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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sabbath 2

  1. p. xi, line 12[…] own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or […]
  2. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,

Sacramento 1

  1. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

sacred 8

  1. p. v, line 36[…] not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy […]
  2. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,
  3. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,
  4. p. 80, line 15The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred . . . . it is no matter who,
  5. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  6. p. 82, line 17The sacred faces of infants . . . . the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

sacredness 1

  1. p. iii, line 84[…] the eastern records! As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical […]

sacs 1

  1. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,

sadder 1

  1. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.

saddle 2

  1. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;
  2. p. 78, line 7The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;

safe 2

  1. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  2. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

safely 2

  1. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  2. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

sages 2

  1. p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?
  2. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.

sagging 1

  1. p. 18, line 18The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow:

said 9

  1. p. 16, line 7A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  2. p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
  3. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,
  4. p. 45, line 21I heard what was said of the universe,
  5. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
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  1. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  2. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  3. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  4. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

sail 9

  1. p. ix, line 20[…] New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and large harmonies […]
  2. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
  3. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
  6. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  7. p. 93, line 9Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft . . . . where you sail I sail,

sailed 1

  1. 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;

sailing 1

  1. p. 23, line 32At home in the fleet of iceboats, sailing with the rest and tacking,

sail-maker 1

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

sailor 3

  1. p. vii, line 91[…] returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician […]
  2. p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
  3. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,

sailors 4

  1. p. 59, line 3Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, sailors, mano'warsmen, merchantmen, coasters,
  2. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
  3. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  4. p. 93, line 15Great the daring and venture of sailors on new explorations.

sails 5

  1. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  2. p. 32, line 14It sails me . . . . I dab with bare feet . . . . they are licked by the indolent waves,
  3. p. 34, line 21In vain the razorbilled auk sails far north to Labrador,
  4. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  5. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

Saint 1

  1. p. iv, line 13[…] changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not […]

saints 1

  1. p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?

sake 10

  1. p. iv, line 8[…] as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its […]
  2. p. x, line 89[…] the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all […]
  3. p. xi, line 59[…] right hand and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried […]
  4. p. 27, line 13Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  5. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  6. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,
  7. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  8. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,

sakes 1

  1. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,

salaams 1

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

salary 1

  1. p. viii, line 112[…] booby and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat […]

sale 1

  1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,

saloon 1

  1. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;

salt 2

  1. p. 42, line 15The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curled whiskers,
  2. 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;

salt-lick 1

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

saltmarsh 1

  1. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

salute 1

  1. p. 44, line 1Eleves I salute you,

salutes 2

  1. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
  2. p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,

saluting 1

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

same 40

  1. p. vi, line 58[…] rest but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods […]
  2. p. viii, line 85[…] the boys are no more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws […]
  3. p. ix, line 32[…] owner of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles […]
  4. p. ix, line 98[…] oneness of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of […]
  5. p. x, line 42[…] lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime […]
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  1. p. x, line 75[…] or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is […]
  2. p. x, line 76[…] or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is […]
  3. p. xi, line 24[…] longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct, and what […]
  4. p. xi, line 52[…] Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be […]
  5. p. xii, line 46[…] forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with the same love on the last born and on those hardening toward […]
  6. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  7. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  8. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  9. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  10. p. 25, line 5It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all,
  11. p. 26, line 28I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  12. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  13. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  14. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;
  15. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  16. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  17. p. 49, line 1The past is the push of you and me and all precisely the same,
  18. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
  19. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  20. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  21. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
  22. 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;
  23. p. 73, line 27The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  24. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  25. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  26. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  27. p. 84, line 6The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement;
  28. p. 89, line 9A fog follows . . . . antiques of the same come limping,
  29. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  30. p. 93, line 20What they wished . . do we not wish the same?
  31. p. 94, line 25Great is the law . . . . Great are the old few landmarks of the law . . . . they are the same in all times and shall not be disturbed.
  32. p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.

San 1

  1. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,

sand 4

  1. p. 34, line 2And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  2. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  3. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  4. 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,

sandhills 1

  1. p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,

sane 2

  1. p. viii, line 23[…] all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than […]
  2. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

sanity 2

  1. p. iv, line 100[…] are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing in […]
  2. p. viii, line 33[…] being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle […]

sank 2

  1. p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,

sap 1

  1. p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;

Saratoga 1

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

sarcastically 1

  1. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?

sassafras 1

  1. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.

sat 4

  1. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  2. p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
  3. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  4. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

sated 1

  1. p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;

satellite 1

  1. p. ix, line 85[…] of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part […]

satellites 1

  1. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,

satisfaction 13

  1. p. vii, line 16[…] appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less […]
  2. p. 68, line 28I shall go with the rest . . . . we have satisfaction:
  3. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  4. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  5. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;
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  1. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  2. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  3. p. 69, line 25Animals and vegetables! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  4. p. 69, line 26Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you I have satisfaction.
  5. p. 69, line 27I cannot define my satisfaction . . yet it is so,
  6. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
  7. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.

satisfactory 1

  1. p. xi, line 53[…] the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at […]

satisfied 5

  1. p. xi, line 14[…] dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its […]
  2. p. xi, line 73[…] at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and be content and full? To […]
  3. p. xii, line 53[…] of the vital and great can only be satisfied by the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms […]
  4. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  5. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?

satisfies 2

  1. p. xi, line 7[…] nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet […]
  2. p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

satisfy 1

  1. p. 57, line 10Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

Saturday 2

  1. p. 63, line 18The pay on Saturday night . . . . the going home, and the purchases;
  2. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

sauntering 2

  1. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  2. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;

sauroids 1

  1. p. 50, line 22Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

savage 4

  1. p. x, line 73[…] the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest […]
  2. p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
  3. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
  4. p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?

savan 1 today: savant

  1. p. x, line 75[…] it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President […]

savannah 2

  1. p. iv, line 38[…] of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams […]
  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,

savannas 1

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

savans 3 today: savants

  1. p. vii, line 40[…] Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance […]
  2. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,
  3. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?

savant see savan

savants see savans

saved 1

  1. p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,

savings-bank 1

  1. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,

saw 16

  1. p. vi, line 45[…] corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore […]
  2. p. x, line 86[…] that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of […]
  3. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  4. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
  5. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
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  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,
  2. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
  3. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  4. p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  5. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  6. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;
  7. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  8. p. 72, line 14Pier that I saw dimly last night when I looked from the windows,
  9. p. 79, line 1They and his daughters loved him . . . all who saw him loved him . . . they did not love him by allowance . . . they loved him with personal love;
  10. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  11. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

sawyer 1

  1. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;

say 24

  1. p. ix, line 28[…] riches from its conceit. You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else […]
  2. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  3. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  4. p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  5. p. 26, line 29And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
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  1. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
  4. p. 44, line 19Say old topknot! what do you want?
  5. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  6. p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,
  7. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  8. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  9. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
  10. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  11. p. 60, line 12I do not say they are not grand and good—for they are,
  12. p. 60, line 15We consider the bibles and religions divine . . . . I do not say they are not divine,
  13. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
  14. p. 63, line 23I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  15. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
  16. p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.

saying 1

  1. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,

says 7

  1. p. vi, line 87[…] and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that I […]
  2. p. vii, line 65[…] It is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere […]
  3. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
  4. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  5. p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  6. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
  7. p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.

scabbard 1

  1. p. 83, line 23And this is some murderer's knife with a halfpulled scabbard.

scabs 1

  1. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.

scaffold 1

  1. p. viii, line 72[…] the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep […]

scale 2

  1. p. ix, line 1[…] or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly […]
  2. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.

scaling 1

  1. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,

scalloped 1

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;

scalpel 1

  1. p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.

scares 1

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

scarfed 1

  1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,

scarlet 2

  1. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  2. p. 88, line 11Vague as the night, draped interminably, head front and form in scarlet folds,

scars 1

  1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

scattered 1

  1. p. 36, line 31Where the hay-rick stands in the barnyard, and the dry-stalks are scattered, and the brood cow waits in the hovel,

scattering 1

  1. p. 21, line 18Scattering it freely forever.

scene 1

  1. p. vi, line 35[…] in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing […]

scenery 1

  1. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,

scenes 2

  1. p. vi, line 74[…] of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on […]
  2. p. vi, line 92[…] not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits […]

scent 2

  1. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
  2. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,

scented 1

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

scheme 2

  1. p. viii, line 6[…] affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the […]
  2. p. 70, line 2That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it,

scholar 3

  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 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,

school 4

  1. p. vi, line 12[…] re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your […]
  2. p. 53, line 18No shuttered room or school can commune with me,
  3. p. 61, line 16What is learned in the public school—spelling, reading, writing and ciphering . . . . the blackboard and the teacher's diagrams:
  4. 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,

schoolboy 1

  1. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

schoolmistress 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,

schools 2

  1. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,
  2. p. 47, line 15Whatever interests the rest interests me . . . . politics, churches, newspapers, schools,

schooner 1

  1. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

science 9

  1. p. iv, line 90[…] the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future […]
  2. p. vii, line 44[…] In the need of poems philosophy politics mechanism science behaviour, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft […]
  3. p. vii, line 86Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest […]
  4. p. vii, line 108[…] between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final […]
  5. p. vii, line 110[…] poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]
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  1. p. xi, line 54[…] be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and […]
  2. p. xii, line 35[…] or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute […]
  3. p. 28, line 21Hurrah for positive science! Long live exact demonstration!
  4. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.

sciences 1

  1. p. 94, line 18Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,

scoffed 1

  1. p. x, line 90[…] sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and […]

scooper 1

  1. p. 27, line 29Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty sea!

scooting 1

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

scoots 1

  1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;

scope 1

  1. p. x, line 73[…] order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise […]

scorched 1

  1. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;

scorching 1

  1. p. x, line 10[…] pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and […]

score 1

  1. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,

scorn 3

  1. p. 21, line 9They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  2. p. 34, line 5And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  3. p. 80, line 9Scorn becomes him well and appetite and defiance become him well,

scorned 1

  1. p. 88, line 7The People scorned the ferocity of kings.

scorns 1

  1. p. vi, line 40[…] irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not […]

Scotchman 1

  1. p. 75, line 8The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home;

scragged 1

  1. p. 36, line 4Scaling mountains . . . . pulling myself cautiously up . . . . holding on by low scragged limbs,

scrape-lipped 1

  1. p. 47, line 19I acknowledge the duplicates of myself under all the scrape-lipped and pipe-legged concealments.

scream 3

  1. p. 15, line 3Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  2. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.
  3. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,

screams 4

  1. p. iv, line 40[…] upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole […]
  2. p. 31, line 11The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
  3. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,
  4. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,

screech 1

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

screen 1

  1. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;

script 1

  1. p. 64, line 6When the script preaches instead of the preacher,

scrofula 1

  1. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?

scud 2

  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. p. 55, line 29The last scud of day holds back for me,

sculpture 1

  1. p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,

scum 1

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;

scuttle 1

  1. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,

scythes 1

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

sea 37

  1. p. iv, line 16[…] into him. The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and […]
  2. p. iv, line 17[…] inland sea of Virginia and Maryland and the sea off Massachusetts and Maine and over Manhattan bay and over […]
  3. p. v, line 2[…] government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not […]
  4. p. v, line 74The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and […]
  5. p. vi, line 46[…] in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of […]
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  1. p. vi, line 47[…] of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and […]
  2. p. vi, line 62[…] dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any […]
  3. p. vii, line 63[…] of the elements and the power of the sea and the motion of nature and of the throes of […]
  4. p. vii, line 67[…] the sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death, And of all […]
  5. p. ix, line 19[…] grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the […]
  6. p. ix, line 87[…] density, nor under the fluid wet of the sea, nor in that condition which precedes the birth of babes […]
  7. p. x, line 15[…] of the flowers and atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and men […]
  8. p. xii, line 28[…] out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I know that what […]
  9. p. 25, line 2Vivas to those who have failed, and to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea, and those themselves who sank in the sea,
  10. p. 27, line 4I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  11. p. 27, line 20You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
  12. p. 27, line 26Sea of stretched ground-swells!
  13. p. 27, line 27Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
  14. p. 27, line 28Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and always-ready graves!
  15. p. 27, line 29Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty sea!
  16. p. 38, line 15I ascend to the foretruck . . . . I take my place late at night in the crow's nest . . . . we sail through the arctic sea . . . . it is plenty light enough,
  17. p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?
  18. p. 47, line 29The panorama of the sea . . . . but the sea itself?
  19. 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.
  20. p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  21. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  22. p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
  23. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  24. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
  25. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  26. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  27. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
  28. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.

