Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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.

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each 146

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eager 8

  1. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
  2. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
  3. p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
  4. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
  5. p. 334, line 1To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  6. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  7. p. 396, line 26Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud applause;
  8. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)

eagerly 1

  1. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;

eagle 1

  1. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,

eagles 4

  1. p. 216, line 10Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
  2. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  3. p. 385, line 9I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
  4. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)

ear 8

  1. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  2. p. 186, line 15I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
  3. p. 277, line 28Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding,
  4. p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,
  5. p. 362, line 11Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,
  6. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,
  7. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  8. p. 431, line 3[…] to deaden or displace those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records […]

earlier 1

  1. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,

earliest 1

  1. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,

early 27

  1. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
  2. p. 36, line 8The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
  3. p. 44, line 4Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
  4. p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  5. p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
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  1. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  2. p. 90, line 9The wet of woods through the early hours,
  3. p. 95, line 12AS Adam early in the morning,
  4. p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
  5. p. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
  6. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  7. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
  8. p. 209, line 18TO get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early,
  9. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  10. p. 240, line 2As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
  11. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
  12. p. 257, line 8O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,
  13. p. 282, line 21The early lilacs became part of this child,
  14. p. 320, line 34To reason's early paradise,
  15. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  16. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  17. p. 385, line 20Quench'd by an early death.
  18. p. 388, line 15The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning;
  19. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,
  20. p. 425, line 10So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward […]
  21. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from the time […]
  22. p. 436, line 5[…] and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my life.) I will want them to be […]

earn 2

  1. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  2. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,

earn'd 1 today: earned

  1. p. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,

earned see earn'd

earnest 6

  1. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  2. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
  3. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
  4. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  5. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  6. p. 437, line 26[…] and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely […]

earnestness 1

  1. p. 413, line 44[…] American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer […]

ears 20

  1. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  2. p. 51, line 16I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears,
  3. p. 55, line 7Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
  4. p. 55, line 9Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
  5. p. 60, line 8Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.
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  1. p. 60, line 27Again to my listening ears the cannon responsive.
  2. p. 75, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  3. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
  4. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
  5. p. 200, line 22The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,
  6. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
  7. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  8. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  9. p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
  10. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;
  11. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
  12. p. 395, line 20How through those strains distill'd—how the rapt ears, the soul of me, absorbing
  13. p. 399, line 15Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes—all that takes cognizance of natural beauty,
  14. p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:

ear-singer 1

  1. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.

earth 227

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earth-beetles 1

  1. p. 333, line 4Have you dreaded these earth-beetles?

earth-born 1

  1. p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,

earth-eidólon 1

  1. p. 13, line 12The mighty earth-eidólon.

earthquake 1

  1. p. 359, line 17Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all,

earth's 14

  1. p. 148, line 25Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind,
  2. p. 159, line 1The same undying soul of earth's, activity's, beauty's, heroism's expression,
  3. p. 160, line 23Earth's modern wonder, history's seven outstripping,
  4. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  5. p. 176, line 17Amelioration is one of the earth's words,
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  1. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  2. p. 319, line 22The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands,
  3. p. 324, line 13By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,
  4. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
  5. p. 358, line 17A vigor more than earth's is in thy notes,
  6. p. 396, line 25Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
  7. p. 398, line 9The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue.
  8. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  9. p. 419, line 24(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?)

earthy 1

  1. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,

ease 10

  1. p. 16, line 6ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
  2. p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
  3. p. 73, line 18No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  4. p. 108, line 8Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
  5. p. 136, line 6He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
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  1. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  2. p. 299, line 21BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
  3. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
  4. p. 400, line 1Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
  5. p. 411, line 37[…] was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd […]

easier 2

  1. p. 180, line 2It is not what you anticipated, it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
  2. p. 411, line 39[…] would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and […]

easiest 1

  1. p. 39, line 11What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me,

easily 5

  1. p. 68, line 8Easily written loose-finger'd chords—I feel the thrum of your climax and close.
  2. p. 192, line 13We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and more,
  3. p. 240, line 19Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand,)
  4. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,
  5. p. 413, line 41[…] points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling […]

east 31

  1. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  2. p. 50, line 6The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  3. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  4. p. 110, line 8TO the East and to the West,
  5. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
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  1. p. 123, line 2The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
  2. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  3. p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
  4. p. 164, line 2Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen,
  5. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  6. p. 189, line 7O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
  7. p. 205, line 28Watching the east, the autumn sky.
  8. p. 206, line 3Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
  9. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  10. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,
  11. p. 246, line 6Up from the east the silvery round moon,
  12. p. 258, line 4Sea-winds blown from east and west,
  13. p. 266, line 27Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,
  14. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,
  15. p. 315, line 22In the Old World the east the Suez canal,
  16. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  17. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  18. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  19. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  20. p. 375, line 32As I went forth in the morning, as I beheld the light breaking in the east,
  21. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  22. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
  23. p. 412, line 1FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,
  24. p. 416, line 5Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,
  25. p. 418, line 12From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
  26. p. 431, line 11[…] old and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid […]

easterly 1

  1. p. 208, line 28Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,

eastern 15

  1. p. 26, line 9Land of the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware!
  2. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  3. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  4. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
  5. p. 164, line 14Thy wealthy daughter-states, Eastern and Western,
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  1. p. 188, line 9I walk'd the shores of my Eastern sea,
  2. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,
  3. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,
  4. p. 227, line 6And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western shore the same,
  5. p. 246, line 25In the eastern sky up-buoying,
  6. p. 258, line 5Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the prairies meeting,
  7. p. 317, line 16Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,
  8. p. 376, line 1As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,
  9. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,
  10. p. 431, line 31[…] belief, that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in the Western. As […]

eastward 5

  1. p. 27, line 2Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
  2. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  3. p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,
  4. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  5. p. 385, line 10Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)

easy 2

  1. p. 103, line 15Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
  2. p. 150, line 24The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,

eat 6

  1. p. 39, line 10I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  2. p. 44, line 9How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  3. p. 74, line 12Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
  4. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  5. p. 323, line 21I cannot rest O God, I cannot eat or drink or sleep,
  6. p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,

eaten 1

  1. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.

eaters 2

  1. p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  2. p. 213, line 5A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh,

eating 8

  1. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
  2. p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
  3. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  4. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  5. p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,
  6. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  7. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  8. p. 355, line 3This face is flavor'd fruit ready for eating,

eats 3

  1. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
  2. p. 80, line 2From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
  3. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,

ebb 11

  1. p. 10, line 16We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
  2. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  3. p. 133, line 7Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
  4. p. 203, line 20Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,)
  5. p. 384, line 25[…] Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the […]
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  1. p. 390, line 1Last of ebb, and daylight waning,
  2. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  3. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  4. p. 411, line 34[…] and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of […]
  5. p. 438, line 1As idly drifting down the ebb,

ebb'd 1 today: ebbed

  1. p. 202, line 1AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life,

ebbed see ebb'd

ebbing 1

  1. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!

ebbs 1

  1. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.

ebb-tide 3

  1. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  2. p. 133, line 7Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
  3. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,

eccentric 1

  1. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,

echo 7

  1. p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,
  2. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  3. p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
  4. p. 262, line 14And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul,
  5. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  6. p. 382, line 1Afterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)
  7. p. 438, line 2Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo from the shore.

echoed 2

  1. p. 161, line 26Echoed through long, long centuries to come,
  2. p. 166, line 11The choppers heard not, the camp shanties echoed not,

echoes 17

  1. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  2. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
  3. p. 30, line 2Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,
  4. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  5. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
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  1. p. 100, line 25Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
  2. p. 113, line 6I hear continual echoes from the Thames,
  3. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  4. p. 150, line 13The echoes resounding through the vacant building;
  5. 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,
  6. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  7. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  8. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  9. p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,
  10. p. 309, line 15Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
  11. p. 310, line 23Echoes of camps with all the different bugle-calls,
  12. p. 317, line 5I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the world,

echoing 4

  1. p. 200, line 16The winds blowing, the notes of the bird continuous echoing,
  2. p. 285, line 14Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house—but dead, dead, dead.
  3. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
  4. p. 359, line 17Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all,

eclaircise 1

  1. p. 316, line 4Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.

eclaircissement 1

  1. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,

eclat 1

  1. p. 369, line 7Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,

ecstasies 1

  1. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?

ecstasy 5

  1. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
  2. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,
  3. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  4. p. 358, line 25Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
  5. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.

ecstatic 15

  1. p. 13, line 9Exaltè, rapt, ecstatic,
  2. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  3. p. 29, line 2O something ecstatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
  4. p. 167, line 8Still prouder, more ecstatic rose the chant,
  5. p. 168, line 10Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling,
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  1. p. 188, line 21Here too could rise at last murdering and ecstatic,
  2. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,
  3. p. 200, line 20The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying,
  4. p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
  5. p. 247, line 19I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.
  6. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  7. p. 309, line 17And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)
  8. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  9. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
  10. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!

eddies 8

  1. p. 30, line 5The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,
  2. p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
  3. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
  4. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  5. p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.
  6. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  7. p. 328, line 10His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruis'd on rocks,
  8. p. 390, line 3With many a half-caught voice sent up from the eddies,

