Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 9As I ponder'd in silence,
  2. p. 9, line 14As to me directing like flame its eyes,
  3. p. 10, line 1(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,
  4. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  5. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  6. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  7. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
  8. p. 11, line 27As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
  9. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
  10. p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
  11. p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
  12. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  13. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  14. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  15. p. 15, line 24And may be just as much as the seasons.
  16. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  17. p. 16, line 8Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
  18. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  19. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  20. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  21. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  22. p. 17, line 2Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
  23. p. 17, line 3The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
  24. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
  25. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
  26. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
  27. p. 19, line 18As in a dream they change, they swiftly fill,
  28. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  29. 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.)
  30. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,
  31. p. 24, line 1As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
  32. 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.
  33. p. 25, line 2And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
  34. p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
  35. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  36. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
  37. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  38. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  39. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  40. p. 29, line 8For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  41. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  42. p. 31, line 4Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  43. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  44. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  45. p. 33, line 12Growing among black folks as among white,
  46. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  47. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  48. p. 38, line 8In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing,
  49. p. 39, line 2The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  50. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  51. p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
  52. p. 40, line 8As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle,
  53. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  54. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  55. p. 42, line 1And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
  56. p. 42, line 3I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  57. p. 42, line 5Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
  58. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  59. p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
  60. p. 43, line 4If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  61. p. 43, line 19It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appointments with all,
  62. p. 44, line 11All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  63. p. 44, line 16I wear my hat as I please indoors or out.
  64. p. 45, line 6I exist as I am, that is enough,
  65. p. 45, line 18I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
  66. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  67. p. 47, line 6Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  68. p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  69. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  70. p. 51, line 20A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  71. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  72. p. 52, line 19Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
  73. p. 53, line 13The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  74. p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
  75. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
  76. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  77. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  78. p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  79. p. 57, line 24Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
  80. p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  81. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
  82. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  83. p. 60, line 22They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.
  84. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
  85. p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  86. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  87. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  88. p. 67, line 3It is middling well as far as it goes—but is that all?
  89. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  90. p. 67, line 15Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
  91. 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,
  92. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  93. p. 69, line 24Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
  94. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  95. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  96. p. 72, line 24And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  97. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  98. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  99. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  100. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  101. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  102. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  103. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  104. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  105. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  106. p. 78, line 22I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  107. p. 80, line 30From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter'd too long as it is,)
  108. p. 81, line 10From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave,
  109. p. 81, line 21And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
  110. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  111. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  112. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  113. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  114. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  115. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  116. 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,
  117. p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
  118. p. 84, line 16As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
  119. p. 84, line 17As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
  120. p. 85, line 6Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
  121. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
  122. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  123. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  124. 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,
  125. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  126. p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,
  127. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
  128. p. 91, line 1The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
  129. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  130. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  131. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
  132. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
  133. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  134. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
  135. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  136. 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,
  137. p. 95, line 12AS Adam early in the morning,
  138. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  139. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  140. p. 96, line 25Indeed O death, I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as you mean,
  141. p. 98, line 6And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
  142. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  143. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  144. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  145. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  146. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  147. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  148. p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
  149. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  150. p. 101, line 19As base and finalè too for all metaphysics.
  151. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
  152. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  153. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  154. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,
  155. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  156. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  157. p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
  158. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
  159. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  160. 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,
  161. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  162. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  163. p. 111, line 3Then separate, as disembodied or another born,
  164. p. 111, line 15As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
  165. p. 112, line 6Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)
  166. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  167. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  168. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  169. p. 115, line 2Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles,
  170. p. 119, line 21Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
  171. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  172. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  173. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  174. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  175. p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
  176. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  177. p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
  178. p. 127, line 1Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
  179. p. 127, line 11To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
  180. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
  181. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  182. p. 128, line 5Behold through you as bad as the rest,
  183. p. 129, line 9Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
  184. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  185. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  186. p. 130, line 10Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
  187. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  188. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  189. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
  190. p. 130, line 22Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,
  191. p. 131, line 8These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
  192. p. 131, line 20In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me,
  193. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  194. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  195. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  196. p. 132, line 18The same old role, the role that is what we make it, as great as we like,
  197. p. 132, line 19Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
  198. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  199. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  200. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  201. p. 133, line 17Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!