seabooks 1

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

seabreeze 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

seacoast 1

  1. p. 43, line 26Inland and by the seacoast and boundary lines . . . . and we pass the boundary lines.

seacrow 1

  1. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

seafaring 1

  1. p. v, line 85[…] love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of horses, the passion for light and the […]

sea-gaps 1

  1. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,

seal 2

  1. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.

seamen 2

  1. p. 24, line 25It is for the endless races of working people and farmers and seamen.
  2. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,

searching 2

  1. p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
  2. p. 40, line 9Workmen searching after damages and to make indispensible repairs,

sea-rocks 1

  1. p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,

seas 4

  1. p. iv, line 21[…] the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not […]
  2. p. iv, line 22[…] and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue […]
  3. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  4. p. 30, line 30Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.

season 2

  1. p. vi, line 11[…] read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you […]
  2. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

seasons 3

  1. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
  2. p. 23, line 8Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs and the mower mows and the wintergrain falls in the ground;
  3. p. 24, line 3A novice beginning experient of myriads of seasons,

seated 1

  1. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,

seats 1

  1. p. x, line 87[…] aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for […]

second 7

  1. p. viii, line 79[…] is not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest […]
  2. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
  3. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  4. p. 53, line 17The maul the oar and the handsaw second my words.
  5. p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
  6. p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
  7. 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;

seconded 1

  1. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,

secrecy see secresy

secresy 1 today: secrecy

  1. p. vii, line 72[…] competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for […]

secret 1

  1. p. 61, line 12Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret betweendays,

secretaries 2

  1. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
  2. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,

secrets 1

  1. p. vi, line 107[…] stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has […]

sects 1

  1. p. xi, line 67[…] all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a woman as much as a man and […]

secure 1

  1. p. 68, line 4You are thenceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.

sedgy 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

seduce 1

  1. p. x, line 51[…] or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not […]

see 77

  1. p. v, line 28[…] eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the […]
  2. p. v, line 44[…] prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair […]
  3. p. xi, line 81[…] regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots […]
  4. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  5. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
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  1. p. 16, line 12Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  2. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  3. p. 19, line 22Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  4. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  5. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  6. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
  7. p. 26, line 3In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less,
  8. p. 26, line 13I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  9. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
  10. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  11. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  12. p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,
  13. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
  14. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  15. p. 50, line 9Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, the vapor from the nostrils of death,
  16. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  17. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  18. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  19. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  20. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  21. p. 54, line 13In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
  22. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,
  23. p. 55, line 12Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  24. p. 58, line 5If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.
  25. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  26. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
  27. p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
  28. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
  29. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  30. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,
  31. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  32. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  33. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  34. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  35. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  36. p. 71, line 11I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  37. p. 71, line 17I see the hiding of douceurs . . . . I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  38. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
  39. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  40. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;
  41. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  42. p. 73, line 5I see his white body . . . . I see his undaunted eyes;
  43. p. 78, line 2To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem . . perhaps more,
  44. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.
  45. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  46. 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,
  47. 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.
  48. p. 81, line 8They shall be stript that you may see them.
  49. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  50. p. 83, line 7I see them and complain not and am content with all.
  51. p. 83, line 29I see your rounded never-erased flow,
  52. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
  53. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
  54. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,
  55. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  56. p. 88, line 12Whose face and eyes none may see,
  57. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
  58. p. 89, line 12The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see;
  59. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  60. p. 89, line 22See how well-dressed . . . . see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  61. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

seed 3

  1. p. vii, line 100[…] what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception of it . . . of them and by them […]
  2. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

seedlings 1

  1. p. 61, line 22The plum-orchard and apple-orchard . . . . gardening . . seedlings, cuttings, flowers and vines,

seeds 2

  1. p. v, line 96[…] The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity […]
  2. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?

seeing 2

  1. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  2. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:

seek 1

  1. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,

seeking 1

  1. p. 86, line 13Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;

seem 2

  1. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  2. p. 88, line 20Cold and motionless as they seem . . live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.

seems 5

  1. p. 16, line 18And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  2. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  3. p. 73, line 1It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy;
  4. p. 74, line 27Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine,
  5. p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.

seen 8

  1. p. ix, line 72[…] no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that […]
  2. p. 14, line 24Lack one lacks both . . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  3. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  4. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
  5. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  6. 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;
  7. p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  8. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,

seer 1

  1. p. v, line 54[…] and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others […]

sees 17

  1. p. iii, line 35[…] and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and […]
  2. p. iv, line 90[…] stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there […]
  3. p. v, line 22[…] sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are […]
  4. p. v, line 25[…] of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement […]
  5. p. v, line 27[…] a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men […]
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  1. p. v, line 35[…] power of the noblest expressive genius. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may […]
  2. p. v, line 56[…] others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of […]
  3. p. vi, line 99[…] of the moment of parting the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years […]
  4. p. vii, line 78[…] is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The […]
  5. p. viii, line 36[…] master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he […]
  6. p. viii, line 37[…] himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes […]
  7. p. ix, line 110[…] life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions […]
  8. 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,
  9. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  10. p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.

seine 2

  1. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;

seize 3

  1. p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
  2. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  3. p. 45, line 10I seize the descending man . . . . I raise him with resistless will.

seized 1

  1. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,

seizes 2

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,

seldom 1

  1. p. ix, line 104[…] from her birth out of her mother's. Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent […]

self-contained 1

  1. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,

self-denial 1

  1. p. x, line 84[…] and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others […]

self-esteem 2

  1. p. iii, line 54[…] resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air […]
  2. p. xii, line 7[…] is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude prudence decision and courage. It […]

selfsufficient 1

  1. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,

sell 1

  1. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

selling 2

  1. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  2. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;

seminal 1

  1. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,

semitic 1

  1. p. xi, line 34[…] its neck with incomparable love and plunge his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be […]

send 6

  1. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  2. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  3. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.
  4. p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
  5. p. 85, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  6. p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,

sense 4

  1. p. ix, line 97[…] alimentiveness and destructiveness and causality, with a perfect sense of the oneness of nature and the propriety of the […]
  2. p. xii, line 5[…] of resistance . . . it is the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races […]
  3. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  4. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

senses 3

  1. p. v, line 62[…] the curious mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but […]
  2. p. viii, line 21[…] never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all […]
  3. p. 81, line 9Exquisite senses, lifelit eyes, pluck, volition,

sensitive 1

  1. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,

sensual 1

  1. p. 29, line 4Disorderly fleshy and sensual . . . . eating drinking and breeding,

sent 5

  1. p. vii, line 100[…] No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception of it . . . of them and […]
  2. p. xii, line 57[…] composure and goodwill for the visitors that have sent word. It is not intellect that is to be their […]
  3. p. 50, line 18They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  4. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  5. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.

sentenced 2

  1. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  2. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

sentiment 1

  1. p. vii, line 6[…] movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside […]

sentimentalist 1

  1. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.

sentinels 1

  1. p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,

sentries 1

  1. p. 33, line 6The sentries desert every other part of me,

separate 1

  1. p. 43, line 20That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning!

serene 1

  1. p. 42, line 6Serene stood the little captain,

serenity 1

  1. p. x, line 20[…] and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and […]

seriously 1

  1. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;

sermons 2

  1. p. 33, line 25Logic and sermons never convince,
  2. 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?

serpentine 1

  1. p. x, line 50[…] peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding […]

serpent-skin 1

  1. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;

servant 1

  1. p. 57, line 13Neither a servant nor a master am I,

served 3

  1. p. iii, line 7[…] and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the […]
  2. p. viii, line 61[…] learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure […]
  3. p. 42, line 14Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin,

serves 3

  1. p. xii, line 30[…] must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or […]
  2. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  3. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.

service 1

  1. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;

servility 1

  1. p. viii, line 116[…] and a candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government or any […]

set 4

  1. p. xii, line 36[…] acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help […]
  2. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  3. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  4. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

sets 2

  1. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  2. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.

setting 1

  1. p. ix, line 14[…] more volatile light . . . . also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object […]

settle 3

  1. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 33, line 29A minute and a drop of me settle my brain;
  3. p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;

settled 3

  1. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  2. p. 66, line 18The coffin is lowered and settled . . . . the whip is laid on the coffin,
  3. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,

settlement 1

  1. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?

settlements 2

  1. p. iv, line 53[…] or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty […]
  2. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;

settling 1

  1. p. 34, line 17In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,

seven 1

  1. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,

seventeen 1

  1. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,

seventy 4

  1. p. x, line 32[…] that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and […]
  2. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  3. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  4. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,

several 1

  1. p. 45, line 22Heard it and heard of several thousand years;

sewing-machine 1

  1. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,

sex 1

  1. p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,

sexes 1

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

sextillions 1

  1. p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,

sexton 1

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

sexton's 1

  1. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

shade 4

  1. p. ix, line 77[…] smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a […]
  2. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  4. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,

shaded 2

  1. p. 30, line 3Shaded ledges and rests, firm masculine coulter, it shall be you,
  2. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

shades 1

  1. p. 36, line 3Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;

shading 1

  1. p. 30, line 12Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you,

shadow 1

  1. p. 84, line 10Always the shadow in front . . . . always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.

shadowed 1

  1. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,

shadows 4

  1. p. 30, line 25The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  2. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  3. p. 46, line 20Putting myself here and now to the ambushed womb of the shadows!
  4. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,

shadowy 1

  1. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.

shake 4

  1. p. 24, line 1Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat;
  2. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  3. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  4. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

shaken 1

  1. p. 17, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless . . . . and can never be shaken away.

shakes 1

  1. p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.

shaky 1

  1. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,

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shallow 2

  1. p. 35, line 22Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . . hauling my boat down the shallow river;
  2. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,

shallowest 1

  1. p. 47, line 20The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,

shame 2

  1. 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.
  2. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;

shamefaced 1

  1. p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.

shameless 1

  1. p. x, line 13[…] and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the […]

shames 1

  1. p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

shape 5

  1. p. viii, line 38[…] the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be under the general law is […]
  2. p. xi, line 41[…] its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of […]
  3. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  4. 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,
  5. p. 88, line 10Yet behind all, lo, a Shape,

shaped 1

  1. p. 43, line 2And see myself in prison shaped like another man,

shapes 4

  1. p. v, line 102[…] lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and […]
  2. p. v, line 103[…] bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed […]
  3. p. ix, line 47[…] eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is […]
  4. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,

shaping 1

  1. p. x, line 102[…] the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all that is well thought […]

sharp 1

  1. p. viii, line 64[…] or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to […]

sharpens 1

  1. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,

sharphoofed 1

  1. p. 21, line 4The sharphoofed moose of the north, the cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

sharp-lipped 1

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

sharp-peaked 1

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;

sharptoothed 1

  1. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!

shasta 1

  1. p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,

shatter 1

  1. p. vii, line 67[…] the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature and passion and death […]

shaved 1

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

shavings 1

  1. p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;

shawl 1

  1. p. 22, line 29The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,

she 49

  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 19, line 18She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  4. p. 19, line 19She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  5. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
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  1. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  2. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  3. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
  4. p. 22, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy, a week ago she bore her first child,
  5. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;
  6. p. 37, line 17Pleased with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  7. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  8. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  9. p. 58, line 20The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
  10. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  11. p. 71, line 29I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  12. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.
  13. p. 74, line 5Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  14. p. 74, line 7On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rushbottoming chairs;
  15. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  16. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,
  17. p. 74, line 12The more she looked upon her she loved her,
  18. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  19. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
  20. p. 74, line 15She had no work to give her but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  21. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  22. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
  23. p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
  24. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  25. p. 80, line 4She is all things duly veiled . . . . she is both passive and active . . . . she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and sons as well as daughters.
  26. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  27. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  28. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  29. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  30. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,
  31. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
  32. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  33. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
  34. p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,
  35. p. 91, line 7The mother with mild words . . . . clean her cap and gown . . . . a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by:

shears 1

  1. p. 63, line 1The veneer and gluepot . . the confectioner's ornaments . . the decanter and glasses . . the shears and flatiron;

sheathed 1

  1. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!

shed 4

  1. p. v, line 104[…] chestnuts and oranges and melons and pears, and shed the perfume impalpable to form. The fluency and ornaments of […]
  2. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  3. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.