Edgar 1

  1. p. 433, line 15[…] last I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho […]

edge 14

  1. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  2. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  3. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  4. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  5. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
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  1. p. 209, line 3Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
  2. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  3. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
  4. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  5. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  6. p. 301, line 26By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
  7. p. 323, line 17I take my way along the island's edge,
  8. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  9. p. 412, line 1FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,

edged 1

  1. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,

edges 3

  1. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
  2. p. 121, line 27You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges!
  3. p. 183, line 26Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,

edging 2

  1. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  2. p. 201, line 22But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,

edifice 4

  1. p. 151, line 12The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,
  2. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
  3. p. 398, line 3As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,

edifices 2

  1. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  2. p. 107, line 6Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,

Edinburgh 1

  1. p. 117, line 15I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,

editions 1

  1. p. 436, line 37[…] cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if there […]

editor 1

  1. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;

educated 2

  1. p. 170, line 11Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  2. p. 434, line 43[…] heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed […]

education 2

  1. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  2. p. 435, line 26[…] as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular education, a certain liability accompanies them all, as we see. That […]

educations 1

  1. p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?

eel-basket 1

  1. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,

eel-fisher 1

  1. p. 143, line 23The work of fishermen, the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher;

eel-spear 2

  1. p. 143, line 24I come with my clam-rake and spade, I come with my eel-spear,
  2. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,

e'en 7

  1. p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
  2. p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)
  3. p. 394, line 3E'en the profoundest chill, as now—a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd,
  4. p. 403, line 19What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!)
  5. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,
  6. p. 418, line 10E'en as I chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime,

e'er 2

  1. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  2. p. 418, line 22How ill to e'er forget thee!

effect 4

  1. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
  2. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  3. p. 411, line 37[…] suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get […]
  4. p. 411, line 40[…] were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the […]

effects 2

  1. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
  2. p. 214, line 5Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,

effectual 1

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

effectually 1

  1. p. 89, line 10I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,

efflux 4

  1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,
  2. p. 124, line 10Here is the efflux of the soul,
  3. p. 124, line 11The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions,
  4. p. 124, line 21The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness,

effort 2

  1. p. 324, line 21One effort more, my altar this bleak sand;
  2. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into […]

efforts 1

  1. p. 320, line 22(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,

effulgently 1

  1. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.

effuse 6

  1. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  2. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  3. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  4. p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
  5. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  6. p. 304, line 14The great laws take and effuse without argument,

effusing 1

  1. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,

effusion 2

  1. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  2. p. 364, line 22Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.

egg 1

  1. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

eggs 4

  1. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
  2. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  3. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
  4. p. 286, line 14The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs,

Egina 1

  1. p. 115, line 20I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.

ego 1

  1. p. 427, line 33[…] assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his […]

egotism 2

  1. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  2. p. 69, line 5I know perfectly well my own egotism,

egress 1

  1. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.

Egypt 4

  1. p. 118, line 1I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks,
  2. p. 159, line 5Silent the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century-baffling tombs,
  3. p. 191, line 23With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,
  4. p. 388, line 2The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;

Egyptian 2

  1. p. 314, line 1I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,
  2. p. 414, line 25Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia,

Egyptians 1

  1. p. 118, line 1I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks,

Egypt's 1

  1. p. 160, line 12Mightier than Egypt's tombs,

eidólon 6

  1. p. 12, line 24To fashion his eidólon.
  2. p. 12, line 28In its eidólon.
  3. p. 14, line 8An image, an eidólon.
  4. p. 14, line 12A round full-orb'd eidólon.
  5. p. 406, line 3[…] Note to 2d Annex, 407. Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the […]
  6. p. 409, line 9Sail out for good, eidólon yacht of me!

eidólons 20

  1. p. 12, line 4To glean eidólons.
  2. p. 12, line 8That of eidólons.
  3. p. 12, line 12Eidólons! eidólons!
  4. p. 12, line 16Issuing eidólons.
  5. p. 12, line 20But really build eidólons.
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  1. p. 12, line 32The old, old urge, eidólons.
  2. p. 12, line 36To-day's eidólons.
  3. p. 13, line 4Joining eidólons.
  4. p. 13, line 8Eidólons everlasting.
  5. p. 13, line 16Fill'd with eidólons only.
  6. p. 13, line 20The true realities, eidólons.
  7. p. 13, line 24Eidólons, eidólons.
  8. p. 13, line 28The entities of entities, eidólons.
  9. p. 13, line 32Eidólons, eidólons, eidólons.
  10. p. 13, line 36God and eidólons.
  11. p. 14, line 4Thy mates, eidólons.

eight 2

  1. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  2. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I […]

eighteen 2

  1. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,
  2. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

eighty 4

  1. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  2. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  3. p. 146, line 1I am more than eighty years of age, I am the most venerable mother,
  4. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,

eighty-five 1

  1. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,

eighty-third 2

  1. p. 111, line 23I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
  2. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,

Eine 1

  1. p. 314, line 9Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott,

either 9

  1. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  2. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
  3. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  4. p. 120, line 5I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
  5. p. 176, line 22The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either,
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  1. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  2. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  3. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  4. p. 430, line 40[…] all that precedes or opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber […]

ejaculate 1

  1. p. 349, line 18I merely thee ejaculate!

ejaculating 1

  1. p. 366, line 7(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)

eke 1

  1. p. 404, line 17Something to eke out a minute additional—shadows of nightfall deepening,

elaborate 1

  1. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.

elastic 5

  1. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
  2. p. 205, line 4The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun,
  3. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  4. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,
  5. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

elasticity 1

  1. p. 72, line 12O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity!

elate 6

  1. p. 162, line 2Lifted, illumin'd, bathed in peace—elate, secure in peace.
  2. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  3. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  4. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.
  5. p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
  6. p. 389, line 7Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.

elated 1

  1. p. 343, line 2But now the chorus I hear and am elated,

Elbe 1

  1. p. 118, line 27You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!

elbow'd 1 today: elbowed

  1. p. 46, line 10Far-swooping elbow'd earth—rich apple-blossom'd earth!

elbowed see elbow'd

elbows 2

  1. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,
  2. p. 108, line 4Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,

elbow-socket 1

  1. p. 87, line 9Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,

Elbruz 1

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

eld 2

  1. p. 194, line 12The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,
  2. p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,

elder 12

  1. p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
  2. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
  3. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  4. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  5. p. 177, line 24Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
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  1. p. 183, line 17Have the elder races halted?
  2. p. 185, line 22O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
  3. p. 316, line 10The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions;
  4. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  5. p. 324, line 13By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,
  6. p. 403, line 8From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)
  7. p. 414, line 20Accept for me, thou saidst, the elder ballads,

elder-hand 1

  1. p. 77, line 3I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,

elderly 1

  1. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?

eldest 1

  1. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.

elected 1

  1. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,

election 2

  1. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  2. p. 384, line 30[…] Long Scan of Waves—Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General […]

electric 19

  1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  2. p. 81, line 16I SING the body electric,
  3. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  4. p. 115, line 12I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,
  5. p. 165, line 19Think not our chant, our show, merely for products gross or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual!
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  1. p. 181, line 27Electric, antiseptic yet, cleaving, suffusing all,
  2. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  3. p. 202, line 17As I walk'd with that electric self seeking types.
  4. p. 219, line 23A shock electric, the night sustain'd it,
  5. p. 230, line 9I have witness'd the true lightning, I have witness'd my cities electric,
  6. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  7. p. 309, line 11Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,
  8. p. 312, line 33The clear electric base and baritone of the world,
  9. p. 349, line 9Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be constructed here,
  10. p. 367, line 5Electric life forever at the centre,)
  11. p. 371, line 3With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war,
  12. p. 376, line 8I praise with electric voice,
  13. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,
  14. p. 381, line 18Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,

electrical 1

  1. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,

electroplating 1

  1. p. 174, line 11Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking, electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,

electrotyping 1

  1. p. 174, line 11Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking, electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,

eleemosynary 1

  1. p. 412, line 15Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.

elegance 1

  1. p. 265, line 17Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse,

elegant 2

  1. p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
  2. p. 249, line 22Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,

element 2

  1. p. 429, line 30[…] me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more […]
  2. p. 436, line 23[…] the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme in literature […]

elemental 4

  1. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  2. p. 392, line 22The tale of cosmic elemental passion,
  3. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)
  4. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

elementary 1

  1. p. 45, line 4I see that the elementary laws never apologize,

elements 9

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,
  2. p. 125, line 17Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
  5. p. 330, line 7Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
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  1. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  2. p. 429, line 3[…] far higher than those themes for the best elements of modern song […]
  3. p. 435, line 39[…] can happily never again be realized—but the elements of courageous and lofty manhood are unchanged […]
  4. p. 437, line 18[…] enough, for it was grown out of those elements, and has been the comfort of my life since it […]

Eleusis 1

  1. p. 313, line 22Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,

elevatedness 1

  1. 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,

elevations 1

  1. p. 297, line 12After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,

eleve 2

  1. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  2. p. 110, line 21Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?

eleven 1

  1. p. 62, line 5At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies;

eleves 1

  1. p. 65, line 9Eleves, I salute you! come forward!

