Concordance
The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.
D
d 2
dab 2
dabbled 1
dabs 2
dagger 1
Dahoman 1
daily 11
- p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
- p. 23, line 19Not he with a daily kiss onward from childhood kissing me,
- p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,
- p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
- p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
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- p. 171, line 13Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or weekly papers,
- p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
- p. 234, line 24And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he cross'd,
- p. 259, line 20And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages,
- p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
- p. 386, line 21May filter in my daily songs.
dainty 3
Dakota 1
Dakota's 2
dalliance 1
dallier 1
dally 2
dallying 4
- p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
- p. 200, line 20The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying,
- p. 231, line 30Green the midsummer verdure and fresh blows the dallying breeze,
- p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,
damages 1
Damascus 1
dame 2
dames 2
damn 1
damn'd 1 today: damned
damned see damn'd
damp 5
- p. 53, line 16The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
- p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
- p. 234, line 8So dull and damp and another day,
- p. 285, line 1Her corpse they deposit unclaim'd, it lies on the damp brick pavement,
- p. 329, line 1His face is cold and damp, he cannot repress the weeping drops,
dance 9
- p. 31, line 14I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
- p. 94, line 6I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,
- p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
- p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
- p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
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dance-music 1
dancer 2
dancers 7
- p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
- p. 94, line 6I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,
- p. 126, line 19Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
- p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
- p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
- p. 156, line 15The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,
- p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
dances 8
- p. 177, line 25The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
- p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
- p. 310, line 20You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient,
- p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,
- p. 313, line 17I see religious dances old and new,
- p. 313, line 21I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
- p. 314, line 26The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,
- p. 314, line 32And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor,
dancing 6
- p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
- p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
- p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
- p. 128, line 6Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,
- p. 313, line 22Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
- p. 319, line 16The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,
dancing-girl 1
dandelion 2
dandelions 1
Dane 2
danger 5
- p. 183, line 10We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
- p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
- p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
- p. 247, line 7No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,
- p. 251, line 18I know my words are weapons full of danger, full of death,
dangerous 2
dangers 2
dangle 2
dangled 2
dangling 1
Dante 3
Dante's 1
Danube 2
dappled 1
Dardanelles 1
dare 14
- p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
- p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
- p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
- p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
- p. 89, line 11I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
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- p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
- p. 109, line 18I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.
- p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
- p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,
- p. 321, line 12But with the mystery of God we dare not dally.
- p. 408, line 15[…] consolation (it is a glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the […]
- p. 421, line 1HOW dare one say it?
- p. 428, line 24Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes […]
- p. 432, line 8[…] evolutionary outcome of the past, so I would dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the […]
dared 5
- p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
- p. 202, line 26Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
- p. 203, line 3Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
- p. 233, line 20But we dared not trust the chances of a pitch'd battle.
- p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
dares 1
darest 1
daring 11
- p. 16, line 4Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;
- p. 149, line 23The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,
- p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
- p. 183, line 27Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
- p. 229, line 19How it climbs with daring feet and hands—how it dashes!
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- p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
- p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
- p. 316, line 10The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions;
- p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
- p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
- p. 381, line 23Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
dark 47
- p. 33, line 20This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
- p. 33, line 22Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
- p. 41, line 19Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw,
- p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
- p. 46, line 8Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
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- p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
- p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,
- p. 62, line 17Fighting at sun-down, fighting at dark,
- p. 72, line 24And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
- p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
- p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!
- p. 105, line 23Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
- p. 128, line 3Out of the dark confinement! out from behind the screen!
- p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
- p. 131, line 25The dark threw its patches down upon me also,
- p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
- p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
- p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
- p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
- p. 204, line 18O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?
- p. 213, line 8Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,
- p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
- p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
- p. 243, line 26I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
- p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,
- p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
- p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
- p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
- p. 294, line 17The lilac-scent, the bushes with dark green heart-shaped leaves,
- p. 301, line 17To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
- p. 315, line 27The Past—the dark unfathom'd retrospect!
- p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
- p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,
- p. 327, line 2My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
- p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
- p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
- p. 330, line 25The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
- p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
- p. 367, line 1As sitting in dark days,
- p. 378, line 1Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,
- p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
- p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;
- p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,
- p. 416, line 10You million unwrit names all, all—you dark bequest from all the war,
- p. 419, line 20The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,
dark-brown 1
dark-cheek'd 1
dark-color'd 1
darken'd 2 today: darkened
darkened see darken'd
darkening 1
darkens 1
darker 2
dark-gliding 1
darkling 1
darkness 31
- p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
- p. 63, line 14Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
- p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
- p. 124, line 12These yearnings why are they? these thoughts in the darkness why are they?
- p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
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- p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
- p. 192, line 15All swings around us, there is as much darkness as light,
- p. 200, line 3O darkness! O in vain!
- p. 204, line 4From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
- p. 205, line 29Up through the darkness,
- p. 234, line 4But in darkness in mist on the ground under a chill rain,
- p. 236, line 11The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
- p. 239, line 2A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
- p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
- p. 239, line 24Resuming, marching, ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks,
- p. 252, line 26But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,
- p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
- p. 326, line 12Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
- p. 327, line 3Double yourself and receive me darkness,
- p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
- p. 327, line 12Be careful darkness! already what was it touch'd me?
- p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
- p. 328, line 13Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.
- p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
- p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,
- p. 378, line 22(Full well they know that message in the darkness,
- p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,
- p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
- p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,
- p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,
- p. 431, line 22[…] by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight dimness! What is there in those […]
darling 2
darlings 4
- p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,
- p. 183, line 10We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
- p. 279, line 26O my land's maim'd darlings, with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutch,
- p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
darn 1
dart 6
- p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
- p. 145, line 18I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;
- p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
- p. 301, line 4Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
- p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
- p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
darting 6
- p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
- 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;
- p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
- p. 185, line 13Lo, the darting bowling orb!
- p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
- p. 415, line 10Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee,
darts 4
- p. 142, line 16O the joy of my spirit—it is uncaged—it darts like lightning!
- p. 182, line 5Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
- p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
- p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
dash 8
- p. 46, line 19Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
- p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
- p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
- p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
- p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.
- p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,
- p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
- p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
dash'd 2 today: dashed
dashed see dash'd
dashes 2
dashing 1
date 5
- p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
- p. 290, line 24All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
- p. 427, line 1[…] to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any […]
- p. 431, line 37[…] to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they are of incalculable value as pictures of […]
- p. 434, line 33[…] report these things? Up to how recent a date is the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness […]
dates 2
daughter 11
- p. 23, line 4Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son,
- p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
- p. 82, line 11The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
- p. 118, line 18You daughter or son of England!