sheen 1

  1. p. xi, line 81[…] no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums […]

sheer 1

  1. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,

sheet 1

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

shelf 1

  1. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,

shell 2

  1. p. 32, line 20If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough.
  2. p. 32, line 21Mine is no callous shell,

shells 1

  1. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;

sheltered 1

  1. p. xi, line 76[…] greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action […]

shelves 1

  1. p. 13, line 6Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes,

she-whale 1

  1. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,

shimmers 1

  1. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;

shine 4

  1. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  2. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
  3. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  4. p. 89, line 7How bright shine the foremost with cutlasses,

shines 2

  1. p. 76, line 17The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  2. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.

shingledressing 1

  1. p. 62, line 15Glassblowing, grinding of wheat and corn . . casting, and what is cast . . tinroofing, shingledressing,

shingles 1

  1. p. x, line 5[…] burial-money, and of a few clapboards around and shingles overhead on a lot of American soil owned, and the […]

shining 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,

shiny 1

  1. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,

ship 4

  1. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  2. p. 38, line 12I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  3. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
  4. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.

shipcarpentering 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

shipcraft 1

  1. p. vii, line 45[…] the craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who […]

shipjoiner 1

  1. 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;

ships 10

  1. p. ix, line 45[…] monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or […]
  2. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,
  3. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;
  4. p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
  5. p. 48, line 2The fleet of ships of the line and all the modern improvements . . . . but the craft and pluck of the admiral?
5 more lines
  1. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
  2. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,
  3. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;
  4. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  5. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

shirt 3

  1. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
  2. p. 20, line 13His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hipband,
  3. p. 39, line 28I lie in the night air in my red shirt . . . . the pervading hush is for my sake,

shirts 1

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

shock 1

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

shod 1

  1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,

shoemaker 1

  1. p. 22, line 20The canal-boy trots on the towpath—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread,

shoes 1

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

shoots 2

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;
  2. p. 79, line 18Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it . . the response likewise ungovernable,

shop 1

  1. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,

shop-windows 2

  1. p. 37, line 20Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my nose to the thick plate-glass,
  2. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

shore 8

  1. p. vi, line 46[…] buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of […]
  2. p. vi, line 47[…] is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of […]
  3. p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
  4. p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  5. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;
  6. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  7. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,
  8. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.

shoregoing 1

  1. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,

shoremud 1

  1. p. 91, line 22The horizon's edge, the flying seacrow, the fragrance of saltmarsh and shoremud;

shores 1

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

short 4

  1. p. 29, line 1And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipped,
  2. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
  3. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,
  4. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,

shortcake 1

  1. p. 34, line 8And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake.

shot 3

  1. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  3. p. 62, line 5Smallarms and rifles . . . . the powder and shot and caps and wadding . . . . the ordnance for war . . . . the carriages:

shots 2

  1. p. 40, line 7The cries and curses and roar . . . . the plaudits for well aimed shots,
  2. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,

should 13

  1. p. 18, line 32You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  2. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  3. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  4. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  5. p. 68, line 2It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided;
7 more lines
  1. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,
  2. p. 77, line 1Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
  3. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  4. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  5. p. 92, line 19Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal,
  6. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  7. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

shoulder 2

  1. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  2. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;

shouldering 1

  1. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;

shoulders 3

  1. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
  2. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.
  3. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

shoulderside 1

  1. p. 78, line 3You linger to see his back and the back of his neck and shoulderside.

shout 2

  1. p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. 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.

shouted 1

  1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

shouts 1

  1. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,

shovel 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;

shovelled 1

  1. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,

shovels 1

  1. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;

show 13

  1. p. v, line 100[…] sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free growth of metrical laws and bud from them […]
  2. p. viii, line 64[…] ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear […]
  3. p. 15, line 5And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
  4. p. 26, line 33I show that size is only developement.
  5. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
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  1. p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
  2. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  3. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  4. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  5. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  6. p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.
  7. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
  8. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,

showed 1

  1. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;

showered 1

  1. p. ix, line 12[…] and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit with more volatile […]

showering 1

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

showers 2

  1. p. iii, line 34[…] perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed […]
  2. p. vi, line 41[…] sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him […]

showing 3

  1. p. 14, line 26Showing the best and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age,
  2. p. 34, line 36Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  3. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?

shows 6

  1. p. vii, line 78[…] affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of […]
  2. p. xi, line 87[…] and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till […]
  3. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  4. p. 63, line 14The column of wants in the one-cent paper . . the news by telegraph . . . . the amusements and operas and shows:
  5. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  6. p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.

shred 1

  1. p. vii, line 31[…] portray shall go from my composition without a shred of my composition. You shall stand by my side and […]

shroud 3

  1. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
  2. p. 72, line 28A shroud I see—and I am the shroud . . . . I wrap a body and lie in the coffin;

shuddering 1

  1. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,

shuffle 1

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

shunned 1

  1. p. x, line 83[…] and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of […]

shut 3

  1. p. 38, line 11No guard can shut me off, no law can prevent me.
  2. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  3. p. 88, line 29Is the house shut? Is the master away?

shuttered 1

  1. p. 53, line 18No shuttered room or school can commune with me,

shyness 1

  1. p. 34, line 13In vain the speeding or shyness,

sibilant 1

  1. p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.

sick 9

  1. p. x, line 68[…] or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to […]
  2. p. x, line 83[…] sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned persons . . all furtherance of fugitives and […]
  3. p. 18, line 5The flap of the curtained litter—the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
  4. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,
  5. p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
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  1. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  2. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  3. p. 75, line 17The stammerer, the sick, the perfectformed, the homely,
  4. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

sickened 2

  1. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  2. p. 87, line 23O hope and faith! O aching close of lives! O many a sickened heart!

sick-gray 1

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

sickness 2

  1. p. x, line 18[…] in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at the close of a life without […]
  2. 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,

side 17

  1. p. vii, line 34[…] of my composition. You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me […]
  2. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  3. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
  4. p. 25, line 14Well I have . . . . for the April rain has, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  5. p. 28, line 9Witnesses of us . . . . one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
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  1. p. 37, line 31Walking the old hills of Judea with the beautiful gentle god by my side;
  2. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  3. p. 43, line 6Not a mutineer walks handcuffed to the jail, but I am handcuffed to him and walk by his side,
  4. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  5. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;
  6. p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.
  7. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  8. p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  9. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,

sidecurved 1

  1. p. 15, line 18Looks with its sidecurved head curious what will come next,

sides 4

  1. p. iv, line 37[…] the boughs and crackling in the wind . . . . and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as […]
  2. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  3. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
  4. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;

sidewalks 1

  1. p. 62, line 16Shipcarpentering, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers . . dockbuilding, fishcuring, ferrying;

sideways 1

  1. p. 22, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with halfshut eyes bent sideways,

sidle 1

  1. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,

sierras 1

  1. p. 35, line 16I skirt the sierras . . . . my palms cover continents,

sight 10

  1. p. v, line 99[…] its own roots in the ground out of sight. The rhyme and uniformity of perfect poems show the free […]
  2. p. vi, line 35[…] the highest he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods […]
  3. p. viii, line 90[…] upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship and calling no […]
  4. p. viii, line 95[…] we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion […]
  5. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
4 more lines
  1. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  2. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  3. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  4. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?

sign 3

  1. p. v, line 87[…] the open air, all is an old varied sign of the unfailing perception of beauty and of a residence […]
  2. p. xii, line 19[…] instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a […]
  3. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;

signal 1

  1. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.

signed 1

  1. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,

significance 1

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

signify 1

  1. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;

signpainter 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,

signpainting 1

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

signs 6

  1. p. xii, line 70[…] half-way to meet that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the […]
  2. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;
  3. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  4. p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;
  5. p. 85, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  6. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.

silence 2

  1. p. 93, line 22Great is wealth and great is poverty . . . . great is expression and great is silence.
  2. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,

silenced 1

  1. p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.

silent 8

  1. p. v, line 25[…] God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue […]
  2. p. vi, line 15[…] not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes […]
  3. p. vii, line 41[…] musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need of […]
  4. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  5. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  6. p. 39, line 6How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipped unshaved men;
  7. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  8. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,

silently 4

  1. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 30, line 27Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
  3. p. 72, line 3He rises with me silently from the bed.
  4. 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;

silkthread 1

  1. p. 13, line 14Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine,

silliness 1

  1. p. 20, line 29And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

sills 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.

silversmiths 1

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

silver-wired 1

  1. p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,

similar 1

  1. p. xi, line 53[…] same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science […]

similes 1

  1. p. vi, line 71[…] in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]

similitude 1

  1. p. xi, line 37[…] him is not opened the eternity which gives similitude to all periods and locations and processes and animate and […]

simple 4

  1. p. iv, line 3[…] fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
  2. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;
  3. p. 59, line 2The naive . . . . the simple and hardy . . . . he going to the polls to vote . . . . he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time;
  4. p. 75, line 6The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the wellknown neighbors and faces,

simplest 2

  1. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,
  2. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,

simplicity 3

  1. p. vi, line 112[…] the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for […]
  2. p. vi, line 113[…] of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack […]
  3. p. 88, line 4Worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages;

simply 2

  1. p. viii, line 15[…] and the earth and all upon it are simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of […]
  2. p. x, line 75[…] greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise […]

sin 4

  1. p. v, line 50[…] shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
  2. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
  3. p. 67, line 21The difference between sin and goodness is no apparition;
  4. p. 69, line 21What is called good is perfect, and what is called sin is just as perfect;

since 3

  1. p. iii, line 88[…] western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small […]
  2. p. ix, line 74[…] there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or […]
  3. p. 52, line 7Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,

sinews 2

  1. p. 43, line 10My face is ash-colored, my sinews gnarl . . . . away from me people retreat.
  2. p. 72, line 22I descend my western course . . . . my sinews are flaccid,

sinewy 1

  1. p. vii, line 103[…] always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content […]

sing 3

  1. p. 14, line 30I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  2. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  3. 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,

singer 3

  1. p. vi, line 68[…] need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and […]
  2. 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,
  3. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,

singers 1

  1. p. 24, line 24It is for the admirable communes of literary men and composers and singers and lecturers and engineers and savans,

singing 2

  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,
  2. p. 82, line 13The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the backtop,

single 8

  1. p. v, line 65[…] foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks all the investigations of man and […]
  2. p. ix, line 74[…] and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth gathered itself in […]
  3. p. 23, line 6In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  4. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  5. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  6. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.
  7. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
  8. 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;

singly 1

  1. p. x, line 109[…] whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and […]

sings 3

  1. p. 21, line 19The pure contralto sings in the organloft,
  2. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  3. p. 64, line 5When the psalm sings instead of the singer,

singular 1

  1. p. viii, line 38[…] of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape comes common ground. To be […]

sink 1

  1. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.

sinkers 1

  1. p. 62, line 4The trail and line and hooks and sinkers . . the seine, and hauling the seine;

sinking 2

  1. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  2. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,

sins 2

  1. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  2. p. 46, line 11The snag-toothed hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,

sister 4

  1. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  2. p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
  3. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

sisters 8

  1. p. 16, line 2And that all the men ever born are also my brothers . . . . and the women my sisters and lovers,
  2. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  3. p. 55, line 12Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  4. p. 65, line 15When the children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters have been sent for,
  5. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  6. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.

sit 15

  1. p. xi, line 72[…] a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with […]
  2. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  3. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  4. p. 22, line 26The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype,
  5. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
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  1. p. 26, line 16If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  2. p. 26, line 17And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  3. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
  4. p. 43, line 12I project my hat and sit shamefaced and beg.
  5. p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
  6. p. 52, line 19Sit awhile wayfarer,
  7. p. 61, line 8Does all sit there with you and here with me?
  8. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
  9. p. 74, line 14She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace . . . . she cooked food for her,
  10. p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.

sits 2

  1. p. viii, line 67[…] relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows […]
  2. p. 85, line 9She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

sitting 1

  1. p. 48, line 18To the mass kneeling—to the puritan's prayer rising—sitting patiently in a pew,

six 4

  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,
  2. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  3. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  4. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;

sixty 1

  1. p. xi, line 45[…] of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let him merge in the […]

size 1

  1. p. 26, line 33I show that size is only developement.

skein 1

  1. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,

skeptic 1

  1. p. 31, line 20With the hush of my lips I confound the topmost skeptic.

sketches 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,

skiff 1

  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,

skin 3

  1. p. 39, line 17I clutch the rails of the fence . . . . my gore dribs thinned with the ooze of my skin,
  2. p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,
  3. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;

skins 1

  1. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,

skip 1

  1. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?

skipper 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,

skirt 1

  1. p. 35, line 16I skirt the sierras . . . . my palms cover continents,

skulk 2

  1. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
  2. p. 86, line 12It is vain to skulk . . . . Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?

