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.

F

fable – fountain · four – futurity

fable 2

  1. p. 101, line 4That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
  2. p. 194, line 21The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable,

fables 6

  1. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  2. p. 316, line 4Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
  3. p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,
  4. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  5. p. 316, line 14Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams!

façade 1

  1. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?

façades 8

  1. p. 13, line 5Densities, growth, façades,
  2. p. 122, line 1You rows of houses! you window-pierc'd façades! you roofs!
  3. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,
  4. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
  5. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  6. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
  7. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  8. p. 394, line 16(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, façades, tell their inimitable tales;

face 131

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faces 51

  1. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
  2. p. 21, line 13And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces;
  3. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  4. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  5. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,
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  1. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  2. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  3. p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,
  4. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,
  5. p. 149, line 24The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men with their clear untrimm'd faces,
  6. p. 151, line 5The crowd with their lit faces watching, the glare and dense shadows;
  7. p. 160, line 6Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
  8. 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,
  9. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
  10. p. 239, line 14Faces, varieties, postures beyond description, most in obscurity, some of them dead,
  11. p. 241, line 15AN old man bending I come among new faces,
  12. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  13. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  14. p. 245, line 26Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  15. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  16. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,
  17. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
  18. p. 256, line 25With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
  19. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
  20. p. 293, line 6One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd faces,
  21. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
  22. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  23. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  24. p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  25. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,
  26. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  27. p. 353, line 1SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
  28. p. 353, line 2Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
  29. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  30. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
  31. p. 353, line 8The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
  32. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,
  33. p. 355, line 5These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
  34. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  35. p. 372, line 11Faces so pale with wondrous eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
  36. p. 374, line 9Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
  37. p. 404, line 4Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
  38. p. 417, line 20Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
  39. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,

facing 2

  1. p. 95, line 1FACING west from California's shores,
  2. p. 194, line 27The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores,

fact 9

  1. p. 14, line 26The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
  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. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  4. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  5. p. 407, line 33In fact, here I am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight […]
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  1. p. 408, line 15[…] but I dare not be sorry for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even […]
  2. p. 436, line 22[…] superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions […]
  3. p. 437, line 8[…] to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit […]
  4. p. 437, line 25[…] middle and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing […]

factories 15

  1. p. 12, line 15Ever the ateliers, the factories divine,
  2. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,
  3. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  4. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  5. p. 141, line 10Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties,
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  1. p. 156, line 2Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,
  2. p. 164, line 22Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines,
  3. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
  4. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,
  5. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  6. p. 369, line 11The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,
  7. p. 369, line 14Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing,
  8. p. 371, line 4With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands;
  9. p. 393, line 22Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms,
  10. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;

factors 1

  1. p. 430, line 33[…] our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what they […]

factory 3

  1. p. 40, line 17The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  2. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,
  3. p. 295, line 25Marriage, the street, the factory, farm, the house-room, lodging-room,

facts 14

  1. p. 47, line 26Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling,
  2. p. 180, line 5Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
  3. p. 271, line 27Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?
  4. p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
  5. p. 398, line 9The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes continue.
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  1. p. 409, line 32[…] measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
  2. p. 426, line 43[…] midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and to […]
  3. p. 427, line 44[…] modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the […]
  4. p. 428, line 12[…] shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent facts of the United States—the war of attempted Secession—the […]
  5. p. 428, line 17[…] civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are […]
  6. p. 429, line 14[…] mind. Think of the United States to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty […]
  7. p. 429, line 31[…] see, at more or less removes, the material facts of their country and radius, with the coloring of the […]
  8. p. 432, line 20[…] advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon […]
  9. p. 436, line 31Universal as are certain facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all times, there is […]

faculties 1

  1. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.

faculty 2

  1. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
  2. p. 427, line 44[…] gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts […]

fade 5

  1. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,
  2. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  3. p. 253, line 2Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
  4. p. 327, line 14I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away.
  5. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;

faded 2

  1. p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
  2. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?

