Concordance

comrade 28

1. p. 23, line 10My comrade!
2. p. 42, line 15Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,)
3. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
4. p. 98, line 11For I am the new husband and I am the comrade.
5. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,

comrades 30

1. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
2. p. 21, line 30And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
3. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
4. p. 95, line 23That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
5. p. 96, line 9To celebrate the need of comrades.

Comradeship 1

1. p. 434, line 25[…] to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a more commanding and […]

com'st 1

1. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,

con 2

1. p. 98, line 17But these leaves conning you con at peril,
2. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,

conceal 6

1. p. 81, line 20Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
2. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
3. p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
4. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,

conceal'd 8 today: concealed

1. p. 96, line 27Spring away from the conceal'd heart there!
2. p. 104, line 24From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops, confession drops,
3. p. 157, line 11She knows the thoughts as she passes, nothing is conceal'd from her,
4. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
5. p. 176, line 22The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
6. p. 181, line 9None born but it is born, conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting.
7. 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;)
8. p. 367, line 4(The sun there at the centre though conceal'd,

concealing 3

1. p. 217, line 15Concealing her face, concealing her form,
2. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;

conceit 1

1. p. 389, line 12Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;

conceits 1

1. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,

conceivable 2

1. p. 177, line 12Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
2. p. 291, line 9Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.

conceiv'd 4 today: conceived

conceiv'd 3 · conceived 1

1. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
2. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
3. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
4. p. 305, line 5I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,

conceive 6

1. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
2. p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
3. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
4. p. 213, line 23Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know,
5. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
6. p. 430, line 31[…] the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything […]

concentrate 2

1. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
2. p. 78, line 12I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

concentration 2

1. p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
2. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,

concentring 1

1. p. 295, line 13Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,

conception 3

1. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
2. p. 348, line 5By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
3. p. 430, line 22[…] environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life and art is for us […]

concepts 1

1. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)

concern 2

1. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
2. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;

concerning 1

1. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,

conch 2

1. p. 407, line 36[…] some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on […]
2. p. 408, line 4[…] is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited good spirits […]

conciliation 1

1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,

conclude 2

1. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
2. p. 380, line 11TO conclude, I announce what comes after me.

concluded 1

1. p. 257, line 23Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.

concluding 4

1. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
2. p. 409, line 4(I will not call it our concluding voyage,
3. p. 409, line 14To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
4. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West […]

conclusion 1

1. p. 407, line 14[…] well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that […]

conclusions 1

1. p. 432, line 3[…] have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through the […]

conclusive 1

1. p. 413, line 39[…] opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That […]

concord 1

1. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.

concourse 1

1. p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,

concourses 1

1. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,

concrete 5

1. p. 398, line 1Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
2. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,
3. p. 430, line 36[…] future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and […]
4. p. 437, line 11[…] wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from […]
5. p. 437, line 16[…] real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism, through Time. My book ought to […]

concrete's 1

1. p. 414, line 15Art thou not universal concrete's distillation? Law's, all Astronomy's last refinement?

condemn 1

1. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,

condemn'd 2 today: condemned

1. p. 59, line 27The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on,
2. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,

condensation 1

1. p. 296, line 19This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe,

condition 6

1. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
2. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
3. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
4. p. 265, line 3No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
5. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
6. p. 408, line 17[…] that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near […]

conditions 3

1. p. 410, line 13Wafting to other work, to unknown songs, conditions,
2. p. 411, line 32[…] describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]
3. p. 431, line 30[…] to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite […]

condolence 1

1. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,

conduct 1

1. p. 210, line 16See how well dress'd, see how orderly they conduct themselves.

conductor 1

1. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,

conductors 1

1. p. 52, line 8I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,

cones 1

1. p. 391, line 15Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:

confab'd 1 today: confabed

1. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)

confectioner's 1

1. p. 174, line 8The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's ornaments, the decanter and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,

confer 1

1. p. 15, line 19We confer on equal terms with each of the States,

conference 1

1. p. 392, line 4(I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,)

confess 3

1. p. 160, line 4I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,
2. 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,
3. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,

confession 7

1. p. 104, line 24From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops, confession drops,
2. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
3. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
4. p. 390, line 4Many a muffled confession—many a sob and whisper'd word,
5. p. 392, line 20The first and last confession of the globe,
6. p. 427, line 32[…] the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the […]
7. p. 436, line 34[…] always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of […]

confidant 1

1. p. 392, line 19A phantom in the night thy confidant for once,)

confide 2

1. p. 78, line 6Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
2. p. 278, line 9O earth that hast no voice, confide to me a voice,

confided 2

1. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
2. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.