eligibility 1

  1. p. 413, line 41[…] are easily admitted. But we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to the other. These […]

eligible 10

  1. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
  2. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  3. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  4. p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
  5. p. 182, line 23All eligible to all.
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  1. p. 265, line 1All is eligible to all,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 435, line 2[…] of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to and relied on […]
  4. p. 436, line 2[…] to show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than […]
  5. p. 436, line 3[…] eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of old were. I will also […]

eliminated 1

  1. p. 431, line 31[…] sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in […]

eliminating 1

  1. p. 435, line 33[…] science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality is quite […]

elision 1

  1. p. 436, line 41[…] as word of mine can do so, any elision of them […]

elk 3

  1. p. 54, line 17In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  2. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,
  3. p. 317, line 10I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,

Elkhorn 1

  1. p. 42, line 10A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,

eloping 1

  1. p. 121, line 18The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,

eloquent 2

  1. p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
  2. p. 315, line 24The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires;

else 54

  1. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  2. p. 21, line 17(However high the head of any else that head is over all.)
  3. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  4. p. 23, line 6But there is something else very great, it makes the whole coincide,
  5. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
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  1. p. 44, line 12Else it were time lost listening to me.
  2. p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  3. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  4. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  5. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  6. p. 80, line 1O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
  7. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  8. p. 85, line 2(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)
  9. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  10. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  11. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
  12. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  13. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
  14. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  15. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  16. p. 131, line 8These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
  17. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  18. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
  19. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.
  20. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  21. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  22. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  23. p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
  24. p. 170, line 20And all else behind or through them.
  25. p. 171, line 23The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever,
  26. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  27. p. 182, line 31In Thy ensemble, whatever else withheld withhold not from us,
  28. p. 187, line 12I pursue you where none else has pursued you,
  29. p. 200, line 15All else continuing, the stars shining,
  30. p. 234, line 15Every one else seem'd fill'd with gloom,
  31. p. 264, line 23If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
  32. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  33. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  34. p. 300, line 7It is no more in the legends than in all else,
  35. p. 301, line 2As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
  36. 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,
  37. p. 304, line 5But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,
  38. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  39. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  40. p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
  41. p. 369, line 18What else is so real as mine?
  42. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
  43. p. 425, line 34[…] shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere […]
  44. p. 426, line 15[…] far more peremptory than I am. Behind all else that can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and […]
  45. p. 426, line 39[…] the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully […]
  46. p. 427, line 36[…] basic point of view of verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an article […]
  47. p. 432, line 5[…] the old works as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and […]
  48. p. 432, line 6[…] through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result […]
  49. p. 433, line 15Toward the last I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not […]

else's 1

  1. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.

elsewhere 10

  1. p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
  2. p. 199, line 33Do not be decoy'd elsewhere,
  3. p. 212, line 16Cold and motionless as they seem live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  4. p. 248, line 16Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,)
  5. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
5 more lines
  1. p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
  2. p. 408, line 23[…] of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States […]
  3. p. 428, line 35[…] The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the […]
  4. p. 431, line 41I have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and […]
  5. p. 437, line 38[…] own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own blood "—a solace to my frequent […]

elude 4

  1. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  2. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  3. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,

eluded 6

  1. p. 336, line 9The law of the past cannot be eluded,
  2. p. 336, line 10The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  3. p. 336, line 11The law of the living cannot be eluded, it is eternal,
  4. p. 336, line 12The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  5. p. 336, line 13The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  6. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.

eludes 4

  1. p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,
  2. p. 197, line 7Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
  3. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  4. p. 362, line 10THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,

eluding 1

  1. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!

elusive 1

  1. p. 398, line 25Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.

emanate 2

  1. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,
  2. p. 437, line 17[…] all materialism, through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out […]

emanations 1

  1. p. 65, line 19Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,

emanative 1

  1. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,

embalm 1

  1. p. 372, line 23Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.

embalm'd 2 today: embalmed

  1. p. 118, line 3I see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
  2. p. 416, line 15Embalm'd with love in this twilight song.

embalmed see embalm'd

embarcation 1

  1. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;

embark 1

  1. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,

embattled 1

  1. p. 280, line 22A million flush'd embattled conquerors wait,

embedded 1

  1. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:

embers 2

  1. p. 311, line 10The hiss and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,
  2. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,

emblem 7

  1. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  2. p. 148, line 23Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music,
  3. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  4. p. 164, line 30And thou, the Emblem waving over all!
  5. p. 208, line 16A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death,
  6. p. 349, line 1Emblem of general maternity lifted above all,
  7. p. 359, line 10Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,

emblematic 1

  1. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,

embodied 2

  1. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,
  2. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!

embodiments 1

  1. p. 86, line 7Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.

embody 3

  1. p. 64, line 5Embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering,
  2. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,
  3. p. 425, line 20[…] unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first […]

embodying 2

  1. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
  2. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?

embouchure 1

  1. p. 266, line 24Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him,

embouchures 1

  1. p. 43, line 12I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

embower'd 2 today: embowered

  1. p. 124, line 11The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions,
  2. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,

embowered see embower'd

embrace 6

  1. p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
  2. p. 81, line 5From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in the night,
  3. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
  4. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  5. p. 380, line 8Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
  6. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)

embraced 1

  1. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,

embraces 5

  1. p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
  2. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
  3. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  4. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.

embracing 7

  1. p. 77, line 27To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  2. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
  3. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  4. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  5. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  6. p. 198, line 26And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,

embroider'd 1 today: embroidered

  1. p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,

embroidered see embroider'd

embroiderer 1

  1. p. 189, line 15Not for an embroiderer,

embroiderers 1

  1. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)

embryo 3

  1. p. 72, line 5My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
  2. p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
  3. p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,

embryonic 1

  1. p. 432, line 20[…] of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd […]

emerald 4

  1. p. 278, line 24The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows,
  2. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;
  3. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,
  4. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

emerge 12

  1. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  2. p. 96, line 14Every year shall you bloom again, out from where you retired you shall emerge again;
  3. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  4. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  5. p. 181, line 24Health to emerge and joy, joy universal.
6 more lines
  1. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  2. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
  3. p. 240, line 2As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
  4. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
  5. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  6. p. 436, line 15[…] those words are behind all, and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a different […]

emerged 2

  1. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  2. p. 429, line 35[…] well that my "Leaves" could not possibly have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any other era than […]

emergencies 2

  1. p. 272, line 21Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies here,

emergency 2

  1. p. 247, line 26He call'd for volunteers to run the enemy's lines, a desperate emergency,
  2. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.

emerging 13

  1. p. 17, line 21Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
  2. p. 81, line 13From the night a moment I emerging flitting out,
  3. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
  4. p. 204, line 31As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee,
  5. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
7 more lines
  1. p. 254, line 20(Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)
  2. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,
  3. p. 308, line 21Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  6. p. 387, line 12Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
  7. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,

Emerson 2

  1. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
  2. p. 434, line 36[…] in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest […]

emetic 1

  1. p. 353, line 24This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,

emigrant 1

  1. p. 326, line 29The emigrant and the exile, the criminal that stood in the box,

emigrants 1

  1. p. 344, line 24The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets;

emigrate 1

  1. p. 427, line 42[…] already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years gone by […]

emigré 1

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

eminent 3

  1. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  2. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  3. p. 427, line 38[…] magazines, the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to […]

emit 1

  1. p. 49, line 26Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again.

emitting 1

  1. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.

emotion 4

  1. p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
  2. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
  3. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  4. p. 429, line 1[…] beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it may sound at first, I will […]

emotional 8

  1. p. 404, line 11Good-bye and Good-bye with emotional lips repeating,
  2. p. 408, line 19[…] years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and […]
  3. p. 411, line 38[…] a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier […]
  4. p. 426, line 42[…] or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and […]
  5. p. 430, line 39[…] verse included—to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of the modern time, and dominate all […]
  6. p. 431, line 35[…] they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed […]
  7. p. 433, line 45[…] me as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean […]
  8. p. 438, line 9[…] has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last […]

emotions 1

  1. p. 436, line 23[…] sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme in literature. I am not going to […]

Emperor 2

  1. p. 384, line 68[…] Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent […]
  2. p. 402, line 13Less for the mighty crown laid low in sorrow—less for the Emperor,

emperors 1

  1. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,

empire 4

  1. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
  2. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  3. p. 167, line 16To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
  4. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,

empires 3

  1. p. 118, line 19You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
  2. p. 319, line 30Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
  3. p. 429, line 15[…] to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with […]

employ'd 2 today: employed

  1. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  2. p. 143, line 21To continue and be employ'd there all my life,

employed see employ'd

employing 1

  1. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

employment 2

  1. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  2. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.

employments 5

  1. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  2. p. 142, line 12Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.
  3. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  4. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
  5. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,

Empress 1

  1. p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,

emprises 1

  1. p. 324, line 3All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee,

emptied 3

  1. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  2. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
  3. p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,

empty 3

  1. p. 13, line 18The infinite oceans where the rivers empty,
  2. p. 23, line 14Mysterious ocean where the streams empty,
  3. p. 215, line 6Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

emulate 2

  1. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  2. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,

emulous 3

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 113, line 4I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse,
  3. p. 209, line 11Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

enacted 2

  1. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,
  2. p. 393, line 3To admiration has it been enacted!

