Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

Concordance

The 14,148 different words in the final 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.

A

a – Asiatic · aside – aye

aside 19

  1. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  2. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  3. p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  4. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  5. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
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  1. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  2. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.
  3. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?
  4. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)
  5. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)
  6. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.
  7. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  8. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
  9. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  10. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  11. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  12. p. 301, line 25Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
  13. p. 372, line 7But aside from these and the marts of wealth and the crowded promenade,
  14. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?

ask 8

  1. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  3. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  4. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  5. p. 121, line 1Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
  6. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
  7. p. 252, line 9DID you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
  8. p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.

askant 2

  1. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
  2. p. 261, line 17And I saw askant the armies,

ask'd 7 today: asked

  1. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  2. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  3. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  4. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  5. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?
  6. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  7. p. 431, line 8[…] are from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest to current American civilization […]

asked see ask'd

askers 2

  1. p. 31, line 21Trippers and askers surround me,
  2. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,

asking 8

  1. p. 25, line 8Was somebody asking to see the soul?
  2. p. 39, line 14Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
  3. p. 74, line 9You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
  4. p. 244, line 21These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
  5. p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
  6. p. 353, line 18Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,
  7. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
  8. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?

asks 3

  1. p. 62, line 23The other asks if we demand quarter?
  2. p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
  3. p. 355, line 2This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest,

asleep 4

  1. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  2. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  3. p. 287, line 25The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are choked with their own blood,
  4. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,

aspect 1

  1. p. 9, line 11A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,

aspiration 6

  1. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  2. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  3. p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;
  4. p. 385, line 14To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,
  5. p. 387, line 10Once living men—once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
  6. p. 394, line 14Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!

aspirations 9

  1. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  2. p. 213, line 26All great ideas, the races' aspirations,
  3. p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,
  4. p. 322, line 7What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
  5. p. 324, line 6Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.
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  1. p. 345, line 4The same old man and soul—the same old aspirations, and the same content.
  2. p. 356, line 13Was fill'd with aspirations high, unform'd ideals,
  3. p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
  4. p. 412, line 24Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,

aspiring 1

  1. p. 388, line 17The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.

assassin 2

  1. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
  2. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.

assassins 1

  1. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,

assault 1

  1. p. 246, line 18(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,

assemblage 1

  1. p. 362, line 23Companion of the city's busiest streets, through the assemblage,

assembly 4

  1. p. 128, line 12In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
  2. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  3. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  4. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;

assert 1

  1. p. 192, line 26I assert that all past days were what they must have been,

asserted 1

  1. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,

assertions 1

  1. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,

assiduous 1

  1. p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,

assign'd 1 today: assigned

  1. p. 408, line 2[…] myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim […]

assigned see assign'd

assimilated 1

  1. p. 167, line 6To be in them absorb'd, assimilated.

assimilation 1

  1. p. 430, line 24[…] is for us the only means of their assimilation consistent with the Western world […]

assist 2

  1. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  2. p. 435, line 11[…] to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great lesson in […]

associates 1

  1. p. 32, line 1My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,

association 1

  1. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,

associations 2

  1. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  2. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?

assume 9

  1. p. 29, line 7And what I assume you shall assume,
  2. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  3. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  4. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  5. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  6. p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
  7. p. 425, line 28[…] generations of the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance […]
  8. p. 427, line 18[…] at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]

assumed 1

  1. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?

assumes 1

  1. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,

assuming 1

  1. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,

assumption 1

  1. p. 427, line 32[…] objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the one […]

assurances 1

  1. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;

assured 1

  1. p. 36, line 18And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him,

assuredly 2

  1. p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  2. p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,

Assyria 3

  1. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  2. p. 192, line 23I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews,
  3. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,

Assyrian 1

  1. p. 151, line 12The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,

astern 1

  1. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,

astonish 4

  1. p. 44, line 3Do you take it I would astonish?
  2. p. 44, line 4Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  3. p. 44, line 5Do I astonish more than they?
  4. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.