fades 3

  1. p. 49, line 30The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  2. p. 60, line 20The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
  3. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;

fading 6

  1. p. 165, line 24A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, or hamadryads departing,
  2. p. 192, line 5With the fading kingdoms and kings over there,
  3. p. 192, line 6With the fading religions and priests,
  4. p. 216, line 23And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
  5. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  6. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,

fail 17

  1. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  2. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  3. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  4. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  5. p. 177, line 18Underneath these possessing words that never fail.
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  1. p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
  2. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  3. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  4. p. 178, line 9Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
  5. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  6. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  7. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  8. p. 308, line 26Fail not to certify and cheer my soul.
  9. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,

fail'd 7 today: failed

  1. p. 43, line 13Vivas to those who have fail'd!
  2. p. 241, line 19But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself,
  3. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,
  4. p. 362, line 1Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
  5. p. 384, line 5Mannahatta, 385 Paumanok, 385 From Montauk Point, 385 To Those Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of […]
  6. p. 385, line 14To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,
  7. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)

failed see fail'd

failing 2

  1. p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
  2. p. 183, line 3And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream,

fails 1

  1. p. 362, line 4And that nothing fails its perfect return, and that what are called lies are perfect returns,

failure 2

  1. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  2. p. 425, line 32[…] Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on the book and myself as author […]

failures 5

  1. p. 177, line 12Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,
  2. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  3. p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
  4. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,

fain 3

  1. p. 138, line 2Forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
  2. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  3. p. 435, line 21[…] by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to […]

faint 10

  1. p. 10, line 18The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,
  2. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  3. p. 33, line 22Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
  4. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
  5. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
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  1. p. 96, line 19Yet you are beautiful to me you faint tinged roots, you make me think of death,
  2. p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
  3. p. 199, line 27So faint, I must be still, be still to listen,
  4. p. 237, line 16Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
  5. p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,

fainter 3

  1. 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.
  2. p. 422, line 7The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,

faintest 1

  1. p. 49, line 25I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,

fainting 2

  1. p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
  2. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,

faintly 1

  1. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

fair 19

  1. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
  2. p. 128, line 16Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
  3. p. 160, line 29A brood of lofty, fair, but lesser palaces shall cluster.
  4. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  5. p. 213, line 2Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth,
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  1. p. 213, line 17Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving,
  2. p. 213, line 31Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
  3. p. 250, line 16LOOK down fair moon and bathe this scene,
  4. p. 285, line 5But the house alone—that wondrous house—that delicate fair house—that ruin!
  5. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  6. p. 307, line 5Again thy star O France, fair lustrous star,
  7. p. 308, line 4O fair auroral skies—O morning dew upon the grass!
  8. p. 320, line 36Again with fair creation.
  9. p. 362, line 25In looks of fair unconscious babes,
  10. p. 387, line 12Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
  11. p. 387, line 18Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
  12. p. 389, line 11Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,
  13. p. 407, line 29[…] I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly […]
  14. p. 417, line 22The fair, the strong, the good, the capable,

fairer 3

  1. p. 160, line 13Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
  2. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
  3. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!

fairest 1

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

fairly 3

  1. p. 432, line 7[…] than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of the […]
  2. p. 432, line 22[…] Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with the particular […]
  3. p. 437, line 3[…] be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a desire […]

fairs 1

  1. p. 117, line 26I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat,

fair-sail 1

  1. p. 350, line 23Not to fair-sail unintermitted always,

faith 38

  1. p. 10, line 9Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
  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. 19, line 7Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
  4. p. 22, line 3Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
  5. p. 47, line 14A word of the faith that never balks,
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  1. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  2. p. 69, line 19My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  3. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  4. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  5. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  6. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  7. p. 182, line 30Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
  8. p. 211, line 15O hope and faith!
  9. p. 217, line 12OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
  10. p. 230, line 15(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
  11. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  12. p. 269, line 21As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
  13. p. 297, line 12After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,
  14. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  15. p. 320, line 17(History's type of courage, action, faith,)
  16. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  17. p. 348, line 6To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
  18. p. 350, line 18Land of unprecedented faith, God's faith,
  19. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  20. p. 361, line 18O ME, man of slack faith so long,
  21. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
  22. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  23. p. 386, line 9The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends.
  24. p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)
  25. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  26. p. 402, line 11And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.
  27. p. 409, line 33[…] and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
  28. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,
  29. p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
  30. p. 429, line 25[…] It is certain that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses never […]
  31. p. 434, line 32[…] What kind of temper and what amount of faith report these things? Up to how recent a date is […]
  32. p. 437, line 4[…] to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man […]

faithful 14

  1. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  2. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  3. p. 103, line 17Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
  4. p. 107, line 22Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were,
  5. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
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  1. p. 243, line 20I am faithful, I do not give out,
  2. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  3. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  4. p. 333, line 18The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
  5. p. 344, line 12I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,
  6. p. 402, line 15Mourning a good old man—a faithful shepherd, patriot.
  7. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  8. p. 426, line 10[…] to man or cause—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is […]
  9. p. 427, line 6[…] Grass " is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it […]

faithfulest 2

  1. p. 153, line 8Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,
  2. p. 402, line 6The faithfulest—hardiest—last.