enamour'd 4 today: enamoured

  1. p. 39, line 7I am enamour'd of growing out-doors,
  2. p. 109, line 16For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,
  3. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,

enamoured see enamour'd

encamp'd 2 today: encamped

  1. p. 232, line 21Here we lay encamp'd, it was this time in summer also.
  2. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,

encamped see encamp'd

encampment 2

  1. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
  2. p. 235, line 8In the midst of you stands an encampment very old,

enchain'd 1 today: enchained

  1. p. 245, line 2Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,

enchained see enchain'd

enchanting 1

  1. p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,

encircle 1

  1. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,

encircles 1

  1. p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,

encircling 2

  1. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  2. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;

enclose 3

  1. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  2. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  3. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,

enclosed 3

  1. p. 181, line 6Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
  2. p. 182, line 32Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
  3. p. 196, line 1The sign is reversing, the orb is enclosed,

encloser 1

  1. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.

enclosers 1

  1. p. 298, line 10We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,

encloses 5

  1. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  2. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  3. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  4. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  5. p. 428, line 29[…] no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever […]

enclosing 8

  1. p. 69, line 20Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,
  2. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  3. p. 351, line 22The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
  4. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  5. p. 357, line 12No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.
  6. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  7. p. 435, line 25[…] the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular […]
  8. p. 437, line 1[…] Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all. Ever since what might […]

encompass 5

  1. p. 50, line 13With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  2. p. 50, line 25Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
  3. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
  4. p. 418, line 16Thou waters that encompass us!

encompassing 2

  1. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,

encounter 1

  1. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,

encouraged 2

  1. p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
  2. p. 153, line 5Where speculations on the soul are encouraged,

encouraging 1

  1. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,

encrustations 1

  1. p. 412, line 25Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations,

end 25

  1. p. 13, line 23Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
  2. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  3. p. 30, line 19But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  4. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  5. p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,
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  1. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  2. p. 183, line 18Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
  3. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
  4. p. 216, line 2All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
  5. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  6. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  7. p. 324, line 15The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
  8. 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.
  9. p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
  10. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
  11. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,
  12. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
  13. p. 408, line 16[…] refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of […]
  14. p. 411, line 34[…] form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part […]
  15. p. 420, line 25I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.
  16. p. 425, line 26[…] upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite […]
  17. p. 433, line 9[…] first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and […]
  18. p. 434, line 6[…] went down to the war fields in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the […]
  19. p. 435, line 11[…] the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only […]

endanger 1

  1. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,

endangering 1

  1. p. 435, line 33[…] them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality […]

endear'd 2 today: endeared

  1. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  2. p. 387, line 17All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,

endeared see endear'd

ended 13

  1. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  2. p. 159, line 4Ended, deceas'd through time, her voice by Castaly's fountain,
  3. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  4. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  5. p. 166, line 3My time has ended, my term has come.
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  1. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
  2. p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
  3. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,
  4. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
  5. p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,
  6. p. 406, line 12[…] My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year […]

ending 5

  1. p. 13, line 15Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)
  2. p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
  3. p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
  4. p. 403, line 22Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on,
  5. p. 414, line 17AN ancient song, reciting, ending,

endless 30

  1. p. 10, line 16We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
  2. p. 25, line 20Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!
  3. p. 47, line 12Endless unfolding of words of ages!
  4. p. 127, line 1Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
  5. p. 162, line 31Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
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  1. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,
  2. p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  3. p. 192, line 14We stand amid time beginningless and endless, we stand amid evil and good,
  4. p. 215, line 2Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
  5. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  6. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  7. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  8. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  9. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  10. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
  11. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
  12. p. 296, line 7You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone,
  13. p. 309, line 9Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,
  14. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  15. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  16. p. 352, line 17O'er Mississippi's endless course, o'er Texas' grassy plains, Kanada's woods,
  17. p. 376, line 6I sing the endless finalés of things,
  18. p. 380, line 10Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.
  19. p. 394, line 18Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!
  20. p. 397, line 6"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,)
  21. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  22. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,
  23. p. 421, line 25Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,
  24. p. 432, line 31[…] mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me […]

endlessly 6

  1. p. 29, line 1O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
  2. p. 196, line 13OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking,
  3. p. 202, line 5Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
  4. p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,
  5. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  6. p. 428, line 37[…] are, I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in […]

endorse 1

  1. p. 409, line 32[…] they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole […]

endow 2

  1. p. 314, line 25Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
  2. p. 436, line 1[…] with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of America. I was to show that […]

endow'd 1 today: endowed

  1. p. 435, line 43[…] and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better […]

endowed see endow'd

endowing 2

  1. p. 421, line 14But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
  2. p. 428, line 1[…] to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which […]

endowment 1

  1. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,

ends 2

  1. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  2. p. 234, line 20Enough, the Centenarian's story ends,

endurance 4

  1. p. 125, line 23He traveling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
  2. p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
  3. p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
  4. p. 358, line 10Endurance, resolution to the last.)

endure 2

  1. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  2. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,

endures 3

  1. p. 152, line 2And nothing endures but personal qualities.
  2. p. 152, line 3What do you think endures?
  3. p. 152, line 4Do you think a great city endures?

enduring 1

  1. p. 387, line 18Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Eneas 1

  1. p. 415, line 1The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas,

enemies 7

  1. p. 35, line 12The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  2. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  3. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  4. p. 148, line 1O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!
  5. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  6. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?
  7. p. 425, line 34[…] anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May […]

enemy 3

  1. p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
  2. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  3. p. 251, line 1For my enemy is dead; a man divine as myself is dead,

enemy's 5

  1. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
  3. p. 233, line 11That brigade of the youngest was cut off and at the enemy's mercy.
  4. p. 247, line 26He call'd for volunteers to run the enemy's lines, a desperate emergency,
  5. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)

energetic 1

  1. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,

energies 1

  1. p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,

energy 1

  1. p. 29, line 18Nature without check with original energy.

enfolders 1

  1. p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?

engage 2

  1. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  2. p. 369, line 5Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,

engaged 2

  1. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  2. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

engagement 1

  1. p. 248, line 7The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal,

engagements 2

  1. p. 43, line 16And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
  2. p. 242, line 5Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

engineer 1

  1. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.

engineering 2

  1. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  2. p. 162, line 7With thy undaunted armies, engineering,

engineers 8

  1. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  2. p. 142, line 19O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!
  3. p. 151, line 11The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 315, line 20Singing the strong light works of engineers,
  6. p. 316, line 25You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,
  7. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  8. p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,

engines 5

  1. p. 51, line 11The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,
  2. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  3. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,
  4. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
  5. p. 371, line 3With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war,

engirth 2

  1. p. 81, line 17The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,

England 7

  1. p. 26, line 22Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
  2. p. 118, line 18You daughter or son of England!
  3. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  4. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  5. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  6. p. 210, line 23I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
  7. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,

English 7

  1. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  2. p. 136, line 14The English believe he comes of their English stock,
  3. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  4. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,
  5. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  6. p. 427, line 38[…] article on Wordsworth, in one of the current English magazines, the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French […]

engraved 1

  1. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,

engross'd 1 today: engrossed

  1. p. 335, line 11Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are,

engrossed see engross'd

engulf'd 1 today: engulfed

  1. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

engulfed see engulf'd

enhued 1

  1. p. 160, line 25Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,

enhuing 1

  1. p. 320, line 13Enhuing it with gorgeous hues.

enigmas 1

  1. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!

enjoining 1

  1. p. 27, line 8Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.

enjoy 6

  1. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  2. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  3. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  4. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  5. p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,

enjoyers 1

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

enjoying 6

  1. p. 37, line 20I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.
  2. p. 56, line 27Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  3. p. 58, line 17Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
  4. p. 108, line 4Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
  5. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  6. p. 132, line 24Who knows but I am enjoying this?

enjoyment 1

  1. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,

enjoyments 2

  1. p. 86, line 7Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  2. p. 135, line 3All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy,

enjoys 1

  1. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,

enlarged 1

  1. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,

enlarges 1

  1. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.

en-masse 9

  1. p. 9, line 2Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
  2. p. 47, line 13And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
  3. p. 195, line 1The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are curiously here,
  4. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  5. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
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  1. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,
  2. p. 364, line 19Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
  3. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
  4. p. 397, line 11Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse.

ennui 3

  1. p. 147, line 20No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints or scornful criticisms,
  2. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
  3. p. 386, line 20Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,

ennuis 1

  1. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!