confidence 2

1. p. 44, line 6This hour I tell things in confidence,
2. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,

confident 2

1. p. 157, line 6The door whence the son left home confident and puff'd up,
2. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;

confides 1

1. p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,

confine 2

1. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
2. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,

confined 2

1. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
2. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,

confinement 2

1. p. 128, line 3Out of the dark confinement! out from behind the screen!
2. p. 407, line 18[…] hours of my 72d year—hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape this small old […]

confirm 2

1. p. 409, line 32[…] scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of […]
2. p. 436, line 39[…] should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of […]

confirmations 1

1. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,

confirm'd 1 today: confirmed

1. p. 39, line 25The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case,

confirming 1

1. p. 402, line 5Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest,

conflict 7

1. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
2. p. 250, line 2Race of the soil, ready for conflict—race of the conquering march!
3. p. 279, line 11In the midst of the conflict, the heroes, I stood,
4. p. 364, line 2Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
5. p. 364, line 3(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the old, the incessant war?)
6. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
7. p. 391, line 20The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,

conflicts 1

1. p. 263, line 19No more for him life's stormy conflicts,

conform 2

1. p. 430, line 35[…] necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories of […]
2. p. 435, line 21[…] that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level […]

conformities 1

1. p. 95, line 20From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,

conformity 5

1. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
2. p. 75, line 1Wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
3. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
4. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,
5. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,

confound 2

1. p. 50, line 29With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
2. p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!

confounds 1

1. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

confront 5

1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
2. p. 147, line 4To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth.
3. p. 161, line 21Shall ever here confront the laboring many,
4. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
5. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,

confronted 1

1. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.

confronter 1

1. p. 16, line 4Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;

confronting 5

1. p. 197, line 9Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
2. p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
3. p. 233, line 4And how long and well it stood confronting death.
4. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
5. p. 245, line 4(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,

confronts 1

1. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,

confucius 1

1. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,

confuse 1

1. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.

confused 2

1. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
2. p. 328, line 13Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.

confusion 3

1. p. 52, line 21Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
2. p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,
3. p. 229, line 23In a lull of the deafening confusion.)

congested 1

1. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,

Congo 1

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

congratulate 2

1. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
2. p. 344, line 21I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.

congregation 1

1. p. 222, line 6Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,

Congress 5

1. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
2. p. 172, line 23The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,
3. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
4. p. 267, line 15Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts,
5. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,

Congressman 2

1. p. 33, line 13Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
2. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,

Congressmen 1

1. p. 219, line 3Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?

conical 1

1. p. 57, line 21Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,

conjoint 1

1. p. 193, line 4And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,

conjure 1

1. p. 357, line 21Blow again trumpeter—conjure war's alarums.

conn'd 2 today: conned

1. p. 20, line 13I conn'd old times,
2. p. 437, line 42[…] anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one […]

connect 4

1. p. 20, line 12And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
2. p. 48, line 20And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff,
3. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

connected 1

1. p. 316, line 19The earth to be spann'd, connected by network,

connecter 1

1. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.

Connecticut 2

1. p. 26, line 11Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut!
2. p. 296, line 4By you, your banks Connecticut,

connecting 2

1. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
2. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

connections 1

1. p. 163, line 7With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world,

conning 1

1. p. 98, line 17But these leaves conning you con at peril,

connive 1

1. p. 437, line 9[…] or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty […]

connoisseur 1

1. p. 40, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut eyes bent sideways,

conquer 4

1. p. 201, line 11A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
2. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,
3. p. 413, line 45[…] only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]
4. p. 426, line 20[…] is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less […]

conquer'd 4 today: conquered

1. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
2. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
3. p. 64, line 4In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd!
4. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,

conqueress 1

1. p. 268, line 6Libertad, from the conqueress' field return'd,

conquering 4

1. p. 118, line 2I look on chisell'd histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,
2. p. 183, line 27Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
3. p. 250, line 2Race of the soil, ready for conflict—race of the conquering march!
4. p. 311, line 8Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?

conqueror 4

1. p. 147, line 19To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
2. p. 264, line 7(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
3. p. 341, line 11Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
4. p. 358, line 18Marches of victory—man disenthral'd—the conqueror at last,

conquerors 5

1. p. 13, line 3Old conquerors, old campaigns, old sailors' voyages,
2. p. 20, line 1Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian!
3. p. 280, line 22A million flush'd embattled conquerors wait,
4. p. 384, line 47[…] Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought […]
5. p. 397, line 20True conquerors o'er all the rest.

