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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table 5

  1. p. ix, line 17[…] combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera […]
  2. p. 19, line 14I had him sit next me at table . . . . my firelock leaned in the corner.
  3. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,
  4. p. 58, line 3If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;

tables 1

  1. p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?

tabounschik 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,

tacking 1

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

tacks 1

  1. p. 75, line 4Elements merge in the night . . . . ships make tacks in the dreams . . . . the sailor sails . . . . the exile returns home,

tag 1

  1. p. 29, line 29Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

tail 1

  1. p. 35, line 7Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,

tailed 2

  1. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  2. p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,

take 29

  1. p. v, line 102[…] as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as the shapes of chestnuts and oranges […]
  2. p. vi, line 6[…] God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to […]
  3. p. vi, line 71[…] pleasure of poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
  4. p. ix, line 34[…] and in whom they enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple […]
  5. p. x, line 87[…] steady and aloof on wrecks and saw others take the seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or […]
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  1. p. xi, line 95[…] dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse […]
  2. p. xi, line 96[…] gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  5. p. 21, line 16Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  6. p. 25, line 15Do you take it I would astonish?
  7. p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
  8. p. 30, line 20Nor the cause of the friendship I emit . . . . nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  9. p. 33, line 18Sprouts take and accumulate . . . . stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  10. 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,
  11. p. 40, line 6I take part . . . . I see and hear the whole,
  12. p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
  13. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  14. p. 57, line 2Push close my lovers and take the best I possess,
  15. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  16. p. 58, line 12I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns . . . . aud see and hear you, and what you give and take;
  17. p. 58, line 13What is there you cannot give and take?
  18. p. 66, line 22Freemouthed, quicktempered, not badlooking, able to take his own part,
  19. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  20. p. 67, line 17To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  21. p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  22. p. 87, line 4And the authors take him for an author . . . . and the artists for an artist,
  23. p. 92, line 7The great laws take and effuse without argument,

taken 6

  1. p. viii, line 15[…] and all upon it are simply to be taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and […]
  2. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  3. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  4. p. 18, line 11What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  5. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  6. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.

takes 12

  1. p. v, line 41[…] models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the […]
  2. p. viii, line 47[…] the idea of political liberty is indispensible. Liberty takes the adherence of heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but […]
  3. p. viii, line 49[…] heroes wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from […]
  4. p. xi, line 78[…] touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously […]
  5. p. xi, line 79[…] him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward […]
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  1. p. 22, line 4Out from the crowd steps the marksman and takes his position and levels his piece;
  2. p. 34, line 20In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  3. p. 51, line 26No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  4. p. 53, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  5. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  6. p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  7. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,

taking 7

  1. p. iii, line 62[…] the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him—these […]
  2. p. 32, line 32Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  3. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
  4. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
  5. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
  6. 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.

tale 2

  1. p. 40, line 16Hear now the the tale of a jetblack sunrise,
  2. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,

talented 1

  1. p. xii, line 59[…] is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the editor, the statesman, the erudite […]

tales 2

  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;
  2. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,

talk 9

  1. p. v, line 24[…] hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God off of his […]
  2. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  3. p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  4. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,
  5. p. 31, line 17I crowd your noisiest talk by looking toward you.
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  1. p. 31, line 18Writing and talk do not prove me,
  2. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  3. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  4. p. 55, line 18Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.

talkative 1

  1. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,

talkers 1

  1. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,

talking 2

  1. p. 14, line 9I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,

talks 1

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

tall 4

  1. p. vii, line 13[…] mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of […]
  2. 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,
  3. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  4. p. 84, line 23Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me;

tallborne 1

  1. p. 74, line 11She looked at the beauty of her tallborne face and full and pliant limbs,

tallied 3

  1. p. iv, line 22[…] the seas off California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters below more than […]
  2. p. iv, line 24[…] than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him. When the long Atlantic coast stretches longer and […]
  3. p. 60, line 25All sculpture and monuments and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,

tally 1

  1. p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,

tamarind 1

  1. p. iv, line 33[…] cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or […]

tame 1

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

tamed 1

  1. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,

tanfaced 1

  1. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,

tangle 1

  1. p. 18, line 22And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.

tangled 2

  1. p. iv, line 34[…] wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent […]
  2. p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,

tangles 1

  1. p. iv, line 34[…] cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated […]

tangling 1

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

tantalized 1

  1. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.

tap 1

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

tapering 1

  1. p. 42, line 23The wheeze, the cluck, the swash of falling blood . . . . the short wild scream, the long dull tapering groan,

target 2

  1. p. iv, line 75[…] the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern plantation life—the character of the northeast […]
  2. p. 22, line 11The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,

tariffs 1

  1. p. 47, line 16Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, markets,

tarpaulin 1

  1. p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,

taste 4

  1. p. viii, line 88[…] for informers and bloodmoney are sweet to the taste of the people . . . . when I and you walk abroad upon […]
  2. p. x, line 16[…] and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to […]
  3. p. 13, line 9The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless,
  4. p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,

tasted 1

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

tasteless 1

  1. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,

tastes 2

  1. p. 30, line 26The air tastes good to my palate.
  2. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,

tasting 1

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

taught 1

  1. p. 88, line 23They were purified by death . . . . They were taught and exalted.

taunt 2

  1. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  2. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.

tavern 2

  1. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  2. p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

tax-gatherer 1

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

teach 1

  1. p. 53, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?

teacher 6

  1. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,
  2. p. 52, line 28I am the teacher of athletes,
  3. p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  4. p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  5. p. 76, line 19The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,

teacher's 1

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

tea-kettle 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.

team 1

  1. p. 20, line 17I go with the team also.

teams 1

  1. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;

tears 5

  1. p. x, line 24[…] system which civilization undeniably drafts, and moistening with tears the immense features it spreads and spreads with such velocity […]
  2. p. 17, line 21For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  3. p. 25, line 27That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
  4. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  5. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,

tea-table 1

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

teats 1

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

teeming 2

  1. p. iii, line 23[…] Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily […]
  2. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,

teeth 3

  1. p. 42, line 22The hiss of the surgeon's knife and the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  2. p. 72, line 20The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
  3. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,

telegraph 1

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

telegraphs 1

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

tell 21

  1. p. vi, line 94[…] he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows […]
  2. p. vii, line 26[…] the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or […]
  3. p. viii, line 45[…] is just as great as to perceive or tell […]
  4. p. 25, line 18This hour I tell things in confidence,
  5. p. 25, line 19I might not tell everybody but I will tell you.
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  1. p. 30, line 19I cannot tell how my ankles bend . . . . nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  2. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  3. p. 40, line 14I tell not the fall of Alamo . . . . not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  4. p. 41, line 11Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you,
  5. p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  6. p. 44, line 21And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
  7. p. 44, line 22And might tell the pinings I have . . . . the pulse of my nights and days.
  8. p. 45, line 18And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  9. p. 55, line 11Perhaps I might tell more . . . . Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  10. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  11. p. 85, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  12. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  13. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,

tells 1

  1. p. xi, line 78[…] sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure […]

temper 1

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

temperature 1

  1. p. iv, line 50[…] and present events—of the enormous diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the […]

tempers 1

  1. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,

tempest 1

  1. p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.

temple 1

  1. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,

temples 1

  1. p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.

ten 6

  1. p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  4. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,

tenacious 1

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

tenacity 1

  1. p. v, line 83[…] enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards […]

tenants 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,

tend 2

  1. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,

tendencies 2

  1. p. viii, line 19[…] looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear […]
  2. p. viii, line 22[…] senses and to the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane […]

tender 1

  1. p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;

tenderly 2

  1. p. 16, line 19Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  2. p. 39, line 27They have cleared the beams away . . . . they tenderly lift me forth.

