Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “them”

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  1. p. iii, line 63[…] elections—the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him—these too are unrhymed poetry. It […]
  2. p. iv, line 5[…] for America is the race of races. Of them a bard is to be commensurate with a people. To […]
  3. p. iv, line 8[…] the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit […]
  4. p. iv, line 27[…] Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects what is between […]
  5. p. iv, line 29[…] east to west and reflects what is between them. On him rise solid growths that offset the growths of […]
  6. p. iv, line 95[…] and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee […]
  7. p. v, line 15[…] as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he […]
  8. p. v, line 30[…] soul . . . it pervades the common people and preserves them . . . they never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There […]
  9. p. v, line 101[…] free growth of metrical laws and bud from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a […]
  10. p. vi, line 45[…] buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore or […]
  11. p. vi, line 70[…] organ . . . the pleasure of poems is not in them that take the handsomest measure and similes and sound […]
  12. p. vi, line 86[…] the dead out of their coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise […]
  13. p. vii, line 59[…] only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them. What do you think is the grandeur of storms and […]
  14. p. vii, line 101[…] the seed of the conception of it . . . of them and by them stand the visible proofs of souls . . . . . always of their fatherstuff […]
  15. p. viii, line 8[…] of men and women and all that concerns them are unspeakably perfect miracles all referring to all and each […]
  16. p. viii, line 44[…] is greater than to conceive children and bring them up well . . . that to be is just as great as […]
  17. p. viii, line 52[…] of ages are worthy the grand idea . . . . to them it is confided and they must sustain it. Nothing has […]
  18. p. viii, line 59[…] one and hope to the other. Come nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall […]
  19. p. ix, line 39[…] violations of natural models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood […]
  20. p. ix, line 65[…] also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor […]
  21. p. x, line 112[…] or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not so exist […]
  22. p. xi, line 51[…] the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style […]
  23. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  24. p. 16, line 5And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  25. p. 16, line 17Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
  26. p. 16, line 21It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
  27. p. 17, line 30I peeringly view them from the top.
  28. p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
  29. p. 19, line 21Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
  30. p. 19, line 25The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  31. 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,
  32. p. 21, line 7I see in them and myself the same old law.
  33. p. 21, line 9They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
  34. p. 21, line 13I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  35. p. 22, line 6The woollypates hoe in the sugarfield, the overseer views them from his saddle;
  36. p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
  37. p. 23, line 14Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them,
  38. p. 23, line 19And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  39. p. 25, line 1I sound triumphal drums for the dead . . . . I fling through my embouchures the loudest and gayest music to them,
  40. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  41. p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  42. p. 27, line 34Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?
  43. p. 28, line 27The facts are useful and real . . . . they are not my dwelling . . . . I enter by them to an area of the dwelling.
  44. p. 29, line 2And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  45. p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
  46. p. 29, line 19And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  47. p. 31, line 12I underlying causes to balance them at last,
  48. 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,
  49. p. 32, line 28Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  50. p. 33, line 4Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile,
  51. p. 33, line 34And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
  52. p. 34, line 24I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
  53. p. 34, line 31So they show their relations to me and I accept them;
  54. p. 34, line 32They bring me tokens of myself . . . . they evince them plainly in their possession.
  55. p. 34, line 34I must have passed that way untold times ago and negligently dropt them,
  56. p. 35, line 1Infinite and omnigenous and the like of these among them;
  57. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  58. p. 36, line 16Where the she-whale swims with her calves and never forsakes them,
  59. p. 38, line 17The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them . . . . the scenery is plain in all directions,
  60. p. 38, line 18The white-topped mountains point up in the distance . . . . I fling out my fancies toward them;
  61. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
  62. p. 41, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  63. p. 43, line 11Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them,
  64. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  65. p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
  66. p. 45, line 27Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah and laying them away,
  67. p. 45, line 32Honestly taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more,
  68. p. 46, line 2Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself . . . . bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  69. p. 47, line 21What I do and say the same waits for them,
  70. p. 47, line 22Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  71. p. 48, line 27By experience I know them.
  72. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  73. p. 49, line 23There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  74. p. 51, line 3Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  75. p. 51, line 13And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  76. 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?
  77. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  78. p. 53, line 23In vessels that sail my words must sail . . . . I go with fishermen and seamen, and love them,
  79. p. 53, line 28They and all would resume what I have told them.
  80. p. 54, line 15And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
  81. p. 55, line 14The past and present wilt . . . . I have filled them and emptied them,
  82. p. 55, line 22I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab.
  83. p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
  84. 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.
  85. 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?
  86. p. 59, line 18The sun and stars that float in the open air . . . . the appleshaped earth and we upon it . . . . surely the drift of them is something grand;
  87. 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?
  88. p. 60, line 8Old institutions . . . . these arts libraries legends collections—and the practice handed along in manufactures . . . . will we rate them so high?
  89. p. 60, line 10I rate them as high as the highest . . . . but a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  90. p. 60, line 13I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  91. p. 60, line 21The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you . . . . not you here for them,
  92. 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;
  93. p. 63, line 19In them the heft of the heaviest . . . . in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
  94. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  95. 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.
  96. p. 64, line 12I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women.
  97. p. 65, line 20Then the corpse-limbs stretch on the bed, and the living look upon them,
  98. 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.
  99. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  100. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  101. p. 67, line 13But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  102. p. 70, line 14The night pervades them and enfolds them.
  103. p. 71, line 8I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them;
  104. p. 72, line 6My hands are spread forth . . I pass them in all directions,
  105. p. 73, line 22In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  106. p. 74, line 2The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  107. p. 74, line 32And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
  108. p. 75, line 21The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  109. p. 75, line 23The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
  110. p. 77, line 9THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
  111. p. 77, line 10They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
  112. p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
  113. 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?
  114. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,
  115. p. 80, line 3The female contains all qualities and tempers them . . . . she is in her place . . . . she moves with perfect balance,
  116. p. 81, line 8They shall be stript that you may see them.
  117. p. 81, line 22She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  118. p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
  119. p. 81, line 24Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
  120. p. 81, line 25In them and of them natal love . . . . in them the divine mystery . . . . the same old beautiful mystery.
  121. p. 83, line 7I see them and complain not and am content with all.
  122. p. 83, line 8Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
  123. p. 85, line 3It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wildcherry and the catbrier under them.
  124. p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
  125. 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.
  126. p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  127. p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;
  128. p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
  129. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
  130. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  131. p. 90, line 6Here is a centrepiece for them:
  132. p. 91, line 5They gave him afterward every day . . . . they and of them became part of him.
  133. p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
  134. p. 92, line 9I love them quits and quits . . . . I do not halt and make salaams.
  135. p. 92, line 25And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true is just as wonderful,
  136. p. 93, line 5GREAT are the myths . . . . I too delight in them,
  137. p. 93, line 6Great are Adam and Eve . . . . I too look back and accept them;