- p. 170, line 22The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
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- p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
- p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
- p. 295, line 16Grandmother, loving daughter, loving daughter's daughter, sat,
- p. 332, line 1The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
- p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
daughters 14
- p. 79, line 8Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
- p. 83, line 5They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
- p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
- p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
- p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
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- p. 185, line 21O you daughters of the West!
- p. 185, line 22O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
- p. 237, line 4But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter's call,
- p. 295, line 16Grandmother, loving daughter, loving daughter's daughter, sat,
- p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
- p. 387, line 16Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
- p. 400, line 8Lay dying—sons, daughters, church-deacons, lovingly tending him,
- p. 420, line 10Glum funerals, the crape-veil'd mother and the daughters,
daughter-states 1
dauntless 2
dauntlessness 1
dawn 11
- p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,
- p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
- p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
- p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
- p. 205, line 4The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun,
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- p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
- p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
- p. 312, line 19The lowing cattle, bleating sheep, the crowing cock at dawn.
- p. 362, line 27Or show of breaking dawn or stars by night,
- p. 372, line 4Nor you drummers, neither at reveillé at dawn,
- p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
dawn-dazzle 1
day 183
daybreak 13
- p. 49, line 29To behold the day-break!
- p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
- p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
- p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
- p. 186, line 6Far, far off the daybreak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
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- p. 201, line 18Whisper'd me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
- p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
- p. 223, line 16Where the banner at daybreak is flapping.
- p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
- p. 240, line 1A SIGHT in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
- p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
- p. 378, line 3Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,
- p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
day-close 1
daylight 6
- p. 44, line 4Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
- p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,
- p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
- p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
- p. 384, line 25[…] Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes […]
- p. 390, line 1Last of ebb, and daylight waning,
day-long 1
day-rise 1
days 76
- p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
- p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
- p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
- p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
- p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
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- p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
- p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
- p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
- p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
- p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
- p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
- p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
- p. 126, line 5These are the days that must happen to you:
- p. 127, line 2To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
- p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
- p. 132, line 12Was one with the rest, the days and haps of the rest,
- p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
- 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.
- p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
- p. 185, line 15All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
- p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
- p. 192, line 26I assert that all past days were what they must have been,
- p. 193, line 6And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
- p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
- p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
- p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
- p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
- p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
- p. 230, line 13THE noble sire fallen on evil days,
- p. 232, line 29A few days more and they landed, and then the battle.
- p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
- p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
- p. 264, line 2As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more,
- p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
- p. 266, line 6And that he shall be fittest for his days.
- p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
- p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
- p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
- p. 278, line 4FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
- p. 280, line 1But on these days of brightness,
- p. 292, line 22O heart-sick days! O nights of woe!
- p. 294, line 5The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,
- p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
- p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
- p. 307, line 1Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd,
- p. 309, line 4Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
- p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
- p. 315, line 18SINGING my days,
- p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
- p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
- p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
- p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
- p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
- p. 367, line 1As sitting in dark days,
- p. 369, line 1AS I walk these broad majestic days of peace,
- p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
- p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
- p. 381, line 17Salute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.
- p. 384, line 21[…] born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I […]
- p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
- p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
- p. 388, line 25The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
- p. 393, line 1Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days!
- p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
- p. 398, line 13For all my days—not those of peace alone—the days of war the same,
- p. 400, line 1Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
- p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
- p. 408, line 2[…] but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the […]
- p. 426, line 44[…] the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified […]
- p. 430, line 17[…] objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better […]
- p. 434, line 7[…] thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair […]
- p. 437, line 7[…] it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate […]
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- p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
- p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
- p. 368, line 9Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,
- p. 384, line 17[…] Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows […]
- p. 388, line 7After the dazzle of day is gone,
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- p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
- p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
- p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,
- p. 162, line 15With perfumes, heat and wine, beneath the dazzling chandeliers.
- p. 185, line 15All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
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- p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
- p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
- p. 252, line 23Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
- p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
- p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
- p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
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- p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
- p. 15, line 2How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
- p. 23, line 3Dear son do you think it is love?
- p. 23, line 4Listen dear son—listen America, daughter or son,
- p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
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- p. 74, line 11Sit a while dear son,
- p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
- p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
- p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
- p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
- p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
- p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
- p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
- p. 107, line 7The institution of the dear love of comrades.
- p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
- p. 121, line 21None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.
- p. 121, line 26I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
- p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
- p. 147, line 6Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face?
- p. 160, line 2And ever henceforth sisters dear be both.
- p. 165, line 17While we rehearse our measureless wealth, it is for thee, dear Mother,
- p. 173, line 1List close my scholars dear,
- p. 224, line 1Come up here, dear little child,
- p. 226, line 20But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
- p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
- p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
- p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
- p. 237, line 29To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
- p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
- p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
- p. 240, line 10Who are you my dear comrade?
- p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
- p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
- 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,
- p. 253, line 26Adieu dear comrade,
- p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
- p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
- p. 263, line 3Here Captain! dear father!
- p. 263, line 18Our dear commander's death.
- p. 264, line 22(O Mother—O Sisters dear!
- p. 292, line 29Dear prison'd soul bear up a space,
- p. 298, line 4MY spirit to yours dear brother,
- p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
- p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
- p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!
- p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
- p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
- p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,
- p. 372, line 11Faces so pale with wondrous eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
- p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
- p. 377, line 14And you mountain sides, and the woods where my dear children's blood trickling redden'd,
- p. 382, line 18Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
- p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
- p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)
- p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
- p. 422, line 2Farewell dear mate, dear love!
- p. 437, line 34[…] the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of men. But my volume is a […]
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- p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
- p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
- p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
- p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
- p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
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- p. 259, line 7Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
- p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
- p. 312, line 12Last miracle of all, O dearest mother's, sister's, voices;)
- p. 372, line 18Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
- p. 426, line 8[…] whole business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless […]
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- p. 11, line 14Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands,
- p. 44, line 25I know I am deathless,
- p. 69, line 2I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
- p. 167, line 26You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures,
- p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
- p. 366, line 17O deathless grass, of you!
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- p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
- p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
- p. 115, line 26I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.
- p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
- p. 199, line 19Carols of lonesome love! death's carols!