skull 3

  1. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,
  2. p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.

skull-cup 1

  1. p. 48, line 15Drinking mead from the skull-cup . . . . to shasta and vedas admirant . . . . minding the koran,

sky 12

  1. p. v, line 75[…] and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers […]
  2. p. vi, line 63[…] sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events […]
  3. p. vii, line 67[…] and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, Master of nature […]
  4. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  5. p. 21, line 17Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill,
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  1. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  2. p. 34, line 18In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  3. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  4. p. 66, line 13A gray discouraged sky overhead . . . . the short last daylight of December,
  5. p. 67, line 9Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
  6. p. 67, line 18The sky continues beautiful . . . . the pleasure of men with women shall never be sated . . nor the pleasure of women with men . . nor the pleasure from poems;
  7. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.

skysails 1

  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,

slacktowed 1

  1. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

slain 1

  1. p. 24, line 27I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

slapping 2

  1. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  2. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;

slappy 1

  1. p. 37, line 4Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh;

slaughter 1

  1. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

slaughtered 1

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

slave 11

  1. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  2. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,
  3. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  4. p. 39, line 15I am the hounded slave . . . . I wince at the bite of the dogs,
  5. p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
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  1. p. 61, line 14The anklechain of the slave, the bed of the bedhouse, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger;
  2. p. 76, line 20The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
  3. p. 80, line 16Is it a slave? Is it one of the dullfaced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  4. p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?
  5. p. 80, line 24A slave at auction!

slavery 2

  1. p. iv, line 77[…] the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and […]
  2. p. xii, line 38[…] liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery at nought for life and death? Will it help breed […]

slaves 5

  1. p. viii, line 55[…] attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound […]
  2. p. viii, line 95[…] elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion of the […]
  3. p. x, line 84[…] furtherance of fugitives and of the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks […]
  4. p. 29, line 14Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
  5. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

sleep 23

  1. p. vi, line 107[…] with the other. The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt […]
  2. p. ix, line 111[…] as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he […]
  3. p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  4. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  5. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
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  1. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  2. p. 45, line 15Sleep! I and they keep guard all night;
  3. 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.
  4. p. 55, line 6I sleep . . . . I sleep long.
  5. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  6. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  7. p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  8. p. 70, line 19The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
  9. p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
  10. p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
  11. p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.
  12. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.
  13. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  14. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
  15. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

sleepers 4

  1. p. 70, line 6Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers;
  2. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  3. p. 76, line 9The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,
  4. p. 76, line 11The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,

sleepily 1

  1. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

sleeping 2

  1. p. iii, line 10[…] corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house . . . perceives that it waits a little […]
  2. p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:

sleepless 1

  1. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,

sleeps 15

  1. p. 15, line 1As God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
  2. p. 17, line 27The little one sleeps in its cradle,
  3. p. 23, line 16The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
  4. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  5. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
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  1. p. 70, line 18And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapped.
  2. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,
  3. p. 71, line 3The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  4. p. 71, line 4And the male that loves unrequited sleeps;
  5. p. 71, line 5The head of the moneymaker that plotted all day sleeps,
  6. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  7. p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.

sleepwalking 1

  1. p. iii, line 90[…] small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of the United States […]

sleepy 2

  1. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.
  2. p. 83, line 15Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.

sleeves 2

  1. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,
  2. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;

sleighdriver 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,

sleighs 1

  1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

slender 1

  1. p. 35, line 28Over the sharp-peaked farmhouse with its scalloped scum and slender shoots from the gutters;

slept 1

  1. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,

slides 1

  1. p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,

sliding 1

  1. p. 33, line 1Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,

slight 5

  1. p. iii, line 56[…] self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons who never knew how […]
  2. p. x, line 1[…] think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate. The premises of […]
  3. p. 42, line 19The cut of cordage and dangle of rigging . . . . the slight shock of the soothe of waves,
  4. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  5. p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,

slighted 2

  1. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  2. p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,

slights 1

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

slimy 1

  1. p. 36, line 20Where shells grow to her slimy deck, and the dead are corrupting below;

slings 1

  1. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

slip 1

  1. p. 49, line 13Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,

slipnoose 1

  1. p. 36, line 15Where the life-car is drawn on the slipnoose . . . . where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

slobbering 1

  1. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

sloop's 1

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

slothful 1

  1. p. v, line 7[…] that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can […]

slouch 1

  1. p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,

slough 2

slough 1 · sluff 1

  1. p. iii, line 6[…] so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the […]
  2. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,

sloven 1

  1. p. 80, line 25I help the auctioneer . . . . the sloven does not half know his business.

slow 5

  1. p. viii, line 29[…] less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is […]
  2. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  5. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,

slow-drawn 1

  1. p. 18, line 16The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,

slowly 7

  1. p. iii, line 9[…] the new forms . . . perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house […]
  2. p. 20, line 23They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  3. p. 22, line 27The bride unrumples her white dress, the minutehand of the clock moves slowly,
  4. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,
  5. p. 42, line 12Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking . . . . preparations to pass to the one we had conquered,
  6. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.

slow-march 1

  1. p. 32, line 3The slow-march played at night at the head of the association,

slowmoving 2

  1. p. 66, line 9Slowmoving and black lines creep over the whole earth . . . . they never cease . . . . they are the burial lines,
  2. p. 68, line 16Slowmoving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,

slowstepping 1

  1. p. 44, line 13Slowstepping feet and the common features, and the common modes and emanations,

slueing 1

  1. p. 20, line 18In me the caresser of life wherever moving . . . . backward as well as forward slueing,

sluggish 1

  1. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.

slumbering 3

  1. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  2. p. 64, line 9When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  3. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

slumbers 1

  1. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,

sly 3

  1. p. viii, line 104[…] cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state […]
  2. p. ix, line 79[…] the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul […]
  3. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;

small 10

  1. p. iii, line 89[…] North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the […]
  2. p. v, line 53[…] breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe […]
  3. p. v, line 76[…] orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more […]
  4. p. ix, line 1[…] government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following […]
  5. p. 23, line 7Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered . . . . it is the Fourth of July . . . . what salutes of cannon and small arms!
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  1. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;
  2. p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  3. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  4. p. 66, line 4To think of all these wonders of city and country . . and others taking great interest in them . . and we taking small interest in them.
  5. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.

smallarms 1

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

smaller 1

  1. p. 49, line 26I do not call one greater and one smaller,

smallest 4

  1. p. ix, line 3[…] following duly after in exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all […]
  2. p. ix, line 76[…] have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that […]
  3. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  4. p. 23, line 25One of the great nation, the nation of many nations—the smallest the same and the largest the same,

smallpox 1

  1. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.

smart 1

  1. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,

smeared 1

  1. p. 84, line 3I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

smell 1

  1. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,

smells 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

smile 3

  1. p. vi, line 97[…] He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting […]
  2. p. 27, line 8Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  3. p. 27, line 15Smile, for your lover comes!

smiled 1

  1. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,

smiles 1

  1. p. 64, line 10When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the nightwatchman's daughter,

smoke 5

  1. p. 13, line 13The smoke of my own breath,
  2. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  3. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 85, line 1Lulled and late is the smoke of the Sabbath morning,

smoking 1

  1. p. 19, line 1Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking . . . . they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;

smoother 1

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

smoothingplane 1

  1. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

smoothly 1

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

snag-toothed 1

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

snake 2

  1. p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
  2. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.

snakes 1

  1. p. 83, line 13Snakes nest in that mouth . . I hear the sibilant threat.

sneak 1

  1. p. ix, line 79[…] state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that […]

sniff 1

  1. p. 13, line 16The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,

sniffing 1

  1. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;

sniffs 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

snivel 2

  1. p. 25, line 25I do not snivel that snivel the world over,

snout 1

  1. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;

snow 3

  1. p. vii, line 28[…] will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I experience […]
  2. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
  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;

snowballs 1

  1. p. 18, line 3The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;

snow-flakes 1

  1. p. 44, line 12Behaviour lawless as snow-flakes . . . . words simple as grass . . . . uncombed head and laughter and naivete;

snowhouse 1

  1. 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,

snowplough 1 today: snowplow

  1. 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:

snowplow see snowplough

snows 1

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

snowshoes 1

  1. p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

snowstorm 1

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

snuff 1

  1. p. 55, line 17Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,

so 60

  1. p. iii, line 5[…] religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks […]
  2. p. iv, line 87[…] be illustrated and that finish the verse. Not so the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is […]
  3. p. iv, line 97[…] Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great […]
  4. p. ix, line 50[…] revolt. Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Of ornaments to […]
  5. p. x, line 71[…] that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable […]
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  1. p. xi, line 1[…] lived only its moment? The world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result […]
  2. p. xi, line 2[…] not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from its long […]
  3. p. xi, line 4[…] antecedent result, and that from its antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer […]
  4. p. xi, line 56[…] and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked down upon? Have the marches […]
  5. p. 14, line 2Have you practiced so long to learn to read?
  6. p. 14, line 3Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  7. p. 14, line 19To elaborate is no avail . . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  8. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
  9. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.
  10. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  11. p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
  12. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
  13. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  14. p. 30, line 11Sun so generous it shall be you,
  15. p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
  16. p. 33, line 15Did it make you ache so leaving me?
  17. p. 33, line 27Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  18. p. 33, line 28Only what nobody denies is so.
  19. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  20. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
  21. p. 39, line 29Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy,
  22. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  23. p. 42, line 24These so . . . . these irretrievable.
  24. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  25. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  26. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  27. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  28. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  29. p. 57, line 7I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me . . . . I know that it is good for you to do so.
  30. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  31. 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?
  32. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  33. p. 60, line 9Will we rate our prudence and business so high? . . . . I have no objection,
  34. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,
  35. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  36. p. 69, line 1I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much . . . . nor the law of us changed;
  37. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  38. p. 69, line 27I cannot define my satisfaction . . yet it is so,
  39. p. 69, line 28I cannot define my life . . yet it is so.
  40. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.
  41. p. 77, line 3I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
  42. 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?
  43. p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?
  44. p. 85, line 5I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
  45. 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.
  46. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
  47. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.
  48. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
  49. p. 92, line 11They are so beautiful I nudge myself to listen.
  50. 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;
  51. p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?
  52. p. 94, line 22Great is the English brood . . . . What brood has so vast a destiny as the English?

sobbing 1

  1. p. 47, line 7Ever love . . . . ever the sobbing liquid of life,

sobers 1

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

social 1

  1. p. xii, line 12[…] any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment […]

societies 2

  1. p. 15, line 9The latest news . . . . discoveries, inventions, societies . . . . authors old and new,
  2. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,

society 1

  1. p. xii, line 33[…] sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by […]

soft 6

  1. p. iii, line 51[…] to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one […]
  2. p. 18, line 20I felt its soft jolts . . . . one leg reclined on the other,
  3. p. 27, line 24Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
  4. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  5. p. 51, line 2Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,
  6. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,

softly 2

  1. p. v, line 72[…] and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
  2. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

softness 1

  1. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;

soft-tickling 1

  1. p. 30, line 14Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you,

soggy 1

  1. p. 33, line 30I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,

soil 2

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

soiree 1

  1. p. 85, line 4I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,

sold 1

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

soldier 1

  1. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

soldiers 3

  1. p. viii, line 65[…] tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself […]
  2. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  3. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,

solemn 1

  1. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;

solid 8

  1. p. iv, line 29[…] reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of pine and cedar and […]
  2. p. iv, line 90[…] plans with decision and science and sees the solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now […]
  3. p. iv, line 91[…] of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  4. p. ix, line 106[…] citizen was the citizen who applied himself to solid gains and did well for himself and his family and […]
  5. p. 26, line 5And I know I am solid and sound,
  6. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;
  7. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  8. 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,

solitary 2

  1. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  2. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

solve 1

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

some 33

  1. p. v, line 91[…] can never be assisted by poets to perceive . . . some may but they never can. The poetic quality is not […]
  2. p. vi, line 75[…] all events and passions and scenes and persons some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear […]
  3. p. viii, line 32[…] poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and […]
  4. p. xi, line 72[…] one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest satisfied with explanations and realize and […]
  5. p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
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  1. p. 19, line 10And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  2. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  3. p. 25, line 13Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  4. p. 28, line 6Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  5. 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,
  6. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  7. p. 32, line 4They go to guard some corpse . . . . the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.
  8. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  9. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  10. 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.
  11. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  12. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
  13. p. 41, line 2Some half-killed attempted to crawl away,
  14. p. 41, line 16We had received some eighteen-pound shots under the water,
  15. p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?
  16. p. 56, line 12I stop some where waiting for you
  17. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  18. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
  19. p. 66, line 24Fond of women, . . played some . . eat hearty and drank hearty,
  20. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  21. p. 83, line 10Some abject louse asking leave to be . . cringing for it,
  22. p. 83, line 11Some milknosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
  23. p. 83, line 23And this is some murderer's knife with a halfpulled scabbard.
  24. p. 89, line 10Some appear wooden-legged and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

somebody 2

  1. p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,

somehow 1

  1. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!

