate 1

  1. p. 40, line 1Distant and dead resuscitate,

retains 1

  1. p. xi, line 19[…] man who has not periled his life and retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps […]

retarded 1

  1. p. viii, line 4[…] for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast […]

retires 1

  1. p. viii, line 95[…] at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys its […]

retracted 1

  1. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.

retreat 3

  1. p. viii, line 70[…] many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace […]
  2. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.
  3. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!

retreating 2

  1. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  2. p. 89, line 23Worse and worse . . . . Can't you stand it? Are you retreating?

retreats 2

  1. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  2. p. 34, line 15In vain the mastadon retreats beneath its own powdered bones,

retrospection 1

  1. p. 65, line 1TO think of time . . . . to think through the retrospection,

return 9

  1. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  2. p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
  3. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  4. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
  5. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
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  1. p. 77, line 6I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
  2. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  3. p. 88, line 31He will soon return . . . . his messengers come anon.
  4. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

returned 3

  1. p. x, line 61[…] the programme but it is duly realized and returned, and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the […]
  2. p. x, line 62[…] and that returned in further performances . . . and they returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force […]

returns 11

  1. p. iii, line 93[…] wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography […]
  2. p. vii, line 90[…] him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler […]
  3. p. 21, line 15Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  4. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
  5. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
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  1. p. 38, line 13My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  2. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.
  3. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  4. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  5. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

reveille 1

  1. p. 40, line 4Again the reveille of drummers . . . . again the attacking cannon and mortars and howitzers,

revelation 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;

revelations 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;

revenge 2

  1. p. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;
  2. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.

revenged 1

  1. p. ix, line 57[…] are most beautiful without ornament. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology. Clean and vigorous children are jetted and […]

revolt 3

  1. p. ix, line 49[…] or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it […]
  2. p. x, line 18[…] middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without elevation or naivete […]
  3. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.

revolver 1

  1. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.

revolving 2

  1. p. 19, line 11And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  2. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.

rheumatic 2

  1. 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?
  2. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,

rhyme 5

  1. p. v, line 93[…] can. The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy […]
  2. p. v, line 96[…] and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more […]
  3. p. v, line 97[…] drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys itself into its own […]
  4. p. v, line 99[…] roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of […]
  5. p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,

ribbons 1

  1. p. 63, line 13The milliner's ribbons . . the dressmaker's patterns . . . . the tea-table . . the home-made sweetmeats:

ribs 4

  1. p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
  2. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  3. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
  4. p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.

rice 1

  1. p. 35, line 27Over the growing sugar . . . . over the cottonplant . . . . over the rice in its low moist field;

rich 12

  1. p. iv, line 108[…] of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the […]
  2. p. ix, line 36[…] and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished […]
  3. p. x, line 34[…] at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests as far as […]
  4. p. 27, line 14Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  5. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;
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  1. p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
  2. 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?
  3. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,
  4. p. 68, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguished may be well,
  5. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  6. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  7. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

richer 2

  1. p. 33, line 17Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
  2. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?

riches 6

  1. p. iii, line 35[…] extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt […]
  2. p. vi, line 2[…] the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for […]
  3. p. vii, line 75[…] and day. They shall not be careful of riches and privilege . . . . they shall be riches and privilege . . . . they shall perceive who the most affluent man […]
  4. p. ix, line 27[…] use . . . . they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not […]
  5. p. xi, line 20[…] life and retains it to old age in riches and ease has perhaps achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning […]

richest 2

  1. p. vi, line 14[…] shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent […]
  2. p. vii, line 25[…] have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it […]

richly 1

  1. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.

richness 3

  1. p. 49, line 24Births have brought us richness and variety,
  2. p. 49, line 25And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  3. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,

riddle 2

  1. p. 24, line 17If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,

riddled 1

  1. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,

ride 3

  1. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
  2. p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  3. 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:

riders 1

  1. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,

ridiculous 1

  1. p. ix, line 50[…] is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed […]

riding 3

  1. p. 36, line 19Where the half-burned brig is riding on unknown currents,
  2. p. 37, line 23Coming home with the bearded and dark-cheeked bush-boy . . . . riding behind him at the drape of the day;
  3. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,

rifle 2

  1. p. 19, line 3One hand rested on his rifle . . . . the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
  2. p. 40, line 23Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper or a courtship,

rifles 2

  1. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  2. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

rigger 1

  1. p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,

rigging 1

  1. p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,

right 16

  1. p. x, line 26[…] the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The prudence of […]
  2. p. xi, line 58[…] thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
  5. p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
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  1. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
  2. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  3. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
  4. p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,
  5. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  6. p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  7. p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.