faithfully 8

  1. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  2. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  3. p. 178, line 8From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
  4. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  5. p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
  6. p. 374, line 20Natural life of me faithfully praising things,
  7. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  8. p. 426, line 40[…] was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own […]

faithless 2

  1. p. 215, line 2Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
  2. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

faiths 7

  1. p. 69, line 19My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  2. p. 182, line 20The measur'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past,
  3. p. 182, line 22Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
  4. p. 395, line 23Freedom's and Love's and Faith's unloos'd cantabile,
  5. p. 427, line 8[…] gives one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring […]
  6. p. 427, line 9[…] at all with any decided coloring from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful […]

fakes 1

  1. p. 52, line 1Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death,

fall 31

  1. p. 35, line 12The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  2. p. 35, line 15What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,
  3. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  4. p. 56, line 13Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
  5. p. 60, line 6I fall on the weeds and stones,
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  1. p. 61, line 4The fall of grenades through the rent roof, the fan-shaped explosion,
  2. p. 61, line 9(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
  3. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  4. p. 86, line 22I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
  5. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  6. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
  7. p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
  8. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  9. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  10. p. 146, line 18To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
  11. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  12. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
  13. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
  14. p. 164, line 8Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
  15. p. 168, line 5To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last,
  16. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,
  17. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  18. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  19. p. 236, line 5In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
  20. p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
  21. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  22. p. 273, line 1Fall behind me States!
  23. p. 313, line 27As they fall on their knees and rise again.
  24. p. 366, line 25The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.
  25. p. 436, line 29[…] of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain […]

fallen 18

  1. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
  2. p. 59, line 9The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  3. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  4. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  5. p. 230, line 13THE noble sire fallen on evil days,
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  1. p. 255, line 13O powerful western fallen star!
  2. p. 262, line 28Fallen cold and dead.
  3. p. 263, line 6You've fallen cold and dead.
  4. p. 263, line 14Fallen cold and dead.
  5. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  6. p. 284, line 11At her feet fallen an unused royal harp,
  7. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  8. p. 354, line 18The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement,
  9. p. 367, line 24Where through the carnage I moved with a callous composure, or away from the fallen,
  10. p. 385, line 15To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
  11. p. 400, line 15To the wounded, the fallen, the heat, the suspense,
  12. p. 411, line 44[…] the same experience on the fields cover'd with fallen or dead […]
  13. p. 425, line 29[…] the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives […]

falling 29

  1. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  2. p. 56, line 25Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,
  3. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  4. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  5. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
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  1. p. 104, line 21Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,
  2. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
  3. p. 115, line 22I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
  4. p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
  5. p. 131, line 2The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset,
  6. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
  7. p. 158, line 9Long and long has the rain been falling,
  8. p. 168, line 9The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan,
  9. p. 184, line 30Falling in they beat for us, with the Western movement beat,
  10. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  11. p. 216, line 14In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
  12. p. 217, line 17Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
  13. p. 220, line 4The young men falling in and arming,
  14. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  15. p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;
  16. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  17. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  18. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  19. p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
  20. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
  21. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,
  22. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
  23. p. 391, line 20The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,
  24. p. 404, line 3The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,

falling-back 1

  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.

fallings 1

  1. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,

fall'n 1

  1. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.