tenderness 1

  1. p. iii, line 59[…] delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness […]

tendon 1

  1. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;

tenement 1

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

Tennessee 1

  1. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,

tenoned 1

  1. p. 26, line 21My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,

tenor 1

  1. p. 32, line 8A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,

tenpins 1

  1. p. 63, line 3Billiards and tenpins . . . . the ladders and hanging ropes of the gymnasium, and the manly exercises;

tens 1

  1. p. xi, line 57[…] be looked down upon? Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to […]

tents 1

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

teocallis see teokallis

teokallis 1 today: teocallis

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

term 1

  1. p. ix, line 90[…] nor in that condition that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward […]

terminus 1

  1. p. xi, line 74[…] and be content and full? To no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or […]

terms 7

  1. p. vii, line 51[…] and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better […]
  2. p. xii, line 2[…] animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues […]
  3. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  4. p. 35, line 4Choosing to go with him on brotherly terms.
  5. p. 54, line 8No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.
  6. p. 57, line 11The learned and virtuous and benevolent, and the usual terms;
  7. p. 57, line 12A man like me, and never the usual terms.

terrible 4

  1. p. iii, line 61[…] of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat […]
  2. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  3. p. 65, line 14When the physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  4. p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;

terrified 1

  1. p. vi, line 99[…] one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize […]

terror 1

  1. p. vii, line 69[…] nature and passion and death, And of all terror and all pain […]

test 2

  1. p. xi, line 47[…] run and wait his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient […]
  2. p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,

testimony 1

  1. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

Texan 2

  1. p. iv, line 20[…] Huron and Michigan and Superior, and over the Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas and over the […]
  2. p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,

Texas 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,

than 93

  1. p. iii, line 89[…] since in North and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking […]
  2. p. iv, line 15[…] do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the inland […]
  3. p. iv, line 23[…] the blue breadth of the waters below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him […]
  4. p. v, line 77[…] folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real […]
  5. p. vi, line 47[…] the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and of […]
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  1. p. vi, line 113[…] light of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the […]
  2. p. vii, line 16[…] of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet has less a […]
  3. p. vii, line 41[…] savans musicians inventors and artists nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms. In the need […]
  4. p. vii, line 52[…] can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you […]
  5. p. vii, line 57[…] that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can be good […]
  6. p. vii, line 84[…] and not be for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  7. p. vii, line 85[…] than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
  8. p. viii, line 13[…] is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women […]
  9. p. viii, line 24[…] only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends less than that . . . whatever is less than the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less […]
  10. p. viii, line 26[…] of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton […]
  11. p. viii, line 28[…] through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density […]
  12. p. viii, line 43[…] unspeakably great . . . . that nothing for instance is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to […]
  13. p. viii, line 50[…] any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are the voice and exposition of liberty […]
  14. p. viii, line 112[…] and rogue in office at a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved […]
  15. p. ix, line 29[…] they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not […]
  16. p. ix, line 112[…] and sleep, but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight […]
  17. p. x, line 64[…] or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or […]
  18. p. xi, line 6[…] mentionable spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The […]
  19. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  20. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  21. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  22. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  23. p. 14, line 29Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  24. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  25. p. 16, line 25Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  26. p. 20, line 21It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  27. p. 24, line 8I resist anything better than my own diversity,
  28. p. 25, line 17Do I astonish more than they?
  29. p. 26, line 2And counselled with doctors and calculated close and found no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  30. p. 26, line 14I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by after all.
  31. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  32. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  33. p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
  34. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
  35. p. 29, line 27Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  36. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
  37. p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
  38. p. 30, line 23A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  39. p. 32, line 11The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  40. p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
  41. p. 34, line 1I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars,
  42. p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
  43. 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.
  44. p. 42, line 8His eyes gave more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  45. p. 44, line 5And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
  46. p. 45, line 26The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet,
  47. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  48. p. 46, line 15Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed,
  49. p. 49, line 10Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  50. p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  51. p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
  52. p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
  53. p. 53, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  54. p. 53, line 29I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  55. p. 53, line 30And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  56. p. 53, line 31And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
  57. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  58. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  59. p. 55, line 9Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  60. p. 57, line 14I take no sooner a large price than a small price . . . . I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  61. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  62. p. 58, line 18The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  63. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  64. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  65. p. 61, line 5It is nearer and farther than they.
  66. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  67. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
  68. p. 66, line 8I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
  69. p. 68, line 20But there is more account than that . . . . there is strict account of all.
  70. p. 72, line 4Darkness you are gentler than my lover . . . . his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  71. p. 75, line 22I swear they are averaged now . . . . one is no better than the other,
  72. p. 76, line 23The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  73. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  74. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  75. p. 79, line 16I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor . . . . all falls aside but myself and it,
  76. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  77. p. 85, line 8She looks out from her quaker cap . . . . her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  78. p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  79. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  80. 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,
  81. p. 94, line 2Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer than wealth?
  82. p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.
  83. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,
  84. p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.

thank 1

  1. 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.

thanksgiving 1

  1. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,

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theatre 1 today: theater

  1. p. iii, line 89[…] and South America were less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle […]

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  1. p. ix, line 22[…] circles and large harmonies of government gleam with theirs . . . . and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The […]
  2. p. ix, line 23[…] and the commonest definite intentions and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and […]
  3. p. 70, line 17The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,

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theme 1

  1. p. iv, line 88[…] the great psalm of the republic. Here the theme is creative and has vista. Here comes one among the […]

themes 3

  1. p. v, line 76[…] the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes . . . but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than […]
  2. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.

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  1. p. iii, line 17[…] probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the […]
  2. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States […]
  3. p. iv, line 15[…] masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over […]
  4. p. v, line 63[…] mystery of the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own […]
  5. p. vi, line 57[…] stand for the rest but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in […]
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  1. p. ix, line 11[…] over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves facts are showered over with light . . . . the daylight is lit […]
  2. p. x, line 59[…] any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on the programme […]
  3. p. xi, line 100[…] of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be […]
  4. 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,
  5. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
  6. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  7. p. 42, line 18Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves . . . . dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  8. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,
  9. p. 46, line 1Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,
  10. p. 76, line 25The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  11. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  12. p. 82, line 7For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  13. p. 85, line 22Him they accept . . . . in him lave . . . . in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  14. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  15. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
  16. p. 89, line 22See how well-dressed . . . . see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  17. 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.
  18. 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,
  19. p. 91, line 15The streets themselves, and the facades of houses . . . . the goods in the windows,
  20. p. 93, line 2And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.

then 33

  1. p. vi, line 81[…] indication is the indication of the best and then becomes the clearest indication. Past and present and future are […]
  2. p. vii, line 51[…] are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you […]
  3. p. ix, line 5[…] are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that […]
  4. p. ix, line 66[…] and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks echo a new cheap joy and a divine voice […]
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 30, line 33The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  2. p. 31, line 7It says sarcastically, Walt, you understand enough . . . . why don't you let it out then?
  3. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
  4. p. 33, line 5Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  5. p. 34, line 35Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  6. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  7. p. 46, line 13What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then;
  8. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  9. p. 49, line 9Nor the little child that peeped in at the door and then drew back and was never seen again,
  10. p. 51, line 17And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  11. 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?
  12. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  13. p. 55, line 5Wrenched and sweaty . . . . calm and cool then my body becomes;
  14. p. 55, line 20Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
  15. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  16. p. 58, line 7Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  17. p. 61, line 6Will the whole come back then?
  18. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  19. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.
  20. 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?
  21. p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
  22. p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;
  23. p. 83, line 28Well then you cannot trick me.
  24. p. 87, line 2Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  25. 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;
  26. p. 89, line 25Retreat then! Pell-mell! . . . . Back to the hills, old limpers!
  27. p. 94, line 1But then the soul's wealth—which is candor and knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
  28. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

thenceforth 1

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

thenceforward 2

  1. p. v, line 48[…] or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
  2. p. xi, line 80[…] firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained . . . . thenceforward is no rest . . . . they see the space and ineffable sheen […]

theology 1

  1. 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?

