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‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

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  1. p. iii, line 20[…] and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in […]
  2. p. iii, line 40Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not […]
  3. p. iii, line 46[…] inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their […]
  4. p. iii, line 48[…] speech dress friendships—the freshness and candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment […]
  5. p. iii, line 49[…] candor of their physiognomy—the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or […]
  6. p. iii, line 50[…] of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical […]
  7. p. iii, line 53[…] citizens of all other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem […]
  8. p. iii, line 54[…] other states—the fierceness of their roused resentment—their curiosity and welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the […]
  9. p. iii, line 55[…] welcome of novelty—their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy—their susceptibility to a slight—the air they have of persons […]
  10. p. iii, line 58[…] in the presence of superiors—the fluency of their speech—their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and […]
  11. p. iii, line 60[…] of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections […]
  12. p. iii, line 62[…] good temper and openhandedness—the terrible significance of their elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not […]
  13. p. iii, line 85[…] the mythical! As if men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of […]
  14. p. iv, line 8[…] arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his […]
  15. p. iv, line 85[…] and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters be illustrated and that finish the verse […]
  16. p. iv, line 96[…] have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all […]
  17. p. iv, line 97[…] not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. Of all mankind the great poet is the […]
  18. p. iv, line 100[…] things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is good and nothing […]
  19. p. v, line 81[…] him to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough . . probably […]
  20. p. vi, line 86[…] and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says […]
  21. p. vi, line 87[…] of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before […]
  22. p. vii, line 2[…] and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to […]
  23. p. vii, line 13[…] horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven […]
  24. p. vii, line 36[…] gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint. A heroic person walks at his ease through and […]
  25. p. vii, line 59[…] good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur […]
  26. p. vii, line 98[…] but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem. No matter […]
  27. p. vii, line 102[…] stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff must be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If […]
  28. p. viii, line 16[…] taken as they are, and the investigation of their past and present and future shall be unintermitted and shall […]
  29. p. viii, line 56[…] up slaves and horrify despots. The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their […]
  30. p. viii, line 57[…] The turn of their necks, the sound of their feet, the motions of their wrists, are full of hazard to the one and hope […]
  31. p. viii, line 73[…] and anklet, the scaffold, garrote and leadballs do their work . . . . the cause is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked […]
  32. p. viii, line 74[…] is asleep . . . . the strong throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the […]
  33. p. viii, line 75[…] with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass each other . . . . and […]
  34. p. viii, line 106[…] lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the […]
  35. p. ix, line 68[…] cheap joy and a divine voice leaping from their brains: How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven […]
  36. p. x, line 10[…] and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits […]
  37. p. x, line 11[…] their scorching days and icy nights and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or […]
  38. p. x, line 57[…] or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any […]
  39. p. x, line 90[…] sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their neighbors . . all the vast sweet love and precious suffering of […]
  40. p. x, line 109[…] any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and inure now and will inure always to the […]
  41. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation […]
  42. p. xi, line 95[…] off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place . . . . the gangs of kosmos and prophets en masse shall […]
  43. p. xi, line 96[…] of kosmos and prophets en masse shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be […]
  44. p. xi, line 99[…] be his own priest. The churches built under their umbrage shall be the churches of men and women. Through […]
  45. p. xi, line 103[…] of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects today, symptoms of the past and […]
  46. p. xii, line 49[…] who disdain all strength of assault outside of their own […]
  47. p. xii, line 58[…] It is not intellect that is to be their warrant and welcome. The talented, the artist, the ingenious, the […]
  48. p. xii, line 61[…] erudite . . they are not unappreciated . . they fall in their place and do their work. The soul of the nation also does its work […]
  49. p. 15, line 2And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty,
  50. p. 16, line 22It may be you are from old people and from women, and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  51. p. 16, line 30And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  52. p. 17, line 13The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  53. 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;
  54. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  55. p. 19, line 27Little streams passed all over their bodies.