something 16

  1. p. iii, line 21[…] ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast […]
  2. p. vii, line 65[…] dignity and hate and love? It is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I […]
  3. p. xii, line 27[…] old models, generous beyond all models? Is it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the […]
  4. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  5. p. 30, line 29Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
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  1. p. 44, line 18Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  2. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  3. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  4. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  5. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  6. p. 59, line 21And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  7. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  8. p. 68, line 3Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
  9. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  10. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
  11. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,

sometimes 1

  1. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.

someway 1

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

somewhere 1

  1. p. 17, line 3They are alive and well somewhere;

son 7

  1. p. vii, line 105[…] love and content between the father and the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding […]
  2. p. vii, line 106[…] the son and if the greatness of the son is the exuding of the greatness of the father there […]
  3. p. 45, line 28Lithographing Kronos and Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
  4. p. 58, line 19The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
  5. p. 70, line 20The prisoner sleeps well in the prison . . . . the runaway son sleeps,
  6. p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,

song 4

  1. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  2. p. 40, line 23Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper or a courtship,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 90, line 17And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,

songs 4

  1. p. iv, line 39[…] savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold […]
  2. p. xii, line 16[…] courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long […]
  3. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  4. p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?

sons 10

  1. p. x, line 56[…] men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to […]
  2. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
  3. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  4. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  5. p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  6. p. 80, line 4She is all things duly veiled . . . . she is both passive and active . . . . she is to conceive daughters as well as sons and sons as well as daughters.

soon 8

  1. p. ix, line 62[…] states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need […]
  2. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may […]
  3. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  4. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  5. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,
  6. p. 38, line 19We are about approaching some great battlefield in which we are soon to be engaged,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 88, line 31He will soon return . . . . his messengers come anon.

sooner 1

  1. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,

soonest 1

  1. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?

sooth 1

  1. p. vii, line 27[…] who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow […]

soothe 1

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

soothing 1

  1. p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,

soothingly 1

  1. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;

soprano 1

  1. p. 32, line 10I hear the trained soprano . . . . she convulses me like the climax of my love-grip;

soreness 1

  1. p. 65, line 13When the soreness of lying so much in bed is over,

sores 1

  1. p. x, line 47[…] name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of […]

sorrow 1

  1. p. 80, line 10The fiercest largest passions . . bliss that is utmost and sorrow that is utmost become him well . . . . pride is for him,

sorrowful 2

  1. p. x, line 82[…] and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to […]
  2. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;

sorrows 1

  1. p. 59, line 23The light and shade—the curious sense of body and identity—the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things—the endless pride and outstretching of man—unspeakable joys and sorrows,

sorry 1

  1. p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;

soughing 1

  1. p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,

soul 63

  1. p. iii, line 29[…] and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the […]
  2. p. iii, line 60[…] symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their […]
  3. p. iii, line 79[…] best authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals […]
  4. p. iv, line 110[…] and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel […]
  5. p. v, line 24[…] praise of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his equal plane he […]
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  1. p. v, line 29[…] or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never […]
  2. p. v, line 95[…] these and much else and is in the soul. The profit of rhyme is that it drops seeds of […]
  3. p. vi, line 13[…] in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and […]
  4. p. vi, line 102[…] or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any […]
  5. p. vii, line 65[…] and love? It is that something in the soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here […]
  6. p. vii, line 83[…] nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and not be for the […]
  7. p. vii, line 113[…] and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The […]
  8. p. viii, line 11[…] also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe […]
  9. p. viii, line 21[…] is clear to the senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the […]
  10. p. viii, line 95[…] joy at the sight of slaves . . . . when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night and surveys […]
  11. p. ix, line 9[…] the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority […]
  12. p. ix, line 80[…] shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the soul has never been once fooled and never can be fooled […]
  13. p. ix, line 82[…] and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up […]
  14. p. x, line 25[…] such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence […]
  15. p. x, line 37[…] every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has reference to what ensues […]
  16. p. xi, line 7[…] beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at […]
  17. p. xi, line 9[…] at last the craving and glut of the soul, is not contemptuous of less ways of prudence if they […]
  18. p. xi, line 24[…] prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct […]
  19. p. xi, line 33[…] does not attract his own land body and soul to himself and hang on its neck with incomparable love […]
  20. p. xi, line 108[…] or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from […]
  21. p. xii, line 62[…] in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work. No disguise can […]
  22. p. xii, line 68[…] the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well […]
  23. p. 13, line 4I loafe and invite my soul,
  24. p. 14, line 23Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  25. p. 15, line 22I believe in you my soul . . . . the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  26. p. 26, line 25And I am the poet of the soul.
  27. p. 31, line 2We found our own my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
  28. p. 33, line 26The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  29. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
  30. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,
  31. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  32. p. 50, line 24Now I stand on this spot with my soul.
  33. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  34. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  35. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  36. p. 69, line 6What is the earth? what are body and soul without satisfaction?
  37. p. 69, line 19How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my soul!
  38. p. 69, line 24O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction,
  39. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  40. p. 75, line 29The myth of heaven indicates the soul;
  41. p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
  42. p. 76, line 4The soul is always beautiful,
  43. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,
  44. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  45. p. 80, line 2You are the gates of the body and you are the gates of the soul.
  46. 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,
  47. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  48. p. 80, line 11The fullspread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul;
  49. p. 82, line 3If life and the soul are sacred the human body is sacred;
  50. p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
  51. p. 92, line 23And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful:
  52. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
  53. 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.
  54. p. 95, line 3Justice is not settled by legislators and laws . . . . it is in the soul,

souls 9

  1. p. v, line 81[…] to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably as […]
  2. p. vii, line 102[…] and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races […]
  3. p. ix, line 4[…] or rather when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of […]
  4. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  5. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
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  1. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.
  2. p. 58, line 10Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching;
  3. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  4. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,

sound 13

  1. p. vi, line 71[…] that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
  2. p. viii, line 56[…] horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full […]
  3. p. 13, line 17The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind,
  4. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  5. p. 26, line 5And I know I am solid and sound,
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  1. p. 31, line 24I hear the sound of the human voice . . . . a sound I love,
  2. p. 53, line 22The farmboy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  3. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  4. p. 72, line 7I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  5. p. 73, line 16The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind . . . . the wreck-guns sound,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.

sounded 1

  1. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

soundest 1

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

soundings 3

  1. p. 38, line 9My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  2. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
  3. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?

soundly 1

  1. p. 18, line 27Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.

sounds 7

  1. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
  2. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
  3. p. 31, line 25I hear all sounds as they are tuned to their uses . . . . sounds of the city and sounds out of the city . . . . sounds of the day and night;
  4. p. 36, line 30Where the mockingbird sounds his delicious gurgles, and cackles and screams and weeps,

souse 1

  1. p. 20, line 2They do not think whom they souse with spray.

south 4

  1. p. iii, line 88[…] and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique […]
  2. p. iv, line 27[…] longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and […]
  3. p. iv, line 53[…] on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and […]
  4. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!

southern 3

  1. p. iv, line 75[…] the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast and of the […]
  2. p. vii, line 85[…] western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  3. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

southerner 2

  1. p. 23, line 26A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable,
  2. p. 68, line 17Northerner goes carried and southerner goes carried . . . . and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all through the Mississippi country . . . . and all over the earth.

southerners 1

  1. p. 59, line 3Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, sailors, mano'warsmen, merchantmen, coasters,

southwest 1

  1. p. iv, line 77[…] of the northeast and of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it […]

southwesterner 1

  1. p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?

sow 1

  1. p. 21, line 5The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,

sow's 1

  1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

space 10

  1. p. iii, line 28[…] heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the […]
  2. p. v, line 69[…] vague? after you have once just opened the space of a peachpit and given audience to far and near […]
  3. p. ix, line 86[…] the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density, nor under the fluid […]
  4. p. xi, line 81[…] unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights […]
  5. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
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  1. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  2. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  3. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  4. 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,
  5. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;

spaced 1

  1. p. x, line 33[…] year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at a certain time […]

Spain 1

  1. p. 75, line 9To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships;

span 2

  1. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!
  2. p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,

Spaniard 1

  1. p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.

spans 1

  1. p. iv, line 27[…] easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what […]

spare 1

  1. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,

sparkle 2

  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!

sparkles 2

  1. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  2. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

sparkling 1

  1. p. 35, line 8Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness . . . . ears finely cut and flexibly moving.

spars 1

  1. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,

spasms 2

  1. p. vii, line 67[…] tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea […]
  2. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!

speak 5

  1. p. vii, line 4[…] powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousiance of the […]
  2. p. viii, line 59[…] Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty […]
  3. p. 29, line 11I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy;
  4. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  5. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?

speaking 1

  1. p. iv, line 80[…] shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such […]

speaks 4

  1. p. iv, line 107[…] If peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and […]
  2. p. v, line 8[…] arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or […]
  3. p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  4. p. 84, line 26She speaks to the limber-hip'd man near the garden pickets,

spear 2

  1. p. viii, line 7[…] vast clear scheme where every motion and every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and […]
  2. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.

special 3

  1. p. vii, line 119[…] modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or […]
  2. p. xii, line 33[…] the needs of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science […]
  3. 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;

specification 1

  1. p. x, line 65[…] it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in […]

specks 3

  1. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  2. p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
  3. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?

spectacle 1

  1. p. 30, line 22That I eat and drink is spectacle enough for the great authors and schools,

specters see spectres

spectres 1 today: specters

  1. p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,

speculates 2

  1. p. viii, line 18[…] done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies […]
  2. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.

speculation 1

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

speech 9

  1. p. iii, line 47[…] always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the […]
  2. p. iii, line 58[…] the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness […]
  3. p. xii, line 5[…] the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the proud and melancholy races and of all who […]
  4. p. 18, line 12What living and buried speech is always vibrating here . . . . what howls restrained by decorum,
  5. p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.
  6. p. 86, line 24And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  7. p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,
  8. p. 94, line 21Great is the English speech . . . . What speech is so great as the English?

speechless 1

  1. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,

speed 2

  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.
  2. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,

speeding 5

  1. p. 34, line 13In vain the speeding or shyness,
  2. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  3. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  4. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,

spelling 1

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

spend 3

  1. p. iv, line 15[…] beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth […]
  2. p. vi, line 18[…] joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the […]
  3. p. 63, line 15The cotton and woolen and linen you wear . . . . the money you make and spend;

spending 2

  1. p. 21, line 15Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  2. p. 61, line 17The panes of the windows and all that appears through them . . . . the going forth in the morning and the aimless spending of the day;

sphere 1

  1. p. vii, line 48[…] The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one […]

spheres 1

  1. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,

spheric 1

  1. p. 38, line 6I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product,

spilled 1

  1. p. 72, line 21And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.

spinning-girl 1

  1. p. 21, line 26The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,

spins 1

  1. p. 93, line 1And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth is equally wonderful,

spirit 16

  1. p. iii, line 70[…] without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets […]
  2. p. iv, line 9[…] for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and […]
  3. p. iv, line 107[…] is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities […]
  4. p. vi, line 73[…] it is done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and […]
  5. p. ix, line 99[…] of nature and the propriety of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the […]
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  1. p. x, line 45[…] as great and real as the direct. The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives […]
  2. p. xi, line 27[…] to meet him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
  3. p. xii, line 15[…] or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture […]
  4. p. 16, line 1And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
  5. p. 24, line 29I also say it is good to fall . . . . battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  6. p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  7. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;
  8. p. 52, line 15And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
  9. p. 52, line 16And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  10. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,

spirits 1

  1. p. viii, line 7[…] every spear of grass and the frames and spirits of men and women and all that concerns them are […]

spiritual 2

  1. p. v, line 64[…] its own and foreruns the identities of the spiritual world. A single glance of it mocks all the investigations […]
  2. p. 82, line 12The spiritual prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,

spiritualist 1

  1. p. vii, line 95[…] and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are […]

spirt 1 today: spurt

  1. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,

spirting 1

  1. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,

spite 1

  1. p. 42, line 16The flames spite of all that could be done flickering aloft and below,

splash 3

  1. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  2. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;
  3. p. 48, line 28How the flukes splash!