theory 1

  1. p. vii, line 118[…] they are neither modest nor immodest. The whole theory of the special and supernatural and all that was twined […]

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  1. p. vii, line 115[…] of itself always. The depths are fathomless and therefore calm. The innocence and nakedness are resumed . . . they are neither […]
  2. p. 27, line 16Prodigal! you have given me love! . . . . therefore I to you give love!

thereof 1

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

these 41

  1. p. iii, line 63[…] his hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous […]
  2. p. iv, line 84[…] or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of other […]
  3. p. v, line 95[…] or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul. The profit […]
  4. p. vi, line 10[…] young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year […]
  5. p. vi, line 55[…] of the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the committees that were supposed […]
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  1. p. vi, line 58[…] but in the rest themselves just the same. These understand the law of perfection in masses and floods . . . that […]
  2. p. viii, line 101[…] cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize the true American character but […]
  3. p. ix, line 37[…] make supple and powerful and rich and large. . . . . . . . . These American states strong and healthy and accomplished shall receive no […]
  4. p. ix, line 61[…] every day. . . . . Great genius and the people of these states must never be demeaned to romances. As soon as […]
  5. p. ix, line 99[…] of the same spirit applied to human affairs . . these are called up of the float of the brain of […]
  6. p. ix, line 110[…] or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep […]
  7. p. x, line 109[…] you whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now […]
  8. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  9. p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
  10. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  11. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  12. p. 29, line 31The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,
  13. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
  14. p. 39, line 14All these I feel or am.
  15. p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;
  16. p. 42, line 24These so . . . . these irretrievable.
  17. p. 42, line 31These become mine and me every one, and they are but little,
  18. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  19. p. 59, line 4All these I see . . . . but nigher and farther the same I see;
  20. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  21. 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.
  22. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  23. p. 67, line 12These also flow onward to others . . . . you and I flow onward;
  24. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;
  25. p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
  26. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  27. p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
  28. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  29. p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
  30. p. 85, line 20And I answered for his brother and for men . . . . and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
  31. 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;
  32. p. 88, line 17And all these things bear fruits . . . . and they are good.
  33. p. 91, line 23These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes and will always go forth every day,
  34. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
  35. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,

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  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. 23, line 10The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 50, line 27Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,

thief 3

  1. p. viii, line 26[…] or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life […]
  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. 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?

thieves 1

  1. p. 29, line 16Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,

thieving 1

  1. p. 88, line 3For court thieving in its manifold mean forms,

thighs 1

  1. p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.

thin 1

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

thing 22

  1. p. v, line 22[…] but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith […]
  2. p. v, line 52[…] pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur […]
  3. p. vii, line 73[…] without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They […]
  4. p. ix, line 43[…] in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put […]
  5. p. x, line 64[…] of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to […]
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  1. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  2. p. 31, line 19I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  3. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
  4. p. 44, line 28And any thing I have I bestow.
  5. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  6. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  7. p. 51, line 19They are but parts . . . . any thing is but a part.
  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. 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;
  10. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  11. p. 69, line 20How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  12. p. 69, line 29I swear I see now that every thing has an eternal soul!
  13. p. 75, line 25Every one that sleeps is beautiful . . . . every thing in the dim night is beautiful,
  14. p. 76, line 5The universe is duly in order . . . . every thing is in its place,
  15. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;
  16. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  17. p. 92, line 15Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.

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  1. p. iv, line 48[…] To him enter the essences of the real things and past and present events—of the enormous diversity of […]
  2. p. iv, line 99[…] man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing […]
  3. p. v, line 24[…] thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things. In the talk on the soul and eternity and God […]
  4. p. v, line 71[…] near and to the sunset and had all things enter with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or […]
  5. p. v, line 93[…] in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the […]
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  1. p. vi, line 55[…] another voice eternally curious of the harmony of things with man. To these respond perfections not only in the […]
  2. p. vii, line 19[…] and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of […]
  3. p. vii, line 112[…] the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. Cleaving and circling here swells the soul of the poet […]
  4. p. ix, line 10[…] body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and […]
  5. p. xi, line 23[…] learn who has learnt to prefer real longlived things, and favors body and soul the same, and perceives the […]
  6. p. xi, line 102[…] men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms […]
  7. p. xi, line 106[…] defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the […]
  8. 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,
  9. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  10. p. 14, line 27Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  11. p. 25, line 18This hour I tell things in confidence,
  12. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  13. p. 31, line 13My knowledge my live parts . . . . it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
  14. p. 33, line 20All truths wait in all things,
  15. p. 34, line 28Not one is dissatisfied . . . . not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  16. p. 50, line 4I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
  17. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  18. 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,
  19. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  20. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  21. p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
  22. p. 67, line 22The earth is not an echo . . . . man and his life and all the things of his life are well-considered.
  23. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  24. p. 69, line 11If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung;
  25. p. 79, line 12All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  26. 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.
  27. p. 86, line 6He puts things in their attitudes,
  28. p. 88, line 17And all these things bear fruits . . . . and they are good.
  29. p. 92, line 10I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  30. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  31. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,
  32. p. 95, line 15The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,

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  1. p. vii, line 60[…] of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms and dismemberments and the deadliest […]
  2. p. ix, line 112[…] but has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at […]
  3. p. xi, line 62[…] after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and the old […]
  4. p. xi, line 64[…] him? and do the middleaged and the old think of him […]
  5. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
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  1. p. 17, line 2And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  2. p. 20, line 2They do not think whom they souse with spray.
  3. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  4. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  5. p. 54, line 20And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  6. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
  7. p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
  8. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
  9. p. 65, line 1TO think of time . . . . to think through the retrospection,
  10. p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.
  11. 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;
  12. p. 65, line 8To think that you and I did not see feel think nor bear our part,
  13. p. 65, line 9To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  14. 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;
  15. 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.
  16. p. 66, line 5To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  17. p. 66, line 6To think others shall be just as eager . . and we quite indifferent.
  18. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  19. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  20. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  21. p. 67, line 6The vulgar and the refined . . . . what you call sin and what you call goodness . . to think how wide a difference;
  22. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  23. p. 67, line 8To think how much pleasure there is!
  24. p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;
  25. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  26. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  27. p. 70, line 1I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  28. 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?
  29. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?
  30. p. 87, line 16You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses,
  31. p. 89, line 26I do not think you belong here anyhow.
  32. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  33. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  34. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  35. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,

thinker 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?

thinking 1

  1. p. 53, line 25The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,

thinks 1

  1. p. x, line 39[…] what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can a man or […]

thinned 1

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

thinness 1

  1. p. x, line 32[…] for immortality. What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom […]

third 2

  1. p. viii, line 79[…] the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to go […]
  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,

thirsts 1

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

thirty 1

  1. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.

thirty-six 1

  1. 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;