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- p. 207, line 20All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
- p. 218, line 5Death, many deaths I'll sing.
- p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
- p. 262, line 2Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,
- p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
- p. 406, line 13[…] Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo […]
- p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,
- p. 411, line 39[…] and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when […]
- p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,
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- p. 19, line 19Countless masses debouch upon them,
- p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
- p. 183, line 22We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
- p. 297, line 16They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man or that woman.
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- p. 60, line 13Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
- p. 203, line 7You friable shore with trails of debris,
- p. 203, line 12I too am but a trail of drift and debris,
- p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
- p. 261, line 25I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,
- p. 365, line 19Out of that old entire European debris, the shatter'd mummeries,
- p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
- p. 417, line 15(Amid the rest, amid the rushing, whirling, wild debris,
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- p. 336, line 1It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided,
- p. 426, line 13[…] unerringly on record—the value thereof to be decided by time […]
- p. 427, line 9[…] and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs […]
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- p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
- p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
- p. 426, line 14In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than […]
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- p. 10, line 15The sky o'erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
- p. 17, line 5The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
- p. 36, line 7My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
- p. 56, line 22Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
- p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
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- p. 204, line 31As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee,
- p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
- p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
- p. 262, line 27Where on the deck my Captain lies,
- p. 263, line 5It is some dream that on the deck,
- p. 263, line 13Walk the deck my Captain lies,
- p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
- p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
- p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
- p. 360, line 4Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas,
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- p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
- p. 108, line 21Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
- p. 123, line 16Here a great personal deed has room,
- p. 123, line 17(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
- p. 153, line 13How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
- p. 290, line 6Not one word or deed, not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of the onanist,
- p. 382, line 16Enough O deed impromptu and secret,
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- p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
- p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
- p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
- p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
- p. 151, line 25The list of all executive deeds and words just or unjust,
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- p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
- p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
- p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
- p. 190, line 21I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
- p. 213, line 27All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts,
- p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
- p. 250, line 21Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
- p. 264, line 12A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
- p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
- p. 357, line 26The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!
- p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
- p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
- p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
- p. 398, line 18For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for colors, forms,
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- p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
- p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
- p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
- p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!
- p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
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- p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
- p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
- p. 167, line 18You occult deep volitions,
- p. 183, line 30We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
- p. 237, line 27In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing,
- p. 243, line 14I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep,
- p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
- p. 260, line 8From deep secluded recesses,
- p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,
- p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
- p. 316, line 9The deep diving bibles and legends,
- p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
- p. 324, line 5Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
- p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
- p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
- p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
- p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
- p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
- p. 408, line 5[…] good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow […]
- p. 409, line 3O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,
- p. 414, line 27The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene,
- p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
- p. 418, line 9Take deep to thy proud prosperous heart.
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- p. 53, line 16The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
- p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
- p. 236, line 21Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
- p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
- p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!
- p. 407, line 34[…] and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd […]
- p. 429, line 2[…] I will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best […]
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- p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
- p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
- p. 242, line 5Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
- p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
- p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
- p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
- p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
- p. 426, line 16[…] Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with […]
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- p. 184, line 23Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
- p. 234, line 25As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
- p. 235, line 6In death, defeat, and sisters', mothers' tears.
- p. 241, line 14And sullen hymns of defeat?
- p. 254, line 4Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled,
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- p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
- p. 288, line 11In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment—for they too are great.
- p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
- p. 328, line 21Now of the older war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,
- p. 358, line 8Utter defeat upon me weighs—all lost—the foe victorious,
- p. 367, line 11Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,
- p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)
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- p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
- p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
- p. 410, line 7Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—here at the west a voice triumphant—justifying all,
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- p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
- p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
- p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
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- p. 84, line 22Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
- p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
- p. 125, line 18Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
- p. 152, line 10All does very well till one flash of defiance.
- p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
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- p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
- p. 270, line 11Songs of stern defiance ever ready,
- p. 407, line 13In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little […]
- p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,
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- p. 153, line 13How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
- p. 252, line 4How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
- p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
- p. 435, line 14[…] leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the […]
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- p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
- p. 18, line 8Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
- p. 337, line 12Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
- p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
- p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
- p. 438, line 26[…] to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively […]
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- p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
- p. 182, line 22Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
- p. 339, line 1CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides,
- p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
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- p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
- p. 56, line 4Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the delicate blue-flower flax,
- p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
- p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
- p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
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- p. 163, line 9These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable,
- p. 164, line 31Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,)
- p. 184, line 14Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
- p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
- p. 206, line 6Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
- p. 252, line 1DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life!
- p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
- p. 260, line 17Sooner or later delicate death.
- p. 281, line 19And the good green grass, that delicate miracle the ever-recurring grass.
- p. 285, line 5But the house alone—that wondrous house—that delicate fair house—that ruin!
- p. 286, line 9The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
- p. 294, line 18Wood-violets, the little delicate pale blossoms called innocence,
- p. 301, line 14Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
- p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
- p. 359, line 5Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,
- p. 362, line 28As some dissolving delicate film of dreams,
- p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
- p. 421, line 21Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,
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- p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
- p. 249, line 21Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk,
- p. 265, line 17Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse,
- p. 368, line 26To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
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- p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
- p. 57, line 5Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles, screams, weeps,
- p. 96, line 6Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,
- p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
- p. 121, line 9(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
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- p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- p. 158, line 22I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance,
- p. 176, line 5Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?
- p. 176, line 6No, the real words are more delicious than they.
- p. 197, line 4From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
- p. 201, line 19Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
- p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
- p. 259, line 2The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,
- p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
- p. 313, line 15The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,
- p. 375, line 9To breathe the air, how delicious!
- p. 382, line 15Delicious, enough.
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- p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
- p. 53, line 24And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
- p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
- p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
- p. 166, line 30With Nature's calm content, with tacit huge delight,
- p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,
- p. 329, line 15My mother look'd in delight and amazement at the stranger,
- p. 389, line 12Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
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- p. 62, line 23The other asks if we demand quarter?
- p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
- p. 107, line 9I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,
- p. 107, line 10Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
- p. 107, line 11Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
- p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
- p. 227, line 19I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,
- p. 431, line 12[…] serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and […]
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- p. 188, line 22Here too demanding full arrears of vengeance.
- p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
- p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
- p. 268, line 26I heard the voice arising demanding bards,
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- p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
- p. 13, line 35Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,
- p. 23, line 12The greatness of Love and Democracy, and the greatness of Religion.
