Concordance

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1. p. 408, line 8[…] too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine […]
2. p. 426, line 32[…] competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's […]
3. p. 427, line 32[…] universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the one chanting […]
4. p. 430, line 16[…] such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will […]

cabin 1

1. p. 63, line 17Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,

cabin'd 2 today: cabined

1. p. 10, line 5IN cabin'd ships at sea,
2. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"

cabinet 1

1. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,

cabins 1

1. p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,

cable 1

1. p. 163, line 9These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable,

cache 2

1. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.

cackles 1

1. p. 57, line 5Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles, screams, weeps,

cactus 1

1. p. 360, line 8The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers,

cadaver 1

1. p. 125, line 21The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.

cadaverous 1

1. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?

cadenzas 1

1. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,

Cadiz 1

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

Caffre 1

1. p. 120, line 1You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!

caged 1

1. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,

Cairo 1

1. p. 120, line 3You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!

calamus 1

1. p. 403, line 10Or "Paumanok, " "Song of Myself," "Calamus," or "Adam,"

calamus-root 1

1. p. 100, line 5And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades, this calamus-root shall,

calculated 1

1. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,

calculating 1

1. p. 426, line 14In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more […]

Calcutta 1

1. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,

calf 3

1. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
2. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,
3. p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,

calibres 1

1. p. 271, line 27Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?

California 13

1. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
2. p. 65, line 14Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California?
3. p. 108, line 10A PROMISE to California,
4. 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;
5. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,

Californian 1

1. p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,

Californians 1

1. p. 42, line 15Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,)

California's 2

1. p. 95, line 1FACING west from California's shores,
2. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,

calking-iron 1

1. p. 174, line 4The calking-iron, the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire under the kettle,

call 54

1. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
2. p. 45, line 13I laugh at what you call dissolution,
3. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
4. p. 52, line 3And that we call Being.
5. p. 54, line 9But call any thing back again when I desire it.

call'd 21 today: called

call'd 16 · called 5

1. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
2. p. 112, line 18What are the mountains call'd that rise so high in the mists?
3. p. 126, line 6You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
4. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
5. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,

calling 11

1. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,
2. p. 72, line 18Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush,
3. p. 92, line 29Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,
4. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
5. p. 113, line 12I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque,

calliope's 1

1. p. 159, line 7Calliope's call forever closed, Clio, Melpomene, Thalia dead,

callous 4

1. p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
2. p. 52, line 7Mine is no callous shell,
3. p. 213, line 9Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
4. p. 367, line 24Where through the carnage I moved with a callous composure, or away from the fallen,

calls 8

1. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
2. 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,
3. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
4. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
5. p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,
6. p. 239, line 18An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,
7. p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
8. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.

calm 37

1. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
2. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
3. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
4. p. 52, line 21Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
5. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,

calmer 2

1. p. 197, line 37And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather,
2. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:

calming 2

1. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
2. p. 384, line 50[…] The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death […]

calmly 3

1. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
2. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
3. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,

calmness 6

1. p. 59, line 26The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
2. p. 83, line 1This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
3. p. 145, line 6To behold his calmness—to be warm'd in the rays of his smile!
4. p. 145, line 27My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.
5. p. 266, line 3Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne from the house,
6. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,

calms 1

1. p. 126, line 14Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,

calumet 1

1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,

calumniators 1

1. p. 320, line 20His misfortunes, calumniators, behold him a prisoner, chain'd,

Cambodia 1

1. p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,

came 32

1. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
2. p. 35, line 24I am there, I help, I came stretch'd atop of the load,
3. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
4. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
5. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,

camel 1

1. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.

camerado 8

1. p. 23, line 2What do you need camerado?
2. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
3. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
4. p. 129, line 5Camerado, I give you my hand!
5. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
6. p. 251, line 15AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado,
7. p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
8. p. 382, line 7Camerado, this is no book,

camp 13

1. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
2. p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
3. p. 166, line 11The choppers heard not, the camp shanties echoed not,
4. p. 221, line 4It's O for a manly life in the camp.
5. p. 231, line 22There is the camp, one regiment departs to-morrow,

campaign 1

1. p. 280, line 19Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty march,

campaigning 2

1. p. 253, line 20You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
2. p. 254, line 2Still on our own campaigning bound,

campaigns 7

1. p. 13, line 3Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors' voyages,
2. p. 162, line 6And in its stead speed industry's campaigns,
3. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
4. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
5. p. 369, line 6Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,)
6. p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
7. p. 408, line 22[…] wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields […]

camp'd 2 today: camped

1. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
2. p. 75, line 24The soldier camp'd or upon the march is mine,

camp-fires 1

1. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,

camp-followers 1

1. p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,

camphor-smell 1

1. p. 333, line 17Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long pervaded the rooms,)

camping 2

1. p. 55, line 22By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen,
2. p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.