astral 1

  1. p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,

astride 2

  1. p. 130, line 26The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars,
  2. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,

astronomer 2

  1. p. 214, line 13WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer,
  2. p. 214, line 16When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

astronomic 1

  1. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,

Astronomy 1

  1. p. 397, line 4"Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all,

Astronomy's 1

  1. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?

asylum 2

  1. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
  2. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

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ate 2

  1. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  2. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,

ateliers 1

  1. p. 12, line 15Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,

atheist 1

  1. p. 304, line 9Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist,

atheistical 1

  1. p. 70, line 7Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,

athlete 1

  1. p. 109, line 16For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,

athletes 4

  1. p. 74, line 20I am the teacher of athletes,
  2. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  3. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  4. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)

athletic 6

  1. p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
  2. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  3. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  4. p. 96, line 5Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,
  5. p. 111, line 4Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
  6. p. 141, line 8The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners,

athwart 6

  1. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  2. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  3. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  4. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  5. p. 321, line 29Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space,
  6. p. 388, line 10Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.

a-time 1

  1. p. 412, line 3But we 'll make race a-time upon the seas—a battle-contest yet! bear lively there!

Atlantic 6

  1. p. 114, line 13I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
  2. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  3. p. 145, line 13I feel the ship's motion under me, I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,
  4. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  5. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
  6. p. 436, line 10[…] North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the valley of the Mississippi, in Canada, up in […]

Atlantica's 3

  1. p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
  2. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  3. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,

Atlantic's 2

  1. p. 163, line 9These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable,
  2. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.

atmosphere 16

  1. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  2. p. 59, line 3Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  3. p. 93, line 16We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
  4. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  5. p. 107, line 12Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
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  1. p. 199, line 14Sound clearer through the atmosphere!
  2. p. 200, line 20The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying,
  3. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  4. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  5. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,
  6. p. 358, line 24The ocean fill'd with joy—the atmosphere all joy!
  7. p. 381, line 18Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,
  8. p. 404, line 6So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan,
  9. p. 411, line 40[…] better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
  10. p. 434, line 24[…] and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to pursue your own […]
  11. p. 436, line 16[…] to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I […]

atom 6

  1. p. 29, line 8For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  2. p. 29, line 11My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
  3. p. 227, line 9The Continent, devoting the whole identity without reserving an atom,
  4. p. 377, line 10Absorb them well O my earth, she cried, I charge you lose not my sons, lose not an atom,
  5. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  6. p. 419, line 8"It is the central urge in every atom,

atomies 1

  1. p. 399, line 6I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

atonement 1

  1. p. 291, line 20Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,

atop 2

  1. p. 35, line 24I am there, I help, I came stretch'd atop of the load,
  2. p. 218, line 17What deepening twilight—scum floating atop of the waters,

attached 1

  1. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,

attaching 3

  1. p. 124, line 24Here rises the fluid and attaching character,
  2. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  3. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,

attachment 2

  1. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  2. p. 191, line 7There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)

attacking 1

  1. p. 60, line 26Again the attacking cannon, mortars,

attacks 3

  1. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  2. p. 247, line 6You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.
  3. p. 264, line 19From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.

attain'd 3 today: attained

  1. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  2. p. 322, line 13Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd,
  3. p. 435, line 30[…] majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often […]

attained see attain'd

attainments 1

  1. p. 125, line 2From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments,

attempt 10

  1. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
  2. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
  3. p. 427, line 17[…] unwittingly taken up that challenge and made an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to […]
  4. p. 428, line 25[…] for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it […]
  5. p. 429, line 11[…] I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background […]
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  1. p. 432, line 26[…] bad. Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth […]
  2. p. 437, line 4[…] youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to […]
  3. p. 437, line 40As the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as […]
  4. p. 438, line 10[…] my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human […]
  5. p. 438, line 17[…] upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or […]

attempted 3

  1. p. 62, line 1Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
  2. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  3. p. 428, line 13[…] facts of the United States—the war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never […]

attempts 1

  1. p. 233, line 13They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment,

attend 1

  1. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,

attendant 2

  1. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
  2. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.