- p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
- p. 48, line 14I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,
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- p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
- p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
- p. 157, line 19Shapes of Democracy total, result of centuries,
- p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
- p. 229, line 24Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!
- p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
- p. 264, line 7(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
- p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
- p. 275, line 10(Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast,
- p. 300, line 9It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
- p. 348, line 14Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
- p. 364, line 25They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
- p. 427, line 14[…] reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to […]
- p. 428, line 5[…] can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]
- p. 430, line 6[…] on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of one, not […]
- p. 431, line 17[…] basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this era of […]
- p. 433, line 30[…] express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer was to […]
- p. 435, line 14[…] but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other […]
- p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that […]
- p. 435, line 32[…] the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an […]
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- p. 9, line 2Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
- p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,
- p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
- p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
- p. 407, line 8[…] platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally […]
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- p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
- p. 419, line 19The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
- p. 429, line 26[…] faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses never was […]
- p. 429, line 37[…] the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union […]
- p. 430, line 26[…] when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come […]
- p. 432, line 13[…] poems of realities and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the […]
- p. 436, line 1[…] ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show that we, here […]
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- p. 10, line 8Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
- p. 151, line 5The crowd with their lit faces watching, the glare and dense shadows;
- p. 165, line 26Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense.
- p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
- p. 236, line 3The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press on,
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- p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;
- p. 258, line 17And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,
- p. 310, line 8Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
- p. 313, line 1From Spanish chestnut trees' dense shade,
- p. 359, line 6The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack,
- p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
- 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;)
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- p. 13, line 5Densities, growth, façades,
- p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
- p. 218, line 13Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?
- p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,
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- p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
- p. 88, line 18I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
- p. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
- p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,
- p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
- p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
- p. 362, line 9And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
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- p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
- p. 35, line 19I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
- p. 78, line 22I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
- p. 98, line 2Put me down and depart on your way.
- p. 98, line 28Therefore release me and depart on your way.
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- p. 110, line 7While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
- 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,
- p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
- p. 248, line 2I saw them depart with cheerfulness, freely risking their lives.
- p. 253, line 15Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close,
- p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
- p. 293, line 4Depart—a God-enfranchis'd soul!
- p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
- p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
- p. 375, line 6Wonderful to depart!
- p. 380, line 3Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
- p. 380, line 10Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.
- p. 382, line 24I love you, I depart from materials,
- p. 404, line 19Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to depart!
- p. 409, line 6Depart, depart from solid earth—no more returning to these shores,
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- p. 46, line 6Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty-topt!
- p. 159, line 12Palmerin, ogre, departed, vanish'd the turrets that Usk from its waters reflected,
- p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
- p. 280, line 7Nor do I forget you Departed,
- p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
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- p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;
- p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
- p. 165, line 24A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, or hamadryads departing,
- p. 253, line 2Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
- p. 257, line 28The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.
- p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
- p. 409, line 30[…] on the last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those last words are not samples of the best, which […]
- p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.
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- p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
- p. 431, line 34[…] as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic […]
- p. 434, line 40[…] supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him […]
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- p. 72, line 9Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
- p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
- p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
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- p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
- p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
- p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
- p. 277, line 20Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?
- p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
- p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,
- p. 421, line 6All ages' plummets dropt to their utmost depths,
- p. 433, line 45[…] as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in […]
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- p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
- p. 65, line 20They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
- p. 115, line 4Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena,
- p. 117, line 18I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
- p. 124, line 15Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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- p. 145, line 15Again I spring up the rigging to look with the rest—we descend, wild with excitement,
- p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
- p. 327, line 15I descend my western course, my sinews are flaccid,
- p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
- p. 399, line 6I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
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- p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
- p. 37, line 15It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
- p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)
- p. 186, line 1Has the night descended?
- p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
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- p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
- p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
- p. 154, line 22I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
- p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,
- p. 318, line 13Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,
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- p. 77, line 15Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
- p. 146, line 4What beauty is this that descends upon me and rises out of me?
- p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
- p. 193, line 16When million-footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements,
- p. 356, line 21A holy calm descends like dew upon me,
- p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,
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- p. 52, line 27The sentries desert every other part of me,
- p. 59, line 19And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will not desert you;
- p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
- p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,
- p. 332, line 15I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
- p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
- p. 372, line 15Follow me ever—desert me not while I live.
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- p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
- p. 54, line 9But call any thing back again when I desire it.
- p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
- p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
- p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
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- p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
- p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
- p. 426, line 35[…] age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire […]
- p. 426, line 36[…] conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering […]
- p. 437, line 3[…] in my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and […]
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- p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,
- p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
- p. 129, line 1Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
- p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
- 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,
- p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
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- p. 60, line 4Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,
- p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
- p. 128, line 8Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.
- p. 212, line 24Liberty, let others despair of you—I never despair of you.
- p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
- p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
- p. 434, line 8[…] nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause […]
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- p. 48, line 18Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
- p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,
- p. 199, line 22O reckless despairing carols.
- p. 341, line 12Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me,
- p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
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- p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
- 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,
- p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
- p. 165, line 4Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands,
- p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.
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- p. 204, line 22O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!
- p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
- p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
- p. 233, line 13They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment,
- p. 247, line 26He call'd for volunteers to run the enemy's lines, a desperate emergency,
- p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
- p. 367, line 11Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,
- p. 377, line 7Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing,
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- p. 48, line 22Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
- p. 268, line 15To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
- p. 273, line 5I have loved the earth, sun, animals, I have despised riches,
- p. 340, line 3Crafty, despised, a drudge, ignorant,
- p. 353, line 7The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or despised face,
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- p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,
- 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,
- p. 341, line 15Come tell me where I am speeding, tell me my destination.
- p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,
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- p. 22, line 9(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the winner's pealing shouts,
- p. 118, line 20You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms with me!
- 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,
- p. 264, line 7(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
- p. 309, line 7Destin'd to fill the world.
- p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
- p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
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- p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
- p. 107, line 1I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
- p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
- p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
- p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
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- p. 67, line 19Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
- p. 92, line 6To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!
- p. 107, line 3(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)
- p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,
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- 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,
- p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
- p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
- p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
- p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
- p. 151, line 17The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty,
- p. 220, line 25All the mutter of preparation, all the determin'd arming,
- p. 222, line 1Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
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- p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
- p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?
- p. 435, line 25[…] altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines […]
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- p. 145, line 10To taste the savage taste of blood—to be so devilish!