camp-meeting 2

1. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
2. p. 312, line 17The psalm in the country church or mid the clustering trees, the open air camp-meeting,

camps 13

1. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
2. p. 263, line 15HUSH'D be the camps to-day,
3. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
4. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
5. p. 279, line 14Nor the measur'd march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps,

Canada 1

1. p. 436, line 11[…] Atlantic—in the valley of the Mississippi, in Canada, up in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores […]

canal 5

1. p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,
2. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,
3. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
4. p. 315, line 22In the Old World the east the Suez canal,
5. p. 316, line 30I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,

canals 1

1. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;

Canary 1

1. p. 384, line 10[…] of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The […]

cancer 1

1. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,

candid 3

1. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
2. p. 104, line 21Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
3. p. 427, line 1[…] with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]

candidate 2

1. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
2. p. 437, line 35[…] minds of men. But my volume is a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is […]

candidates 1

1. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,

candidly 3

1. p. 160, line 4I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,
2. p. 426, line 27[…] any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they […]
3. p. 431, line 44[…] America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with […]

candle 1

1. p. 58, line 7Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;

candle-light 1

1. p. 425, line 10So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances […]

candles 1

1. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,

candor 2

1. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
2. p. 380, line 28I announce the justification of candor and the justification of pride.

cane 2

1. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
2. p. 281, line 14Cotton and rice of the South and Louisianian cane,

canebrake 1

1. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,

canister 1

1. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.

cankerous 1

1. p. 213, line 6Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,

cannon 15

1. p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
2. p. 60, line 26Again the attacking cannon, mortars,
3. p. 60, line 27Again to my listening ears the cannon responsive.
4. p. 62, line 13We closed with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch'd,
5. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,

cannoneers 2

1. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
2. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)

cannons 5

1. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,
2. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
3. p. 220, line 23(Silent cannons, soon to cease your silence,
4. p. 270, line 18The cannons ope their rosy-flashing muzzles—the hurtled balls scream,
5. p. 400, line 13To the cannons, the grim artillery,

cannot 59

1. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
2. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
3. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
4. p. 44, line 26I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
5. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.

canoe 1

1. p. 305, line 19The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,

cañons 2

1. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
2. p. 366, line 18FROM far Dakota's cañons,

canopy 1

1. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,

canst 2

1. p. 352, line 10(Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,
2. p. 366, line 7(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)

can't 1

1. p. 210, line 17Worse and worse—can't you stand it? are you retreating?

cantabile 3

1. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
2. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
3. p. 395, line 23Freedom's and Love's and Faith's unloos'd cantabile,

canticles 1

1. p. 438, line 36[…] poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege […]

Canton 1

1. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,

canvas 2

1. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
2. p. 401, line 9I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,

canyons 1

1. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,

caoutchouc 1

1. p. 353, line 25And more of the drug-shelf, laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's-lard,

cap 3

1. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
2. 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,
3. p. 355, line 27She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.

capable 6

1. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
2. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
3. p. 350, line 25(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
4. p. 387, line 18Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
5. p. 417, line 22The fair, the strong, the good, the capable,

cape 9

1. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
2. p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,
3. 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,
4. p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,
5. p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
6. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,
7. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
8. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,

Capella's 1

1. p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?

capes 2

1. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
2. p. 322, line 12The seas all cross'd, weather'd the capes, the voyage done,

capitals 1

1. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,

capitol 5

1. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
2. p. 136, line 6He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
3. p. 155, line 18Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
4. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
5. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,

capitols 2

1. p. 155, line 18Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
2. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,

capitulation 3

1. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
2. p. 234, line 16Many no doubt thought of capitulation.
3. p. 234, line 19I saw something different from capitulation.

caprice 1

1. p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)

caprices 1

1. p. 392, line 8Thy unsubduedness, caprices, wilfulness;

capricious 5

1. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
2. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
3. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
4. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
5. p. 356, line 7Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.

caps 2

1. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
2. p. 385, line 12The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,

capstan 1

1. p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;

captain 17

1. p. 62, line 14My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
2. p. 62, line 25Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
3. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
4. p. 63, line 9Serene stands the little captain,
5. p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

captains 5

1. p. 208, line 17Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,
2. p. 208, line 19Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old,
3. p. 316, line 24You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,
4. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
5. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)

captur'd 1 today: captured

1. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,

car 1

1. p. 301, line 9Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,

caravans 1

1. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,

carbines 2

1. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
2. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

carbon 1

1. p. 71, line 24And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.