  202. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  203. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  204. p. 139, line 9On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,
  205. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,
  206. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  207. p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
  208. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  209. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  210. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  211. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
  212. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
  213. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  214. p. 147, line 19To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
  215. p. 149, line 7Welcome just as much the other more hard-faced lands,
  216. p. 149, line 8Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands,
  217. p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,
  218. p. 151, line 29And the dead advance as much as the living advance,
  219. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  220. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  221. p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
  222. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  223. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,
  224. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  225. p. 157, line 11She knows the thoughts as she passes, nothing is conceal'd from her,
  226. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  227. p. 157, line 16She receives them as the laws of Nature receive them, she is strong,
  228. p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
  229. p. 158, line 5To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
  230. p. 160, line 19As in a waking vision,
  231. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
  232. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  233. p. 163, line 27As in procession coming.
  234. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  235. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  236. p. 165, line 7And moving masses as wild demons surging, and lives as nothing risk'd,
  237. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  238. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  239. p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
  240. p. 167, line 9As if the heirs, the deities of the West,
  241. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  242. p. 168, line 10Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling,
  243. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  244. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  245. p. 170, line 1If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
  246. p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  247. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  248. p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
  249. p. 170, line 22The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
  250. p. 170, line 23The mother, and she is every bit as much as the father.
  251. p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
  252. 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?
  253. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  254. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  255. p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
  256. p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
  257. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  258. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  259. p. 177, line 30Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,
  260. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  261. p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
  262. p. 180, line 5Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
  263. p. 181, line 11As from tall peaks the modern overlooking,
  264. p. 181, line 17(As a much-tacking ship upon the sea,)
  265. p. 183, line 27Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
  266. p. 187, line 7Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time,
  267. p. 187, line 17There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you,
  268. p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
  269. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  270. p. 187, line 24These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they,
  271. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,
  272. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  273. p. 190, line 4I give nothing as duties,
  274. p. 190, line 5What others give as duties I give as living impulses,
  275. p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
  276. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  277. p. 190, line 13I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
  278. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
  279. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  280. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  281. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  282. p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
  283. p. 192, line 15All swings around us, there is as much darkness as light,
  284. p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
  285. p. 194, line 18As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing before us.
  286. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  287. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
  288. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  289. p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
  290. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  291. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  292. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
  293. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
  294. p. 197, line 5From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
  295. p. 197, line 6As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
  296. p. 201, line 22But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
  297. p. 202, line 1AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life,
  298. p. 202, line 2As I wended the shores I know,
  299. p. 202, line 3As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
  300. p. 202, line 14Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
  301. p. 202, line 16As I wended the shores I know,
  302. p. 202, line 17As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types.
  303. p. 202, line 18As I wend to the shores I know not,
  304. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  305. p. 202, line 20As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
  306. p. 202, line 21As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
  307. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  308. p. 203, line 18Touch me with your lips as I touch those I love,
  309. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  310. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  311. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
  312. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  313. p. 204, line 9Just as much whence we come that blare of the cloud-trumpets,
  314. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  315. p. 204, line 31As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee,
  316. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  317. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,
  318. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  319. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  320. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  321. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
  322. p. 208, line 10Indomitable, untamed as thee.
  323. p. 208, line 14Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship-signals!
  324. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  325. p. 212, line 16Cold and motionless as they seem live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  326. p. 214, line 4Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
  327. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  328. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  329. p. 214, line 22As souls only understand souls.
  330. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  331. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  332. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  333. p. 217, line 3As contending against some being or influence.
  334. p. 217, line 6He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
  335. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  336. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  337. p. 217, line 19As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
  338. p. 218, line 3As a ship on the waters advancing,
  339. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  340. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  341. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
  342. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
  343. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  344. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  345. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  346. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  347. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  348. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  349. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  350. p. 221, line 19Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,
  351. p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
  352. p. 223, line 24(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
  353. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,
  354. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  355. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  356. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
  357. p. 229, line 2Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,
  358. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  359. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  360. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  361. p. 231, line 9Behold me—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!
  362. p. 232, line 3As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,
  363. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,
  364. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  365. p. 232, line 16My blind eyes even as I speak behold it re-peopled from graves,
  366. p. 232, line 22As I talk I remember all, I remember the Declaration,
  367. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  368. p. 234, line 18As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
  369. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
  370. p. 234, line 25As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
  371. p. 234, line 27I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.
  372. p. 234, line 28See—as the annual round returns the phantoms return,
  373. p. 236, line 7As the army corps advances.