ennuyé 1

  1. p. 330, line 17The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyé, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the money-maker,

ennuyed 1

  1. p. 434, line 44[…] seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it […]

ennuyés 1

  1. p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,

enormous 2

  1. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  2. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,

enough 56

  1. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  2. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,
  3. p. 45, line 6I exist as I am, that is enough,
  4. p. 45, line 22We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  5. p. 50, line 16Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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  1. p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
  2. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
  3. p. 59, line 2We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
  4. p. 64, line 17Enough! enough! enough!
  5. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,
  6. p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
  7. p. 83, line 11I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
  8. p. 83, line 12To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  9. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  10. p. 85, line 18Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
  11. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  12. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  13. p. 98, line 15For thus merely touching you is enough, is best,
  14. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  15. p. 142, line 17It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
  16. p. 152, line 9The show passes, all does well enough of course,
  17. p. 176, line 21The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
  18. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
  19. p. 234, line 20Enough, the Centenarian's story ends,
  20. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
  21. p. 264, line 13What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
  22. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  23. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  24. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  25. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  26. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  27. p. 323, line 4Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
  28. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  29. p. 336, line 8He is one of those who are beautiful and happy, he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  30. p. 337, line 3For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
  31. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  32. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  33. p. 358, line 26Enough to merely be! enough to breathe!
  34. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;
  35. p. 370, line 8O soul, we have positively appear'd—that is enough.
  36. p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
  37. p. 382, line 15Delicious, enough.
  38. p. 382, line 16Enough O deed impromptu and secret,
  39. p. 382, line 17Enough O gliding present—enough O summ'd-up past.
  40. p. 397, line 18Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!
  41. p. 407, line 6[…] witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not […]
  42. p. 426, line 17[…] its theory. (I think I have at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing […]
  43. p. 428, line 21[…] indeed may we be, if we have cull'd enough of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft […]
  44. p. 429, line 41[…] it for me or not, I know well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and […]
  45. p. 437, line 18[…] book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements, and has […]

enraged 1

  1. p. 326, line 8And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

enrich'd 1 today: enriched

  1. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;

enriched see enrich'd

ensemble 9

  1. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  2. p. 160, line 21Its manifold ensemble.
  3. p. 182, line 31In Thy ensemble, whatever else withheld withhold not from us,
  4. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  5. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
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  1. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
  2. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
  3. p. 430, line 9[…] World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the […]
  4. p. 430, line 10[…] ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature. Not […]

enslaved 3

  1. p. 15, line 9Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
  2. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  3. p. 358, line 5I see the enslaved, the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the whole earth,

ensovereign'd 1 today: ensovereigned

  1. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,

ensovereigned see ensovereign'd

ensues 1

  1. p. 289, line 24All verges to it, all has reference to what ensues,

entangled 1

  1. p. 62, line 13We closed with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch'd,

enter 14

  1. p. 47, line 27I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
  2. p. 57, line 15Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,
  3. p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,
  4. p. 121, line 13You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
  5. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
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  1. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  2. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  3. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,
  4. p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
  5. 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?
  6. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
  7. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
  8. p. 379, line 24WHAT are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
  9. p. 426, line 31[…] ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business […]

enter'd 4 today: entered

  1. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  2. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  3. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  4. p. 432, line 21[…] of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully […]

entered see enter'd

enterest 2

  1. p. 414, line 2Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door,
  2. p. 415, line 14Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.

entering 9

  1. p. 59, line 8Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,
  2. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  3. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
  4. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
  5. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
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  1. p. 310, line 25Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?
  2. p. 310, line 28Parting the midnight, entering my slumber-chamber,
  3. p. 376, line 14Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,
  4. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,

enterprise 3

  1. p. 267, line 21The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness,
  2. p. 320, line 6The world of 1492, with its awaken'd enterprise,
  3. p. 433, line 28[…] ground greatly. I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express […]

enters 2

  1. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
  2. 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?

enthusiasm 1

  1. p. 220, line 21The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites,

enthusiasts 4

  1. p. 192, line 3With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,
  2. p. 213, line 27All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts,
  3. p. 290, line 20All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,
  4. p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,

entire 16

  1. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  2. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  3. p. 181, line 15For it the entire star-myriads roll through the sky.
  4. p. 323, line 25Thou knowest my years entire, my life,
  5. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
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  1. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  2. p. 365, line 19Out of that old entire European debris, the shatter'd mummeries,
  3. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  4. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
  5. p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
  6. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;
  7. p. 416, line 14Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,
  8. p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
  9. p. 432, line 29[…] I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the […]
  10. p. 437, line 4[…] desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to […]
  11. p. 437, line 14[…] believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real […]

entirely 11

  1. p. 80, line 19I love you, O you entirely possess me,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  4. p. 154, line 28I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe,
  5. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
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  1. p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
  2. p. 339, line 2Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine,
  3. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  4. p. 426, line 12[…] soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record—the […]
  5. p. 429, line 6[…] their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of […]
  6. p. 436, line 6[…] want them to be the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the […]

entirety 1

  1. p. 436, line 30[…] human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]

entities 2

  1. p. 13, line 28The entities of entities, eidólons.

entrance 4

  1. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  2. p. 379, line 10The entrance of man to sing;
  3. p. 409, line 5But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)
  4. p. 415, line 14Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.

entrance-price 1

  1. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,

entrances 3

  1. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
  2. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  3. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,

entrance-song 1

  1. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,

entreaties 2

  1. p. 89, line 10I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
  2. p. 222, line 22Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties,

entrenchments 1

  1. p. 61, line 7He gasps through the clot Mind not me—mind—the entrenchments.

entretied 1

  1. p. 31, line 4Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,

entry 1

  1. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.

envelop 3

  1. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  2. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  3. p. 419, line 1"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest,

envelop'd 6 today: enveloped

  1. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
  2. p. 125, line 8Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
  3. p. 194, line 22The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees,
  4. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  5. p. 238, line 19My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,
  6. p. 381, line 21Curious envelop'd messages delivering,

envelope 1

  1. p. 237, line 8Open the envelope quickly,

enveloped see envelop'd

envelopes 1

  1. p. 124, line 6Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?

enveloping 4

  1. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
  2. p. 259, line 3Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.
  3. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  4. p. 431, line 14[…] from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent with […]

envelopment 1

  1. p. 364, line 22Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.

envelops 1

  1. p. 110, line 3The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me?

envied 1

  1. p. 224, line 10How envied by all the earth.

environ 1

  1. p. 37, line 21Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,

environage 1

  1. p. 429, line 18[…] inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or present […]

environment 2

  1. p. 233, line 13They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment,
  2. p. 366, line 22The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment,

environments 1

  1. p. 430, line 21[…] ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current […]

envoys 2

  1. p. 193, line 9Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,
  2. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,

envy 6

  1. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  2. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
  3. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
  4. p. 279, line 3Thou envy of the globe! thou miracle!
  5. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,
  6. p. 394, line 14Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!

enwinding 1

  1. p. 309, line 8THROUGH the soft evening air enwinding all,

enwraps 1

  1. p. 246, line 24And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

ephemeral 2

  1. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,
  2. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,

epics 5

  1. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  2. p. 319, line 28The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
  3. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
  4. p. 414, line 26The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian,
  5. p. 431, line 1[…] the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or […]

epilepsy 1

  1. p. 354, line 1This face is an epilepsy, its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,

episodes 1

  1. p. 425, line 5[…] any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is […]

equable 4

  1. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
  2. p. 269, line 9Of these States the poet is the equable man,
  3. p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
  4. p. 351, line 8Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)

equal 24

  1. p. 15, line 19We confer on equal terms with each of the States,
  2. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  3. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  4. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  5. p. 45, line 11I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
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  1. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  2. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  3. p. 111, line 11Ah lover and perfect equal,
  4. 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!
  5. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  6. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  7. p. 177, line 27With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age,
  8. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  9. p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
  10. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  11. p. 340, line 9Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any,
  12. p. 346, line 20THOU Mother with thy equal brood,
  13. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  14. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  15. p. 387, line 16Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
  16. p. 393, line 1Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days!
  17. p. 403, line 13"Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,
  18. p. 413, line 42[…] too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and […]

equalities 2

  1. p. 23, line 23O such themes—equalities! O divine average!
  2. p. 376, line 5I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,

equality 9

  1. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  2. p. 247, line 17The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.
  3. p. 266, line 14Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
  4. p. 267, line 22The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,
  5. p. 270, line 6Without extinction is Liberty, without retrograde is Equality,
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  1. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  2. p. 380, line 27I announce uncompromising liberty and equality,
  3. p. 429, line 26[…] certain that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses never was […]
  4. p. 432, line 13[…] science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of all, and […]

equality's 1

  1. p. 435, line 26[…] fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular education, a certain liability accompanies […]

equalized 1

  1. p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.

equalizer 1

  1. p. 269, line 14He is the equalizer of his age and land,

equally 14

  1. p. 9, line 5The Female equally with the Male I sing.
  2. p. 43, line 18This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
  3. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  4. p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
  5. p. 242, line 1Of unsurpass'd heroes, (was one side so brave? the other was equally brave;)
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  1. p. 305, line 5I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  2. p. 305, line 6And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers and winters to articulate and walk—all this is equally wonderful.
  3. p. 305, line 10And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth, is equally wonderful,
  4. p. 305, line 11And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  5. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  6. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  7. p. 361, line 24I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
  8. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.

equals 5

  1. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  2. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
  3. p. 298, line 9We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
  4. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
  5. p. 429, line 15[…] solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with their lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern […]

equanimity 2

  1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 153, line 4Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs,

equator 1

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

equidistant 1

  1. p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,

equilibrium 1

  1. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,

equipment 1

  1. p. 434, line 33[…] a date is the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of […]

equipping 1

  1. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,

equipt 2

  1. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  2. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.