splay 1

  1. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

splendid 2

  1. p. iii, line 34[…] and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of […]
  2. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

spoiled see spoilt

spoilt 2 today: spoiled

  1. p. viii, line 34[…] account. Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has […]
  2. p. viii, line 35[…] great master . . . spoilt in one principle all is spoilt. The great master has nothing to do with miracles. He […]

spoke 1

  1. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

spoken 1

  1. p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,

sponger 1

  1. p. 25, line 7The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited,

spooning 1

  1. p. 47, line 10To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,

sport 1

  1. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.

sportsman 1

  1. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.

spot 5

  1. p. xi, line 5[…] antecedent, and so backward without the farthest mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot […]
  2. p. xi, line 6[…] a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the […]
  3. p. xi, line 42[…] ductile anchors of life, and makes the present spot the passage from what was to what shall be, and […]
  4. p. 18, line 25In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  5. p. 50, line 24Now I stand on this spot with my soul.

spots 2

  1. p. xi, line 83[…] space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion of him beholds […]
  2. p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,

spotted 3

  1. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
  2. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  3. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:

spotter 1

  1. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

spouts 2

  1. p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
  2. p. 48, line 29How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!

sprang 1

  1. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

sprawl 1

  1. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;

sprawls 1

  1. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,

spray 1

  1. p. 20, line 2They do not think whom they souse with spray.

spread 8

  1. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  2. p. 22, line 23The regatta is spread on the bay . . . . how the white sails sparkle!
  3. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  4. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  5. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  6. p. 51, line 9Wider and wider they spread, expanding and always expanding,
  7. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,
  8. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

spreading 1

  1. p. iv, line 77[…] the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition to […]

spreads 5

  1. p. iii, line 33[…] and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and […]
  2. p. v, line 17[…] persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that […]
  3. p. x, line 24[…] and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul […]
  4. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,

spring 1

  1. p. x, line 111[…] the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment […]

springs 1

  1. p. 21, line 8The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,

sprout 1

  1. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,

Sprouting 1

  1. p. 16, line 15And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,

sprouts 3

  1. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  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. 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,

sprung 2

  1. p. x, line 111[…] inure always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived […]
  2. p. xii, line 32[…] is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special […]

spun 2

  1. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.
  2. p. 85, line 12Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

spur 1

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

spurt see spirt

squads 1

  1. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,

square 6

  1. p. 28, line 29And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes,
  2. p. 37, line 2Where the herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near;
  3. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  4. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  5. p. 61, line 27The anvil and tongs and hammer . . the axe and wedge . . the square and mitre and jointer and smoothingplane;

squatter 1

  1. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,

squaw 5

  1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,
  2. p. 74, line 6A red squaw came one breakfasttime to the old homestead,
  3. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  4. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  5. p. 75, line 19The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

squeezed 1

  1. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,

sqush 1

  1. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,

St 1

  1. p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.

stable 1

  1. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,

stacks 1

  1. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,

staff 2

  1. p. 38, line 14I go hunting polar furs and the seal . . . . leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff . . . . clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. p. 51, line 25My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;

stagedriver 1

  1. p. 66, line 15The funeral of an old stagedriver . . . . the cortege mostly drivers.

stages 1

  1. p. 66, line 14A hearse and stages . . . . other vehicles give place,

stagger 1

  1. p. 34, line 7And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,

staggering 1

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

stagnates 2

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

staid 3

  1. p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
  2. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  3. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;

stainless 1

  1. p. vii, line 35The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint […]

stairs 2

  1. p. 38, line 25My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,
  2. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,

stale 2

  1. p. 17, line 24Undrape . . . . you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  2. p. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

stalk 1

  1. p. vii, line 13[…] or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or […]

stalks 1

  1. p. 88, line 27But it stalks invisibly over the earth . . whispering counseling cautioning.

stall 2

  1. p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
  2. p. 63, line 11The shopwindows . . . . the coffins in the sexton's wareroom . . . . the fruit on the fruitstand . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall,

stallion 3

  1. p. 35, line 5A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  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. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

stalwart 1

  1. p. iii, line 13[…] days . . . that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be […]

stammerer 2

  1. p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.
  2. p. 75, line 17The stammerer, the sick, the perfectformed, the homely,

stamped 1

  1. p. x, line 60[…] upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on the programme but it is duly realized and returned […]

stamps 1

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

stand 33

  1. p. iii, line 57[…] persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech […]
  2. p. vi, line 3[…] riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and […]
  3. p. vi, line 57[…] only in the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest themselves just the […]
  4. p. vii, line 32[…] without a shred of my composition. You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me […]
  5. p. vii, line 101[…] conception of it . . . of them and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must […]
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  1. p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
  2. p. 18, line 15The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
  3. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,
  4. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  5. p. 28, line 3Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me . . . . I stand indifferent,
  6. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  7. p. 33, line 5Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  8. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  9. p. 34, line 16In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  10. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  11. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
  12. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  13. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
  14. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
  15. p. 50, line 24Now I stand on this spot with my soul.
  16. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  17. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
  18. p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
  19. p. 65, line 16When medicines stand unused on the shelf, and the camphor-smell has pervaded the rooms,
  20. p. 71, line 7I stand with drooping eyes by the worstsuffering and restless,
  21. p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
  22. p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;
  23. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  24. p. 89, line 5Here's a good place at the corner . . . . I must stand and see the show.
  25. p. 89, line 23Worse and worse . . . . Can't you stand it? Are you retreating?
  26. p. 95, line 10Before the perfect judge all shall stand back . . . . life and death shall stand back . . . . heaven and hell shall stand back.

standards 1

  1. p. xii, line 19[…] elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of […]

stander 1

  1. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.

stands 11

  1. p. v, line 12[…] masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his […]
  2. p. v, line 14[…] finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward […]
  3. p. vi, line 86[…] drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past […]
  4. p. 15, line 15Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  5. p. 15, line 16Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 21, line 23The mate stands braced in the whaleboat, lance and harpoon are ready,
  3. p. 36, line 31Where the hay-rick stands in the barnyard, and the dry-stalks are scattered, and the brood cow waits in the hovel,
  4. p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
  5. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,

star 2

  1. p. ix, line 85[…] globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal […]
  2. p. 18, line 7The excited crowd—the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;

stark 1

  1. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,

starred 1

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

stars 19

  1. p. v, line 3[…] nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most […]
  2. p. x, line 105[…] the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is […]
  3. p. xi, line 84[…] of him beholds the birth and progress of stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be […]
  4. p. xi, line 90[…] looks unabashed on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be […]
  5. p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
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  1. p. 27, line 6Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
  2. p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
  3. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  4. p. 35, line 14What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed . . . . and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  5. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  6. p. 41, line 10Did you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  7. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  8. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  9. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  10. p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  11. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  12. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  13. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

starshine 1

  1. p. 72, line 27I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.

start 5

  1. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  2. p. 45, line 5On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  3. p. 45, line 25Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
  4. p. 52, line 13For after we start we never lie by again.
  5. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,

starter 1

  1. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

startle 1

  1. p. vii, line 27[…] what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health […]

startled 1

  1. p. 87, line 21Like lightning Europe le'pt forth . . . . half startled at itself,

starve 1

  1. p. x, line 13[…] infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom and odor of […]

state 8

  1. p. iii, line 52[…] the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of […]
  2. p. iv, line 111[…] the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and […]
  3. p. viii, line 107[…] for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain […]
  4. p. viii, line 116[…] generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale […]
  5. p. ix, line 78[…] through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly […]
  6. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
  7. p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,
  8. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

states 20

  1. p. iii, line 17[…] have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of […]
  2. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the […]
  3. p. iii, line 41[…] their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures […]
  4. p. iii, line 53[…] one state by the citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome […]
  5. p. iii, line 71[…] spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor […]
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  1. p. iii, line 80[…] sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the subjects […]
  2. p. iii, line 92[…] the middle ages! The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all […]
  3. p. iv, line 64[…] whaling and gold-digging—the endless gestation of new states—the convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming […]
  4. p. iv, line 93Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and […]
  5. p. vii, line 84[…] body most . . . . and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than […]
  6. p. vii, line 85[…] states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  7. p. viii, line 101[…] inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do […]
  8. p. ix, line 37[…] and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from […]
  9. p. ix, line 61[…] day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as histories […]
  10. p. ix, line 79[…] of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised […]
  11. p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
  12. p. 60, line 23Laws, courts, the forming of states, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails are all for you.
  13. p. 81, line 16In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  14. p. 95, line 8They rule on the highest grounds . . . . they oversee all eras and states and administrations,

statesman 2

  1. p. xii, line 60[…] talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their […]
  2. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?

statistics 1

  1. 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;

statue 1

  1. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,

stature 2

  1. p. iv, line 54[…] the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of '76, and the war and […]
  2. p. xii, line 47[…] the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all […]

statutes 2

  1. p. viii, line 66[…] to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits […]
  2. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,

stavemachines 1

  1. p. 63, line 7Stavemachines and plainingmachines . . . . the cart of the carman . . the omnibus . . the ponderous dray;

staves 1

  1. p. 84, line 12I see the high pioneercaps . . . . I see the staves of runners clearing the way,

stay 8

  1. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  2. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  3. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  4. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
  5. p. 72, line 15Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay . . . . I will not chafe you;
  6. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  7. p. 76, line 28I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
  8. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,

staying 1

  1. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,

stays 2

  1. p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  2. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,

steadily 2

  1. p. 50, line 23All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,
  2. p. 81, line 4For him the revolving cycles truly and steadily rolled.

steady 6

  1. p. v, line 17[…] and confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet […]
  2. p. x, line 86[…] escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 28, line 10Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  5. p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  6. p. 73, line 9Steady and long he struggles;

steak 1

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

steam 1

  1. p. ix, line 19[…] the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles […]

steamboat 3

  1. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  2. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;
  3. p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.

steam-engine 1

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

steamers 1

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

steam-saws 1

  1. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;

steamship 2

  1. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,
  2. p. 39, line 1How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steamship, and death chasing it up and down the storm,

steamships 2

  1. p. iii, line 71[…] Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may […]
  2. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,

steam-whistle 1

  1. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;

steeped 1

  1. p. 32, line 16Steeped amid honeyed morphine . . . . my windpipe squeezed in the fakes of death,

steeps 1

  1. p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,

steer 1

  1. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

steerers 1

  1. p. 21, line 12Of the builders and steerers of ships, of the wielders of axes and mauls, of the drivers of horses,

stems 1

  1. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,

step 4

  1. p. v, line 41[…] expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence […]
  2. 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,
  3. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  4. p. 74, line 9Her step was free and elastic . . . . her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

stepping 2

  1. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,

steps 4

  1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
  2. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  3. p. 50, line 6On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  4. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

stern 1

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

sternest 1

  1. 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,

sterns 1

  1. p. ix, line 45[…] cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye […]

stevedores 2

  1. p. 31, line 29The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves . . . . the refrain of the anchor-lifters;
  2. p. 62, line 19The cottonbale . . the stevedore's hook . . the saw and buck of the sawyer . . the screen of the coalscreener . . the mould of the moulder . . the workingknife of the butcher;

stick 3

  1. p. 26, line 10I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  2. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,
  3. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,

sticks 4

  1. p. iii, line 6[…] as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which […]
  2. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  3. p. 31, line 23I hear the bravuras of birds . . . . the bustle of growing wheat . . . . gossip of flames . . . . clack of sticks cooking my meals.
  4. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

stiff 2

  1. p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  2. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.

stiffening 1

  1. p. 32, line 30On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,

stifling 1

  1. p. x, line 11[…] scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless […]

stiflings 1

  1. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,

still 16

  1. p. iii, line 6[…] impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life […]
  2. p. x, line 26[…] velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the right explanation remains to be made about prudence. The […]
  3. p. xi, line 47[…] in the general run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work […]
  4. p. xi, line 51[…] time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction […]
  5. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
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  1. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  2. p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!
  3. p. 37, line 26By the coffined corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  4. p. 38, line 20We pass the colossal outposts of the encampments . . . . we pass with still feet and caution;
  5. p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
  6. p. 50, line 7All below duly traveled—and still I mount and mount.
  7. p. 60, line 16I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still,
  8. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  9. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  10. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
  11. p. 92, line 6And that to another . . . . and every one to another still.