carcasses 1

1. p. 285, line 25Where have you disposed of their carcasses?

care 5

1. p. 72, line 9Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
2. p. 205, line 16A young steersman steering with care.
3. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
4. p. 293, line 16The mother's voice in lullaby, the sister's care, the happy childhood,
5. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,

cared 2

1. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
2. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,

career 1

1. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,

career'd 1 today: careered

1. p. 228, line 21I mark'd the white combs where they career'd so high, curling over,

careering 6

1. p. 80, line 22The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
2. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!
3. p. 208, line 26Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,
4. p. 209, line 3Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
5. p. 224, line 12On floats the sea in distant blue careering through its channels,
6. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;

careers 1

1. p. 310, line 14Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies,

careful 2

1. p. 327, line 12Be careful darkness! already what was it touch'd me?
2. p. 378, line 2And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,

carefully 16

1. p. 63, line 18The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl'd whiskers,
2. 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,
3. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
4. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
5. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,

careless 3

1. p. 266, line 12Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars,
2. p. 407, line 6[…] I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of […]
3. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,

carelessly 2

1. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
2. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?

cares 1

1. p. 335, line 8Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?

caress'd 3 today: caressed

1. p. 341, line 21AS if a phantom caress'd me,
2. 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,
3. p. 422, line 9Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;

caresser 1

1. p. 38, line 8In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing,

caresses 2

1. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
2. p. 398, line 14For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign lands,

caressing 1

1. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.

cargoes 3

1. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
2. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
3. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,

carlacue 1 today: curlicue

1. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.

Carlyle 1

1. p. 434, line 36[…] or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the […]

carman 1

1. p. 174, line 13The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray,

carnage 5

1. p. 226, line 6We may be terror and carnage, and are so now,
2. p. 247, line 1OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
3. p. 250, line 21Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
4. p. 367, line 24Where through the carnage I moved with a callous composure, or away from the fallen,
5. p. 408, line 26[…] suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will […]

carol 9

1. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
2. p. 260, line 10Came the carol of the bird.
3. p. 260, line 11And the charm of the carol rapt me,
4. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
5. p. 264, line 4Chant me the poem, it said, that comes from the soul of America, chant me the carol of victory,

Carolina 1

1. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,

Carolinas 7

1. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
2. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
3. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
4. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
5. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
6. p. 360, line 4Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas,
7. p. 416, line 7From the measureless West, Virginia, the South, the Carolinas, Texas,

caroling 3

1. p. 111, line 20But among my lovers and caroling these songs,
2. p. 314, line 15To you a new bard caroling in the West,
3. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,

Carolinian 2

1. p. 26, line 18The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
2. p. 360, line 16O to be a Virginian where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!

carols 10

1. p. 17, line 1I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear,
2. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
3. p. 108, line 23But a few carols vibrating through the air I leave,
4. p. 199, line 17Shake out carols!
5. p. 199, line 18Solitary here, the night's carols!

carous'd 1 today: caroused

1. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,

carouse 3

1. p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
2. p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,

Carpathians 1

1. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,

carpenter 2

1. p. 17, line 3The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
2. p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

carpentering 1

1. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,

carpenter's 1

1. p. 44, line 26I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,

carpet 1

1. p. 295, line 7The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove.

carpeted 1

1. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;

carriage 4

1. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
2. p. 121, line 18The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
3. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
4. p. 267, line 19The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when wrong'd,

carried 11

1. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
2. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
3. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
4. p. 150, line 14The huge storehouse carried up in the city well under way,
5. p. 261, line 20And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,

carries 5

1. p. 58, line 16Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
2. p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,
3. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
4. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)
5. p. 437, line 37[…] original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere […]

carriest 1

1. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,

carrion 1

1. p. 268, line 15To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,

carrots 1

1. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,

carry 12

1. 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.
2. p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
3. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
4. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
5. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;

carrying 15

1. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
2. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
3. p. 25, line 14Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
4. p. 58, line 16Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
5. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,

cars 5

1. p. 51, line 12The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
2. p. 128, line 12In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
3. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
4. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
5. p. 359, line 8Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,

cart 3

1. p. 174, line 13The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray,
2. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
3. p. 387, line 9Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones,

carte 1

1. p. 425, line 27[…] of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations of the New World,* if […]

cartouches 1

1. p. 47, line 22This is the lexicographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

carts 3

1. p. 35, line 7The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders,
2. 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;
3. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,