era 4

  1. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
  2. p. 429, line 36[…] or been fashion'd or completed, from any other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any […]
  3. p. 431, line 18[…] What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this era of literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise of science and […]
  4. p. 433, line 30[…] how best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence […]

eras 6

  1. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  2. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  3. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  6. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,

erased 1

  1. p. 369, line 23Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,

ere 10

  1. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  2. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
  3. p. 197, line 7Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
  4. p. 213, line 11Such from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
  5. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
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  1. p. 253, line 2Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
  2. p. 253, line 15Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close,
  3. p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,
  4. p. 398, line 10Thanks in old age—thanks ere I go,
  5. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,

erect 6

  1. p. 32, line 9Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  2. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  3. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  4. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
  5. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  6. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,

erewhile 5

  1. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  2. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  3. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  4. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  5. p. 369, line 3Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,

Erie 2

  1. p. 26, line 10Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan!
  2. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,

Ernani 1

  1. p. 312, line 29I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,

Ernani's 1

  1. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,

errand-bearers 1

  1. p. 193, line 13In the procession along with the nobles of Niphon, the errand-bearers,

errant 1

  1. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?

errors 2

  1. p. 167, line 25Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
  2. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,

erudition 1

  1. p. 171, line 4Not money, amours, dress, eating, erudition, but as good,

erysipalite 1

  1. p. 330, line 24The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wrong'd,

escape 14

  1. p. 77, line 5And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  2. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  3. p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
  4. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
  5. p. 171, line 2None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
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  1. p. 201, line 3Never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations,
  2. p. 237, line 28O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw,
  3. p. 245, line 4(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
  4. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  5. p. 341, line 20A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
  6. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  7. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  8. p. 426, line 20[…] triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now […]

escaped 5

  1. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  2. p. 95, line 19Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,
  3. p. 98, line 21Already you see I have escaped from you.
  4. p. 121, line 18The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
  5. p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)

escapes 1

  1. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,

Eschylus 3

  1. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
  2. p. 415, line 2Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur,
  3. p. 433, line 5[…] best translated versions I could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and […]

escort 1

  1. p. 220, line 20The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing the way,

esculent 2

  1. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
  2. p. 283, line 4Winter-grain sprouts and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,

especial 1

  1. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)

especially 9

  1. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  2. p. 178, line 20Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you,
  3. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  4. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  5. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
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  1. p. 427, line 27[…] identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and especially in each of their countless examples and practical occupations in […]
  2. p. 429, line 42[…] in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and all the conventional technique of poetry […]
  3. p. 432, line 21[…] further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in his […]
  4. p. 432, line 30[…] an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so […]

espousing 1

  1. p. 436, line 17[…] a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to […]

essays 2

  1. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  2. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,

essence 6

  1. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  2. p. 167, line 21You unseen moral essence of all the vast materials of America, (age upon age working in death the same as life,)
  3. p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
  4. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)
  5. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
  6. p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,

essences 2

  1. p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
  2. p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,

essential 2

  1. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  2. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,

essentially 3

  1. p. 426, line 24[…] for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from the first, and has remain'd throughout, the […]
  2. p. 431, line 15[…] that is consistent with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be […]
  3. p. 431, line 26[…] in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction […]

establish 2

  1. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  2. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,

establish'd 5 today: established

  1. p. 180, line 7No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,
  2. p. 180, line 8Undeniable growth has establish'd it.
  3. p. 427, line 30[…] behind every page of my verses, compared with establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the […]
  4. p. 430, line 33[…] moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater […]
  5. p. 437, line 32[…] and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting […]

established see establish'd

establishments 1

  1. p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,

estate 2

  1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.

estates 1

  1. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;

estimate 1

  1. p. 433, line 37[…] or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present both the Past and the Future are […]

estimated 1

  1. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)

estimating 1

  1. p. 429, line 27In estimating first-class song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand […]

estimation 1

  1. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,

estray 1

  1. p. 419, line 4"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely hidden?

estuary 1

  1. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.

eternal 23

  1. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  2. p. 11, line 17These chants for thee, the eternal march of thee.
  3. p. 19, line 9Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
  4. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  5. p. 111, line 1FAST-ANCHOR'D eternal O love! O woman I love!
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  1. p. 119, line 20Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
  2. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!
  3. p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
  4. p. 147, line 27My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
  5. p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
  6. p. 163, line 6For the eternal real life to come.
  7. p. 169, line 14And find the eternal meanings.
  8. p. 183, line 19We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
  9. p. 235, line 23And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
  10. p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
  11. p. 336, line 11The law of the living cannot be eluded, it is eternal,
  12. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  13. p. 338, line 11All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,
  14. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  15. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,
  16. p. 388, line 15The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning;
  17. p. 390, line 19The rhythmus of Birth eternal.
  18. p. 399, line 4Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,

eternally 1

  1. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.

eterne 1

  1. p. 392, line 25From that great play on history's stage eterne,

eternity 8

  1. p. 71, line 6The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?
  2. p. 134, line 12You furnish your parts toward eternity,
  3. p. 269, line 23In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
  4. p. 270, line 1He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
  5. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  6. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  7. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  8. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,

eternity's 1

  1. p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,

ether 5

  1. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  2. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  3. p. 52, line 13Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  4. p. 206, line 3Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
  5. p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,

ethereal 4

  1. p. 111, line 4Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
  2. p. 340, line 16Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were all? what were God?)
  3. p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
  4. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,

Ethiopia 3

  1. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  2. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
  3. p. 414, line 25Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia,

ethnologist 1

  1. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,

Etna 1

  1. p. 114, line 10I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar,

Eugenie's 1

  1. p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,

eulogies 1

  1. p. 426, line 5[…] when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and […]

eulogy 1

  1. p. 431, line 41[…] indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as […]

euphemism 1

  1. p. 427, line 25[…] sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its […]

Euphrates 2

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  2. p. 319, line 20The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again.

Europe 13

  1. p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
  2. p. 112, line 21Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
  3. p. 115, line 10I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,
  4. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
  5. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
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  1. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,
  2. p. 317, line 17The road between Europe and Asia.
  3. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  4. p. 348, line 24And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
  5. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,
  6. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
  7. p. 429, line 19[…] area of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think of the absence […]

European 11

  1. p. 151, line 14The antique European warrior with his axe in combat,
  2. p. 154, line 16I see the European headsman,
  3. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
  4. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.
  5. p. 288, line 7Then courage European revolter, revoltress!
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  1. p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
  2. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,
  3. p. 365, line 19Out of that old entire European debris, the shatter'd mummeries,
  4. p. 370, line 20I see the landmarks of European kings removed,
  5. p. 431, line 1[…] with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in […]
  6. p. 435, line 9[…] warriors were the ideals of the centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the […]

Europe's 4

  1. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,
  2. p. 167, line 12Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter-house,
  3. p. 324, line 20Haply the lifeless cross I know, Europe's dead cross, may bud and blossom there.
  4. p. 393, line 15Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,

evanescent 1

  1. p. 12, line 21The ostent evanescent,

evangel-poem 1

  1. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,

evasions 1

  1. p. 436, line 35[…] doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on […]

eve 6

  1. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,
  2. p. 62, line 12Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.
  3. p. 79, line 16By my side or back of me Eve following,
  4. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  5. p. 259, line 2The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,
  6. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,

even 66

  1. p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
  2. p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,
  3. p. 16, line 20On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails,
  4. p. 32, line 17Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best,
  5. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
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  1. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  2. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  3. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  4. p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
  5. p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
  6. p. 109, line 18I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.
  7. p. 160, line 16We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
  8. p. 169, line 7In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air.
  9. p. 169, line 23I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
  10. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  11. p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
  12. p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
  13. p. 206, line 24Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
  14. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,
  15. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,
  16. p. 217, line 17Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
  17. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  18. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,
  19. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
  20. p. 232, line 16My blind eyes even as I speak behold it re-peopled from graves,
  21. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,
  22. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  23. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  24. 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,)
  25. p. 276, line 10Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
  26. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  27. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  28. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  29. p. 288, line 10But I will search carefully for it even in being foil'd,
  30. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
  31. p. 309, line 12(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
  32. p. 318, line 25Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
  33. p. 324, line 10A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep,
  34. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  35. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  36. p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
  37. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  38. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  39. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  40. p. 368, line 12Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
  41. p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,
  42. p. 372, line 5Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for a burial,
  43. p. 374, line 24Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings, even the tiniest insect,
  44. p. 375, line 22O amazement of things—even the least particle!
  45. p. 376, line 3Or cities or silent woods, or even amid the sights of war,
  46. p. 407, line 31[…] more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions […]
  47. p. 408, line 16[…] it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied old […]
  48. p. 411, line 11It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.
  49. p. 411, line 43[…] similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors. I had more than once the […]
  50. p. 415, line 27The whispering air—even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,
  51. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,
  52. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)
  53. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,
  54. p. 430, line 19[…] still remains to be said that there is even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view […]
  55. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed […]
  56. p. 431, line 40[…] then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]
  57. p. 434, line 40[…] intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to […]
  58. p. 435, line 6[…] character (as consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century […]
  59. p. 436, line 14[…] avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with […]
  60. p. 437, line 23[…] To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it, or the need of it […]

even-contested 1

  1. p. 238, line 5Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,

evening 11

  1. p. 78, line 7Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
  2. p. 83, line 12To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  3. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  4. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  5. p. 141, line 6Evening—me in my room—the setting sun,
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  1. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  2. p. 309, line 8THROUGH the soft evening air enwinding all,
  3. p. 384, line 73[…] The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  4. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
  5. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
  6. p. 438, line 29In the free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing […]

evenings 3

  1. p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
  2. p. 224, line 22Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings,
  3. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,

evenly 1

  1. p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;

events 7

  1. p. 25, line 1And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
  2. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
  3. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
  4. p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
  5. p. 266, line 23Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,
  6. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
  7. p. 434, line 41[…] even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness […]

eventuate 2

  1. p. 348, line 10It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
  2. p. 437, line 16[…] just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism, through Time. My book […]

ever 157

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ever-altering 1

  1. p. 262, line 2Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,

ever-darting 1

  1. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!

