Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “air”

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  1. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  2. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  3. p. 29, line 11My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
  4. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  5. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
  6. p. 42, line 23Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
  7. p. 43, line 6This the common air that bathes the globe.
  8. p. 48, line 23Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
  9. p. 49, line 31The air tastes good to my palate.
  10. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  11. p. 61, line 5The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
  12. p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  13. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  14. p. 78, line 22I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  15. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  16. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  17. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  18. p. 98, line 4Or back of a rock in the open air,
  19. p. 100, line 19Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,
  20. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  21. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  22. p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
  23. p. 104, line 17Any more than my soul is borne through the open air,
  24. p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
  25. p. 108, line 23But a few carols vibrating through the air I leave,
  26. p. 121, line 22You air that serves me with breath to speak!
  27. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  28. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  29. p. 124, line 22I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
  30. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  31. p. 133, line 20Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
  32. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  33. 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;
  34. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  35. 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;
  36. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  37. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  38. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  39. p. 166, line 6In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country,
  40. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,
  41. p. 169, line 7In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air.
  42. p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
  43. 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?
  44. p. 176, line 4They are in the air, they are in you.
  45. p. 176, line 10Air, soil, water, fire—those are words,
  46. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  47. p. 182, line 3High in the purer, happier air.
  48. p. 190, line 18I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
  49. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  50. p. 200, line 10In the air, in the woods, over fields,
  51. p. 205, line 5The limpid spread of air cerulean,
  52. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,
  53. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
  54. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  55. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  56. p. 208, line 25Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,
  57. p. 216, line 10Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
  58. p. 216, line 16A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
  59. p. 223, line 13Low on the ground and high in the air,
  60. p. 223, line 15In the upward air where their eyes turn,
  61. p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
  62. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
  63. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  64. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  65. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
  66. p. 249, line 4And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
  67. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
  68. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  69. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  70. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  71. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  72. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  73. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  74. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,
  75. p. 301, line 12Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
  76. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,
  77. p. 309, line 8THROUGH the soft evening air enwinding all,
  78. p. 312, line 17The psalm in the country church or mid the clustering trees, the open air camp-meeting,
  79. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  80. p. 321, line 17Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,
  81. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
  82. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  83. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  84. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.
  85. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  86. p. 356, line 7Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.
  87. p. 356, line 23I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses;
  88. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  89. p. 375, line 9To breathe the air, how delicious!
  90. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
  91. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  92. p. 386, line 25Filling the air, the lonesome room, the long forenoon,
  93. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  94. p. 396, line 21A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air for a moment,
  95. p. 398, line 11For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life,
  96. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  97. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  98. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  99. p. 415, line 27The whispering air—even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,
  100. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!
  101. p. 418, line 28In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air,
  102. p. 419, line 15The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,