conquest 1

1. p. 432, line 10[…] has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which […]

cons 1

1. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?

conscious 2

1. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
2. p. 375, line 12To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large!

consciousness 2

1. p. 14, line 26The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
2. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,

consecutive 1

1. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,

consent 3

1. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
2. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
3. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,

consequence 1

1. p. 290, line 1All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,

consequent 2

1. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
2. p. 277, line 1AS consequent from store of summer rains,

consider 7

1. p. 38, line 17And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,
2. p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,
3. p. 133, line 18Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;
4. p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
5. p. 426, line 15[…] Behind all else that can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the […]
6. p. 426, line 16[…] theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I […]
7. p. 426, line 22[…] hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to […]

considerable 1

1. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)

considerate 2

1. p. 157, line 12She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor,
2. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,

consideration 2

1. p. 52, line 24No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
2. p. 413, line 36[…] its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it […]

considerations 3

1. p. 431, line 12[…] some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad […]
2. p. 433, line 34[…] and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could […]
3. p. 433, line 38[…] both the Past and the Future are main considerations […]

consider'd 6 today: considered

1. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
2. p. 132, line 22I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.
3. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
4. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
5. p. 437, line 11[…] object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of view of all, but of each […]

considerest 1

1. p. 206, line 20Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?

considering 3

1. p. 9, line 10Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
2. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
3. p. 122, line 24Listening to others, considering well what they say,

consign'd 1 today: consigned

1. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;

consistent 3

1. p. 430, line 24[…] for us the only means of their assimilation consistent with the Western world […]
2. p. 431, line 15[…] and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as […]
3. p. 435, line 6[…] distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of United […]

consistently 1

1. p. 434, line 21[…] and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or […]

consolation 3

1. p. 111, line 4Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
2. p. 354, line 16And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
3. p. 408, line 14Then behind all, the deep-down consolation (it is a glum one, but I dare not be […]

consolator 1

1. p. 339, line 13Consolator most mild, the promis'd one advancing,

consolidation 1

1. p. 430, line 32[…] past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors […]

consort 2

1. p. 10, line 24Consort to every ship that sails, sail you!
2. p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,

conspiracy 1

1. p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,

conspire 1

1. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.

conspired 1

1. p. 252, line 21(The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,)

Constantinople 1

1. p. 117, line 13I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,

constantly 2

1. p. 362, line 24It and its radiations constantly glide.
2. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,

constellation 1

1. p. 413, line 33[…] In the grand constellation of five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history […]

constellations 3

1. p. 121, line 6I do not want the constellations any nearer,
2. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
3. p. 389, line 19Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,

constipation 1

1. p. 386, line 20Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,

constitution 4

1. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
2. p. 172, line 12We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
3. p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
4. p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?

constrain'd 2 today: constrained

1. p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,
2. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,

constructed 1

1. p. 349, line 9Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be constructed here,

constructing 1

1. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,

construction 1

1. p. 426, line 21[…] conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully […]

constructive 1

1. p. 268, line 17Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,

constructiveness 1

1. p. 118, line 13I see the constructiveness of my race,

constructor 1

1. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;

construed 1

1. p. 432, line 7[…] through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of the past […]

consuls 1

1. p. 151, line 13The Roman lictors preceding the consuls,

consultation 1

1. p. 436, line 34[…] Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in […]

consume 1

1. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,

consumed 1

1. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,

consumes 1

1. p. 104, line 9NOT heat flames up and consumes,

consuming 1

1. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,

consummation 2

1. p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,

consummations 1

1. p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.

consumption 2

1. p. 351, line 3Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face with hectic,

consumptive 2

1. p. 330, line 24The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wrong'd,
2. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,

contact 6

1. p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
2. p. 29, line 25I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
3. p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
4. p. 125, line 3Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
5. p. 216, line 11The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
6. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,

contagious 1

1. p. 114, line 21Some drifting helplessly, some with contagious diseases.

contain 2

1. p. 50, line 16Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
2. p. 78, line 11(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

contain'd 5 today: contained

1. 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,
2. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
3. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
4. p. 296, line 11This common curtain of the face contain'd in me for me, in you for you, in each for each,
5. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,

containing 5

1. p. 118, line 3I see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
2. p. 214, line 7That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.
3. p. 252, line 26But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,
4. p. 410, line 2My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years,
5. p. 432, line 29[…] thousand page octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of […]

contains 6

1. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
2. p. 88, line 6A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
3. p. 88, line 8Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
4. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
5. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
6. p. 303, line 16Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,

contemplates 1

1. p. 434, line 31[…] and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of […]

contemplating 1

1. p. 122, line 25Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,

contemplators 1

1. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,

contemporary 2

1. p. 21, line 18I will acknowledge contemporary lands,
2. p. 430, line 20[…] is even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our […]

contempt 4

1. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
2. p. 394, line 14Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!
3. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
4. p. 425, line 34[…] author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of […]

contemptible 1

1. p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,

contend 1

1. p. 265, line 9Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!