attendants 1

  1. p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,

attention 1

  1. p. 437, line 23[…] and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it, or the need of it—is the beginning […]

attentive 1

  1. p. 302, line 7The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets,

attest 1

  1. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,

attesting 1

  1. p. 46, line 27I am he attesting sympathy,

attired 2

  1. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
  2. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!

attitude 5

  1. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.
  2. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.
  3. p. 427, line 30[…] compared with establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by […]
  4. p. 427, line 33[…] by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself […]
  5. p. 436, line 21[…] in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact […]

attitudes 5

  1. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  2. p. 87, line 17All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one's body, male or female,
  3. p. 135, line 8He puts things in their attitudes,
  4. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  5. p. 150, line 8The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curv'd limbs,

attract 2

  1. p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
  2. p. 147, line 28O to attract by more than attraction!

attracting 2

  1. p. 79, line 26O for any and each the body correlative attracting!
  2. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,

attraction 4

  1. p. 83, line 20It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
  2. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  3. p. 147, line 28O to attract by more than attraction!
  4. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?

attractions 1

  1. p. 146, line 3What attractions are these beyond any before? what bloom more than the bloom of youth?

attracts 1

  1. p. 83, line 20It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,

attribute 2

  1. p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  2. p. 374, line 25Illustrious the attribute of speech, the senses, the body,

attributes 4

  1. p. 135, line 2The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,)
  2. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  3. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
  4. p. 399, line 15Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes—all that takes cognizance of natural beauty,

a-turning 1

  1. p. 158, line 23I mark her step divine, her curious eyes a-turning, rolling,

atwixt 1

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,

au 1

  1. p. 120, line 16Salut au monde!

auction 2

  1. p. 85, line 14A man's body at auction,
  2. p. 86, line 10A woman's body at auction,

auctioneer 1

  1. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.

auction-stand 1

  1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,

audacious 1

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,

audacity 3

  1. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,
  2. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,
  3. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)

audible 2

  1. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  2. p. 179, line 15I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words,

audience 5

  1. p. 19, line 22For me an audience interminable.
  2. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  3. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  4. p. 309, line 14Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,
  5. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

auger 2

  1. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.

aught 9

  1. p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
  2. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  3. p. 164, line 29Nor aught, nor any day secure.
  4. p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
  5. p. 213, line 23Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know,
  6. p. 282, line 15Or aught that ripens in all these States or North or South,
  7. p. 304, line 5But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,
  8. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,

august 7

  1. p. 45, line 2I know I am august,
  2. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
  3. p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
  4. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,
  5. p. 270, line 25The place is august, the terms obdurate.
  6. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
  7. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)

auk 1

  1. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,

aureola 2

  1. p. 268, line 7I mark the new aureola around your head,
  2. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,

auroral 1

  1. p. 308, line 4O fair auroral skies—O morning dew upon the grass!

Auroras 1

  1. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)

Aurungzebe 1

  1. p. 319, line 31The wars of Tamerlane, the reign of Aurungzebe,

austere 1

  1. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,

Austral 1

  1. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!

Australia 3

  1. p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
  2. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
  3. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,

Australians 1

  1. p. 113, line 4I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse,

Austrian 1

  1. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!

author 5

  1. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
  2. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  3. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;
  4. p. 412, line 18(Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,)
  5. p. 425, line 33[…] public criticism on the book and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than […]

authoritative 1

  1. p. 431, line 32[…] never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types of song they belong in America just about as […]

authorities 2

  1. p. 305, line 13Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges,
  2. p. 305, line 14They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,

authority 3

  1. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  2. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,

authors 3

  1. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
  2. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  3. p. 427, line 7[…] midst of all, it gives one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all […]

autochthonic 1

  1. p. 434, line 4[…] sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]

autochthonous 1

  1. p. 438, line 25[…] of the Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define […]