ever-enduring 1

  1. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?

ever-enlarging 1

  1. p. 228, line 3Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, (ever-enlarging stars,)

ever-fresh 1

  1. p. 271, line 13Have you too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality?

ever-impressive 1

  1. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!

everlasting 1

  1. p. 13, line 8Eidólons everlasting.

ever-laughing 1

  1. p. 326, line 19I am the ever-laughing—it is new moon and twilight,

ever-lingering 1

  1. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)

ever-modern 1

  1. p. 277, line 6Life's ever-modern rapids first, (soon, soon to blend,

ever-push'd 1

  1. p. 72, line 12O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity!

ever-ready 1

  1. p. 276, line 17Yet bards of latent armies, a million soldiers waiting ever-ready,

ever-recurring 1

  1. p. 281, line 19And the good green grass, that delicate miracle the ever-recurring grass.

ever-returning 2

  1. p. 255, line 9I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
  2. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,

ever-shifting 1

  1. p. 325, line 4Dim ever-shifting guesses of it spread before me,

ever-swaying 1

  1. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

ever-tending 1

  1. p. 21, line 2The ever-tending, the finalè of visible forms,

ever-united 1

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

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everybody 1

  1. p. 44, line 7I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

every-day 1

  1. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;

everything 6

  1. p. 426, line 39[…] to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and […]
  2. p. 427, line 36[…] and basic point of view of verse; for everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an […]
  3. p. 432, line 16[…] towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  4. p. 432, line 24[…] planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way […]
  5. p. 435, line 22[…] to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought of my […]
  6. p. 435, line 37[…] ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same. The times and depictions from the Iliad […]

everywhere 22

  1. p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
  2. p. 73, line 28Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.
  3. p. 118, line 11I see male and female everywhere,
  4. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  5. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
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  1. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!
  2. p. 164, line 10Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents,
  3. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)
  4. p. 168, line 24A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere,
  5. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  6. p. 220, line 16The blood of the city up—arm'd! arm'd! the cry everywhere,
  7. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  8. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  9. p. 264, line 7(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
  10. p. 275, line 10(Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast,
  11. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  12. p. 276, line 26Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself.
  13. p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
  14. p. 366, line 5Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time.
  15. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
  16. p. 378, line 20THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,
  17. p. 426, line 1[…] find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely […]

evident 1

  1. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.

evil 26

  1. p. 22, line 5I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also,
  2. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  3. p. 46, line 31Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
  4. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  5. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
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  1. p. 132, line 4I am he who knew what it was to be evil,
  2. p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
  3. p. 181, line 21Not the right only justified, what we call evil also justified.
  4. p. 191, line 16Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good—year of forebodings!
  5. p. 192, line 14We stand amid time beginningless and endless, we stand amid evil and good,
  6. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  7. p. 230, line 13THE noble sire fallen on evil days,
  8. p. 267, line 6His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
  9. p. 308, line 18The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
  10. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,
  11. p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
  12. p. 349, line 13I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
  13. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!
  14. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  15. p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,
  16. p. 394, line 12What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!
  17. p. 419, line 9(Often unconscious, often evil, downfallen,)
  18. p. 419, line 21The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage,
  19. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

evils 2

  1. p. 363, line 8How, justified by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
  2. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)

evince 1

  1. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.

evinced 1

  1. p. 413, line 39[…] and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank […]

evoked 1

  1. p. 434, line 9[…] the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those […]

evolution 6

  1. p. 181, line 20For it the mystic evolution,
  2. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
  3. p. 397, line 4"Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all,
  4. p. 420, line 21Evolution—the cumulative—growths and generations.
  5. p. 427, line 11[…] lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out or put in […]
  6. p. 432, line 15[…] the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or […]

evolutionary 5

  1. p. 421, line 13And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
  2. p. 421, line 17More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!
  3. p. 428, line 17[…] whole civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions […]
  4. p. 428, line 34[…] its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows […]
  5. p. 432, line 7[…] and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of the past, so I would dare to claim […]

evolutions 1

  1. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,

evolv'd 1 today: evolved

  1. p. 412, line 20As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent,

evolved see evolv'd

exact 5

  1. p. 47, line 20Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
  2. p. 67, line 6Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  5. p. 426, line 36[…] desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous life […]

exactly 5

  1. p. 31, line 20Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
  2. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  3. 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,
  4. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,

exactness 1

  1. p. 179, line 12Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.

exalt 1

  1. p. 162, line 18To exalt the present and the real,

exaltations 2

  1. p. 14, line 2Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations,
  2. p. 32, line 3The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,

exaltè 2

  1. p. 13, line 9Exaltè, rapt, ecstatic,
  2. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,

exalted 1

  1. p. 212, line 19They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.

examine 2

  1. p. 85, line 23Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,
  2. p. 243, line 5The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I examine,

examining 1

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

example 3

  1. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  2. p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
  3. p. 413, line 36[…] consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of […]

exampled 1

  1. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.

examples 1

  1. p. 427, line 27[…] Century, and especially in each of their countless examples and practical occupations in the United States to-day […]

exceed 1

  1. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?

exceedingly 1

  1. 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,

excel 1

  1. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;

excell'd 2 today: excelled

  1. p. 430, line 15[…] done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions […]
  2. p. 433, line 19[…] g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic […]

excelled see excell'd

excellence 1

  1. p. 123, line 24Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;

excellent 4

  1. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
  2. p. 147, line 5Know'st thou the excellent joys of youth?
  3. p. 227, line 25Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
  4. p. 258, line 23Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,

Excelsis 1

  1. p. 314, line 12The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis.

except 16

  1. p. 85, line 2(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)
  2. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  3. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  4. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  5. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
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  1. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  2. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
  3. p. 274, line 5I swear I am charm'd with nothing except nativity,
  4. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?
  5. p. 275, line 23These States, what are they except myself?
  6. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  7. p. 276, line 26Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself.
  8. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  9. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  10. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  11. p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,

excepting 1

  1. p. 140, line 20All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle;

exception 7

  1. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  2. p. 192, line 25I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,
  3. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  4. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  5. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;
  6. p. 419, line 11Latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception."
  7. p. 428, line 30[…] convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it […]

exceptional 3

  1. p. 427, line 23[…] choice plots of love or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for […]
  2. p. 432, line 11[…] fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New […]
  3. p. 435, line 29[…] in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd […]

excess 2

  1. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  2. p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,

exchange 1

  1. p. 73, line 20I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,

excitations 1

  1. p. 425, line 8[…] actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]

excited 1

  1. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,

excitement 4

  1. p. 145, line 15Again I spring up the rigging to look with the rest—we descend, wild with excitement,
  2. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  3. p. 408, line 19[…] along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting […]
  4. p. 428, line 15[…] nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change of army front […]

exclamations 2

  1. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  2. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,

exclude 3

  1. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  2. p. 344, line 20I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,
  3. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)

excluded 1

  1. p. 70, line 6Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded,

excludes 1

  1. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,

exclusive 2

  1. p. 55, line 4Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  2. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,

excrement 1

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

excrementitious 2

  1. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
  2. p. 344, line 15The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.

excrescences 1

  1. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.

excursion 2

  1. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  2. p. 245, line 20The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!

excursions 1

  1. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,

executing 1

  1. p. 339, line 6Unpersuadable, relentless, executing righteous judgments,

execution 1

  1. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,

executive 2

  1. p. 151, line 25The list of all executive deeds and words just or unjust,
  2. p. 264, line 16We are executive in ourselves, we are sufficient in the variety of ourselves,

exercise 1

  1. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,

exercises 1

  1. p. 14, line 2Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations,

exercising 1

  1. p. 231, line 21On the plain below recruits are drilling and exercising,

exhalation 1

  1. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;

exhalations 1

  1. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;

exhale 3

  1. p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
  2. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  3. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.

exhaled 1

  1. p. 411, line 6Is the odor exhaled? Are the colors, vitalities, dead?