- p. 156, line 24The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings,
- p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
- p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
- p. 419, line 20The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,
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- p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
- p. 323, line 29Thou knowest how before I commenced I devoted all to come to Thee,
- p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,
- p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
- p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
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- p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,
- p. 308, line 4O fair auroral skies—O morning dew upon the grass!
- p. 356, line 21A holy calm descends like dew upon me,
- p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
- p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
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- p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
- p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
- p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
- p. 39, line 26(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)
- p. 47, line 3Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
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- p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
- p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
- p. 53, line 5Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
- p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
- p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
- p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
- p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
- p. 123, line 4I did not know I held so much goodness.
- p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
- p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
- p. 186, line 2Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
- p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
- p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
- p. 252, line 9DID you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
- p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
- p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
- p. 288, line 12Did we think victory great?
- p. 289, line 11Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves?
- p. 289, line 13In exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinn'd, in life.
- p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
- p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
- p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
- p. 342, line 9(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
- p. 343, line 1THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear,
- p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
- p. 432, line 26[…] good or bad. Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in […]
- p. 434, line 16[…] some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings […]
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- p. 25, line 11How can the real body ever die and be buried?
- p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
- p. 92, line 13Whispering I love you, before long I die,
- p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
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- p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
- p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
- p. 184, line 25O to die advancing on!
- p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
- p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
- p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
- p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
- p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
- p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
- p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
- p. 422, line 13Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
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- p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
- p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
- p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
- p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
- p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
- p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
- p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.
- p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
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- p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
- p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
- p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
- p. 425, line 30[…] future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of view "Leaves […]
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- p. 18, line 19Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring,
- p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
- p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
- p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
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- p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
- p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
- p. 335, line 5To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
- p. 335, line 17The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,
- p. 433, line 3[…] any library or indoor room—it makes such difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions I […]
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- p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
- p. 97, line 23I am not what you supposed, but far different.
- p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
- p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
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- p. 163, line 19With all thy wide geographies, manifold, different, distant,
- p. 188, line 15Could I wish humanity different?
- p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
- p. 207, line 16All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
- p. 234, line 19I saw something different from capitulation.
- p. 248, line 9I hear the sounds of the different missiles, the short t-h-t! t-h-t! of the rifle-balls,
- p. 310, line 23Echoes of camps with all the different bugle-calls,
- p. 317, line 1In one again, different, (yet thine, all thine, O soul, the same,)
- p. 333, line 24But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
- p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
- p. 346, line 21Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
- p. 404, line 3The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,
- p. 412, line 18(Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,)
- p. 427, line 30[…] my verses, compared with establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still […]
- p. 429, line 10[…] Grass," before a line was written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the result […]
- p. 430, line 22[…] alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or […]
- p. 435, line 34[…] forms an appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing the […]
- p. 436, line 16[…] all are sought to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a […]
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- p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
- p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
- p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
- p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
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- p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
- p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
- p. 66, line 23I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,
- p. 213, line 18Complete in body and dilate in spirit,
- p. 227, line 15My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last,
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- p. 10, line 19The boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here,
- p. 12, line 9Ever the dim beginning,
- p. 196, line 9Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
- p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
- p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
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- p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
- p. 240, line 1A SIGHT in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
- p. 261, line 12Loud in the pines and cedars dim,
- p. 262, line 20There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
- p. 305, line 19The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
- p. 306, line 7Dim smitten star,
- p. 310, line 16Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,
- p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
- p. 325, line 4Dim ever-shifting guesses of it spread before me,
- p. 331, line 2Every one that sleeps is beautiful, every thing in the dim light is beautiful,
- p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
- p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
- p. 376, line 14Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,
- p. 387, line 2Thou dim, uncertain spectre—bringest thou life or death?
- p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
- p. 398, line 16(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, unspecified, readers belov'd,
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- p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
- p. 199, line 10For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
- p. 236, line 4Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,
- p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
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- p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
- p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
- p. 431, line 23[…] their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight dimness! What is there in those works that so imperiously and […]
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- p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
- p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
- p. 428, line 15[…] never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change of army front along the […]
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- p. 32, line 1My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
- p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
- p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
- p. 301, line 8Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
- p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
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- p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
- p. 180, line 6But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
- p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
- p. 290, line 4The indirect is just as much as the direct,
- p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
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- p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
- p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
- p. 433, line 41[…] come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had […]
- p. 437, line 29[…] in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads of all the poetry of the past […]
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- p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
- p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
- p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
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- p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
- p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
- p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
- p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
- p. 195, line 6Trooping up, crowding from all directions, from the Altay mountains,
- p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
- p. 344, line 16The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,
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- p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,
- p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
- p. 432, line 16[…] whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
- p. 437, line 9[…] a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in […]
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- p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
- p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
- p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
- p. 311, line 11The dirge and desolation of mankind.)
- p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)
- p. 396, line 11A song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge,
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- p. 50, line 20The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
- p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
- p. 67, line 27Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
- p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
- p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,
- p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
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- p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
- p. 168, line 6To disappear, to serve.
- p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,
- p. 280, line 24They melt, they disappear.
- p. 396, line 19Yonnondio! Yonnondio!—unlimn'd they disappear;
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- p. 64, line 20I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
- p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
- p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
- p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
- p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
- p. 408, line 3[…] and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd […]
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- p. 48, line 18Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
- p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
- p. 125, line 27No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
- p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
- p. 170, line 13Or that you are diseas'd, or rheumatic, or a prostitute,
- p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
- p. 419, line 20The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,
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- p. 182, line 1Over the mountain-growths disease and sorrow,
- p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
- p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
- p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
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- p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
- p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
- p. 288, line 14And that death and dismay are great.
- p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,
- p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
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- p. 21, line 13And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces;
- p. 54, line 25Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
- p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
- p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
- p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
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- p. 45, line 13I laugh at what you call dissolution,
- p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
- p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
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- p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
- p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
- p. 130, line 7It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
- p. 131, line 15Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not,
- p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
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- p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
- p. 178, line 1Seen at hand or seen at a distance,
- p. 208, line 30(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)
- p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
- p. 258, line 15In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there,
- p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
- p. 356, line 10Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost.
- p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,
- p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
- p. 385, line 11The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,
- p. 433, line 32[…] all should return from straying however far a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which […]
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- p. 38, line 13My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble,
- p. 43, line 4If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
- p. 60, line 15I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,
- p. 60, line 21Distant and dead resuscitate,
- p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
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- p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
- p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
- p. 126, line 16Habituès of many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings,
- p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
- p. 154, line 10Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,
- p. 163, line 19With all thy wide geographies, manifold, different, distant,
- p. 202, line 30With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
- p. 224, line 12On floats the sea in distant blue careering through its channels,
- p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
- p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
- p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
- p. 316, line 21The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
- p. 325, line 10And on the distant waves sail countless ships,
- p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,
- p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
- p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
- p. 389, line 20What are the messages by you from distant stars to us? what Sirius'? what Capella's?
- p. 392, line 17And undertones of distant lion roar,
- p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
- p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
- p. 398, line 16(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, unspecified, readers belov'd,
- p. 415, line 25Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain
- p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,
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- p. 26, line 17Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the compact!
- p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
- p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
- 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;
- p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
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- p. 269, line 13He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,
- p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
- p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
- p. 379, line 11To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,
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- p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
- p. 12, line 15Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,
- p. 19, line 13Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.
- p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
- p. 23, line 23O such themes—equalities! O divine average!
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- p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
- p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
- p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
- p. 80, line 15The divine list for myself or you or for any one making,
- p. 81, line 4From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
- p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
- p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
- p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
- p. 99, line 3I will make divine magnetic lands,
- p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
- p. 102, line 5Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
- p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
- p. 113, line 18I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God the Christ,
- p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
- p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
- p. 125, line 8Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
- p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
- p. 137, line 17Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
- p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
- p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
- p. 158, line 23I mark her step divine, her curious eyes a-turning, rolling,
- p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
- p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
- p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
- p. 178, line 19The divine ship sails the divine sea.
- p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
- p. 182, line 27The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain,
- p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
- p. 194, line 18As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing before us.
- p. 213, line 13LOVER divine and perfect Comrade,
- p. 213, line 30Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
- p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
- p. 240, line 15Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.
- p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,
- p. 285, line 2The divine woman, her body, I see the body, I look on it alone,
- p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
- p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,
- p. 295, line 30(The intentions perfect and divine,
- p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
- p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
- p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
- p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
- p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
- p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
- p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
- p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
- p. 325, line 8As if some miracle, some hand divine unseal'd my eyes,
- p. 326, line 22Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine,
- p. 339, line 2Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine,
- p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
- p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
- p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
- p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
- p. 374, line 16Inflating my throat, you divine average,
- p. 376, line 15To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,
- p. 390, line 15I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;
- p. 406, line 32[…] A Persian Lesson, 418. The Commonplace, 419. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand […]
- p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,
- p. 429, line 43[…] the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but […]
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- p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
- p. 37, line 6Which of the young men does she like the best?
- p. 44, line 4Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
- p. 71, line 6The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?
- p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
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- p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
- p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
- 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,
- p. 85, line 2(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)
- p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
- p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
- p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
- p. 97, line 18That may-be you are what it is all for, but it does not last so very long,
- p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
- p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
- p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
- p. 152, line 9The show passes, all does well enough of course,
- p. 152, line 10All does very well till one flash of defiance.
- p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
- p. 173, line 14Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
- p. 176, line 21The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
- p. 177, line 9The earth does not argue,
- p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
- p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
- p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
- p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
- p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
- p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
- p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
- p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
- p. 224, line 4And what does it say to me all the while?
- p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
- p. 249, line 14No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
- p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
- p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
- p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
- p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
- p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
- p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
- p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
- p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?
- p. 271, line 23Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
- p. 271, line 27Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?
- p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
- p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
- p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
- p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
- p. 290, line 1All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
- p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,
- p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
- p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
- p. 326, line 4And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?
- p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
- p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
- p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
- p. 361, line 22Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
- p. 361, line 25And that the universe does.)
- p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
- p. 380, line 14When America does what was promis'd,
- p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
- p. 428, line 33[…] it must be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do […]
- p. 430, line 30[…] may turn the argument over and repeat it: Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive […]
- p. 436, line 25[…] going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether […]
- p. 437, line 37[…] from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own blood […]
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- p. 22, line 20What are you doing young man?
- p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
- p. 208, line 18And all that went down doing their duty,
- p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
- p. 328, line 5What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
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- p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
- p. 48, line 12And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
- p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
- p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
- p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
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- p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
- p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
- p. 121, line 3Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
- p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
- p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,
- p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
- p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
- p. 139, line 9On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,
- p. 146, line 12My body done with materials, my sight done with my material eyes,
- p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,
- p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
- p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
- p. 187, line 8What you have done returns already in mockeries,
- p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
- p. 196, line 2The ring is circled, the journey is done,
- p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
- p. 229, line 26Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,
- p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
- p. 253, line 1SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!
- p. 262, line 21O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
- p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
- p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
- p. 265, line 24A work remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
- p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
- p. 271, line 17Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
- p. 272, line 20There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done,
- p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.
- p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
- p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
- p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,
- p. 311, line 32The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
- p. 311, line 33The journey done, the journeyman come home,
- p. 322, line 12The seas all cross'd, weather'd the capes, the voyage done,
- p. 334, line 17A minute—no one moves or speaks—it is done,
- p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
- p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
- p. 369, line 23Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
- p. 379, line 5(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)
- p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
- p. 403, line 3An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
- p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,
- p. 411, line 13The pomp and hurried contest-glare and rush are done;
- p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,
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- p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
- p. 69, line 14The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way?
- p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
- p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
- p. 157, line 5The door that admits good news and bad news,
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- p. 157, line 6The door whence the son left home confident and puff'd up,
- p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
- p. 216, line 21THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
- p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
- p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
- p. 237, line 17By the jamb of a door leans.
- p. 237, line 22While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
- p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
- p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
- p. 297, line 1As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
- p. 319, line 10Year at whose wide-flung door I sing!
- p. 414, line 2Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door,
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- p. 17, line 19SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
- p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
- p. 48, line 9Unscrew the locks from the doors!
- p. 48, line 10Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
- p. 64, line 4In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd!
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- p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
- p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
- p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
- p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
- p. 222, line 5Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
- p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
- p. 243, line 3On, on I go, (open doors of time! open hospital doors!)
- p. 263, line 25Sing—as they close the doors of earth upon him—one verse,
- p. 346, line 3From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,
- p. 346, line 7Set ope the doors O soul.
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- p. 255, line 7WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
- p. 255, line 18In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,
- p. 256, line 1With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard,
- p. 262, line 8I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.
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- p. 26, line 18The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
- p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
- p. 246, line 4Down a new-made double grave.
- p. 246, line 20And the double grave awaits them.)
- p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
- p. 327, line 3Double yourself and receive me darkness,
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- p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
- p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
- p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
- p. 101, line 1OF the terrible doubt of appearances,
- p. 106, line 17I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
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- p. 111, line 19How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
- p. 111, line 21O I never doubt whether that is really me.
- p. 230, line 2One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me,
- p. 234, line 16Many no doubt thought of capitulation.
- p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
- p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
- p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
- p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
- p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
- p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
- p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
- p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
- p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
- p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
- p. 349, line 24The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;
- p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
- p. 412, line 16I DOUBT it not—then more, far more;
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- p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
- p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
- p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
- p. 147, line 26My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
- p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
- p. 426, line 9[…] and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for […]
- p. 427, line 6[…] or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it gives one […]
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- p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
- p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
- p. 150, line 12Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,
- p. 216, line 14In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
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- p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
- p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
- p. 256, line 21With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black,
- p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
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- p. 89, line 1I draw you close to me, you women,
- p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
- p. 100, line 3And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
- p. 146, line 2How clear is my mind—how all people draw nigh to me!
- p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
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- p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
- p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
- p. 251, line 2I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,
- p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,
- p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
- p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;
- p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
- p. 372, line 12Draw close, but speak not.
- p. 379, line 1AS they draw to a close,
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- p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
- p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
- p. 103, line 12ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
- p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,
- p. 148, line 17Head from the mother's bowels drawn,
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- p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
- p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
- p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
- p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
- p. 351, line 25The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
- p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
- p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!
- p. 417, line 21We mourn the old, the young untimely drawn to thee,
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- p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
- p. 147, line 30It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws.
- p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
- p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
- p. 370, line 1AS the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,
- p. 420, line 28Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face.
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- p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
- p. 144, line 20(O something pernicious and dread!
- p. 164, line 24We dedicate, dread Mother, all to thee!
- p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.
- p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
- p. 347, line 23And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,
- p. 349, line 24The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;
- p. 370, line 2A dread beyond of I know not what darkens me.
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- p. 19, line 18As in a dream they change, they swiftly fill,
- p. 106, line 10You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
- p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
- p. 183, line 1Is it a dream?
- p. 183, line 2Nay but the lack of it the dream,
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- p. 183, line 3And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream,
- p. 183, line 4And all the world a dream.
- p. 263, line 5It is some dream that on the deck,
- p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
- p. 315, line 7Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.
- p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
- p. 317, line 18(Ah Genoese thy dream! thy dream!
- p. 317, line 20The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.)
- p. 326, line 16I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
- p. 353, line 10The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,
- p. 367, line 18I dream, I dream, I dream.
- p. 367, line 22I dream, I dream, I dream.
- p. 367, line 26I dream, I dream, I dream.
- p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;
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- p. 67, line 27Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
- p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
- p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
- p. 109, line 20I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
- p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
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- p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
- p. 337, line 3For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
- p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
- p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
- p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
- p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
- p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
- p. 341, line 3And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
- p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
- p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
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- p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
- p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
- p. 100, line 26Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
- p. 100, line 27Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
- p. 185, line 15All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
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- p. 186, line 9WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
- p. 242, line 13But in silence, in dreams' projections,
- p. 243, line 23Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
- p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
- p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,
- p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
- p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
- p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,
- p. 316, line 8The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos'd dreams,
- p. 316, line 14Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams!
- p. 322, line 8What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
- p. 326, line 16I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
- p. 330, line 4O love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me,
- p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
- p. 330, line 7Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
- p. 362, line 28As some dissolving delicate film of dreams,
- p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
- p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
- p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
- p. 425, line 29[…] own time, but have fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar […]
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- p. 32, line 1My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
- p. 41, line 1The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute-hand of the clock moves slowly,
- 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,
- 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,
- p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
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- p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
- p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
- p. 243, line 14I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep,
- p. 243, line 17I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,
- p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
- p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
- p. 355, line 23I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
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- p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
- p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
- p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,
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- p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
- p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
- p. 37, line 5She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
- p. 61, line 20Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
- p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
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- p. 116, line 4I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head,
- 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;
- p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,
- p. 210, line 16See how well dress'd, see how orderly they conduct themselves.
- p. 230, line 20Drest in blue, bearing their trusty rifles on their shoulders.
- p. 237, line 25She with thin form presently drest in black,
- p. 401, line 11Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth:
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- p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
- p. 100, line 12But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,
- p. 233, line 14Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle,
- p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,
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- p. 17, line 22The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,
- p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
- p. 139, line 8White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,
- p. 149, line 27The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;
- p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
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- p. 202, line 22I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift,
- p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
- p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
- p. 203, line 12I too am but a trail of drift and debris,
- p. 409, line 12We only know that we drift here with the rest,
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- p. 204, line 12Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.
- p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
- p. 328, line 15The tempest lulls, the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
- p. 394, line 2I'll mind the lesson, solitary bird—let me too welcome chilling drifts,
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- p. 18, line 19Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring,
- p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
- p. 74, line 12Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
- p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
- p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
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- p. 94, line 6I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,
- p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,
- p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
- p. 286, line 25That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
- p. 323, line 21I cannot rest O God, I cannot eat or drink or sleep,
- p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
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- p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
- p. 57, line 1At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
- p. 69, line 26Drinking mead from the skull-cup, to Shastas and Vedas admirant, minding the Koran,
- p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
- p. 108, line 7Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
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- p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
- p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
- p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
- p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
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- p. 59, line 14They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.
- p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
- p. 204, line 15On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,
- p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
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- p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
- p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
- p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
- p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,
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- p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
- p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
- p. 124, line 18What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
- p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
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- p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
- 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,
- 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;
- p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
- p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
- p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,
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- p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
- p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
- p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
- 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;
- p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,
- p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)
- p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
- p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
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- p. 32, line 28And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
- p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
- p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
- p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
- p. 255, line 11Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
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- p. 262, line 15With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,
- p. 284, line 10Her old white hair drooping dishevel'd round her shoulders,
- p. 294, line 28With drooping lids, as waiting, ponder'd,
- p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,
- p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,
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- p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
- p. 53, line 19A minute and a drop of me settle my brain,
- p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
- p. 75, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key,
- p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
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- p. 92, line 12OUT of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
- p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
- p. 104, line 12Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;
- p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
- p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
- p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
- p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
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- p. 81, line 12From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
- p. 119, line 23You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!