contenders 1

1. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,

contending 3

1. p. 217, line 3As contending against some being or influence.
2. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
3. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,

contends 1

1. p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,

content 30

1. p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
2. p. 45, line 8And if each and all be aware I sit content.
3. p. 62, line 25Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
4. p. 79, line 15Content with the present, content with the past,
5. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,

contented 2

1. p. 295, line 11Sat peaceful parents with contented sons.
2. p. 426, line 26[…] it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to waive any otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account […]

contention 2

1. p. 253, line 22The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manœuvre,
2. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;

contentions 1

1. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?

contentious 1

1. p. 254, line 1Myself and this contentious soul of mine,

contentment 1

1. p. 376, line 4Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.

contest 4

1. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
2. p. 190, line 22I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
3. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
4. p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,

contestants 2

1. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
2. p. 420, line 12Contestants, battles, crowds, bridges, wharves,

contest-glare 1

1. p. 411, line 13The pomp and hurried contest-glare and rush are done;

contests 3

1. p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
2. p. 369, line 5Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,
3. p. 408, line 22[…] sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of […]

continence 1

1. p. 91, line 4The continence of vegetables, birds, animals,

continent 14

1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
2. p. 99, line 1COME, I will make the continent indissoluble,
3. p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
4. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
5. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,

continental 2

1. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
2. p. 184, line 6Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein'd,

continentals 1

1. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!

continents 12

1. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
2. p. 55, line 20I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,
3. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
4. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
5. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,

contingencies 1

1. p. 16, line 12Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,

contingency 1

1. p. 171, line 20And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.

continual 10

1. p. 87, line 26The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
2. p. 105, line 13Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
3. p. 113, line 6I hear continual echoes from the Thames,
4. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
5. p. 164, line 11Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising,

continually 15

1. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
2. p. 58, line 27My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
3. p. 68, line 23A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
4. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
5. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,

continuance 1

1. p. 247, line 17The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.

continue 13

1. p. 65, line 10Continue your annotations, continue your questionings.
2. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
3. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
4. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
5. p. 143, line 21To continue and be employ'd there all my life,

continued 9

1. p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
2. p. 214, line 10(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
3. p. 277, line 5Songs of continued years I sing.
4. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.
5. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,
6. p. 411, line 34[…] Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide […]
7. p. 413, line 37[…] worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would have […]
8. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter […]

continues 4

1. p. 341, line 11Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
2. p. 366, line 26Continues yet the old, old legend of our race,
3. p. 376, line 7I say Nature continues, glory continues,

continuing 4

1. p. 200, line 15All else continuing, the stars shining,
2. p. 386, line 2My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
3. p. 417, line 14Dash'd pell-mell by the blow—yet usher'd life continuing on,
4. p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or […]

Continuities 1

1. p. 384, line 42[…] of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant […]

continuous 3

1. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
2. p. 200, line 16The winds blowing, the notes of the bird continuous echoing,
3. p. 229, line 2Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,

contort 1

1. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!

contour 1

1. 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,

contradict 2

1. p. 78, line 9Do I contradict myself?
2. p. 78, line 10Very well then I contradict myself,

contradicting 1

1. p. 204, line 3Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,

contradictions 1

1. p. 17, line 17(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,

contradictory 1

1. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,

contradistinction 1

1. p. 427, line 15[…] poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I […]

contralto 2

1. p. 39, line 16The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
2. p. 313, line 8The lustrious orb, Venus contralto, the blooming mother,

contrariety 1

1. p. 132, line 5I too knitted the old knot of contrariety,

contrary 2

1. p. 381, line 28So I pass, a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
2. p. 427, line 41[…] in fifty years." But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist […]

contrast 1

1. p. 427, line 29One main contrast of the ideas behind every page of my verses, compared […]

contrasted 1

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.