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  1. p. iii, line 79[…] authority the cheapest . . . namely from its own soul. This is the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or […]
  2. p. v, line 63[…] the eyesight? The other senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns […]
  3. p. v, line 117[…] himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and […]
  4. p. vi, line 64[…] trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty […]
  5. p. vi, line 77[…] character as you hear or read. To do this well is to compete with the laws that pursue and […]
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  1. p. viii, line 18[…] and shall be done with perfect candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding […]
  2. p. viii, line 27[…] the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of […]
  3. p. x, line 104[…] and all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of the globe […]
  4. p. xi, line 44[…] be, and commits itself to the representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty […]
  5. p. xi, line 45[…] representation of this wave of an hour and this one of the sixty beautiful children of the wave—let […]
  6. p. xii, line 22[…] freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with my country? Are […]
  7. p. xii, line 31[…] serves for a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or […]
  8. p. xii, line 35[…] pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms? Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgement, and set slavery […]
  9. p. 14, line 4Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  10. p. 14, line 22I and this mystery here we stand.
  11. p. 16, line 24This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  12. p. 24, line 19This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  13. p. 24, line 20This is the common air that bathes the globe.
  14. p. 24, line 21This is the breath of laws and songs and behaviour,
  15. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
  16. p. 24, line 26This is the trill of a thousand clear cornets and scream of the octave flute and strike of triangles.
  17. p. 25, line 4This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger,
  18. p. 25, line 9This is the press of a bashful hand . . . . this is the float and odor of hair,
  19. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  20. p. 25, line 11This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  21. p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.
  22. p. 25, line 18This hour I tell things in confidence,
  23. p. 26, line 9I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
  24. p. 28, line 12This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
  25. p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
  26. p. 28, line 25This is the geologist, and this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  27. p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
  28. p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
  29. p. 32, line 7I hear the chorus . . . . it is a grand-opera . . . . this indeed is music!
  30. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
  31. p. 39, line 7All this I swallow and it tastes good . . . . I like it well, and it becomes mine,
  32. p. 42, line 1The tops alone seconded the fire of this little battery, especially the maintop,
  33. p. 45, line 6This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.
  34. p. 47, line 14This is the city . . . . and I am one of the citizens;
  35. p. 47, line 27This printed and bound book . . . . but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  36. p. 50, line 24Now I stand on this spot with my soul.
  37. 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,
  38. p. 52, line 14This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
  39. p. 54, line 11Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  40. p. 57, line 4This is unfinished business with me . . . . how is it with you?
  41. 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.
  42. p. 59, line 11It is not to be put in a book . . . . it is not in this book,
  43. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  44. 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;
  45. p. 61, line 9The old forever new things . . . . you foolish child! . . . . the closest simplest things —this moment with you,
  46. p. 64, line 2Happiness not in another place, but this place . . not for another hour, but this hour,
  47. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  48. 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.
  49. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  50. p. 78, line 21This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
  51. 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?
  52. p. 79, line 13This is the female form,
  53. p. 79, line 25This is the nucleus . . . after the child is born of woman the man is born of woman,
  54. p. 79, line 26This is the bath of birth . . . this is the merge of small and large and the outlet again.
  55. p. 81, line 1Gentlemen look on this curious creature,
  56. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  57. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
  58. p. 83, line 12This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage;
  59. p. 83, line 14This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  60. p. 83, line 16This is a face of bitter herbs . . . . this an emetic . . . . they need no label,
  61. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  62. p. 83, line 22This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
  63. p. 83, line 23And this is some murderer's knife with a halfpulled scabbard.
  64. p. 83, line 24This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
  65. p. 84, line 11Out of this face emerge banners and horses . . . . O superb! . . . . I see what is coming,
  66. p. 84, line 14This face is a lifeboat;
  67. p. 84, line 15This is the face commanding and bearded . . . . it asks no odds of the rest;
  68. p. 84, line 16This face is flavored fruit ready for eating;
  69. p. 84, line 17This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
  70. p. 84, line 25This is a fullgrown lily's face,
  71. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
  72. p. 88, line 13Out of its robes only this . . . . the red robes, lifted by the arm,
  73. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
  74. p. 89, line 11Why this is a show! It has called the dead out of the earth,
  75. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?
  76. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  77. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,
  78. p. 90, line 16The early lilacs became part of this child,
  79. 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,
  80. 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;
  81. 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:
  82. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.
  83. p. 94, line 8Do you imagine it is stopped at this? . . . . and the increase abandoned?
  84. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.

thither 1

  1. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,

thongs 1

  1. p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

thorned 1

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

those 42

  1. p. iv, line 40[…] with flights and songs and screams that answer those of the wildpigeon and highhold and orchard-oriole and coot and […]
  2. p. viii, line 101[…] the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states who could easier realize […]
  3. p. ix, line 52[…] a work nothing outre can be allowed . . but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts […]
  4. p. ix, line 59[…] vigorous children are jetted and conceived only in those communities where the models of natural forms are public every […]
  5. p. x, line 50[…] or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not […]
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  1. p. x, line 106[…] of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to […]
  2. p. xii, line 47[…] same love on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those […]
  3. p. xii, line 48[…] toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  4. p. 20, line 24. . . . I believe in those winged purposes,
  5. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 27, line 32Extoler of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  8. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  9. p. 34, line 33I do not know where they got those tokens,
  10. p. 46, line 6Those ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes more to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  11. p. 47, line 28The marriage estate and settlement . . . . but the body and mind of the bridegroom? also those of the bride?
  12. 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?
  13. p. 53, line 6Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out of the sun.
  14. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,
  15. 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,
  16. p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
  17. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
  18. p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  19. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,
  20. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  21. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  22. p. 77, line 12And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
  23. p. 79, line 6I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough,
  24. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  25. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
  26. p. 88, line 18Those corpses of young men,
  27. p. 88, line 19Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets . . . those hearts pierced by the gray lead,
  28. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  29. p. 90, line 8The committee open the box and set up the regal ribs and glue those that will not stay,
  30. 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,

though 4

  1. p. viii, line 59[…] to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful […]
  2. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  3. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  4. p. 74, line 28Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death.

thought 18

  1. p. v, line 53[…] he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the […]
  2. p. ix, line 105[…] Caution seldom goes far enough. It has been thought that the prudent citizen was the citizen who applied himself […]
  3. p. x, line 30[…] and large alike drop quietly aside at the thought of the prudence suitable for immortality. What is wisdom that […]
  4. p. x, line 103[…] his great hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface […]
  5. p. x, line 107[…] here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any […]
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  1. p. xi, line 14[…] unrighteous, is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or […]
  2. p. xi, line 55[…] in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that […]
  3. p. 42, line 5One of the pumps was shot away . . . . it was generally thought we were sinking.
  4. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  5. p. 58, line 6Why what have you thought of yourself?
  6. p. 58, line 7Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  7. p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  8. p. 60, line 11We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand;
  9. p. 63, line 23I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  10. p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
  11. p. 74, line 18All the week she thought of her . . . . she watched for her many a month,
  12. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  13. p. 91, line 11Affection that will not be gainsayed . . . . The sense of what is real . . . . the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

thoughtful 1

  1. p. 25, line 12This is the thoughtful merge of myself and the outlet again.

thoughtfulest 1

  1. p. 24, line 2A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfulest,

thoughts 7

  1. p. v, line 23[…] the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things. In the […]
  2. p. vi, line 109[…] and they are vital in his style and thoughts […]
  3. p. vii, line 19[…] marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free […]
  4. p. 24, line 14These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  5. p. 28, line 11Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  6. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  7. p. 92, line 24And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,

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  1. p. 14, line 1Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? Have you reckoned the earth much?
  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. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  4. p. 37, line 33Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  5. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
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  1. p. 45, line 22Heard it and heard of several thousand years;
  2. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  3. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  4. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  5. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,

thousands 2

  1. p. xi, line 57[…] Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and […]
  2. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

thrashing 1

  1. p. 47, line 12Many sweating and ploughing and thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

thread 1

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

threadbare 1

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

threads 2

  1. p. 29, line 18And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
  2. p. 68, line 5The threads that were spun are gathered . . . . the weft crosses the warp . . . . the pattern is systematic.