fallow 1

  1. p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,

fallows 2

  1. p. 281, line 15Open unseeded fallows, rich fields of clover and timothy,
  2. p. 437, line 26[…] last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common sense […]

falls 15

  1. p. 38, line 5The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  2. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;
  3. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  4. p. 125, line 2From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments,
  5. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
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  1. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
  2. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
  3. p. 246, line 2Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,
  4. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  5. p. 312, line 28Her hair down her back falls loose and dishevel'd.
  6. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  7. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
  8. p. 396, line 17(Race of the woods, the landscapes free, and the falls!
  9. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at […]

false 1

  1. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,

falsehood 1

  1. p. 419, line 14Abstinence, no falsehood, no gluttony, lust;

falsehoods 1

  1. p. 361, line 24I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,

falter 2

  1. p. 10, line 21Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
  2. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,

faltering 1

  1. p. 346, line 15PENSIVE and faltering,

fame 5

  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. 306, line 2The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
  3. p. 320, line 19His voyage behold, his return, his great fame,
  4. p. 362, line 12Nor lore nor fame, nor happiness nor wealth,
  5. p. 402, line 18Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,

familiar 1

  1. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.

families 4

  1. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  2. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  3. p. 149, line 18The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,
  4. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,

family 5

  1. p. 66, line 13On his right cheek I put the family kiss,
  2. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  3. p. 163, line 1The family, parentage, childhood, husband and wife,
  4. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
  5. 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?

famine 1

  1. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,

famous 5

  1. p. 14, line 18WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
  2. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
  3. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,
  4. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,

fancied 2

  1. p. 32, line 2The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  2. p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,

fancies 2

  1. p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
  2. p. 384, line 22[…] Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I the […]

fancy 10

  1. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  2. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
  3. p. 406, line 6[…] Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year […]
  4. p. 406, line 39[…] Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my Fancy […]
  5. p. 409, line 15GOOD-BYE* my fancy—(I had a word to say,
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  1. p. 422, line 1GOOD-BYE my Fancy!
  2. p. 422, line 5So Good-bye my Fancy.
  3. p. 422, line 10Delightful!—now separation—Good-bye my Fancy.
  4. p. 422, line 18Good-bye—and hail! my Fancy.
  5. p. 430, line 13[…] some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which […]

fancying 1

  1. p. 112, line 5Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;

fancy-man 1

  1. p. 42, line 21Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.

fang'd 3 today: fanged

  1. p. 21, line 15The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all,
  2. p. 93, line 13We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,
  3. p. 184, line 15Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,

fanged see fang'd

fann'd 1 today: fanned

  1. p. 276, line 2While the winds fann'd me and the waves came trooping toward me,

fanned see fann'd

fanning 1

  1. p. 145, line 13I feel the ship's motion under me, I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,

fan-shaped 1

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

fantasy 1

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

far 112

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far-away 2

  1. p. 119, line 8You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!
  2. p. 307, line 8IN a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region,

far-back 2

  1. p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
  2. p. 431, line 21[…] to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at most […]

far-born 1

  1. p. 13, line 7Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,

far-darting 1

  1. p. 316, line 8The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos'd dreams,

far-distant 1

  1. p. 126, line 16Habituès of many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings,

far-dying 1

  1. p. 13, line 7Far-born, far-dying, living long, to leave,

fare 2

  1. p. 69, line 13In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  2. p. 149, line 22The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;

fare-collector 1

  1. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,

farewell 9

  1. p. 166, line 1Farewell my brethren,
  2. p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,
  3. p. 380, line 2Now land and life finalè and farewell,
  4. p. 382, line 4Is there a single final farewell?
  5. p. 384, line 71[…] Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper […]
  6. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,
  7. p. 422, line 2Farewell dear mate, dear love!

farewells 1

  1. p. 404, line 18Farewells, messages lessening—dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form,

far-flowing 1

  1. p. 195, line 7From Thibet, from the four winding and far-flowing rivers of China,

farm 8

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  4. p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
  5. p. 237, line 2Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful, and the farm prospers well.
  6. p. 295, line 25Marriage, the street, the factory, farm, the house-room, lodging-room,
  7. p. 335, line 11Your farm, profits, crops—to think how engross'd you are,
  8. p. 419, line 18Your farm—your work, trade, occupation,

farm-boy 1

  1. p. 75, line 22The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,

farmer 10

  1. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 42, line 20A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
  3. p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
  4. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!
  5. p. 195, line 3Mandarin, farmer, merchant, mechanic, and fisherman,
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  1. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  2. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  3. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
  4. p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
  5. p. 415, line 28Children's and women's tones—rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,

farmers 10

  1. p. 82, line 11The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
  2. p. 113, line 2I hear the workman singing and the farmer's wife singing,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
  5. p. 146, line 15O the farmer's joys!
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  1. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  2. p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
  3. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  4. p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
  5. p. 397, line 15Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)

farm-fields 1

  1. p. 277, line 8Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods,

farm-house 2

  1. p. 255, line 18In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,
  2. p. 355, line 28She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,

farm-life 1

  1. p. 16, line 11A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,

farms 28

  1. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,
  2. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  3. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  4. p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
  5. p. 163, line 26Behold! thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains,
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  1. p. 164, line 13Mark, thy interminable farms, North, South,
  2. p. 164, line 22Ships, farms, shops, barns, factories, mines,
  3. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  4. p. 170, line 25Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
  5. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  6. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  7. p. 230, line 1Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,
  8. p. 237, line 15Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
  9. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  10. p. 279, line 7Dispensatress, that by a word givest a thousand miles, a million farms, and missest nothing,
  11. p. 289, line 6Some prowling through woods, some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,
  12. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  13. p. 307, line 26Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms,
  14. p. 310, line 8Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
  15. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  16. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
  17. p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
  18. p. 390, line 22All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work,
  19. p. 393, line 22Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms,
  20. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;
  21. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,
  22. p. 420, line 8Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs in corners,

farm-wagons 1

  1. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,

farm-work 1

  1. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?

far-off 7

  1. p. 43, line 26This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  2. p. 151, line 12The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,
  3. p. 163, line 26Behold! thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains,
  4. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  5. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
  6. p. 338, line 23With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,
  7. p. 408, line 30[…] hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but a reminiscent […]

far-spreading 2

  1. p. 258, line 22And ever the far-spreading prairies cover'd with grass and corn.
  2. p. 433, line 13[…] presence of Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape and vistas, or the sea rolling in […]

far-sprinkled 1

  1. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,

far-stretching 3

  1. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  2. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,
  3. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)

far-swooping 1

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

farther 16

  1. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  2. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  3. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  4. p. 171, line 1All these I see, but nigher and farther the same I see,
  5. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
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  1. p. 173, line 11It is nearer and farther than they.
  2. p. 226, line 4Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!
  3. p. 323, line 10O farther farther sail!
  4. p. 323, line 12O farther, farther, farther sail!
  5. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  6. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,

farthest 4

  1. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  2. p. 269, line 21As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
  3. p. 291, line 9Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
  4. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,

fascinated 1

  1. p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,

fascinating 1

  1. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,

fascination 4

  1. p. 180, line 24YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
  2. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  3. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,
  4. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

fascinations 2

  1. p. 177, line 27With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age,

fashion 5

  1. p. 12, line 24To fashion his eidólon.
  2. p. 160, line 4I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,
  3. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
  4. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  5. p. 393, line 5Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,

fashion'd 3 today: fashioned

  1. p. 124, line 7Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashion'd, it is apropos;
  2. p. 316, line 14Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams!
  3. p. 429, line 36[…] Leaves" could not possibly have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any other era than the latter half […]

fashioned see fashion'd

fashion's 2

  1. p. 182, line 7To fashion's, custom's discord,
  2. p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?

fast 17

  1. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  3. p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,
  4. p. 62, line 14My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
  5. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
11 more lines
  1. p. 145, line 22Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast,
  2. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  3. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  4. p. 224, line 28O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,
  5. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  6. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  7. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  8. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  9. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  10. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  11. p. 326, line 18I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

fast-anchor'd 1

  1. p. 111, line 1FAST-ANCHOR'D eternal O love! O woman I love!

fasten'd 1 today: fastened

  1. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,

fastened see fasten'd

fastenings 1

  1. p. 65, line 4Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.

faster 2

  1. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  2. p. 381, line 12O thicker and faster—(So long!)

fat 1

  1. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

fatal 1

  1. p. 366, line 22The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment,

fate 6

  1. p. 15, line 5How there is something relentless in their fate all times,
  2. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  3. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  4. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  5. p. 334, line 7A reminiscence of the vulgar fate,
  6. p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,

fateful 3

  1. p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  2. p. 249, line 17What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
  3. p. 367, line 28Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death,

father 33

  1. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  2. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  3. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
  4. p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
  5. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
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  1. p. 160, line 9(Would the son separate himself from the father?)
  2. p. 170, line 23The mother, and she is every bit as much as the father.
  3. p. 203, line 9What is yours is mine my father.
  4. p. 203, line 14I throw myself upon your breast my father,
  5. p. 203, line 17Kiss me my father,
  6. p. 205, line 27Stands a child with her father,
  7. p. 206, line 7From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
  8. p. 223, line 14On the ground where father and child stand,
  9. p. 224, line 3Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
  10. p. 224, line 25O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
  11. p. 224, line 28O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,
  12. p. 226, line 18O my father I like not the houses,
  13. p. 226, line 20But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
  14. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  15. p. 237, line 4But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter's call,
  16. p. 246, line 17For the son is brought with the father,
  17. p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
  18. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  19. p. 263, line 3Here Captain! dear father!
  20. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  21. p. 283, line 16The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,
  22. p. 331, line 23The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  23. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  24. p. 339, line 7As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws,
  25. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  26. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)

father'd 2 today: fathered

  1. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
  2. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,

fathered see father'd

fatherhood 1

  1. p. 81, line 4From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,

fathers 10

  1. p. 82, line 22And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.
  2. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  3. p. 87, line 2Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
  4. p. 137, line 15The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
  5. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
4 more lines
  1. p. 153, line 10Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,
  2. p. 191, line 21With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
  3. p. 223, line 12By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
  4. p. 266, line 17To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,

father-stuff 1

  1. p. 48, line 20And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff,

fathom 1

  1. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,

fathomless 7

  1. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  2. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  3. p. 69, line 16Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless human brain,
  4. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
  5. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  6. p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
  7. p. 260, line 18Prais'd be the fathomless universe,

fatigued 1

  1. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,

fat-tail'd 1

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

faucet 1

  1. p. 285, line 4Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me,

fault-finder's 1

  1. p. 47, line 1My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,

faults 1

  1. p. 306, line 18In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly,

Faust 1

  1. p. 313, line 13Gounod's Faust, or Mozart's Don Juan.

favor 4

  1. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  2. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  3. p. 292, line 24Nor favor comes, nor word of grace.
  4. p. 437, line 23[…] be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it, or […]

favor'd 1 today: favored

  1. p. 284, line 22The winds favor'd and the sea sail'd it,

favored see favor'd

favorite 1

  1. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.

favorites 2

  1. p. 35, line 10The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous'd mobs,
  2. p. 220, line 21The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites,

favors 2

  1. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  2. p. 291, line 24Who favors body and soul the same,

fawn 1

  1. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

fear 15

  1. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  2. p. 47, line 3Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
  3. p. 75, line 1Wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
  4. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  5. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
9 more lines
  1. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  2. p. 186, line 9WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
  3. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  4. p. 203, line 22Endlessly cry for your castaways, but fear not, deny not me,
  5. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  6. p. 265, line 17Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse,
  7. p. 265, line 18Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice,
  8. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  9. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,

fear'd 3 today: feared

  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. 92, line 16For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.
  3. p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?

feared see fear'd

fearful 7

  1. p. 226, line 23To be that pennant would be too fearful,
  2. p. 262, line 21O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
  3. p. 263, line 10From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
  4. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  5. p. 292, line 2O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  6. p. 293, line 23O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  7. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,

fearing 1

  1. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,

fearless 3

  1. p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
  2. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  3. p. 321, line 4Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,

fears 2

  1. p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)
  2. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;

feast 5

  1. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  2. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  3. 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,
  4. p. 185, line 33Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
  5. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,

feasters 1

  1. p. 185, line 33Do the feasters gluttonous feast?

feasting 1

  1. p. 234, line 7Quite within hearing, feasting, clinking wineglasses together over their victory.

feastings 1

  1. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,

feather'd 1 today: feathered

  1. p. 197, line 16Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,

feathered see feather'd

feathers 1

  1. p. 116, line 4I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head,

feature 1

  1. p. 436, line 17[…] into a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say […]

features 9

  1. p. 65, line 19Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,
  2. p. 168, line 15The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all,
  3. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  4. p. 325, line 19The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray faces of onanists,
  5. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
  6. p. 365, line 21Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;
  7. p. 429, line 23[…] as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were […]
  8. p. 435, line 7[…] consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen […]

Feb 1

  1. p. 384, line 18[…] After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink […]

February 2

  1. p. 294, line 5The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,
  2. p. 384, line 35[…] General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the […]

fecund 1

  1. p. 278, line 26Fecund America—to-day,

fed 4

  1. p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
  2. p. 229, line 6Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious.
  3. p. 295, line 29The hungry fed, the houseless housed;

Federal 2

  1. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  2. p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?

fee 2

  1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  2. p. 354, line 7This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,

feeble 3

  1. p. 127, line 20Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
  2. p. 326, line 31The stammerer, the well-form'd person, the wasted or feeble person.
  3. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,

feebleness 2

  1. p. 108, line 8Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
  2. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)

feed 6

  1. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  2. p. 68, line 20To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
  3. p. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  4. p. 95, line 21Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 274, line 28Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn belov'd of time.

feeding 10

  1. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  2. p. 55, line 28Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,
  3. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
  4. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!
  5. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
5 more lines
  1. 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,
  2. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
  3. p. 281, line 16Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine,
  4. p. 301, line 11Or animals feeding in the fields,
  5. p. 308, line 24This common marvel I beheld—the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young,

feeds 2

  1. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  2. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,

Feejeeman 1

  1. p. 120, line 4You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Feejeeman!

feel 37

  1. p. 10, line 15The sky o'erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
  2. p. 10, line 16We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
  3. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  4. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
  5. p. 52, line 2At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
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  1. p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  2. p. 60, line 2All these I feel or am.
  3. p. 64, line 7And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  4. p. 68, line 8Easily written loose-finger'd chords—I feel the thrum of your climax and close.
  5. p. 90, line 21The like of the same I feel, the like of the same in others,
  6. p. 98, line 13Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
  7. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  8. p. 145, line 5To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer—to feel his sympathy!
  9. p. 145, line 13I feel the ship's motion under me, I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,
  10. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  11. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  12. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
  13. p. 327, line 9I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  14. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  15. p. 344, line 10Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,
  16. p. 349, line 13I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
  17. p. 358, line 6I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race, it becomes all mine,
  18. p. 361, line 24I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
  19. p. 382, line 14I feel immerged from head to foot,
  20. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  21. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,
  22. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  23. p. 407, line 25However that may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last […]
  24. p. 408, line 9[…] so sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for […]
  25. p. 414, line 10I feel the sky, the prairies vast—I feel the mighty northern lakes,
  26. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
  27. p. 426, line 28[…] Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were creditable—and I accept the result, whatever […]
  28. p. 438, line 15[…] as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at […]

feelers 1

  1. p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,

feeling 8

  1. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  2. p. 46, line 16I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me,
  3. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  4. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  5. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  6. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  7. p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
  8. p. 426, line 40[…] and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or […]

feelings 2

  1. p. 160, line 6Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
  2. p. 270, line 7They live in the feelings of young men and the best women,

feels 6

  1. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  2. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
  3. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  4. p. 75, line 22The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  5. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  6. p. 324, line 33My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd,

feet 43

  1. p. 10, line 15The sky o'erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
  2. p. 20, line 14I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
  3. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  4. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  5. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
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  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. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  3. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
  4. p. 58, line 5Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print,
  5. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
  6. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  7. p. 65, line 19Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,
  8. p. 71, line 18My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  9. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  10. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  11. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
  12. p. 156, line 15The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,
  13. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  14. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  15. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,
  16. p. 198, line 20I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,
  17. p. 200, line 20The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying,
  18. p. 201, line 22But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
  19. p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
  20. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  21. p. 204, line 12Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.
  22. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  23. p. 229, line 19How it climbs with daring feet and hands—how it dashes!
  24. p. 230, line 17The noble son on sinewy feet advancing,
  25. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,
  26. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
  27. p. 240, line 17To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)
  28. p. 249, line 6With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
  29. p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
  30. p. 284, line 11At her feet fallen an unused royal harp,
  31. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  32. p. 306, line 23This cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet,
  33. p. 313, line 24I hear the metrical shuffling of their feet.
  34. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  35. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  36. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  37. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,
  38. p. 394, line 18Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!

fell 7

  1. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,
  3. p. 238, line 26And buried him where he fell.
  4. p. 241, line 11A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
  5. p. 246, line 18(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
  6. p. 293, line 13A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute,
  7. p. 386, line 11But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.

felling 1

  1. p. 183, line 29We primeval forests felling,

fellow 4

  1. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  2. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
  3. p. 334, line 19He was a good fellow, free-mouth'd, quick-temper'd, not bad-looking,
  4. p. 426, line 30[…] continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual […]

fellow-humanity 1

  1. p. 427, line 34[…] chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above all, to begin […]

fellows 4

  1. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  2. p. 170, line 25Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
  3. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.