automatic 1

  1. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)

autumn 15

  1. p. 77, line 14Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  2. p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
  3. p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
  4. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  5. p. 103, line 10In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,
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  1. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  2. p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
  3. p. 205, line 28Watching the east, the autumn sky.
  4. p. 236, line 20Lo, 'tis autumn,
  5. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
  6. p. 277, line 2Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing,
  7. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  8. p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
  9. p. 395, line 26A wafted autumn leaf, dropt in the closing grave, the shovel'd earth,
  10. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,

autumnal 1

  1. p. 244, line 10Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,

autumn's 1

  1. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,

avail 5

  1. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
  2. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  3. p. 177, line 4I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you?
  4. p. 177, line 5To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I?
  5. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?

avails 5

  1. p. 130, line 7It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
  2. p. 131, line 15Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not,

avataras 1

  1. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,

avatars 1

  1. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,

avenues 2

  1. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  2. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

average 17

  1. p. 23, line 23O such themes—equalities! O divine average!
  2. p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  3. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  4. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  5. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
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  1. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  2. p. 193, line 5(For the sake of him I typify, for the common average man's sake, your sake if you are he,)
  3. p. 255, line 3The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely,
  4. p. 300, line 10It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
  5. p. 300, line 13All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.
  6. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
  7. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  8. p. 374, line 16Inflating my throat, you divine average,
  9. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  10. p. 427, line 25[…] romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth […]
  11. p. 432, line 13[…] of realities and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre […]
  12. p. 437, line 26[…] the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common […]

averaged 1

  1. p. 330, line 26I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,

averages 1

  1. p. 436, line 1[…] than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show that we, here and […]

averment 1

  1. p. 432, line 9[…] for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions […]

averts 1

  1. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,

avoid 1

  1. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?

avoidances 1

  1. p. 407, line 9[…] commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my […]

avoided 1

  1. p. 285, line 10Unclaim'd, avoided house—take one breath from my tremulous lips,

avoiding 2

  1. p. 198, line 17Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
  2. p. 256, line 7The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,

avoids 1

  1. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.

avow'd 1 today: avowed

  1. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)

avowed see avow'd

avowedly 2

  1. p. 435, line 15[…] Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit […]
  2. p. 436, line 13[…] another point of view "Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though […]

avows 2

  1. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  2. p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.

await 2

  1. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  2. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,

awaiting 1

  1. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,

awaits 3

  1. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.
  2. p. 246, line 20And the double grave awaits them.)
  3. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)

awake 9

  1. p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
  2. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  3. p. 89, line 5They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
  4. p. 200, line 31Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,
  5. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
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  1. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  2. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  3. p. 332, line 10They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night, and awake.
  4. p. 355, line 5These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

awaked 1

  1. p. 201, line 29My own songs awaked from that hour,

awaken'd 1 today: awakened

  1. p. 320, line 6The world of 1492, with its awaken'd enterprise,

awakened see awaken'd

awakening 1

  1. p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!

awakes 3

  1. p. 77, line 27To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  2. p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  3. p. 286, line 12The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree,

awaking 1

  1. p. 313, line 5Awaking from her woes at last retriev'd Amina sings,

aware 10

  1. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  2. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  3. p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  4. p. 45, line 8And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  5. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
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  1. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
  2. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  3. p. 361, line 20Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,
  4. p. 432, line 1[…] stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit […]

