Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “after”

after 141 Back to A

  1. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  2. p. 18, line 16After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
  3. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  4. p. 21, line 3The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing,
  5. p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
  6. p. 25, line 17Indifferently before death and after death.
  7. p. 31, line 18That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  8. p. 33, line 23O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
  9. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  10. p. 42, line 23Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
  11. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  12. p. 50, line 12My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
  13. p. 60, line 18Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy,
  14. p. 61, line 3Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
  15. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  16. p. 71, line 21Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  17. p. 72, line 3They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  18. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  19. p. 74, line 5For after we start we never lie by again.
  20. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  21. p. 79, line 10Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
  22. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  23. p. 84, line 8This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman,
  24. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  25. p. 90, line 5Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
  26. p. 101, line 2Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,
  27. p. 101, line 3That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
  28. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
  29. p. 120, line 21To remain after me in sight forever,
  30. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
  31. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  32. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  33. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  34. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  35. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  36. p. 149, line 14The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,
  37. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
  38. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  39. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
  40. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  41. p. 157, line 27After all not to create only, or found only,
  42. p. 158, line 7While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
  43. p. 180, line 16Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,
  44. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  45. p. 190, line 14After me, vista!
  46. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  47. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  48. p. 209, line 6AFTER the sea-ship, after the whistling winds,
  49. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,
  50. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
  51. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  52. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  53. p. 229, line 2Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,
  54. p. 229, line 20How the true thunder bellows after the lightning—how bright the flashes of lightning!
  55. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
  56. p. 237, line 1Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
  57. p. 239, line 4Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,
  58. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  59. p. 242, line 20Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in,
  60. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  61. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  62. p. 252, line 22Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all,
  63. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  64. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
  65. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  66. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  67. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  68. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,
  69. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  70. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
  71. p. 294, line 11Thou, soul, unloosen'd—the restlessness after I know not what;
  72. p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
  73. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  74. p. 297, line 10After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
  75. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
  76. p. 297, line 12After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,
  77. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  78. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  79. p. 303, line 9WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
  80. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  81. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!
  82. p. 315, line 30For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  83. p. 317, line 14Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,
  84. p. 317, line 19Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,
  85. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  86. p. 318, line 26After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,)
  87. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  88. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,
  89. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  90. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  91. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  92. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  93. p. 334, line 9Each after his kind.
  94. p. 355, line 8In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
  95. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  96. p. 367, line 12After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color,
  97. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  98. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  99. p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,
  100. p. 377, line 3Yet certain remembrances of the war for you, and after you,
  101. p. 377, line 24When as order'd forward, after a long march,
  102. p. 380, line 11TO conclude, I announce what comes after me.
  103. p. 384, line 17[…] The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of […]
  104. p. 384, line 75[…] Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  105. p. 388, line 7After the dazzle of day is gone,
  106. p. 388, line 9After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band,
  107. p. 399, line 9(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
  108. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  109. p. 403, line 20After a week of physical anguish,
  110. p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,
  111. p. 407, line 1Last droplets of and after spontaneous rain,
  112. p. 407, line 31[…] more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions […]
  113. p. 408, line 22[…] volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City […]
  114. p. 408, line 29[…] Union ever realize what itself cost, back there after all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O […]
  115. p. 410, line 15AFTER surmounting three-score and ten,
  116. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,
  117. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors. I had more […]
  118. p. 412, line 22AFTER a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials,
  119. p. 412, line 25Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations,
  120. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches
  121. p. 418, line 4Then after burying, mourning the dead,
  122. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,
  123. p. 421, line 2After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
  124. p. 421, line 8After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,
  125. p. 425, line 12[…] book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the journey—(a varied jaunt of […]
  126. p. 425, line 16[…] a sufficient way through all discomfitures at last)—After completing my poems, I am curious to review them in […]
  127. p. 426, line 8[…] fulfill'd, the best comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever […]
  128. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to […]
  129. p. 426, line 33[…] victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining […]
  130. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd […]
  131. p. 432, line 26[…] own way for good or bad. Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic […]
  132. p. 433, line 34[…] identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself […]
  133. p. 437, line 44[…] of old convents, came across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening […]