Concordance

b 1

1. p. 433, line 18[…] perpetual chimes of music bells, ringing from lower b flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps […]

babble 2

1. p. 213, line 9Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
2. p. 366, line 7(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)

babbles 1

1. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,

babe 12

1. p. 33, line 9Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
2. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
3. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,
4. 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,
5. p. 217, line 10I SEE the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother,

Babel-din 1

1. p. 182, line 8To the mad Babel-din, the deafening orgies,

Bab-el-mandeb 1

1. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!

babes 11

1. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
2. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
3. 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,
4. p. 89, line 16The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
5. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,

baby 1

1. p. 417, line 16A suffering woman saved—a baby safely born!)

baby-days 1

1. p. 126, line 23Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days,

Babylon 1

1. p. 161, line 18Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon,

bacchanals 1

1. p. 358, line 22Riotous laughing bacchanals fill'd with joy!

Bacchus 1

1. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,

back 89

1. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
2. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
3. p. 29, line 16Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
4. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)
5. p. 46, line 16I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,

backbone 3

1. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
2. p. 87, line 12Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,

backer 1

1. 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,

background 2

1. p. 348, line 5By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
2. p. 429, line 13[…] the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and quality in the mind. Think of the United States […]

back-hands 1

1. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.

backing 1

1. p. 58, line 18Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,

backs 7

1. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
2. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
3. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
4. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
5. p. 250, line 18On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
6. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
7. p. 367, line 17Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,

back-top 1

1. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,

backward 8

1. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
2. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
3. p. 38, line 8In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing,
4. p. 82, line 8The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,
5. p. 241, line 16Years looking backward resuming in answer to children,
6. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
7. p. 387, line 22How sweet the silent backward tracings!
8. p. 425, line 11[…] of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were […]

backwoods 1

1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,

bad 15

1. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
2. p. 44, line 21And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
3. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
4. p. 81, line 21And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
5. p. 128, line 5Behold through you as bad as the rest,

Badger 1

1. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;

bad-looking 1

1. p. 334, line 19He was a good fellow, free-mouth'd, quick-temper'd, not bad-looking,

badly 1

1. p. 411, line 37[…] the effect of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk […]

Baffin's 1

1. p. 114, line 25Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay,

baffled 17

1. p. 111, line 10Some are baffled, but that one is not—that one knows me.
2. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
3. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
4. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
5. p. 202, line 25O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth,

bafflers 1

1. p. 66, line 25Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.

baffling 1

1. p. 47, line 17That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

bag 1

1. p. 401, line 9I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,

baggage 1

1. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,

bagg'd 1 today: bagged

1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,

Bajadore 1

1. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,

baked 1

1. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,

bakers 1

1. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,

balance 11

1. p. 47, line 5I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
2. p. 50, line 21I underlying causes to balance them at last,
3. p. 84, line 13She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
4. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
5. p. 137, line 23They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,

balanced 1

1. p. 72, line 13O manhood, balanced, florid and full.

balancing 1

1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;

balcony 1

1. p. 155, line 14Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch,

bale 1

1. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.

baled 1

1. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,

baleful 1

1. p. 250, line 8Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,

bales 1

1. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;

balk 6

1. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
2. p. 178, line 16No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,
3. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
4. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
5. p. 247, line 7No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,

balk'd 3 today: balked

1. p. 202, line 25O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth,
2. p. 324, line 30The voyage balk'd, the course disputed, lost,
3. p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)

balks 5

1. p. 47, line 14A word of the faith that never balks,
2. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
3. p. 81, line 26The expression of the face balks account,
4. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,

ball 1

1. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,

ballads 5

1. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,
2. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,
3. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,
4. p. 431, line 1[…] with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or displace those […]
5. p. 435, line 31[…] upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern […]

ballasts 1

1. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,

balloon 1

1. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)

ballot-shower 1

1. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,

ball-room 2

1. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
2. p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?

balls 3

1. p. 48, line 23Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
2. p. 191, line 13(A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads,
3. p. 270, line 18The cannons ope their rosy-flashing muzzles—the hurtled balls scream,

balm 1

1. p. 292, line 20Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.

balmier 1

1. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,

balsamic 1

1. p. 72, line 20Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,

Baltic 2

1. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,
2. p. 154, line 10Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,

Baltimore 2

1. p. 141, line 4The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,
2. p. 225, line 20I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,

band 5

1. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
2. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
3. p. 314, line 6A band of bayaderes.
4. p. 388, line 9After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band,
5. p. 426, line 8[…] comfort of the whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man […]

bandage 3

1. p. 68, line 18Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death.
2. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
3. p. 279, line 26O my land's maim'd darlings, with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutch,

bandaged 1

1. p. 210, line 4Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless.

bandages 2

1. p. 220, line 26The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines,
2. p. 242, line 18Bearing the bandages, water and sponge,

banding 1

1. p. 112, line 22Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,

band-neck'd 1

1. p. 57, line 14Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out,

bands 2

1. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,
2. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,

bang'd 1 today: banged

1. p. 328, line 8He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out,

banish'd 1 today: banished

1. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,

banjo 2

1. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
2. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;

bank 5

1. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
2. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
3. p. 37, line 4She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
4. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
5. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,

banks 9

1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
2. p. 140, line 4On rivers boatmen safely moor'd at nightfall in their boats under shelter of high banks,
3. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;
4. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,
5. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,

banner 16

1. p. 160, line 27Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
2. p. 223, line 16Where the banner at daybreak is flapping.
3. p. 223, line 20With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
4. p. 223, line 28With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
5. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,

banners 5

1. p. 160, line 28The banners of the States and flags of every land,
2. p. 223, line 12By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
3. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
4. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
5. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,

banner-staves 1

1. p. 402, line 4You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time,

banquets 1

1. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,

baptism 1

1. p. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,

baptized 2

1. p. 40, line 21The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,
2. p. 235, line 5Baptized that day in many a young man's bloody wounds,

bar 1

1. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

barbarians 2

1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
2. p. 336, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,

barbaric 2

1. p. 78, line 18I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
2. p. 309, line 21Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,

barbarisms 2

1. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
2. p. 207, line 18All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,

barb'd 2 today: barbed

barb'd 1 · barbed 1

1. p. 265, line 10I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,
2. p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,

Barcelona 1

1. p. 117, line 16I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

bard 10

1. p. 13, line 33The prophet and the bard,
2. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
3. p. 200, line 27To the outsetting bard.
4. p. 223, line 29Come up here, bard, bard,
5. p. 225, line 5Speak to the child O bard out of Manhattan,

bards 20

1. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
2. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
3. p. 152, line 18Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
4. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
5. p. 266, line 15Land of lands and bards to corroborate!

bare 13

1. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
2. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
3. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
4. p. 52, line 20Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
5. p. 198, line 20I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,

bare-bosom'd 1

1. p. 46, line 1Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!

bared 3

1. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
2. p. 238, line 8Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind,
3. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,

barefoot 3

1. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
2. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
3. p. 330, line 11They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,

bare-headed 2

1. p. 193, line 10Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,
2. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,

barely 1

1. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;

bare-stript 1

1. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,

bargain 1

1. p. 283, line 17The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,

bargainers 2

1. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
2. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?

bargaining 1

1. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!

bargains 2

1. p. 211, line 11You are mighty cute—and here is one of your bargains.
2. p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?

barges 3

1. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
2. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,
3. p. 174, line 17Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees,

baring 1

1. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,

baritone 2

1. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
2. p. 312, line 33The clear electric base and baritone of the world,

bark 6

1. p. 10, line 8Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
2. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
3. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
4. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
5. p. 93, line 4We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
6. p. 166, line 17Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,

barley-corn 1

1. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,

barn 6

1. p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
2. p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
3. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
4. p. 216, line 21THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
5. p. 328, line 20In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
6. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,

barns 11

1. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
2. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
3. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,
4. p. 164, line 22Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines,
5. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,

barn-yard 2

1. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
2. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,

barons 1

1. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,

barouches 1

1. p. 193, line 10Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,

barr'd 1 today: barred

1. p. 64, line 9It is I let out in the morning and barr'd at night.

barrels 2

1. p. 174, line 17Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees,

barren 4

1. p. 269, line 8Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
2. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,
3. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

barrenness 1

1. p. 360, line 9The range afar, the richness and barrenness, the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss,

barrier 1

1. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,

bar-room 3

1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
2. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
3. p. 245, line 19The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!

bars 5

1. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
2. p. 174, line 1The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for railroads,
3. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,
4. p. 304, line 12It is no lesson—it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
5. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?

barter 2

1. p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,
2. p. 389, line 13These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,

base 10

1. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
2. p. 101, line 19As base and finalè too for all metaphysics.
3. p. 113, line 13I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear the responsive base and soprano,
4. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,
5. p. 302, line 7The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets,

base-ball 1

1. p. 56, line 27Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

based 2

1. p. 12, line 30Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
2. p. 435, line 45[…] or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow […]

bases 3

1. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
2. p. 429, line 7[…] unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without which they could have had no […]
3. p. 434, line 17[…] did not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward those "Leaves" from the first. The word […]

bashful 5

1. p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
2. p. 80, line 3From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
3. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
4. p. 91, line 19O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!
5. p. 257, line 25O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,

basic 2

1. p. 427, line 35[…] to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of view of verse; for everything else has changed […]
2. p. 432, line 13[…] and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of all […]

basis 2

1. p. 430, line 37[…] furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the […]
2. p. 431, line 17[…] are to be? Is there one whose underlying basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a […]

bask 3

1. p. 65, line 22Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
2. p. 197, line 24While we bask, we two together.
3. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,

baskets 1

1. p. 31, line 16Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty,

basking 4

1. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
2. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
3. p. 356, line 25Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.
4. p. 385, line 4Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!

Baskirs 1

1. p. 116, line 17I see the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs,

bassi 1

1. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!

bat 1

1. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,

bat-eyed 1

1. p. 125, line 20From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests.

bath 3

1. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
2. p. 84, line 9This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
3. p. 295, line 26Labor and toil, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college,

bathe 7

1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
2. p. 37, line 1Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
3. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,
4. p. 250, line 16LOOK down fair moon and bathe this scene,
5. p. 321, line 18Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,
6. p. 323, line 23Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee, commune with Thee,
7. p. 372, line 22Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers,

bathed 7

1. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
2. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,
3. p. 162, line 2Lifted, illumin'd, bathed in peace—elate, secure in peace.
4. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,
5. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
6. p. 279, line 4Thou, bathed, choked, swimming in plenty,
7. p. 376, line 1As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,

bather 1

1. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,

bathes 1

1. p. 43, line 6This the common air that bathes the globe.

bathing 5

1. p. 92, line 31Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,
2. p. 259, line 1The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon,
3. p. 311, line 22Bathing, supporting, merging all the rest, maternity of all the rest,
4. p. 313, line 15The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,

baton 1

1. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.

Batouta 1

1. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,

bats 1

1. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?

batter'd 3 today: battered

1. p. 62, line 2These were despatch'd with bayonets or batter'd with the blunts of muskets,
2. p. 323, line 13A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man,
3. p. 403, line 3An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,

batteries 2

1. p. 248, line 12All the scenes at the batteries rise in detail before me again,
2. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,

battering 1

1. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,

battery 1

1. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,

battle 26

1. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
2. p. 128, line 23My call is the call of battle, I nourish active rebellion,
3. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
4. p. 184, line 23Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
5. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,

battle-bulletin 1

1. p. 366, line 21The battle-bulletin,

battle-call 1

1. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.

battle-contest 1

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

battle-corpses 1

1. p. 261, line 23I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,

battle-deaths 1

1. p. 408, line 29[…] cost, back there after all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book […]

battle-field 3

1. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
2. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
3. p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,

battle-fields 4

1. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
2. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
3. p. 372, line 20Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the fœtor arising.
4. p. 377, line 7Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing,

battle-flags 1

1. p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,

battle-front 1

1. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,

battle-lanterns 1

1. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.

battle-life 1

1. p. 400, line 18Give me my old wild battle-life again!"

battles 17

1. p. 9, line 18And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
2. p. 10, line 3Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles,
3. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
4. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
5. p. 253, line 8As your ranks, your immortal ranks, return, return from the battles,

battle-ship 1

1. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?

battling 1

1. p. 396, line 28Struggling to-day the same—battling the same.

battues 1

1. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.