carved 1

1. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

carver 1

1. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,

Cascade 1

1. p. 168, line 13From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah,

case 6

1. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,
2. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
3. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
4. p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
5. p. 427, line 43[…] genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative […]
6. p. 429, line 29[…] negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always […]

cases 2

1. p. 429, line 21[…] Think of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and the unprecedented stimulants of […]
2. p. 436, line 37[…] on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves […]

cash 1

1. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,

Caspian 1

1. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,

cast 9

1. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
2. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
3. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
4. p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,
5. p. 308, line 17Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
6. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
7. p. 400, line 3I cast a reminiscence—(likely 'twill offend you,
8. p. 407, line 36[…] shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move […]

Castaly's 1

1. p. 159, line 4Ended, deceas'd through time, her voice by Castaly's fountain,

castanets 2

1. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
2. p. 313, line 16The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets.

castaways 2

1. p. 202, line 5Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
2. p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,

caste 5

1. p. 42, line 19Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
2. p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
3. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
4. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
5. p. 432, line 10[…] had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have […]

castes 3

1. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
2. p. 298, line 10We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
3. p. 319, line 28The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,

casting 5

1. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
2. 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;
3. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
4. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
5. p. 425, line 11[…] candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it […]

castle 3

1. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
2. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,
3. p. 393, line 15Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,

castle-keeps 1

1. p. 160, line 15More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,

castles 2

1. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
2. p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,

castrated 1

1. p. 353, line 11The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated face,

casual 1

1. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,

casually 1

1. p. 94, line 14Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,

cat 1

1. p. 39, line 1The sharp-hoof'd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

cataclysm 1

1. p. 418, line 8War, death, cataclysm like this, America,

Catalogue 1

1. p. 406, line 32[…] Death, 417. A Persian Lesson, 418. The Commonplace, 419. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd […]

cataract 1

1. p. 56, line 25Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,

cataracts 2

1. p. 112, line 26Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups,
2. p. 310, line 21You undertone of rivers, roar of pouring cataracts,

cat-brier 1

1. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.

catch 4

1. p. 199, line 16Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
2. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
3. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
4. p. 356, line 8I hear thee trumpeter, listening alert I catch thy notes,

catches 1

1. p. 237, line 11All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only,

catching 3

1. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
2. p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
3. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,

cathedral 4

1. p. 160, line 14Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
2. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
3. p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
4. p. 314, line 20I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,

cathedrals 2

1. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,
2. p. 365, line 20Ruin'd cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,

cattle 7

1. p. 39, line 8Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
2. p. 41, line 9The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
3. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
4. p. 117, line 4I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
5. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
6. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
7. p. 312, line 19The lowing cattle, bleating sheep, the crowing cock at dawn.

Caucasus 2

1. p. 118, line 31You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!
2. p. 319, line 19Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,

caught 6

1. p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
2. p. 109, line 1A GLIMPSE through an interstice caught,
3. p. 168, line 16In the Mendocino woods I caught.
4. p. 249, line 12A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught,
5. p. 391, line 8Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,

cause 15

1. p. 11, line 11TO thee old cause!
2. p. 11, line 12Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,
3. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
4. p. 49, line 25I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
5. p. 49, line 26Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again.

causes 2

1. p. 11, line 23With all its angry and vehement play of causes,
2. p. 50, line 21I underlying causes to balance them at last,

causing 1

1. p. 198, line 11Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears.

caution 2

1. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
2. p. 353, line 2Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

cautioning 2

1. p. 58, line 17Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
2. p. 212, line 23But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counseling, cautioning.

cautions 1

1. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,

cautious 7

1. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
2. p. 67, line 5Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
3. p. 240, line 22Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
4. p. 241, line 3Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
5. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
6. p. 363, line 17And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious,

cautiously 4

1. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,
2. p. 197, line 21Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
3. p. 248, line 8The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hear the irregular snap! snap!
4. p. 380, line 5Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,

cavaliers 1

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

cavalry 6

1. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
2. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,
3. p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
4. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,
5. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
6. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;

cavalry-man 1

1. p. 243, line 5The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I examine,

caves 1

1. p. 166, line 5Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves,

cavil 1

1. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,

cavils 1

1. p. 153, line 24Where are your cavils about the soul now?

ceas'd 4 today: ceased

ceas'd 3 · ceased 1

1. p. 34, line 7And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
2. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
3. p. 293, line 5The singer ceas'd,
4. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)

cease 19

1. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.
2. p. 63, line 6Not a moment's cease,
3. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
4. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
5. p. 197, line 2From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,