still-hunt 1

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

stills 1

  1. p. 42, line 28What stills the traveler come to the vault at Mount Vernon,

sting 1

  1. p. 39, line 12The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,

stings 1

  1. p. 17, line 19For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,

stir 2

  1. p. iii, line 20[…] tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man […]
  2. p. 32, line 24I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,

stirring 1

  1. p. iii, line 19[…] of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir […]

stock 6

  1. p. xi, line 113[…] and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was […]
  2. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  3. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.
  4. p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
  5. p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,

stockings 1

  1. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

stocks 1

  1. p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.

stolen 1

  1. p. 72, line 12O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! . . . . my clothes were stolen while I was abed,

stone 3

  1. p. 40, line 11The whizz of limbs heads stone wood and iron high in the air.
  2. p. 48, line 16Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife—beating the serpent-skin drum;
  3. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?

stonebreakers 1

  1. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;

stonecrop 1

  1. p. 28, line 22Fetch stonecrop and mix it with cedar and branches of lilac;

stonecutters 1

  1. p. iv, line 89[…] has vista. Here comes one among the wellbeloved stonecutters and plans with decision and science and sees the solid […]

stones 4

  1. p. 16, line 6And mossy scabs of the wormfence, and heaped stones, and elder and mullen and pokeweed.
  2. p. 18, line 8The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  3. p. 18, line 9The souls moving along . . . . are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
  4. p. 39, line 18I fall on the weeds and stones,

stoneyard 1

  1. 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,

stood 6

  1. p. x, line 86[…] the escape of slaves . . all the self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the […]
  2. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
  3. p. 42, line 6Serene stood the little captain,
  4. p. 71, line 26The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the box,
  5. p. 75, line 18The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  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,

stool 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;

stoop 1

  1. p. 30, line 21To walk up my stoop is unaccountable . . . . I pause to consider if it really be,

stop 12

  1. p. v, line 58[…] not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What […]
  2. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  3. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  4. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  5. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
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  1. p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  2. p. 56, line 12I stop some where waiting for you
  3. p. 63, line 22I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile . . . . I do not advise you to stop,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  6. p. 79, line 7To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  7. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.

stoppage 2

  1. p. 51, line 14There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage;

stopped 5

  1. p. 18, line 30The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
  2. p. 19, line 5The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
  3. p. 41, line 20The transit to and from the magazine was now stopped by the sentinels,
  4. p. 69, line 8We cannot be stopped at a given point . . . . that is no satisfaction;
  5. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?

stopping 2

  1. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  2. p. 70, line 8Pausing and gazing and bending and stopping.

stops 3

  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  3. p. 49, line 6Each who passes is considered, and each who stops is considered, and not a single one can it fail.

store 2

  1. 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?
  2. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

stores 2

  1. p. 44, line 27I am not to be denied . . . . I compel . . . . I have stores plenty and to spare,
  2. p. 47, line 17Stocks and stores and real estate and personal estate.

storm 2

  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,
  2. 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:

storming 1

  1. p. 38, line 3Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning,

storms 2

  1. p. vii, line 60[…] What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest battles and wrecks and the […]
  2. p. 27, line 29Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty sea!

stout 1

  1. p. 14, line 21Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,

stove 2

  1. p. 21, line 34The quadroon girl is sold at the stand . . . . the drunkard nods by the barroom stove,
  2. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,

straddle 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;

straight 4

  1. 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.
  2. p. 40, line 30Some made a mad and helpless rush . . . . some stood stark and straight,
  3. p. 74, line 8Her hair straight shiny coarse black and profuse halfenveloped her face,
  4. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.

straining 1

  1. p. 32, line 31Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,

strange 1

  1. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.

strangely 1

  1. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,

stranger 2

  1. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  2. p. 74, line 10My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,

strangers 2

  1. p. x, line 81[…] and peace . . . all help given to relatives and strangers and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children […]
  2. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?

strap 1

  1. p. 66, line 28Apron, cape, gloves, strap . . . . wetweather clothes . . . . whip carefully chosen . . . . boss, spotter, starter, and hostler,

straps 1

  1. p. 22, line 2The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,

strata 5

  1. p. vii, line 82[…] persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the […]
  2. p. viii, line 30[…] formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever would put God in a […]
  3. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 91, line 21The strata of colored clouds . . . . the long bar of maroontint away solitary by itself . . . . the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

stratagems 1

  1. p. ix, line 25[…] through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use . . . . they dissolve poverty […]

straw 2

  1. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  2. p. 61, line 24The currycomb . . the horse-cloth . . the halter and bridle and bits . . the very wisps of straw,

strawbottom 1

  1. p. 72, line 25I sit low in a strawbottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

stray 2

  1. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  2. p. 53, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?

straying 2

  1. p. v, line 15[…] and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by his […]
  2. p. 53, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?

stream 1

  1. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;

streams 1

  1. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.

street 5

  1. p. 54, line 14I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,
  2. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  3. p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
  4. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;

streets 7

  1. p. iii, line 71[…] the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor […]
  2. p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
  3. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  4. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
  5. p. 66, line 12Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets,
  6. p. 91, line 14Men and women crowding fast in the streets . . if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  7. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,

strength 4

  1. p. xii, line 48[…] the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  2. p. 25, line 21How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  3. p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  4. p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,

stretch 4

  1. p. vi, line 106[…] the one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other […]
  2. p. ix, line 90[…] follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any […]
  3. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  4. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,

stretched 5

  1. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
  2. p. 27, line 26Sea of stretched ground-swells!
  3. p. 42, line 10Stretched and still lay the midnight,
  4. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
  5. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;

stretches 6

  1. p. iv, line 25[…] tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches […]
  2. p. iv, line 26[…] Atlantic coast stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also […]
  3. p. vi, line 106[…] and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other. The inmost secrets of art […]
  4. p. viii, line 29[…] life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the […]
  5. p. 21, line 24The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,

stretching 1

  1. p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

strewing 1

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

strewn 1

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

strict 1

  1. p. 68, line 20But there is more account than that . . . . there is strict account of all.

strifes 1

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

strike 5

  1. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.
  2. p. 32, line 29My flesh and blood playing out lightning, to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 50, line 5My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  4. p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
  5. 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;

strikes 6

  1. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  2. p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
  3. p. 73, line 18I look where the ship helplessly heads end on . . . . I hear the burst as she strikes . . I hear the howls of dismay . . . . they grow fainter and fainter.
  4. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  5. p. 78, line 16The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again— the listening on the alert,
  6. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,

stringpiece 1

  1. 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,

strings 1

  1. p. iii, line 24[…] nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast […]

string-team 1

  1. p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;

strip 1

  1. p. 49, line 18What is known I strip away . . . . I launch all men and women forward with me into the unknown.

striped 1

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

stripes 1

  1. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

stripped see stript

strippings 1

  1. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;

stript 1 today: stripped

  1. p. 81, line 8They shall be stript that you may see them.

strong 9

  1. p. viii, line 74[…] do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men […]
  2. p. ix, line 37[…] powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no pleasure from violations […]
  3. p. x, line 34[…] and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces of wedding-guests […]
  4. p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  5. p. 42, line 20Black and impassive guns, and litter of powder-parcels, and the strong scent,
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  1. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  2. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  3. p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
  4. p. 91, line 8The father, strong, selfsufficient, manly, mean, angered, unjust,

strong-doored 1

  1. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,

stronger 1

  1. p. vii, line 79[…] shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. The American bard shall delineate no class […]

strongest 1

  1. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

struck 2

  1. p. 41, line 22Our frigate was afire . . . . the other asked if we demanded quarters? if our colors were struck and the fighting done?
  2. p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.

structure 1

  1. p. vii, line 98[…] lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is […]

struggles 1

  1. p. 73, line 9Steady and long he struggles;

struggling 2

  1. p. v, line 43[…] of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way […]
  2. p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.

stucco'd 1 today: stuccoed

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

stuccoed see stucco'd

stuck 1

  1. p. 24, line 10And am not stuck up, and am in my place.

stud 1

  1. p. 36, line 32Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, and the stud to the mare, and the cock is treading the hen,

studied 2

  1. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  2. p. 95, line 7It is well assorted . . . . they have not studied for nothing . . . . the great includes the less,

study 1

  1. p. iv, line 110[…] agriculture and the arts and commerce—lighting the study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government […]

studying 1

  1. p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;

stuff 5

  1. p. iv, line 94[…] the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and […]
  2. p. 16, line 9I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  3. p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
  4. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.

stuffed 2

  1. p. 23, line 24Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,

stuffing 1

  1. p. x, line 13[…] underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of the bloom […]

stuffs 1

  1. p. ix, line 43[…] tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes […]

stump 2

  1. p. 42, line 27What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty, his mouth spirting whoops and defiance,
  2. p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

stumps 1

  1. p. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,

stung 3

  1. p. viii, line 89[…] I and you walk abroad upon the earth stung with compassion at the sight of numberless brothers answering our […]
  2. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,

stunned 1

  1. p. 43, line 15Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!

stupid 2

  1. p. vi, line 3[…] every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate […]
  2. p. 92, line 3The stupid and the wise thinker . . . . parents and offspring . . . . merchant and clerk and porter and customer . . . . editor, author, artist and schoolboy?

style 7

  1. p. vi, line 109[…] betwixt both and they are vital in his style and thoughts […]
  2. p. vii, line 19[…] him. The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without […]
  3. p. xi, line 52[…] it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory […]
  4. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements […]
  5. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  6. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  7. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,

styles 1

  1. p. ix, line 33[…] all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and take residence […]

suavity 1

  1. p. 82, line 11Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

subjects 4

  1. p. iii, line 81[…] of present action and grandeur and of the subjects of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back […]
  2. p. vii, line 2[…] impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But […]
  3. p. ix, line 33[…] same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease and […]
  4. p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?

subsoil 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;

substance 3

  1. p. x, line 88[…] the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a […]
  2. p. 14, line 17Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
  3. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?

subterfuge 1

  1. p. ix, line 75[…] gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge […]

subtler 1

  1. p. xii, line 3[…] attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of […]

subtract 1

  1. p. x, line 66[…] no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or […]

suburbs 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.

succeeded 1

  1. p. x, line 100[…] all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well […]

succession 1

  1. p. 68, line 26The perpetual succession of shallow people are not nothing as they go,

such 11

  1. p. iv, line 81[…] tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant […]
  2. p. x, line 9[…] meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment of such a great being as a man is to the toss […]
  3. p. x, line 25[…] the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity before the reached kisses of the soul . . . Still the […]
  4. p. xi, line 74[…] realize and be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation […]
  5. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
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  1. p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
  2. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  3. p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.
  4. p. 74, line 13Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity;
  5. p. 89, line 19If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  6. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,

suchlike 1

  1. p. 78, line 18Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,

suck 1

  1. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

suckers 1

  1. p. viii, line 103[…] do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their […]

sucking 1

  1. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,

sudden 1

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

suddenly 3

  1. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  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. 87, line 20SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

suffered 1

  1. p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.

suffering 3

  1. p. vi, line 42[…] are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint […]
  2. p. x, line 91[…] neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or […]
  3. p. 76, line 21The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,

suffice 3

  1. p. iii, line 74[…] business nor farms nor capital nor learning may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No […]
  2. p. iii, line 76[…] may suffice for the ideal of man . . . nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep mark […]

sufficient 3

  1. p. viii, line 3[…] happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be […]
  2. p. 49, line 5But I know it is sure and alive and sufficient.
  3. p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;

sufficiently 1

  1. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.

suffocate 1

  1. p. 50, line 26My lovers suffocate me!

suffuse 1

  1. p. 30, line 30Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.

sugar 1

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

sugarfield 2

  1. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;
  2. p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;

sugarhouse 1

  1. p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;

suggested 1

  1. p. x, line 101[…] all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the […]

suicide 1

  1. p. 17, line 31The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,

suitable 1

  1. p. x, line 31[…] quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of […]

suits 1

  1. p. vii, line 38[…] of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers […]

sullen 2

  1. p. 48, line 25Frivolous sullen moping angry affected disheartened atheistical,
  2. p. 48, line 30Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,

sum 3

  1. p. iii, line 79[…] namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of […]
  2. p. x, line 4[…] of it. Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around […]
  3. p. 60, line 19The sum of all known value and respect I add up in you whoever you are;

summer 8

  1. p. iii, line 35[…] it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows […]
  2. p. 13, line 5I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.
  3. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
  4. p. 27, line 7Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!
  5. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  6. p. 74, line 19She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
  7. p. 74, line 29A show of the summer softness . . . . a contact of something unseen . . . . an amour of the light and air;
  8. p. 75, line 1O love and summer! you are in the dreams and in me,

summers 2

  1. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  2. p. 92, line 21And how I was not palpable once but am now . . . . and was born on the last day of May 1819 . . . . and passed from a babe in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters to articulate and walk . . . . are all equally wonderful.

