Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
  3. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  4. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  5. p. 15, line 8TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
  6. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  7. p. 16, line 11A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
  8. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  9. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  10. p. 21, line 17(However high the head of any else that head is over all.)
  11. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  12. p. 22, line 27Any more than such are to religion.
  13. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  14. p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
  15. p. 25, line 2And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
  16. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  17. p. 25, line 12Of your real body and any man's or woman's real body,
  18. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  19. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
  20. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  21. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  22. p. 26, line 29The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,
  23. p. 30, line 20There was never any more inception than there is now,
  24. p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
  25. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  26. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  27. p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  28. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  29. p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  30. p. 34, line 10Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  31. p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
  32. p. 42, line 22I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
  33. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
  34. p. 52, line 4To be in any form, what is that?
  35. p. 53, line 13The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  36. p. 54, line 4And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
  37. p. 54, line 9But call any thing back again when I desire it.
  38. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
  39. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
  40. p. 66, line 9And any thing I have I bestow.
  41. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  42. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  43. p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
  44. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  45. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  46. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  47. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  48. p. 72, line 24And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  49. p. 73, line 9They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
  50. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  51. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  52. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  53. p. 77, line 25It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
  54. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  55. p. 79, line 26O for any and each the body correlative attracting!
  56. p. 80, line 15The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
  57. p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
  58. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  59. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  60. p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
  61. 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,
  62. p. 89, line 5They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
  63. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  64. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
  65. p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
  66. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  67. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  68. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  69. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  70. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  71. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  72. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  73. p. 100, line 29Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
  74. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  75. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  76. p. 104, line 17Any more than my soul is borne through the open air,
  77. p. 105, line 23Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
  78. p. 107, line 6Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,
  79. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  80. p. 108, line 21Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
  81. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  82. p. 112, line 1To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence,
  83. p. 119, line 21Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
  84. p. 120, line 14I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
  85. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
  86. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  87. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  88. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  89. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  90. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  91. p. 130, line 10Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
  92. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
  93. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  94. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  95. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  96. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
  97. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  98. p. 146, line 3What attractions are these beyond any before? what bloom more than the bloom of youth?
  99. p. 146, line 27To be servile to none, to defer to none, not to any tyrant known or unknown,
  100. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  101. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  102. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  103. p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
  104. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  105. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
  106. p. 164, line 28Nor ship, nor mine, nor any here this day secure,
  107. p. 164, line 29Nor aught, nor any day secure.
  108. p. 170, line 15Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
  109. p. 171, line 14Or in the census or revenue returns, prices current, or any accounts of stock.
  110. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  111. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,
  112. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  113. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  114. p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
  115. p. 180, line 1The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best,
  116. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  117. p. 187, line 22Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
  118. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  119. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  120. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  121. p. 197, line 4From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
  122. p. 199, line 7O moon do not keep her from me any longer.
  123. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  124. p. 206, line 27Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
  125. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  126. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  127. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  128. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  129. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  130. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  131. p. 227, line 20Insensate! insensate! (yet I at any rate chant you,) O banner!
  132. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  133. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  134. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  135. p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
  136. p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
  137. p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
  138. p. 265, line 3No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
  139. p. 266, line 7Any period one nation must lead,
  140. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,
  141. 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?
  142. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  143. p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
  144. p. 273, line 22It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one,
  145. p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,
  146. p. 274, line 24Not any part of America good or bad,
  147. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  148. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
  149. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  150. p. 287, line 10Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,
  151. p. 287, line 19And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)
  152. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  153. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  154. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  155. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  156. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  157. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  158. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  159. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  160. p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
  161. p. 291, line 9Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
  162. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  163. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  164. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  165. p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
  166. p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
  167. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  168. p. 304, line 19I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
  169. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  170. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  171. p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
  172. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  173. p. 334, line 18He is decently put away—is there any thing more?
  174. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  175. p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
  176. p. 339, line 5Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any,
  177. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
  178. p. 340, line 9Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any,
  179. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  180. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
  181. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  182. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  183. p. 358, line 12Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet,
  184. p. 361, line 22Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
  185. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  186. p. 362, line 10THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,
  187. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  188. p. 364, line 3(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the old, the incessant war?)
  189. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)
  190. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
  191. 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,
  192. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  193. p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
  194. p. 390, line 7Poets unnamed—artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs,
  195. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,
  196. p. 396, line 3Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
  197. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  198. p. 409, line 16But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,
  199. p. 413, line 37[…] taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown […]
  200. p. 413, line 39[…] the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file […]
  201. p. 425, line 4PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors […]
  202. p. 425, line 6[…] or sea, is the résumé of them, or any of them, long afterwards, looking at the actualities away back […]
  203. p. 426, line 11[…] so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my […]
  204. p. 426, line 18[…] philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or any results.) In the second place, the volume is a sortie […]
  205. p. 426, line 23[…] hearing, to far more than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from […]
  206. p. 426, line 26[…] be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately […]
  207. p. 427, line 2[…] a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  208. p. 427, line 9[…] faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of […]
  209. p. 428, line 25[…] here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the […]
  210. p. 428, line 29[…] made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great […]
  211. p. 428, line 33[…] remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow […]
  212. p. 429, line 10[…] a line was written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the result of such […]
  213. p. 429, line 36[…] have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century […]
  214. p. 429, line 37[…] the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph […]
  215. p. 431, line 7[…] of current character in nations, social groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or New, are from […]
  216. p. 432, line 26[…] Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year […]
  217. p. 433, line 2[…] probably to better advantage for me than in any library or indoor room—it makes such difference where you […]
  218. p. 433, line 22[…] in Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no […]
  219. p. 433, line 34[…] settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it […]
  220. p. 434, line 23[…] mine. I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into […]
  221. p. 434, line 29The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the […]
  222. p. 434, line 38[…] I say the profoundest service that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely […]
  223. p. 436, line 3[…] grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of old were. I will also want my utterances […]
  224. p. 436, line 8[…] Union of the States in my songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live and are […]
  225. p. 436, line 41[…] far as word of mine can do so, any elision of them […]
  226. p. 437, line 29Isolated advantages in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads […]
  227. p. 438, line 5[…] given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted anything but this one picture, which […]
  228. p. 438, line 13[…] and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But […]