righteous 2

  1. p. xi, line 13[…] not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every […]
  2. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,

rights 1

  1. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,

rigid 1

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

rim 1

  1. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.

rims 1

  1. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.

ring 4

  1. p. 32, line 1The ring of alarm-bells . . . . the cry of fire . . . . the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and colored lights,
  2. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  3. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  4. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

rings 2

  1. p. xi, line 91[…] of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  2. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,

ripen 1

  1. 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;

ripened 2

  1. p. 38, line 7And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
  2. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

ripeness 1

  1. p. x, line 3[…] are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of a little […]

ripples 2

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,
  2. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;

rise 12

  1. p. iv, line 29[…] and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar […]
  2. p. vi, line 87[…] on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I may realize you. He […]
  3. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  4. p. 20, line 23They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  5. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,
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  1. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.
  2. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  3. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  4. p. 50, line 8Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  5. 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.
  6. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.

risen 2

  1. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  2. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

risers 1

  1. p. v, line 84[…] he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the love of […]

rises 3

  1. p. vii, line 99[…] structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception […]
  2. p. xi, line 39[…] and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming […]
  3. p. 72, line 3He rises with me silently from the bed.

rising 6

  1. p. ix, line 14[…] light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition […]
  2. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  3. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
  4. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,
  5. p. 49, line 20Eternity lies in bottomless reservoirs . . . . its buckets are rising forever and ever,
  6. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!

river 6

  1. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  2. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  3. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  4. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  5. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,
  6. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,

rivers 3

  1. p. iv, line 10[…] he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri […]
  2. p. v, line 76[…] heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet […]
  3. 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;

rivulet 1

  1. p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,

road 4

  1. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  2. p. 52, line 3My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
  3. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  4. p. 90, line 20And the appletrees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward . . . . and wood-berries . . and the commonest weeds by the road;

roads 2

  1. p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.
  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,

roadside 1

  1. p. vii, line 7[…] trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked […]

roar 1

  1. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,

roarers 1

  1. p. 90, line 5And fetch home the roarers from Congress, and make another procession and guard it with foot and dragoons.

robes 2

  1. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,

rock 6

  1. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  2. p. 27, line 24Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
  3. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  4. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
  5. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  6. p. 83, line 2The face as of a dream . . . . the face of an immobile rock,

rocks 5

  1. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  2. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  3. p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
  4. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.
  5. p. 73, line 12His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies . . . . it is continually bruised on rocks,

rocky 1

  1. p. iv, line 52[…] vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature […]

rod 2

  1. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;

rods 1

  1. p. 63, line 6The walkingbeam of the steam-engine . . the throttle and governors, and the up and down rods,

rogue 1

  1. p. viii, line 112[…] is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free […]

roll 7

  1. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  2. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  3. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;
  4. p. 43, line 23The corpses rise . . . . the gashes heal . . . . the fastenings roll away.
  5. p. 72, line 1I roll myself upon you as upon a bed . . . . I resign myself to the dusk.
  6. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  7. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,

rolled 1

  1. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.

rolled-up 1

  1. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;

rolling 1

  1. p. 29, line 21Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.

rolls 3

  1. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  2. p. 47, line 1Music rolls, but not from the organ . . . . folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  3. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;

romance 1

  1. p. ix, line 11[…] the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light […]

romances 2

  1. p. ix, line 61[…] of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no […]
  2. p. ix, line 63[…] properly told there is no more need of romances […]

romanza 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,

roof 2

  1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,
  2. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,

roofs 4

  1. p. 16, line 26Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  2. p. 16, line 28And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  3. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  4. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

room 8

  1. p. vi, line 39[…] all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover […]
  2. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  3. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  4. p. 45, line 14Every room of the house do I fill with am armed force . . . . lovers of me, bafflers of graves:
  5. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  6. p. 53, line 18No shuttered room or school can commune with me,
  7. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,
  8. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,

rooms 5

  1. p. iii, line 10[…] is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little while […]
  2. p. ix, line 43[…] of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or […]
  3. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  4. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
  5. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,

roost 1

  1. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;

root 1

  1. p. 30, line 8Root of washed sweet-flag, timorous pond-snipe, nest of guarded duplicate eggs, it shall be you,

rooted 1

  1. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.