  56. p. 19, line 28An unseen hand also passed over their bodies,
  57. p. 19, line 29It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
  58. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  59. p. 20, line 7From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements,
  60. p. 20, line 8The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  61. p. 21, line 21The married and unmarried children ride home to their thanksgiving dinner,
  62. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  63. p. 22, line 7The bugle calls in the ballroom, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other;
  64. p. 23, line 15In walls of abode, in canvass tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport.
  65. p. 23, line 17The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
  66. p. 23, line 34Comrade of Californians . . . . comrade of free northwesterners, loving their big proportions,
  67. p. 24, line 11The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,
  68. p. 24, line 12The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
  69. p. 29, line 7Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
  70. p. 29, line 12By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  71. p. 30, line 31The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their junction,
  72. 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;
  73. 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,
  74. p. 33, line 21They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  75. p. 34, line 14In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  76. p. 34, line 25They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  77. p. 34, line 26They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  78. p. 34, line 27They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  79. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
  80. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.
  81. p. 36, line 10Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  82. p. 36, line 33Where the heifers browse, and the geese nip their food with short jerks;
  83. p. 37, line 6Where the band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out;
  84. p. 38, line 13My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  85. p. 39, line 5How the lank loose-gowned women looked when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  86. p. 39, line 19The riders spur their unwilling horses and haul close,
  87. p. 39, line 20They taunt my dizzy ears . . . . they beat me violently over the head with their whip-stocks.
  88. p. 39, line 24I am the mashed fireman with breastbone broken . . . . tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
  89. p. 39, line 26I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels;
  90. p. 39, line 30White and beautiful are the faces around me . . . . the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  91. p. 40, line 5Again the attacked send their cannon responsive.
  92. p. 40, line 18Retreating they had formed in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  93. p. 40, line 19Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's nine times their number was the price they took in advance,
  94. p. 40, line 20Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
  95. p. 40, line 21They treated for an honorable capitulation, received writing and seal, gave up their arms, and marched back prisoners of war.
  96. p. 43, line 4For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  97. p. 43, line 27Our swift ordinances are on their way over the whole earth,
  98. p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  99. p. 45, line 33Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day,
  100. p. 46, line 7Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
  101. p. 46, line 8Their brawny limbs passing safe over charred laths . . . . their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  102. p. 46, line 10Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagged out at their waists;
  103. p. 46, line 26Easily written loosefingered chords! I feel the thrum of their climax and close.
  104. p. 48, line 3The dishes and fare and furniture . . . . but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  105. p. 50, line 17For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  106. p. 50, line 22Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
  107. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  108. 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,
  109. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  110. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  111. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,
  112. p. 66, line 1The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  113. p. 68, line 7The orchestra have tuned their instruments sufficiently . . . . the baton has given the signal.
  114. p. 70, line 10How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  115. p. 70, line 12The gashed bodies on battlefields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots,
  116. p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  117. p. 70, line 16The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
  118. p. 71, line 9The restless sink in their beds . . . . they fitfully sleep.
  119. p. 71, line 19Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,
  120. p. 71, line 21I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
  121. p. 71, line 23And lift their cunning covers and signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
  122. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
  123. p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  124. p. 74, line 1The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  125. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  126. p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
  127. p. 75, line 14The actor and actress . . those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  128. 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,
  129. p. 77, line 11Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
  130. p. 78, line 4The sprawl and fulness of babes . . . . the bosoms and heads of women . . . . the folds of their dress . . . . their style as we pass in the street . . . . the contour of their shape downwards;
  131. p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
  132. p. 78, line 8Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
  133. p. 78, line 9The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
  134. p. 78, line 15The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
  135. p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  136. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
  137. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  138. p. 83, line 19Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  139. p. 84, line 19They show their descent from the Master himself.
  140. p. 86, line 6He puts things in their attitudes,
  141. p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,
  142. 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;
  143. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  144. 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.
  145. p. 92, line 8I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  146. p. 93, line 7Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors and priests.
  147. p. 93, line 8Great is liberty! Great is equality! I am their follower,
  148. p. 93, line 14Great the reformers with their lapses and screams,
  149. p. 95, line 6For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges . . . . it is in their souls,