away 85

  1. p. 19, line 15The ancestor-continents away group'd together,
  2. p. 24, line 7But subtle, clandestine, away beyond,
  3. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
  4. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  5. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
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  1. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  2. p. 52, line 22Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
  3. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  4. p. 58, line 27My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
  5. p. 60, line 16They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
  6. p. 62, line 1Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
  7. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
  8. p. 64, line 14My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.
  9. p. 71, line 4What is known I strip away,
  10. p. 95, line 24Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
  11. p. 96, line 27Spring away from the conceal'd heart there!
  12. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  13. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  14. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
  15. p. 106, line 22Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or Japan, talking other dialects,
  16. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
  17. p. 120, line 6I do not say one word against you, away back there where you stand,
  18. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  19. p. 127, line 16All parts away for the progress of souls,
  20. p. 129, line 19The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away,
  21. p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
  22. p. 144, line 21Something far away from a puny and pious life!
  23. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  24. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
  25. p. 152, line 7Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
  26. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.
  27. p. 154, line 28I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe,
  28. p. 162, line 3Away with themes of war! away with war itself!
  29. p. 162, line 10Away with old romance!
  30. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
  31. p. 162, line 12Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,
  32. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  33. p. 188, line 12Was not so sick from the blood in the gutters running, nor from the single corpses, nor those in heaps, nor those borne away in the tumbrils,
  34. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  35. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  36. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  37. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  38. p. 212, line 25Is the house shut? is the master away?
  39. p. 213, line 6Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,
  40. p. 216, line 23And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
  41. p. 221, line 1War! an arm'd race is advancing! the welcome for battle, no turning away;
  42. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,
  43. p. 236, line 15Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that are far away;
  44. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
  45. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  46. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  47. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  48. p. 272, line 7Rhymes and rhymers pass away, poems distill'd from poems pass away,
  49. p. 277, line 10Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas,
  50. p. 280, line 28Melt, melt away ye armies—disperse ye blue-clad soldiers,
  51. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  52. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
  53. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  54. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  55. p. 307, line 23What yearning expression! how uneasy they are when he moves away from them;
  56. p. 322, line 35Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
  57. p. 327, line 14I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away.
  58. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  59. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  60. p. 329, line 22O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  61. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  62. p. 334, line 18He is decently put away—is there any thing more?
  63. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
  64. p. 351, line 6They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
  65. p. 358, line 4Thou takest away all cheering light, all hope,
  66. p. 360, line 1O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again,
  67. p. 367, line 24Where through the carnage I moved with a callous composure, or away from the fallen,
  68. p. 369, line 23Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
  69. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
  70. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  71. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
  72. p. 400, line 17Away with your life of peace!—your joys of peace!
  73. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  74. p. 407, line 17[…] I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d year—hours of forced confinement […]
  75. p. 408, line 2[…] nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything […]
  76. p. 422, line 3I'm going away, I know not where,
  77. p. 425, line 7[…] of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the […]

awe 1

  1. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.

awed 1

  1. p. 14, line 28The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,

awful 1

  1. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)

awhile 10

  1. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  2. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  3. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
  4. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  5. p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.
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  1. p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
  2. p. 370, line 4I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,
  3. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
  4. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  5. p. 411, line 10So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,

awkward 1

  1. p. 249, line 22Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,

awkwardness 1

  1. p. 36, line 21And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,

awl 1

  1. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,

axe 14

  1. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  2. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  3. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  4. p. 149, line 11Lands of iron—lands of the make of the axe.
  5. p. 149, line 12The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it,
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  1. p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;
  2. p. 150, line 10The hook'd arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,
  3. p. 151, line 7The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,
  4. p. 151, line 14The antique European warrior with his axe in combat,
  5. p. 154, line 18And leans on a ponderous axe.
  6. p. 154, line 28I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe,
  7. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  8. p. 155, line 7The axe leaps!
  9. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,

axemen 1

  1. p. 164, line 2Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen,

axes 8

  1. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
  2. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
  3. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  4. p. 164, line 3Wielding all day their axes.
  5. p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
  6. p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
  7. p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,
  8. p. 183, line 7Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?

axis 2

  1. p. 11, line 27As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
  2. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,

axis-ends 1

  1. p. 112, line 23Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends,

ay 1

  1. p. 15, line 12(Ay through the world, urged by these songs,

aye 10

  1. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  2. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  3. p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
  4. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  5. p. 232, line 15Aye, this is the ground,
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  1. p. 254, line 5Here marching, ever marching on, a war fight out—aye here,
  2. p. 367, line 11Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,
  3. p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
  4. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,