threat 1

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

three 9

  1. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  2. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.
  3. p. 41, line 25Only three guns were in use,
  4. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  5. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;
  6. p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
  7. 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.

three-hundred-foot 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;

threshold 1

  1. p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,

thrift 2

  1. p. ix, line 82[…] once fooled and never can be fooled . . . . and thrift without the loving nod of the soul is only a […]
  2. p. 75, line 2Autumn and winter are in the dreams . . . . the farmer goes with his thrift,

thrifty 1

  1. p. iv, line 108[…] him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous cities, encouraging agriculture and the arts […]

thrills 2

  1. p. vi, line 41[…] scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him . . . . suffering and […]
  2. p. 30, line 18Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.

throat 4

  1. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  2. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  3. p. 42, line 26What the rebel said gaily adjusting his throat to the rope-noose,
  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,

throats 2

  1. p. viii, line 74[…] their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop […]
  2. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.

throbs 2

  1. p. xii, line 20[…] appears from the mouths of the people, it throbs a live interrogation in every freeman's and freewoman's heart after […]
  2. p. 32, line 13It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,

throes 3

  1. p. vii, line 63[…] and the motion of nature and of the throes of human desires and dignity and hate and love? It […]
  2. p. 36, line 13Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs;
  3. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,

throttle 1

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

through 79

  1. p. iv, line 84[…] direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let the age and wars of […]
  2. p. v, line 113[…] woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the universe . . . . but the gaggery and gilt of a million […]
  3. p. vii, line 14[…] stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any […]
  4. p. vii, line 37[…] unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that […]
  5. p. viii, line 27[…] thief the liar the glutton and the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches […]
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  1. p. ix, line 24[…] with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first […]
  2. p. ix, line 32[…] of the library who can read the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and […]
  3. p. ix, line 77[…] the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the […]
  4. p. x, line 43[…] the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is always as great and […]
  5. p. x, line 73[…] in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever. If the savage or […]
  6. p. xi, line 51[…] after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same […]
  7. p. xi, line 90[…] the lesser orbits of the stars and sweeps through the ceaseless rings and shall never be quiet again […]
  8. p. xi, line 100[…] shall be the churches of men and women. Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new […]
  9. p. xi, line 114[…] On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was never withoutthe idea of political […]
  10. p. 13, line 15My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  11. 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,
  12. p. 14, line 7You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  13. p. 15, line 20Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  14. p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  15. p. 19, line 7Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
  16. p. 20, line 30The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  17. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  18. p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  19. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  20. p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  21. p. 26, line 1I have pried through the strata and analyzed to a hair,
  22. p. 28, line 24These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
  23. p. 29, line 10Through me the afflatus surging and surging . . . . through me the current and index.
  24. p. 29, line 13Through me many long dumb voices,
  25. p. 29, line 22Through me forbidden voices,
  26. p. 32, line 23They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  27. p. 34, line 19In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
  28. p. 36, line 5Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush;
  29. p. 36, line 7Where the bat flies in the July eve . . . . where the great goldbug drops through the dark;
  30. p. 36, line 27At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush . . . . sucking the juice through a straw,
  31. p. 37, line 12Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
  32. p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;
  33. p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;
  34. p. 37, line 32Speeding through space . . . . speeding through heaven and the stars,
  35. 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,
  36. p. 38, line 16Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  37. p. 40, line 10The fall of grenades through the rent roof . . . . the fan-shaped explosion,
  38. p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.
  39. p. 42, line 13The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  40. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,
  41. p. 46, line 7Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
  42. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  43. p. 50, line 11And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,
  44. p. 50, line 28Jostling me through streets and public halls . . . . coming naked to me at night,
  45. p. 53, line 1The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right,
  46. p. 55, line 23Who has done his day's work and will soonest be through with his supper?
  47. 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.
  48. 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;
  49. 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:
  50. p. 65, line 1TO think of time . . . . to think through the retrospection,
  51. p. 67, line 4The markets, the government, the workingman's wages . . . . to think what account they are through our nights and days;
  52. 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.
  53. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
  54. p. 73, line 3I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  55. p. 73, line 17The tempest lulls and the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
  56. p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
  57. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  58. p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
  59. 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;
  60. 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,
  61. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  62. p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
  63. 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,
  64. p. 81, line 18How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  65. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  66. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
  67. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.
  68. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,

throwing 1

  1. p. 38, line 1Speeding with tailed meteors . . . . throwing fire-balls like the rest,

thrown 3

  1. p. 22, line 14The deckhands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shoregoing passengers,
  2. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  3. p. 78, line 13The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,

thrum 1

  1. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.

thrust 2

  1. p. vi, line 68[…] balance . . . one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who […]
  2. p. 72, line 13Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?

thruster 1

  1. p. 27, line 18Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight!

thumb 4

  1. p. 18, line 2The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 47, line 5Ever the old inexplicable query . . . . ever that thorned thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts,
  3. p. 66, line 27Thumb extended or finger uplifted,
  4. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,

thus 2

  1. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  2. p. 64, line 4And all else thus far known giving place to men and women.

tickets 1

  1. p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;

tickle 1

  1. p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;

tide 2

  1. p. 27, line 12Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  2. p. 91, line 19The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide . . the little boat slacktowed astern,

tides 2

  1. p. xi, line 31[…] with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body […]
  2. p. 47, line 3Ever the eaters and drinkers . . . . ever the upward and downward sun . . . . ever the air and the ceaseless tides,

tidy 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,

tied 2

  1. p. 21, line 32The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist's table,
  2. p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

tied-over 1

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

tiered 1

  1. p. 91, line 16Vehicles . . teams . . the tiered wharves, and the huge crossing at the ferries;

ties 1

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

tight 7

  1. p. 27, line 18Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight!
  2. p. 31, line 28The judge with hands tight to the desk, his shaky lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  3. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  4. p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
  5. p. 87, line 22Its feet upon the ashes and the rags . . . . Its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  6. p. 91, line 9The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

tighten 1

  1. p. 38, line 24And tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.

till 14

  1. p. iv, line 79[…] stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving […]
  2. p. xi, line 88[…] how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and looks […]
  3. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  4. p. 15, line 30And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
  5. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
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  1. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  2. p. 47, line 6Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth;
  3. p. 48, line 19Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis—waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me;
  4. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  5. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  6. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  7. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  8. p. 84, line 28Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,

tiller 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;

tilth 1

  1. p. 30, line 4Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you,

time 44

  1. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The […]
  2. p. v, line 6[…] the best that engineer ever knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it […]
  3. p. v, line 15[…] stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by […]
  4. p. vi, line 18[…] your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is […]
  5. p. vi, line 78[…] compete with the laws that pursue and follow time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the […]
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  1. p. viii, line 29[…] doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving […]
  2. p. ix, line 89[…] precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition that […]
  3. p. x, line 34[…] by ages and coming back at a certain time with strong reinforcements and rich presents and the clear faces […]
  4. p. x, line 101[…] succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of man […]
  5. p. x, line 110[…] one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the identities […]
  6. p. xi, line 39[…] inanimate forms, and which is the bond of time, and rises up from its inconceivable vagueness and infiniteness in […]
  7. p. xi, line 51[…] judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on […]
  8. p. 17, line 28I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  9. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
  10. p. 22, line 21The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  11. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  12. p. 25, line 24Else it were time lost listening to me.
  13. p. 26, line 23And I know the amplitude of time.
  14. p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
  15. p. 31, line 21I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
  16. p. 36, line 8Where the flails keep time on the barn floor,
  17. p. 43, line 16Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,
  18. p. 46, line 16The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  19. p. 49, line 17It is time to explain myself . . . . let us stand up.
  20. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.
  21. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  22. p. 51, line 23I know I have the best of time and space—and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
  23. p. 52, line 12And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
  24. p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
  25. 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;
  26. 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,
  27. p. 65, line 1TO think of time . . . . to think through the retrospection,
  28. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  29. p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
  30. p. 69, line 10We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
  31. p. 77, line 5I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
  32. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  33. 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,
  34. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  35. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,

times 12

  1. p. iii, line 86[…] do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by discovery […]
  2. p. vii, line 10[…] masters of the artists of all nations and times. You shall not contemplate the flight of the graygull over […]
  3. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
  4. p. 38, line 28The courage of present times and all times;
  5. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
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  1. p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  2. p. 54, line 24No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
  3. p. 82, line 2Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  4. 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.
  5. p. 94, line 9Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases.
  6. 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.