exhales 1

  1. p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,

exhaling 1

  1. p. 117, line 19I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries,

exhaust 1

  1. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)

exhausted 2

  1. p. 60, line 18Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy,
  2. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,

exhausting 2

  1. p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
  2. p. 408, line 25[…] North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by […]

exhaustion 1

  1. p. 407, line 27[…] sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may […]

exhaustless 3

  1. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  2. p. 372, line 27Give me exhaustless, make me a fountain,
  3. p. 388, line 15The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning;

exhibit 4

  1. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
  2. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  3. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,

exhibited 5

  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  2. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  3. p. 160, line 31Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited.
  4. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  5. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

exhibition-gallery 1

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

exhibition-house 1

  1. p. 155, line 13Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition-house, library,

exhibits 1

  1. p. 95, line 19Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,

exhilarating 1

  1. p. 97, line 8Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,

exhorters 1

  1. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,

exile 3

  1. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  2. p. 326, line 29The emigrant and the exile, the criminal that stood in the box,
  3. p. 330, line 8The sailor sails, the exile returns home,

exiled 2

  1. p. 211, line 16O aching close of exiled patriots' lives!
  2. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,

exist 8

  1. p. 45, line 6I exist as I am, that is enough,
  2. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  3. p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
  4. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  5. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  6. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  7. p. 427, line 41[…] a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must […]

existed 4

  1. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  2. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  3. p. 431, line 32[…] quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types of song […]
  4. p. 438, line 19[…] say no land or people or circumstances ever existed so needing a race of singers and poems differing from […]

existence 3

  1. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,
  2. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  3. p. 437, line 11[…] process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of view of all […]

existences 2

  1. p. 121, line 26I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
  2. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,

existing 3

  1. p. 79, line 14Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  2. p. 426, line 6[…] eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best […]
  3. p. 434, line 14[…] gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]

exists 3

  1. p. 215, line 8That you are here—that life exists and identity,
  2. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  3. p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,

exit 2

  1. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  2. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.

exit-door 1

  1. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,

exits 2

  1. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  2. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,

expand 2

  1. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  2. p. 281, line 4All till'd and untill'd fields expand before me,

expanded 1

  1. p. 126, line 27Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,

expanding 8

  1. p. 10, line 6The boundless blue on every side expanding,
  2. p. 28, line 1Expanding and swift, henceforth,
  3. p. 72, line 27Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding,
  4. p. 122, line 8The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
  5. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,
  6. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  7. p. 393, line 13Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending,

expands 3

  1. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  2. p. 305, line 18Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon,
  3. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,

expanse 1

  1. p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,

expect 3

  1. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  2. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  3. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,

expectant 2

  1. p. 276, line 15To cheer O Mother your boundless expectant soul.
  2. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,

expectantly 1

  1. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,

expected 2

  1. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  2. p. 426, line 4[…] probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither […]

expecting 1

  1. p. 18, line 9Expecting the main things from you.

expeditions 2

  1. p. 116, line 9I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
  2. p. 317, line 28The plans, the voyages again, the expeditions;

experience 5

  1. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  2. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  3. p. 289, line 9Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
  4. p. 411, line 43[…] horrors. I had more than once the same experience on the fields cover'd with fallen or dead […]
  5. p. 425, line 21[…] purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]

experienced 2

  1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  2. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!

experiences 5

  1. p. 205, line 13In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,
  2. p. 394, line 26Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
  3. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;
  4. p. 421, line 7All human lives, throats, wishes, brains—all experiences' utterance;
  5. p. 434, line 13[…] Without those three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]

experient 1

  1. p. 42, line 18A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons,

experimental 1

  1. p. 426, line 15[…] I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic […]

experiments 1

  1. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,

explain 1

  1. p. 71, line 3It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.

explaining 1

  1. p. 381, line 26To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,

explanation 2

  1. p. 75, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key,
  2. p. 289, line 21The last explanation always remains to be made about prudence,

exploding 1

  1. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,

exploit 1

  1. p. 426, line 44[…] immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far […]

exploitations 1

  1. p. 430, line 2[…] Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own […]

exploration 1

  1. p. 321, line 7Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.

explorations 2

  1. p. 318, line 15Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,
  2. p. 318, line 19Who justify these restless explorations?

explore 1

  1. p. 343, line 16Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

explored 1

  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,

explorers 2

  1. p. 316, line 24You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,
  2. p. 319, line 32The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,

exploring 1

  1. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,

explosion 1

  1. p. 61, line 4The fall of grenades through the rent roof, the fan-shaped explosion,

expose 7

  1. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  2. p. 108, line 17And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
  3. p. 122, line 3You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much!
  4. p. 128, line 4It is useless to protest, I know all and expose it.
  5. p. 286, line 4I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
  6. p. 299, line 1O culpable! I acknowledge—I exposé!
  7. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)

exposed 2

  1. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  2. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,

exposes 1

  1. p. 38, line 3His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip-band,

Exposition 1

  1. p. 406, line 18[…] Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas […]

expostulation 1

  1. p. 222, line 19Make no parley—stop for no expostulation,

expound 3

  1. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.
  2. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,

expounded 1

  1. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,

express 7

  1. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  2. p. 122, line 16You express me better than I can express myself,
  3. p. 163, line 8Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum,
  4. p. 426, line 40[…] a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical […]
  5. p. 433, line 29[…] questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the […]
  6. p. 438, line 25[…] World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and […]

express'd 1 today: expressed

  1. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)

expressed see express'd

expressers 1

  1. p. 434, line 35[…] tinge of coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own […]

expressing 2

  1. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  2. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)

expression 9

  1. p. 81, line 26The expression of the face balks account,
  2. p. 81, line 27But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
  3. p. 159, line 1The same undying soul of earth's, activity's, beauty's, heroism's expression,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 253, line 25With war and war's expression.
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  1. p. 254, line 6To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.
  2. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  3. p. 307, line 23What yearning expression! how uneasy they are when he moves away from them;
  4. p. 433, line 42[…] and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is certain, I […]

expressions 3

  1. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  2. p. 428, line 18[…] meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
  3. p. 433, line 19[…] b flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of […]

express-wagon 1

  1. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)

exquisite 11

  1. p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
  2. p. 85, line 25Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
  3. p. 88, line 3The exquisite realization of health;
  4. p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
  5. p. 178, line 7From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,
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  1. p. 287, line 4It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
  2. p. 301, line 14Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
  3. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  4. p. 343, line 7I hear not the volumes of sound merely, I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
  5. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  6. p. 421, line 21Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,

exquisitely 1

  1. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.

exquisiteness 1

  1. p. 375, line 4In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age,

extend 2

  1. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  2. p. 420, line 18But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.

extended 5

  1. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,
  2. p. 339, line 14With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
  3. p. 367, line 17Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,
  4. p. 382, line 3What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
  5. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,

extending 1

  1. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I […]

extent 2

  1. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  2. p. 431, line 39[…] willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount […]

exterior 2

  1. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  2. p. 147, line 22And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.

exteriors 2

  1. 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,

extinct 2

  1. p. 159, line 9Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind, extinct,
  2. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,

extinction 1

  1. p. 270, line 6Without extinction is Liberty, without retrograde is Equality,

extoller 2

  1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,
  2. p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.

extra 1

  1. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,

extract 3

  1. p. 44, line 9How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  2. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  3. p. 437, line 41[…] I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters […]

extravagant 3

  1. p. 162, line 14The unhealthy pleasures, extravagant dissipations of the few,
  2. p. 231, line 6Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!
  3. p. 353, line 6The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,

extricate 1

  1. p. 328, line 12I turn but do not extricate myself,

extricating 1

  1. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,

extrication 2

  1. p. 48, line 2And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
  2. p. 307, line 2The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,

exudes 2

  1. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
  2. p. 304, line 7And exudes it all again.

exuding 4

  1. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
  2. p. 112, line 12What waves and soils exuding?
  3. p. 137, line 15The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
  4. p. 203, line 28(See, from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last,

exult 4

  1. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
  2. p. 184, line 11O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
  3. p. 263, line 11Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
  4. p. 280, line 25Exult O lands! victorious lands!

exultant 1

  1. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.

exultation 2

  1. p. 81, line 5From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in the night,
  2. 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,)

exulting 5

  1. p. 26, line 2Exulting words, words to Democracy's lands.
  2. p. 221, line 12But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
  3. p. 262, line 23The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
  4. p. 358, line 16O glad, exulting, culminating song!
  5. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,

exurge 1

  1. p. 173, line 2Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,

eye 17

  1. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  2. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  3. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
  4. p. 147, line 2To look with calm gaze or with a flashing eye,
  5. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,
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  1. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
  2. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
  3. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  4. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  5. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
  6. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
  7. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  8. p. 281, line 10With full-spanning eye gazes forth, dwells long,
  9. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  10. p. 362, line 11Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,
  11. p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
  12. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,

eye-balls 1

  1. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?

eyebrows 1

  1. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,

eye-fringes 1

  1. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,

eyelashes 2

  1. 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.
  2. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;

eyelids 1

  1. p. 187, line 7Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time,

eye-reach 1

  1. p. 411, line 10So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,

eyes 108

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eyesight 8

  1. p. 13, line 19The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
  2. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 305, line 5I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  5. p. 333, line 23The living look upon the corpse with their eyesight,
  6. p. 333, line 24But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  7. 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,

eye-singer 1

  1. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.