contribute 3

1. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
2. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
3. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,

contributed 2

1. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
2. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,

contributes 1

1. p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

contribution 1

1. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,

contributions 2

1. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
2. p. 231, line 2All the lands of the earth make contributions here;)

control 2

1. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
2. p. 409, line 31[…] vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control and scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm […]

controling 1

1. p. 428, line 37[…] at the best. There are, I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war […]

convenes 1

1. p. 172, line 23The Congress convenes every Twelfth-month for you,

convenient 1

1. p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,

convening 1

1. p. 267, line 15Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts,

convent 1

1. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,

convention 1

1. p. 428, line 30[…] the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise […]

conventional 2

1. p. 427, line 21[…] of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the […]
2. p. 429, line 42[…] and especially in verbal melody and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day […]

conventions 5

1. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
2. p. 275, line 3For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.
3. p. 426, line 6[…] returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of the […]
4. p. 435, line 15[…] other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself […]
5. p. 436, line 32[…] times, there is nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling […]

convents 1

1. p. 437, line 43[…] of his wanderings through the galleries of old convents, came across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully […]

converged 1

1. p. 388, line 6The heirdom all converged in thee!

converging 1

1. p. 44, line 23To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,

converse 1

1. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;

conversing 1

1. p. 295, line 21Reading, conversing.

convert 1

1. p. 40, line 21The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,

convex 1

1. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,

convey 1

1. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,

convey'd 4 today: conveyed

1. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
2. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
3. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.

conveyers 1

1. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,

conveying 2

1. p. 177, line 2They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
2. p. 177, line 3Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter,

conveys 1

1. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,

convict 4

1. p. 292, line 2O fearful thought—a convict soul.
2. p. 293, line 3Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole!
3. p. 293, line 12(Convict forgetting prison, keeper his loaded pistol,)
4. p. 293, line 23O fearful thought—a convict soul.

convicted 1

1. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,

conviction 2

1. p. 426, line 36[…] thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had […]
2. p. 437, line 20One main genesis-motive of the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth […]

convictions 1

1. p. 436, line 39[…] now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit […]

convicts 4

1. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
2. p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,
3. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,
4. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,

convince 4

1. p. 53, line 15Logic and sermons never convince,
2. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
3. p. 126, line 2We convince by our presence.)
4. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,

convinces 1

1. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,

convolutions 2

1. p. 49, line 13My brain it shall be your occult convolutions!
2. p. 296, line 17Out from the convolutions of this globe,

convuls'd 4 today: convulsed

1. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
2. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
3. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
4. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,

convulse 1

1. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?

convulsions 1

1. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.

convulsive 9

1. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
2. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
3. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
4. p. 246, line 15And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
5. p. 246, line 22And the drums strike more convulsive,

convulsively 2

1. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
2. p. 376, line 19I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks, the closed eyes in the coffin;)

cook 1

1. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.

cook'd 2 today: cooked

1. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
2. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,

cooking 3

1. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
2. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
3. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,

cool 16

1. p. 38, line 21The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
2. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
3. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
4. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
5. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,

cool-breath'd 1

1. p. 46, line 4Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!

cool-enfolding 1

1. p. 260, line 21For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.

cool-freshing 1

1. p. 414, line 3Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing

cooling 1

1. p. 319, line 19Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,

cools 1

1. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,

coon-seekers 1

1. p. 41, line 18Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain'd by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,

coopering 1

1. p. 173, line 18Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing,

Coosa 1

1. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

cope 1

1. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,

Copenhagen 1

1. p. 115, line 7Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen,

copest 1

1. p. 322, line 13Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd,

copings 1

1. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!

copious 10

1. p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
2. p. 107, line 10Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
3. p. 191, line 1I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
4. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
5. p. 257, line 10Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,

copiously 2

1. p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.
2. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)

copiousness 2

1. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
2. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,

copper 1

1. p. 149, line 10Lands of coal, copper, lead, tin, zinc,

Coptic 1

1. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,

copulation 1

1. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.

copy 1

1. p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,

coral 1

1. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,

cordage 2

1. p. 10, line 18The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,
2. p. 63, line 22Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,

core 1

1. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,

corn 12

1. p. 56, line 4Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the delicate blue-flower flax,
2. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
3. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
4. p. 164, line 16Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops,
5. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,

corner 3

1. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
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. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.

corner'd 2 today: cornered

1. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,

corners 3

1. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
2. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
3. p. 420, line 8Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs in corners,

cornet 2

1. p. 51, line 16I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears,
2. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,

cornets 3

1. p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
2. 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,
3. p. 309, line 10In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,

corn-field 1

1. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;

corn-fields 1

1. p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,

cornice 1

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

cornices 1

1. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)

corn-shucking 1

1. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,

corps 4

1. p. 236, line 7As the army corps advances.
2. p. 280, line 14I saw the interminable corps, I saw the processions of armies,
3. p. 378, line 14Of the corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all,

corpse 16

1. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
2. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
3. p. 58, line 7Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
4. p. 63, line 17Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,
5. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,