timidly 1

  1. p. 52, line 25Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore,

timorous 1

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

timothy 1

  1. p. 18, line 21I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,

tinge 1

  1. p. ix, line 77[…] prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the enveloping wealth and […]

tinged 1

  1. p. 27, line 11Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!

tinkles 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,

tinners 1

  1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,

tinning 1

  1. p. 23, line 5The floormen are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar,

tinroofing 1

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

tip 1

  1. p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,

tips 1

  1. p. 44, line 14They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,

tipsy 1

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

tire 1

  1. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,

tireless 1

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

tires 1

  1. p. 18, line 1The blab of the pave . . . . the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,

title 1

  1. p. ix, line 30[…] library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought and paid for it. Any one […]

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tobacco 1

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

today 12

  1. p. xi, line 30[…] him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age […]
  2. p. xi, line 41[…] vagueness and infiniteness in the swimming shape of today, and is held by the ductile anchors of life, and […]
  3. p. xi, line 104[…] They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and future . . . . They shall not deign […]
  4. p. xii, line 28[…] drawn from the sea for use to me today here? I know that what answers for me an American […]
  5. p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
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  1. p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
  2. p. 65, line 2To think of today . . and the ages continued henceforward.
  3. p. 65, line 5Is today nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?
  4. p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
  5. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  6. p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
  7. p. 93, line 11Great is today, and beautiful,

together 8

  1. p. xi, line 88[…] him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits an orbit for itself and […]
  2. p. 20, line 23They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  3. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  4. p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
  5. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,
  6. 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?
  7. p. 95, line 18Great is death . . . . Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;

toiling 1

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

token 1

  1. p. 82, line 4And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,

tokens 2

  1. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.
  2. p. 34, line 33I do not know where they got those tokens,

told 4

  1. p. vi, line 12[…] your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever […]
  2. p. ix, line 62[…] to romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
  3. p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
  4. p. 74, line 4Now I tell what my mother told me today as we sat at dinner together,

tolls 1

  1. p. 83, line 25An unceasing deathbell tolls there.

tones 1

  1. p. 31, line 27The angry base of disjointed friendship . . . . the faint tones of the sick,

tongs 1

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

tongue 8

  1. p. xii, line 7[…] of all who aspire. It is the chosen tongue to express growth faith self-esteem freedom justice equality friendliness amplitude […]
  2. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
  3. p. 21, line 20The carpenter dresses his plank . . . . the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  4. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  5. p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  6. p. 53, line 11It is you talking just as much as myself . . . . I act as the tongue of you,
  7. p. 83, line 18This face is an epilepsy advertising and doing business . . . . its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  8. p. 86, line 19Every existence has its idiom . . . . every thing has an idiom and tongue;

tongues 5

  1. p. iv, line 80[…] cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease. For such the expression […]
  2. p. ix, line 33[…] read the same through all the varieties of tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with […]
  3. p. xii, line 3[…] daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues. It is the powerful language of resistance . . . it is the […]
  4. p. 16, line 27O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
  5. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:

too 26

  1. p. iii, line 63[…] hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment […]
  2. p. v, line 2[…] health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea . . . . nothing too close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war […]
  3. p. v, line 3[…] close, nothing too far off . . . the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force […]
  4. p. vi, line 106[…] one balances the other and neither can stretch too far while it stretches in company with the other. The […]
  5. p. x, line 28[…] and respectability of the most esteemed life appears too faint for the eye to observe at all when little […]
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  1. p. xii, line 44[…] of the mother of many children? Has it too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality? Does it look with […]
  2. p. 27, line 30I am integral with you . . . . I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  3. p. 31, line 8Come now I will not be tantalized . . . . you conceive too much of articulation.
  4. p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.
  5. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  6. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  7. p. 55, line 25Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
  8. p. 55, line 27I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable,
  9. p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
  10. p. 72, line 26It is I too . . . . the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
  11. p. 76, line 27I too pass from the night;
  12. p. 79, line 19Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands—all diffused . . . . mine too diffused,
  13. p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
  14. p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
  15. p. 81, line 21She too is not only herself . . . . she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  16. p. 83, line 9This now is too lamentable a face for a man;
  17. p. 89, line 24Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  18. p. 93, line 5GREAT are the myths . . . . I too delight in them,
  19. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;

took 5

  1. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 50, line 12And took my time . . . . and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.
  3. p. 60, line 2Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  4. 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,

tools 1

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

top 4

  1. p. 17, line 30I peeringly view them from the top.
  2. p. 88, line 14One finger pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  3. p. 90, line 9And clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.

topknot 1

  1. p. 44, line 19Say old topknot! what do you want?

topmost 1

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

topples 1

  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.

tops 1

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

torches 2

  1. p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
  2. p. 39, line 31The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.

torn 1

  1. p. 41, line 5The three were all torn, and covered with the boy's blood.

torpid 1

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

tortoise 1

  1. p. 20, line 27And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,

toss 4

  1. p. x, line 9[…] great being as a man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching […]
  2. p. 54, line 29Toss, sparkles of day and dusk . . . . toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  3. p. 54, line 30Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.

tossed 1

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

tosses 1

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

toting 1

  1. p. 23, line 3The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,

touch 16

  1. p. xi, line 78[…] neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes […]
  2. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  3. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  4. p. 32, line 25To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  5. p. 32, line 26Is this then a touch? . . . . quivering me to a new identity,
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  1. p. 33, line 2They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,
  2. p. 33, line 12You villain touch! what are you doing? . . . . my breath is tight in its throat;
  3. p. 33, line 14Blind loving wrestling touch! Sheathed hooded sharptoothed touch!
  4. p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
  5. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  6. 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.
  7. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
  8. 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,
  9. 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.
  10. 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?

touched 4

  1. p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
  2. p. 30, line 16Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you.
  3. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,
  4. p. 72, line 8Be careful, darkness . . . . already, what was it touched me?

touches 1

  1. p. vi, line 23[…] trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]

touching 1

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

tough 2

  1. p. xi, line 113[…] enough and limber and full enough. On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance […]
  2. p. 35, line 25Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,

tougher 1

  1. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;

toward 29

  1. p. v, line 15[…] easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady […]
  2. p. vi, line 6[…] argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or […]
  3. p. viii, line 19[…] candor. Upon this basis philosophy speculates ever looking toward the poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward […]
  4. p. viii, line 20[…] poet, ever regarding the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness never inconsistent with what is clear to the senses […]
  5. p. viii, line 22[…] the soul. For the eternal tendencies of all toward happiness make the only point of sane philosophy. Whatever comprehends […]
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  1. p. viii, line 75[…] own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and is liberty […]
  2. p. ix, line 35[…] enter with ease and take residence and force toward paternity and maternity, and make supple and powerful and rich […]
  3. p. x, line 37[…] you can look in every direction running gaily toward you? Only the soul is of itself . . . . all else has […]
  4. p. xii, line 47[…] on the last born and on those hardening toward stature, and on the errant, and on those who disdain […]
  5. p. xii, line 64[…] it. It rejects none, it permits all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself […]
  6. p. xii, line 65[…] all. Only toward as good as itself and toward the like of itself will it advance half-way. An individual […]
  7. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  8. p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
  9. p. 31, line 17I crowd your noisiest talk by looking toward you.
  10. p. 31, line 22And accrue what I hear into myself . . . . and let sounds contribute toward me.
  11. p. 32, line 32Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  12. p. 35, line 2Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  13. p. 37, line 29Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him;
  14. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  15. p. 42, line 4The leaks gained fast on the pumps . . . . the fire eat toward the powder-magazine,
  16. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  17. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,
  18. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.
  19. p. 66, line 25Had known what it was to be flush . . grew lowspirited toward the last . . sickened . . was helped by a contribution,
  20. p. 69, line 14Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  21. p. 74, line 16The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away;
  22. 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,
  23. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.
  24. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

towels 1

  1. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,

town 3

  1. p. viii, line 116[…] candid and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on […]
  2. p. 89, line 4I rose this morning early to get betimes in Boston town;
  3. p. 89, line 8Every man holds his revolver . . . . marching stiff through Boston town.