summit 1

  1. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,

summons 1

  1. p. 86, line 11A man is a summons and challenge,

sun 21

  1. p. v, line 21[…] not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest […]
  2. p. vi, line 1[…] is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one […]
  3. p. vii, line 14[…] on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward […]
  4. p. ix, line 14[…] also the deep between the setting and rising sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or […]
  5. p. 13, line 21The feeling of health . . . . the full-noon trill . . . . the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
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  1. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  2. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  3. p. 20, line 15The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache . . . . falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  4. p. 30, line 11Sun so generous it shall be you,
  5. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  6. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  7. p. 48, line 11Waiting responses from oracles . . . . honoring the gods . . . . saluting the sun,
  8. p. 51, line 11My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels,
  9. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  10. p. 56, line 3I depart as air . . . . I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  11. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  12. 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;
  13. p. 85, line 10The sun just shines on her old white head.
  14. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  15. p. 93, line 25Day fullblown and splendid . . . . day of the immense sun, and action and ambition and laughter,

sunbeams 1

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

sunburned see sunburnt

sunburnt 1 today: sunburned

  1. p. 40, line 25Bearded, sunburnt, dressed in the free costume of hunters,

Sunday 3

  1. p. 21, line 27The farmer stops by the bars of a Sunday and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 40, line 27The second Sunday morning they were brought out in squads and massacred . . . . it was beautiful early summer,
  3. p. 93, line 4And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

sundown 2

  1. p. 37, line 1Where the sundown shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  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,

sunflowers 1

  1. p. vii, line 13[…] the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying […]

sung 1

  1. p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?

sunlight 1

  1. p. 32, line 35Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture fields,

sunrise 4

  1. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  2. p. 30, line 35If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
  3. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  4. p. 41, line 8And that was a jetblack sunrise.

suns 6

  1. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  2. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
  3. p. 35, line 24Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock . . . . where the otter is feeding on fish,
  4. p. 54, line 26O suns . . . . O grass of graves . . . . O perpetual transfers and promotions . . . . if you do not say anything how can I say anything?
  5. p. 93, line 26The night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

sunset 4

  1. p. v, line 71[…] audience to far and near and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and […]
  2. p. 27, line 10Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  3. p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
  4. p. 91, line 17The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset . . . . the river between,

sunshine 2

  1. p. vi, line 112[…] of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better […]
  2. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,

sunstruck 1

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

superb 3

  1. p. xii, line 66[…] will it advance half-way. An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make […]
  2. p. xii, line 68[…] when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest […]
  3. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,

superbly 1

  1. p. 51, line 4Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!

supercilious 1

  1. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.

superior 6

  1. p. iv, line 20[…] and over Ontario and Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban […]
  2. p. iv, line 59[…] coming of immigrants—the wharf hem'd cities and superior marine—the unsurveyed interior—the loghouses and clearings and wild […]
  3. p. v, line 40[…] past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he […]
  4. p. xi, line 54[…] no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or […]
  5. p. xi, line 94[…] generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and […]
  6. p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,

superiority 1

  1. p. ix, line 10[…] in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit […]

superiors 1

  1. p. iii, line 58[…] it felt to stand in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the […]

supernatural 2

  1. p. vii, line 119[…] immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out […]
  2. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,

supper 4

  1. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
  2. p. 40, line 23Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper or a courtship,
  3. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  4. p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;

suppertable 1

  1. p. 91, line 6The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the suppertable,

supple 5

  1. p. ix, line 36[…] and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong […]
  2. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  4. p. 76, line 24Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
  5. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;

supplies 1

  1. p. iv, line 105[…] the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace […]

supply 1

  1. p. x, line 7[…] American soil owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of […]

supplying 1

  1. p. iv, line 106[…] his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If peace is the routine […]

support 1

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

supporting 2

  1. p. 54, line 18I see the elderhand pressing receiving supporting,
  2. p. 64, line 7When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

supports 2

  1. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  2. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,

suppose 5

  1. p. vii, line 54[…] What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can […]
  2. p. 21, line 2The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer,
  3. p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
  4. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  5. p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,

supposed 4

  1. p. iii, line 5[…] calmness . . . is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and […]
  2. p. vi, line 56[…] perfections not only in the committees that were supposed to stand for the rest but in the rest themselves […]
  3. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  4. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

supremacy 1

  1. p. vii, line 59[…] or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of […]

supreme 3

  1. p. vii, line 55[…] Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one […]
  2. p. 24, line 23It is for the illiterate . . . . it is for the judges of the supreme court . . . . it is for the federal capitol and the state capitols,
  3. p. 43, line 24I troop forth replenished with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,

supremes 2

  1. p. vii, line 56[…] one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than […]
  2. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,

sure 14

  1. p. iii, line 59[…] of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their […]
  2. p. vi, line 40[…] is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills […]
  3. p. x, line 71[…] vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of […]
  4. p. xi, line 79[…] action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest […]
  5. p. 14, line 20Sure as the most certain sure . . . . plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
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  1. p. 20, line 9Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—overhand so sure,
  2. p. 49, line 5But I know it is sure and alive and sufficient.
  3. p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.
  4. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;
  5. p. 95, line 19Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

surely 13

  1. p. vi, line 78[…] and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be there […]
  2. p. xii, line 51[…] poems will probably pass away. The coward will surely pass away. The expectation of the vital and great can […]
  3. p. 51, line 16We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  4. p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  5. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
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  1. p. 63, line 25Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
  2. p. 65, line 6If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  3. p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  4. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  5. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  6. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  7. p. 79, line 22Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,

surer 1

  1. p. vi, line 46[…] he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than […]

surf 1

  1. p. 73, line 20I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

surface 5

  1. p. x, line 22[…] fraud upon modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears […]
  2. p. x, line 104[…] done this day on any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars […]
  3. p. 23, line 9Off on the lakes the pikefisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  4. 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,
  5. 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?

surfaces 3

  1. p. 44, line 17You light surfaces only . . . . I force the surfaces and the depths also.
  2. 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,

surf-duck 1

  1. p. iv, line 41[…] wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and surf-duck and redshouldered-hawk and fish-hawk and white-ibis and indian-hen and cat-owl […]

surgeon 1

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

surgeon's 1

  1. p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,

surgical 1

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

surging 2

  1. p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.

surpasses 1

  1. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,

surrendered 2

  1. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  2. p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,

surround 2

  1. p. 15, line 7Trippers and askers surround me,
  2. p. 71, line 22And surround me, and lead me and run ahead when I walk,

surrounded 3

  1. p. iv, line 56[…] and formation of the constitution . . . . the union always surrounded by blatherers and always calm and impregnable—the perpetual coming […]
  2. p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
  3. p. 79, line 8To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough,

surrounding 1

  1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,

survey 1

  1. p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,

surveys 1

  1. p. viii, line 97[…] in the cool communion of the night and surveys its experience and has much extasy over the word and […]

survivors 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Delicate sniffs of the seabreeze . . . . smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore . . . death-messages given in charge to survivors,

susceptibility 1

  1. p. iii, line 55[…] of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons who […]

suspect 2

  1. p. 69, line 13Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death I should die now,

suspending 1

  1. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.

suspicion 1

  1. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.

suspicious 1

  1. p. vi, line 39[…] ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and […]

sustain 1

  1. p. viii, line 53[…] to them it is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has precedence of it and nothing can warp […]

sustenance 2

  1. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
  2. 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,

swags 1

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

swallow 1

  1. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,

swallowing 1

  1. p. 38, line 8I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing soul,

swamp 2

  1. p. iv, line 35[…] and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from […]
  2. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,

swan 1

  1. p. 37, line 3Where the hummingbird shimmers . . . . where the neck of the longlived swan is curving and winding;

swap 2

  1. p. iv, line 74[…] and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation […]
  2. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,

swarming 1

  1. p. iii, line 71[…] the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms […]

swarms 2

  1. p. viii, line 103[…] American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly […]
  2. p. xii, line 54[…] the demeanor of the vital and great. The swarms of the polished deprecating and reflectors and the polite float […]

swash 1

  1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,

swear 7

  1. p. 45, line 4And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  2. p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
  3. p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  4. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  5. p. 70, line 1I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  6. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  7. p. 75, line 24I swear they are all beautiful,

swears 1

  1. p. vii, line 21[…] and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will […]

sweat 3

  1. p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  2. p. 39, line 11The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  3. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.

sweated 2

  1. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  2. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,

sweating 2

  1. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
  2. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

sweatings 1

  1. 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,

sweats 1

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

sweaty 3

  1. p. 30, line 13You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you,
  2. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;
  3. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,

Swede 1

  1. p. 75, line 11The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

sweep 1

  1. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,

sweeping 1

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

sweeps 1

  1. p. xi, line 90[…] on the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]

sweet 13

  1. p. iv, line 38[…] and sides and peaks of mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights […]
  2. p. v, line 18[…] he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women. His brain is […]
  3. p. viii, line 88[…] permitted and laws for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you […]
  4. p. x, line 91[…] scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of mothers . . . all honest men baffled […]
  5. p. xii, line 43[…] the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts of the mother […]
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  1. p. 14, line 23Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  2. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  3. 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.
  4. 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,
  5. p. 72, line 18The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
  6. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  7. p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,

sweeter 2

  1. p. v, line 97[…] rhyme is that it drops seeds of a sweeter and more luxuriant rhyme, and of uniformity that it conveys […]
  2. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

sweetest 1

  1. p. 64, line 1In folks nearest to you finding also the sweetest and strongest and lovingest,

sweet-flag 1

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

sweetfleshed 1

  1. p. 79, line 24Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweetfleshed day.

sweetheart 2

  1. p. 17, line 20For me the sweetheart and the old maid . . . . for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  2. p. 53, line 3Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,

sweetmeats 1

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

sweetness 1

  1. p. 88, line 8But the sweetness of mercy brewed bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back:

sweetscented 1

  1. p. 54, line 21I smell the white roses sweetscented and growing,

swell 1

  1. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,

swelled 1

  1. p. 76, line 25The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,

swelling 2

  1. p. 79, line 20Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb . . . . loveflesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  2. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

swells 2

  1. p. vii, line 113[…] of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself […]
  2. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:

swept 1

  1. p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,

swift 4

  1. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
  2. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  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:
  4. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,

swiftest 1

  1. p. v, line 14[…] the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them […]

swift-flashing 1

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

swiftly 5

  1. p. 15, line 31Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that pass all the art and argument of the earth;
  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. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
  4. p. 70, line 5Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  5. p. 73, line 13Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.

swiftness 1

  1. p. v, line 72[…] sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]

swift-running 1

  1. p. 73, line 6I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him headforemost on the rocks.

swift-streaking 1

  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,

swim 3

  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;
  2. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.
  3. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.

swimmer 5

  1. p. 52, line 26Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  2. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  3. p. 75, line 13The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyee, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the moneymaker,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 78, line 19And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.

swimmers 1

  1. p. 37, line 10Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon;

swimming 2

  1. p. xi, line 41[…] from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors […]
  2. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,

swimmingbath 1

  1. 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;

swims 2

  1. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  2. 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;

swing 2

  1. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  2. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:

swinging 2

  1. p. 50, line 29Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river . . . . swinging and chirping over my head,
  2. 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,

swings 1

  1. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,

Swiss 1

  1. p. 75, line 10The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way,

swoops 1

  1. p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.

sworn 1

  1. p. 88, line 5For many a promise sworn by royal lips, And broken, and laughed at in the breaking,

swung 1

  1. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,

sycophant 1

  1. p. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

symbol 1

  1. p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.

sympathy 4

  1. p. iii, line 55[…] and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of […]
  2. p. vi, line 104[…] any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless as its pride and the one balances the […]
  3. p. 27, line 33I am he attesting sympathy;
  4. p. 53, line 32And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,

symptom 1

  1. p. iii, line 59[…] their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good […]

symptoms 1

  1. p. xi, line 104[…] shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign to […]

system 2

  1. p. viii, line 31[…] Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is […]
  2. p. x, line 22[…] modern civilization and forethought, blotching the surface and system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense […]

systematic 1

  1. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.

systems 2

  1. p. 51, line 7I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  2. p. 51, line 8And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.