  374. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)
  375. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  376. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  377. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  378. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  379. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  380. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  381. p. 239, line 12I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,)
  382. p. 239, line 20These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,
  383. p. 240, line 2As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
  384. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  385. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
  386. p. 240, line 16AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,
  387. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  388. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  389. p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
  390. p. 246, line 12As with voices and with tears.
  391. p. 247, line 24(Old as he was, his gray eyes yet shone out in battle like stars,)
  392. p. 248, line 6There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me;
  393. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  394. p. 249, line 10As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)
  395. p. 249, line 12A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,
  396. p. 250, line 20WORD over all, beautiful as the sky,
  397. p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,
  398. p. 251, line 4HOW solemn as one by one,
  399. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  400. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,
  401. p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  402. p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
  403. p. 251, line 15AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado,
  404. p. 252, line 13(I have been born of the same as the war was born,
  405. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  406. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  407. p. 253, line 8As your ranks, your immortal ranks, return, return from the battles,
  408. p. 253, line 9As the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders,
  409. p. 253, line 10As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders,
  410. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  411. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  412. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  413. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  414. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  415. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
  416. p. 257, line 15As I walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night,
  417. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  418. p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
  419. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  420. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  421. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  422. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
  423. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
  424. p. 259, line 25Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,
  425. p. 260, line 1And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,
  426. p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
  427. p. 261, line 16As to long panoramas of visions.
  428. p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,
  429. p. 261, line 26But I saw they were not as was thought,
  430. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  431. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
  432. p. 262, line 6As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
  433. p. 263, line 24As they invault the coffin there,
  434. p. 263, line 25Sing—as they close the doors of earth upon him—one verse,
  435. p. 264, line 2As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more,
  436. p. 264, line 14We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded,
  437. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  438. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,
  439. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  440. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  441. p. 269, line 5Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
  442. p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
  443. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  444. p. 269, line 21As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
  445. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  446. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  447. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
  448. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  449. p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
  450. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  451. p. 275, line 21Copious as you are I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself,
  452. p. 276, line 18Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!
  453. p. 277, line 1AS consequent from store of summer rains,
  454. p. 278, line 28Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment,
  455. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  456. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  457. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)
  458. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  459. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  460. p. 281, line 24The Mother of All, yet here as ever she watches you.
  461. p. 281, line 28Beholdest moving in every direction imbued as with life the revolving hay-rakes,
  462. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  463. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
  464. p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
  465. p. 284, line 26As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor,
  466. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  467. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  468. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  469. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  470. p. 290, line 4The indirect is just as much as the direct,
  471. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  472. p. 290, line 8But has results beyond death as really as before death.
  473. 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,
  474. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)
  475. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  476. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  477. p. 294, line 28With drooping lids, as waiting, ponder'd,
  478. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)
  479. p. 296, line 1Tallying the gifts of earth, large as the earth,
  480. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  481. p. 297, line 1As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
  482. p. 297, line 7Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
  483. p. 297, line 16They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.
  484. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  485. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  486. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  487. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  488. p. 299, line 21BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
  489. 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,
  490. p. 301, line 2As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
  491. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,
  492. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  493. p. 305, line 4Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
  494. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  495. p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  496. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  497. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  498. p. 306, line 27Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself,
  499. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  500. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?
  501. p. 309, line 13Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
  502. p. 309, line 15Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
  503. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  504. p. 310, line 19You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses,
  505. p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
  506. p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
  507. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  508. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.
  509. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  510. p. 313, line 23I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies,
  511. p. 313, line 27As they fall on their knees and rise again.
  512. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
  513. p. 316, line 1(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
  514. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
  515. p. 316, line 15You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!
  516. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  517. p. 318, line 26After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,)
  518. p. 319, line 1All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd,
  519. p. 319, line 17As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.
  520. p. 320, line 14As the chief histrion,
  521. p. 321, line 16Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
  522. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  523. p. 322, line 19Disportest thou on waters such as those?
  524. p. 324, line 2Accepting all from Thee, as duly come from Thee.
  525. p. 325, line 8As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal'd my eyes,
  526. p. 327, line 5I roll myself upon you as upon a bed, I resign myself to the dusk.
  527. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  528. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  529. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  530. p. 331, line 18The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
  531. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  532. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  533. p. 333, line 7If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  534. p. 333, line 22It is palpable as the living are palpable.
  535. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  536. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  537. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  538. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  539. p. 337, line 17What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
  540. p. 339, line 5Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any,
  541. p. 339, line 7As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws,
  542. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  543. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  544. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
  545. p. 340, line 9Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any,
  546. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,
  547. p. 341, line 21AS if a phantom caress'd me,
  548. p. 341, line 23But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me,
  549. p. 341, line 24As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear'd,
  550. 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,
  551. p. 344, line 3O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;
  552. p. 344, line 18You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
  553. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  554. p. 345, line 11Or the lives of the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
  555. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
  556. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
  557. p. 346, line 11AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,
  558. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  559. p. 347, line 10As a strong bird on pinions free,
  560. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  561. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  562. p. 348, line 21Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant;
  563. p. 349, line 13I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
  564. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  565. p. 349, line 17I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
  566. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  567. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  568. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  569. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  570. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  571. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  572. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  573. p. 353, line 10The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,
  574. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.
  575. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  576. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  577. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  578. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  579. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  580. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  581. p. 361, line 22Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
  582. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,
  583. p. 362, line 28As some dissolving delicate film of dreams,
  584. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,
  585. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
  586. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  587. p. 365, line 22(A glimpse as of thy Mother's face Columbia,
  588. p. 365, line 23A flash significant as of a sword,
  589. p. 366, line 5Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time.
  590. p. 367, line 1As sitting in dark days,
  591. p. 369, line 1AS I walk these broad majestic days of peace,
  592. p. 369, line 16They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
  593. p. 369, line 18What else is so real as mine?
  594. p. 370, line 1AS the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,
  595. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  596. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  597. p. 371, line 17As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
  598. p. 371, line 20Noiseless as mists and vapors,
  599. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  600. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  601. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  602. p. 375, line 26I too carol the sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting,
  603. p. 375, line 29As I steam'd down the Mississippi,
  604. p. 375, line 30As I wander'd over the prairies,
  605. p. 375, line 31As I have lived, as I have look'd through my windows my eyes,
  606. p. 375, line 32As I went forth in the morning, as I beheld the light breaking in the east,
  607. p. 376, line 1As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,
  608. p. 376, line 2As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago, whatever streets I have roam'd,
  609. p. 376, line 13AS at thy portals also death,
  610. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)
  611. p. 377, line 9As she call'd to her earth with mournful voice while she stalk'd,
  612. p. 377, line 24When as order'd forward, after a long march,
  613. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  614. p. 379, line 1AS they draw to a close,
  615. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  616. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  617. p. 381, line 19At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
  618. p. 382, line 25I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.
  619. p. 384, line 9[…] Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My […]
  620. p. 384, line 69[…] Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs […]
  621. p. 385, line 9I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
  622. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
  623. p. 386, line 26Is it not just as great, O soul?
  624. p. 387, line 5Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
  625. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  626. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  627. p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
  628. p. 388, line 20But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
  629. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
  630. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  631. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  632. p. 389, line 23Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?
  633. p. 390, line 5As of speakers far or hid.
  634. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  635. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  636. p. 392, line 24As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,
  637. p. 393, line 8As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
  638. p. 393, line 15Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,
  639. p. 394, line 3E'en the profoundest chill, as now—a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd,
  640. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,
  641. p. 395, line 14As down the stage again,
  642. p. 395, line 24(As perfume's, color's, sunlight's correlation:)
  643. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  644. p. 397, line 8"All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere."
  645. p. 398, line 3As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,
  646. p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
  647. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  648. p. 399, line 14From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
  649. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  650. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
  651. p. 404, line 10As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
  652. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,
  653. p. 407, line 4[…] such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I […]
  654. p. 407, line 9[…] for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full […]
  655. p. 407, line 15[…] preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that, as here collated, it is worth printing (certainly I have nothing […]
  656. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
  657. p. 407, line 28[…] lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to […]
  658. p. 408, line 9[…] passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel to-day almost a part of some […]
  659. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,
  660. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,
  661. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,
  662. p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;
  663. p. 411, line 9Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever:
  664. p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
  665. p. 412, line 20As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent,
  666. p. 413, line 34[…] history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its […]
  667. p. 413, line 36[…] rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If […]
  668. p. 415, line 8As some vast wondrous weird dream-presences,
  669. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  670. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  671. p. 416, line 3Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and sea's—the unreturn'd,
  672. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  673. p. 418, line 10E'en as I chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime,
  674. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
  675. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,
  676. p. 420, line 28Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face.
  677. p. 425, line 12[…] backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with […]
  678. p. 425, line 24[…] stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on memory,) I […]
  679. p. 425, line 26[…] to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations of the […]
  680. p. 425, line 33[…] that public criticism on the book and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more […]
  681. p. 426, line 7[…] nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of the whole […]
  682. p. 426, line 16[…] consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself […]
  683. p. 426, line 27[…] certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions […]
  684. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition […]
  685. p. 427, line 5[…] with the United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or […]
  686. p. 427, line 16[…] to the songs and myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly […]
  687. p. 427, line 20For grounds for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not […]
  688. p. 427, line 23[…] or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's sake—no legend, or myth […]
  689. p. 427, line 36[…] view of verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an article on Wordsworth, in […]
  690. p. 428, line 38[…] themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in the Bible, religious rapture and […]
  691. p. 429, line 1[…] plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it may sound at first, I will say there is […]
  692. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on […]
  693. p. 429, line 10[…] written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the result of such presupposition. I should […]
  694. p. 429, line 23[…] stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude […]
  695. p. 429, line 29[…] be call'd the negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often […]
  696. p. 430, line 1[…] or could do. But it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all […]
  697. p. 430, line 4[…] their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the time […]
  698. p. 430, line 33[…] effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far […]
  699. p. 431, line 3[…] from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of […]
  700. p. 431, line 16[…] these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be? Is there one whose […]
  701. p. 431, line 32[…] and never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types of song they belong in America just about […]
  702. p. 431, line 33[…] of song they belong in America just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be […]
  703. p. 431, line 38[…] date; and that they are of incalculable value as pictures of the past. I willingly make those admissions, and […]
  704. p. 431, line 40[…] their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]
  705. p. 431, line 43[…] those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be […]
  706. p. 432, line 3[…] written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through the temper […]
  707. p. 432, line 5[…] the temper and inculcation of the old works as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As […]
  708. p. 432, line 6[…] anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and […]
  709. p. 433, line 7[…] one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter mostly in an old […]
  710. p. 433, line 13[…] those mighty masters. Likely because I read them, as described, in the full presence of Nature, under the sun […]
  711. p. 433, line 23[…] our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem. The same thought had been haunting my […]
  712. p. 433, line 45[…] the Secession War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded […]
  713. p. 434, line 2[…] my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only from the strong […]
  714. p. 434, line 19[…] myself put primarily for the description of them as they stand at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round […]
  715. p. 434, line 22[…] have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek less to state or […]
  716. p. 434, line 26[…] pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd […]
  717. p. 434, line 42[…] clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to […]
  718. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on […]
  719. p. 435, line 6[…] the distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of […]
  720. p. 435, line 8[…] of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the […]
  721. p. 435, line 13[…] in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other […]
  722. p. 435, line 26[…] myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular education, a certain […]
  723. p. 435, line 27[…] popular education, a certain liability accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in […]
  724. p. 436, line 6[…] them to be the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete […]
  725. p. 436, line 7[…] be the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete Union of […]
  726. p. 436, line 9[…] live and are read, it must be just as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific […]
  727. p. 436, line 10[…] read, it must be just as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the valley of the Mississippi, in Canada, up […]
  728. p. 436, line 19[…] scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. Difficult […]
  729. p. 436, line 20[…] been left unwritten were those lines omitted. Difficult as it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative […]
  730. p. 436, line 23[…] women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme […]
  731. p. 436, line 29[…] the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]
  732. p. 436, line 30[…] as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]
  733. p. 436, line 31Universal as are certain facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all […]
  734. p. 436, line 33[…] nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in the doctor […]
  735. p. 436, line 40[…] renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine can do so, any elision of them […]
  736. p. 437, line 7[…] foundation of moral America. I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a […]
  737. p. 437, line 15[…] and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism, through […]
  738. p. 437, line 21[…] genesis-motive of the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth of the United States is […]
  739. p. 437, line 40As the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement […]
  740. p. 437, line 41[…] personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book […]
  741. p. 438, line 2[…] to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do […]
  742. p. 438, line 14[…] it is not on "Leaves of Grass " distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell […]
  743. p. 438, line 17[…] at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]
  744. p. 438, line 21[…] differing from all others, and rigidly their own, as the land and people and circumstances of our United States […]
  745. p. 438, line 23[…] poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the […]
  746. p. 438, line 1As idly drifting down the ebb,