towpath 1

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

tow-trousers see tow-trowsers

tow-trowsers 1 today: tow-trousers

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

trace 1

  1. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?

tracked 1

  1. p. 33, line 16Parting tracked by arriving . . . . perpetual payment of the perpetual loan,

trade 9

  1. p. vi, line 63[…] nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the […]
  2. p. ix, line 18[…] multiplication table its—old age its—the carpenter's trade its—the grand-opera its . . . . the hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at […]
  3. 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,
  4. p. 24, line 4Of every hue and trade and rank, of every caste and religion,
  5. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  6. 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?
  7. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  8. p. 63, line 17The house you live in . . . . the rent . . . . the other tenants . . . . the deposite in the savings-bank . . . . the trade at the grocery,

trades 1

  1. p. 58, line 21Offspring of those not rich—boys apprenticed to trades,

tragic 1

  1. p. ix, line 42[…] books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any […]

trail 1

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

trailing 2

  1. p. 35, line 20Hoeing my onion-patch, and rows of carrots and parsnips . . . . crossing savannas . . . trailing in forests,
  2. p. 40, line 8The ambulanza slowly passing and trailing its red drip,

trails 1

  1. p. 36, line 17Where the steamship trails hindways its long pennant of smoke,

train 4

  1. p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  2. p. 32, line 2The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars;
  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. 88, line 9Each comes in state with his train . . . . hangman, priest and tax-gatherer . . . . soldier, lawyer, jailer and sycophant.

trained 1

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

traitor 1

  1. p. 33, line 10I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,

traitors 2

  1. p. viii, line 86[…] after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted […]
  2. p. 33, line 9I am given up by traitors;

traits 1

  1. p. vii, line 39[…] or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the brotherhood of writers savans musicians inventors and artists […]

tramp 1

  1. p. 51, line 24I tramp a perpetual journey,

trance 1

  1. 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.

transcendant 1 today: transcendent

  1. p. iv, line 82[…] expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new. It is to be indirect and not direct […]

transcendent see transcendant

transfers 1

  1. 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?

transfigured 2

  1. p. xi, line 36[…] and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him is not opened the eternity which […]
  2. p. 29, line 24Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured.

transformation 1

  1. p. 68, line 13The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,

transit 1

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

translate 3

  1. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  2. p. 26, line 27The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  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.

translates 2

  1. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:

translucent 1

  1. p. 30, line 2Translucent mould of me it shall be you,

transmutes 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,

transparent 3

  1. p. iv, line 35[…] any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging from the boughs and crackling in […]
  2. p. 15, line 27I mind how we lay in June, such a transparent summer morning;
  3. p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;

transpire 1

  1. p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,

transpired 1

  1. p. iii, line 88[…] the western continent by discovery and what has transpired since in North and South America were less than the […]

transported 1

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

transverse 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,

trapper 2

  1. p. 18, line 33I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west . . . . the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,

trappers 2

  1. p. iv, line 62[…] and clearings and wild animals and hunters and trappers . . . . the free commerce—the fisheries and whaling and gold-digging—the […]
  2. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.

traps 1

  1. p. 22, line 9The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,

travel 3

  1. p. 35, line 15My ties and ballasts leave me . . . . I travel . . . . I sail . . . . my elbows rest in the sea-gaps,
  2. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  3. p. 52, line 5You must travel it for yourself.

traveled 1

  1. p. 50, line 7All below duly traveled—and still I mount and mount.

traveler 2

  1. p. vii, line 91[…] all his goings and comings. The sailor and traveler . . the anatomist chemist astronomer geologist phrenologist spiritualist mathematician historian and […]
  2. p. 42, line 28What stills the traveler come to the vault at Mount Vernon,

traveler's 1

  1. p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,

traveling 1

  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:

travels 1

  1. p. 21, line 35The machinist rolls up his sleeves . . . . the policeman travels his beat . . . . the gatekeeper marks who pass,

treacherous 2

  1. p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  2. p. 71, line 6And the enraged and treacherous dispositions sleep.

treachery 1

  1. p. 69, line 12If maggots and rats ended us, then suspicion and treachery and death.

tread 3

  1. p. vii, line 66[…] soul which says, Rage on, Whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere, Master of the spasms of the […]
  2. p. 20, line 22My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble,
  3. p. 38, line 5I tread day and night such roads.

treading 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,

treasury 1

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

treated 1

  1. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.

treatment 2

  1. p. iii, line 65[…] unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it […]
  2. p. xii, line 13[…] or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail […]

tree 1

  1. p. 36, line 9Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,

trees 9

  1. p. vii, line 7[…] animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the […]
  2. p. 13, line 19The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 27, line 9Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  4. p. 35, line 21Prospecting . . . . gold-digging . . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  5. p. 37, line 8Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees;
  6. p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
  7. p. 69, line 30The trees have, rooted in the ground . . . . the weeds of the sea have . . . . the animals.
  8. p. 85, line 2It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,

tree-toad 1

  1. p. 34, line 3And the tree-toad is a chef-d'ouvre for the highest,

tremble 1

  1. p. 35, line 9His nostrils dilate . . . . my heels embrace him . . . . his well built limbs tremble with pleasure . . . . we speed around and return.

tremblingly 1

  1. p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.

tremendous 4

  1. p. iii, line 31[…] the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of […]
  2. p. 30, line 34Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
  3. p. 31, line 1We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  4. p. 45, line 13I dilate you with tremendous breath . . . . I buoy you up;

tremulous 2

  1. p. iv, line 77[…] of the northwest and southwest—slavery and the tremulous spreading of hands to protect it, and the stern opposition […]
  2. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,

tressels 1 today: trestles

  1. p. 47, line 8Ever the bandage under the chin . . . . ever the tressels of death.

trestles see tressels

trial 1

  1. p. xi, line 29The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today […]

triangles 1

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

tribes 1

  1. p. iv, line 50[…] diversity of temperature and agriculture and mines—the tribes of red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or […]

tribunal 1

  1. 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.

trick 2

  1. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?
  2. p. 83, line 28Well then you cannot trick me.

trickling 2

  1. p. 30, line 10Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you;
  2. p. 43, line 19That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!

tricks 1

  1. p. ix, line 65[…] be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. Then folks […]

tried 3

  1. p. ix, line 1[…] on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment following duly after in exact […]
  2. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.
  3. 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:

trifle 1

  1. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.