roots 6

  1. p. v, line 98[…] uniformity that it conveys itself into its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity […]
  2. p. 28, line 5I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
  3. p. 34, line 9I find I incorporate gneiss and coal and long-threaded moss and fruits and grains and esculent roots,
  4. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  5. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  6. p. 90, line 19And the field-sprouts of April and May became part of him . . . . wintergrain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and of the esculent roots of the garden,

rope 1

  1. p. 88, line 16The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily . . . . the bullets of princes are flying . . . . the creatures of power laugh aloud,

rope-noose 1

  1. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,

ropes 2

  1. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  2. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

ropetwisting 1

  1. p. 63, line 5Leatherdressing, coachmaking, boilermaking, ropetwisting, distilling, signpainting, limeburning, coopering, cottonpicking,

rose 2

  1. p. 65, line 7To think that the sun rose in the east . . . . that men and women were flexible and real and alive . . . . that every thing was real and alive;
  2. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;

rose-corn 1

  1. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

roses 2

  1. p. v, line 102[…] them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the […]
  2. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,

rotten 2

  1. p. vi, line 45[…] and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is […]
  2. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,

roues 1

  1. p. 80, line 6I see the bearer of the great fruit which is immortality . . . . the good thereof is not tasted by roues, and never can be.

rough 1

  1. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,

roughs 3

  1. p. iii, line 28[…] hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the […]
  2. p. 29, line 3Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos,
  3. p. 53, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.

round 12

  1. p. vi, line 37[…] presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above […]
  2. p. x, line 79[…] no more nor less. The interest will come round . . all will come round. All the best actions of war and peace . . . all help […]
  3. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  4. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  5. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
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  1. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,
  2. p. 52, line 2My left hand hooks you round the waist,
  3. 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?
  4. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
  5. 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;
  6. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,

rounded 1

  1. p. 83, line 29I see your rounded never-erased flow,

rouse 1

  1. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.

roused 2

  1. p. iii, line 53[…] of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and […]
  2. p. 18, line 4The hurrahs for popular favorites . . . . the fury of roused mobs,

routine 2

  1. p. iv, line 107[…] checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich […]
  2. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

row 1

  1. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;

rowboats 1

  1. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

rowdy 1

  1. p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.

rowers 1

  1. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

rowing 2

  1. p. 50, line 16Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

rows 3

  1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,
  2. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  3. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,

royal 2

  1. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
  2. p. 89, line 29They shall get a grant from the Parliament, and go with a cart to the royal vault,

rub 3

  1. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,
  2. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.

rubbish 1

  1. p. 84, line 6The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement;

rubs 1

  1. p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,

rudderless 1

  1. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,

ruffianly 1

  1. p. 73, line 7What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?

ruggedness 1

  1. p. iii, line 29[…] are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining […]

ruined 1

  1. p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.

rule 7

  1. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,
  2. p. 94, line 23It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
  3. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
  4. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

rulers 2

  1. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:
  2. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

rules 1

  1. p. 94, line 24The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.

rum 1

  1. p. 49, line 11Nor him in the poorhouse tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,

rumdrinkers 1

  1. p. x, line 49[…] not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine […]

rumpled 1

  1. p. 78, line 14The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;

run 6

  1. p. xi, line 46[…] the wave—let him merge in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems […]
  2. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  3. p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  4. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  5. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
  6. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,

runaway 3

  1. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  2. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  3. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,

runners 2

  1. p. v, line 14[…] pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The […]
  2. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,

running 4

  1. p. x, line 36[…] far as you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all […]
  2. p. 34, line 4And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  3. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  4. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;

runs 3

  1. p. 38, line 9My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  2. p. 80, line 23Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float, and the soil is on the surface and water runs and vegetation sprouts for you . . and not for him and her?
  3. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;

rush 4

  1. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  2. p. 32, line 27Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  3. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
  4. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

rushbottoming 1

  1. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;

rushes 1

  1. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;

Russ 2

  1. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.

ruts 1

  1. p. 35, line 19Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,

rye 2

  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;