- p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
- p. 142, line 14O for the dropping of raindrops in a song!
- p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
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- p. 302, line 9Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
- p. 373, line 16Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
- p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,
- p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
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- p. 39, line 30What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
- p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,
- p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
- p. 104, line 19TRICKLE drops! my blue veins leaving!
- p. 104, line 20O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,
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- p. 104, line 21Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
- p. 104, line 24From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops, confession drops,
- p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
- p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
- p. 105, line 4Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
- p. 233, line 17I saw the moisture gather in drops on the face of the General.
- p. 262, line 26O the bleeding drops of red,
- p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,
- p. 329, line 1His face is cold and damp, he cannot repress the weeping drops,
- p. 406, line 5[…] Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain […]
- p. 409, line 14To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
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- p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
- p. 33, line 7A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
- p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
- p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
- p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
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- p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
- p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
- p. 257, line 23Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.
- p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
- p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
- p. 395, line 26A wafted autumn leaf, dropt in the closing grave, the shovel'd earth,
- p. 421, line 6All ages' plummets dropt to their utmost depths,
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drown'd 4 today: drowned
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- p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
- p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,
- p. 223, line 11By the wind's voice and that of the drum,
- p. 231, line 13In peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine,
- p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
- p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
- p. 378, line 19Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
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- p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
- p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
- 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,
- p. 222, line 4BEAT! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
- p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
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- p. 222, line 11Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
- p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
- p. 222, line 18Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
- p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
- p. 225, line 13I hear the drums beat and the trumpets blowing,
- p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
- p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
- p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
- p. 246, line 13I hear the great drums pounding,
- p. 246, line 14And the small drums steady whirring,
- p. 246, line 15And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
- p. 246, line 22And the drums strike more convulsive,
- p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
- p. 279, line 22Pass—then rattle drums again,
- p. 311, line 6Now loud approaching drums,
- p. 354, line 25I hear victorious drums.
- p. 372, line 6Nothing from you this time O drummers bearing my warlike drums.
- p. 378, line 3Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,
- p. 403, line 11Or "Beat! Beat! Drums!" or "To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod,"
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- p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
- p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
- p. 331, line 15The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
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- p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
- p. 213, line 5A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh,
- p. 285, line 26Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
- p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
- p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
- p. 337, line 2And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
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- p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
- p. 55, line 23Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
- p. 59, line 27The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on,
- p. 77, line 17Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
- p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
- p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,
- p. 408, line 1[…] no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but […]
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- p. 21, line 3The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing,
- p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
- p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
- p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
- p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
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- p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
- p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
- p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
- p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
- p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
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- p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
- p. 64, line 7And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
- p. 70, line 6Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded,
- p. 234, line 8So dull and damp and another day,
- p. 237, line 16Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
- p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
- p. 387, line 6Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?
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- p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
- p. 71, line 20All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.
- p. 84, line 14She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
- p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
- p. 168, line 5To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last,
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- p. 178, line 2Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
- p. 178, line 3Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companion,
- p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
- p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
- p. 267, line 15Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts,
- p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
- p. 303, line 4Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient,
- p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
- p. 324, line 2Accepting all from Thee, as duly come from Thee.
- p. 331, line 12The universe is duly in order, every thing is in its place,
- p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
- p. 334, line 13Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,
- p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
- p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
- p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
- p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
- p. 390, line 17Duly the needed discord-parts offsetting, blending,
- p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
- p. 397, line 6"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,)
- p. 399, line 10Reck'd or unreck'd. duly with love returns.)
- p. 436, line 15[…] with those words are behind all, and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a […]
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- p. 48, line 16Through me many long dumb voices,
- p. 61, line 11The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
- p. 98, line 6And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
- p. 118, line 8The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,
- p. 134, line 7You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
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- p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
- p. 179, line 24I become a dumb man.
- p. 186, line 17O I have been dilatory and dumb,
- p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,
- p. 326, line 1The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
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- p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
- p. 63, line 5They hold out bravely during the whole of the action.
- p. 407, line 26[…] feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the […]
- p. 411, line 33During the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington […]
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- p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,
- p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
- p. 78, line 21It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
- p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
- p. 205, line 11At dusk that look'st on Senegal, at morn America,
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- p. 259, line 6Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
- p. 262, line 20There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
- p. 293, line 10She vanish'd with her children in the dusk.
- p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
- p. 327, line 5I roll myself upon you as upon a bed, I resign myself to the dusk.
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- p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
- p. 163, line 32See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.
- p. 199, line 5What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
- p. 201, line 26But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
- p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
- p. 366, line 19Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,
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- p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
- p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
- p. 263, line 27THIS dust was once the man,
- p. 272, line 5The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons,
- p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,
- p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
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- p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
- p. 162, line 30All occupations, duties broad and close,
- p. 190, line 4I give nothing as duties,
- p. 190, line 5What others give as duties I give as living impulses,
- p. 398, line 1Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
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- p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
- p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
- p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
- p. 208, line 18And all that went down doing their duty,
- p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
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- p. 15, line 17We dwell a while in every city and town,
- p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
- p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
- p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
- p. 409, line 29Why do folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of the […]
- p. 438, line 15[…] or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses […]
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- p. 112, line 19What myriads of dwellings are they fill'd with dwellers?
- p. 155, line 24Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
- p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
- p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
- p. 221, line 20Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,
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- p. 26, line 24Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
- p. 47, line 26Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling,
- p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
- p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
- p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
- p. 408, line 16[…] of it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied […]
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- p. 112, line 19What myriads of dwellings are they fill'd with dwellers?
- p. 126, line 16Habituès of many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings,
- p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
- p. 258, line 17And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,
- p. 285, line 6That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built!
- p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,
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- 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,
- p. 61, line 6Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general, he furiously waves with his hand,
- p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
- p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
- p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
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- p. 165, line 26Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense.
- p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
- p. 185, line 7All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
- p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
- p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
- p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
- p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
- p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
- p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
- p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
- p. 313, line 4Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.
- p. 319, line 25The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
- p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
- p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
- p. 333, line 19The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
- p. 344, line 1O LIVING always, always dying!
- p. 381, line 15It appears to me I am dying.
- p. 384, line 57[…] Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds […]
- p. 400, line 8Lay dying—sons, daughters, church-deacons, lovingly tending him,
- p. 408, line 25[…] States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly […]
- p. 413, line 35[…] last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of […]
- p. 419, line 20The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,