trill 2

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

trillions 3

  1. p. 49, line 22We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers;
  2. p. 49, line 23There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

trills 1

  1. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,

trims 1

  1. p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

triphammers 1

  1. p. 36, line 12Where triphammers crash . . . . where the press is whirling its cylinders;

trippers 1

  1. p. 15, line 7Trippers and askers surround me,

triumph 1

  1. p. vii, line 8[…] and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. If you have looked on him who has […]

triumphal 1

  1. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,

triumphs 2

  1. p. viii, line 71[…] alarm and frequent advance and retreat . . . . the enemy triumphs . . . . the prison, the handcuffs, the iron necklace and anklet, the […]
  2. p. 93, line 13Great are the plunges and throes and triumphs and falls of democracy,

trivial 2

  1. p. iii, line 30[…] the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings […]
  2. p. 29, line 20Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,

triviality 1

  1. p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought […]

troop 1

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

trot 2

  1. p. iii, line 82[…] of poets.—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records! As if […]
  2. p. 66, line 16Rapid the trot to the cemetery,

trots 1

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

trouble 1

  1. p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,

troubles 2

  1. p. v, line 116[…] of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is […]
  2. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?

trouser-ends see trowser-ends

trousers see trowsers

trowel 1

  1. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:

trowser-ends 1 today: trouser-ends

  1. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,

trowsers 1 today: trousers

  1. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,

truant 1

  1. p. 71, line 30My truant lover has come and it is dark.

truck 1

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

truckling 1

  1. p. 25, line 28Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids . . . . conformity goes to the fourth-removed,

true 10

  1. p. viii, line 102[…] of these states who could easier realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of […]
  2. p. x, line 16[…] atmosphere and of the sea and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have […]
  3. p. xii, line 71[…] no fear of mistake. If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is […]
  4. p. xii, line 72[…] If the one is true the other is true. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs […]
  5. p. 24, line 22This is the the tasteless water of souls . . . . this is the true sustenance,
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  1. p. 35, line 12Swift wind! Space! My Soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
  2. p. 43, line 13I rise extatic through all, and sweep with the true gravitation,
  3. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  4. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
  5. p. 94, line 5That the true adoration is likewise without words and without kneeling.

truer 1

  1. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;

truly 1

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

trust 4

  1. p. vi, line 22[…] He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
  2. p. 41, line 21They saw so many strange faces they did not know whom to trust.
  3. p. 77, line 1Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?

trusting 1

  1. p. v, line 32[…] they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate […]

truth 14

  1. p. vii, line 82[…] the strata of interests nor love most nor truth most nor the soul most nor the body most . . . . and […]
  2. p. ix, line 93[…] reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
  3. p. xi, line 7[…] any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the […]
  4. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
  5. p. 94, line 10Great is the quality of truth in man,
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  1. p. 94, line 11The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,
  2. p. 94, line 13The truth in man is no dictum . . . . it is vital as eyesight,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  5. p. 94, line 16O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am determined to press the whole way toward you,

truths 1

  1. p. 33, line 20All truths wait in all things,

try 2

  1. p. 31, line 16Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me,
  2. p. 54, line 16And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me.

tub 1

  1. p. 19, line 9And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,

tubercled 1

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

Tuckahoe 1

  1. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.

tucked 1

  1. p. 18, line 31I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,

tuft 1

  1. p. vii, line 110[…] science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science […]

tufted 1

  1. p. 20, line 26And consider the green and violet and the tufted crown intentional;

tufts 1

  1. p. 83, line 26Those are really men! . . . . the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!

tug 1

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

tuition 1

  1. p. xii, line 16[…] spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of […]

tuliptree 1

  1. p. iv, line 32[…] cypress and hickory and limetree and cottonwood and tuliptree and cactus and wildvine and tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles […]

tumbling 2

  1. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  2. p. 91, line 20The hurrying tumbling waves and quickbroken crests and slapping;

tumult 1

  1. p. xi, line 86[…] there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him […]

tuned 2

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

tunes 1

  1. p. 37, line 18Pleased with the primitive tunes of the choir of the whitewashed church,

turbid 1

  1. p. 54, line 27Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,

turbulent 1

  1. p. 40, line 24Large, turbulent, brave, handsome, generous, proud and affectionate,

turkeyhen 1

  1. p. 21, line 6The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,

turkey-shooting 1

  1. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,

turmoils 1

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

turn 17

  1. p. vi, line 64[…] sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper […]
  2. p. viii, line 56[…] to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions […]
  3. p. xi, line 81[…] they see the space and ineffable sheen that turn the old spots and lights into dead vacuums. The companion […]
  4. p. 14, line 25Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  5. p. 15, line 4That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
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  1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  2. p. 27, line 23We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
  3. p. 34, line 23I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . . . they are so placid and self-contained,
  4. p. 38, line 23I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  5. p. 45, line 8Turn the bedclothes toward the foot of the bed,
  6. p. 48, line 23I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  7. 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,
  8. p. 71, line 12I go from bedside to bedside . . . . I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn;
  9. p. 73, line 11The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood . . . . they bear him away . . . . they roll him and swing him and turn him:
  10. p. 73, line 14I turn but do not extricate myself;
  11. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
  12. p. 88, line 24Not a grave of the murdered for freedom but grows seed for freedom . . . . in its turn to bear seed,

turned 2

  1. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  2. p. 37, line 21Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds;

turned-in 1

  1. p. 83, line 20Its teeth grit . . the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails,

turning 2

  1. p. v, line 12[…] it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger […]
  2. 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,

turnpike 1

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

turns 8

  1. p. v, line 13[…] reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners […]
  2. p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;
  3. p. 35, line 23Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead . . . . where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  4. p. 39, line 23My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  5. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,

tushes 1

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

tussled 1

  1. p. 30, line 9Mixed tussled hay of head and beard and brawn it shall be you,

twain 1

  1. p. vi, line 108[…] The inmost secrets of art sleep with the twain. The greatest poet has lain close betwixt both and they […]

twelve 3

  1. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  2. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
  3. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.

twenty-eight 3

  1. p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  2. p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
  3. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.

twenty-four 1

  1. p. 54, line 12I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,

twenty-ninth 1

  1. p. 19, line 24Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,

twigs 1

  1. p. 19, line 6I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,

twilight 2

  1. p. 54, line 28Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
  2. p. 71, line 16I am the everlaughing . . . . it is new moon and twilight,

twin 1

  1. p. 31, line 5Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

twined 2

  1. p. vii, line 119[…] the special and supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as a […]
  2. p. 23, line 1On the piazza walk five friendly matrons with twined arms;

twinges 1

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

twirl 2

  1. p. 31, line 4With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  2. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;

twist 2

  1. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  2. p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

twisted 1

  1. p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,

twitching 2

  1. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  2. p. 65, line 18When the twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,

twittering 1

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

two 16

  1. p. vii, line 81[…] delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most nor […]
  2. p. viii, line 62[…] good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual […]
  3. p. xi, line 88[…] encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly together till the new world fits […]
  4. p. xi, line 94[…] They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their […]
  5. p. 15, line 6Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
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  1. p. 17, line 12And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good,
  2. p. 37, line 22My right and left arms round the sides of two friends and I in the middle;
  3. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  4. p. 41, line 17On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  5. p. 41, line 27Two well-served with grape and canister silenced his musketry and cleared his decks.
  6. p. 42, line 11Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  7. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  8. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  9. 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:
  10. p. 78, line 12The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  11. p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,

twohanded 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,

tympan 1

  1. p. 62, line 20The cylinder press . . the handpress . . the frisket and tympan . . the compositor's stick and rule,

types 2

  1. p. 57, line 5I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us.
  2. p. 57, line 6I pass so poorly with paper and types . . . . I must pass with the contact of bodies and souls.

tyrants 3

  1. p. vi, line 4[…] devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the […]
  2. p. viii, line 85[…] more christened after the same but christened after tyrants and traitors instead . . . . when the laws of the free are […]
  3. p. 88, line 26Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,