Bavarian 1

1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!

bawling 3

1. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
2. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
3. p. 398, line 8Amid the bawling presentations new and old,

bay 23

1. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
2. p. 38, line 20And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
3. p. 40, line 22The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white sails sparkle!)
4. p. 114, line 15The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its mountains,
5. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,

bayaderes 1

1. p. 314, line 6A band of bayaderes.

bay-coast 1

1. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

bayonet 2

1. p. 251, line 11Nor the bayonet stab what you really are;
2. p. 251, line 14Nor the bayonet stab O friend.

bayonets 7

1. p. 62, line 2These were despatch'd with bayonets or batter'd with the blunts of muskets,
2. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
3. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
4. p. 253, line 2Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
5. p. 253, line 10As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders,
6. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
7. p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,

bayou 1

1. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,

bayous 1

1. p. 109, line 8You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi!

bays 6

1. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;
2. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,
3. p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
4. p. 266, line 24Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him,
5. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
6. p. 361, line 17City nested in bays! my city!

bay-tree 1

1. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,

Bazardjusi 1

1. p. 114, line 7I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,

beach 20

1. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
2. p. 46, line 15I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
3. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
4. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,
5. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,

beach-parties 1

1. p. 57, line 4At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;

beach-waves 1

1. p. 227, line 6And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western shore the same,

beachy 1

1. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,

bead-bags 1

1. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,

bead-plane 1

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

beads 1

1. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,

beak 1

1. p. 385, line 9I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,

beaks 1

1. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,

beam 3

1. p. 17, line 3The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
2. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
3. p. 307, line 7Shall beam immortal.

beam'd 1 today: beamed

1. p. 234, line 27I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.

beaming 4

1. p. 282, line 16Under the beaming sun and under thee.
2. p. 320, line 11With majestic limbs and pious beaming eyes,
3. p. 365, line 24Beaming towards thee.)
4. p. 413, line 35[…] as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration […]

beams 9

1. p. 31, line 4Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
2. p. 60, line 16They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
3. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
4. p. 130, line 19Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
5. p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,

bean 3

1. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
2. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
3. p. 286, line 8The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,

bear 24

1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
2. p. 10, line 27Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
3. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;
4. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
5. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;

beard 11

1. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
2. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
3. p. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
4. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,
5. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,

bearded 9

1. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
2. p. 61, line 20Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
3. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
4. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
5. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;

beards 3

1. p. 33, line 21Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
2. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
3. p. 266, line 13Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves,

bearer 3

1. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
2. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
3. p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,

bearers 2

1. p. 126, line 19Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
2. p. 150, line 12Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,

bearing 13

1. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
2. p. 134, line 16A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother,
3. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
4. p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
5. p. 230, line 20Drest in blue, bearing their trusty rifles on their shoulders.

bearings 2

1. p. 404, line 4Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
2. p. 436, line 26[…] vitality of it is altogether in its relations, bearings, significance—like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy […]

bears 1

1. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,

bear-skin 1

1. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;

bear'st 1

1. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,

beast 1

1. p. 249, line 12A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,

beasts 3

1. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
2. p. 93, line 10We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,
3. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,

beat 27

1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,
2. p. 43, line 11I beat and pound for the dead,
3. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
4. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
5. p. 60, line 8Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.

beaten 1

1. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;

beating 10

1. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
2. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
3. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
4. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
5. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,

beats 2

1. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
2. p. 56, line 15Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,

beauteous 3

1. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,
2. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
3. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,

beauties 2

1. p. 88, line 11All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
2. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,

beautiful 74

1. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
2. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
3. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
4. p. 37, line 7Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
5. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,