fellow-senses 1

  1. p. 52, line 22Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,

felon 3

  1. p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  2. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  3. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,

felons 1

  1. p. 298, line 17YOU felons on trial in courts,

felt 14

  1. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  2. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  3. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  4. p. 35, line 25I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other,
  5. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
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  1. p. 131, line 18I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
  2. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  3. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  4. 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.
  5. p. 309, line 1There ponder'd, felt I,
  6. p. 324, line 9The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
  7. p. 375, line 28I too have felt the resistless call of myself.
  8. p. 433, line 35[…] indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that to […]
  9. p. 437, line 7[…] which is the foundation of moral America. I felt it all as positively then in my young days as […]

female 22

  1. p. 9, line 5The Female equally with the Male I sing.
  2. p. 20, line 27Here lands female and male,
  3. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  4. p. 26, line 1Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
  5. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
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  1. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
  2. p. 81, line 25That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
  3. p. 82, line 11The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
  4. p. 83, line 18This is the female form,
  5. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
  6. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  7. p. 87, line 17All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one's body, male or female,
  8. p. 118, line 11I see male and female everywhere,
  9. p. 161, line 20The male and female many laboring not,
  10. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  11. p. 267, line 22The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,
  12. p. 290, line 10No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her,
  13. p. 326, line 5The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  14. p. 330, line 17The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyé, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the money-maker,
  15. p. 331, line 21Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand,
  16. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
  17. 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.

females 1

  1. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,

feminine 3

  1. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!
  2. p. 91, line 19O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!
  3. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?

femme 3

  1. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
  2. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
  3. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.

fence 4

  1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  2. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
  3. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  4. p. 60, line 5I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the ooze of my skin,

fences 2

  1. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  2. p. 355, line 21It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,

fermented 1

  1. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,

ferments 1

  1. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:

Fernando's 2

  1. p. 313, line 4Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.
  2. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,

ferocity 1

  1. p. 212, line 2The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings.

ferried 2

  1. p. 72, line 1Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen,
  2. p. 431, line 11[…] would name those old and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits […]

ferries 3

  1. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  2. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;
  3. p. 283, line 24Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank'd wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries,

ferry 3

  1. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  2. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
  3. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,

ferry-boat 1

  1. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,

ferry-boats 2

  1. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  2. p. 361, line 7The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd,

ferry-wharf 1

  1. p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,

fertile 2

  1. p. 235, line 18Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
  2. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,

fertility 1

  1. p. 281, line 3The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility.

fertilized 1

  1. p. 432, line 24[…] and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way for good […]

fertilizers 1

  1. p. 159, line 23Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers, artificial fertilizers,

fervor 1

  1. p. 314, line 32And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor,

feste 1

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

festering 1

  1. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,

festival 2

  1. p. 311, line 1A festival song,
  2. p. 319, line 16The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,

festivals 2

  1. p. 311, line 13I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,
  2. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,

festoon'd 1 today: festooned

  1. p. 139, line 13Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,

festooned see festoon'd

festoons 1

  1. p. 56, line 13Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

fetch 7

  1. p. 47, line 21Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac,
  2. p. 59, line 14They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.
  3. p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  4. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  5. p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
  6. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
  7. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.

fetches 1

  1. p. 269, line 17In war he is the best backer of the war, he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's, he can make every word he speaks draw blood,

fetching 3

  1. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  2. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  3. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,

feted 1

  1. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,

fêtes 1

  1. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,

fetich 2

  1. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  2. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.

fetiches 1

  1. p. 167, line 11Not wan from Asia's fetiches,

fetid 1

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

fetor 1

  1. p. 287, line 4It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,

feudal 8

  1. p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
  2. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  3. p. 348, line 24And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
  4. p. 356, line 27Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.
  5. p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,
  6. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,
  7. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,
  8. p. 435, line 43[…] of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder […]

feudalism 3

  1. p. 432, line 10[…] World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs […]
  2. p. 435, line 9[…] were the ideals of the centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress […]
  3. p. 435, line 31[…] attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and […]

feudalism's 1

  1. p. 431, line 1[…] joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the […]

feuds 1

  1. p. 358, line 7Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feuds and hatreds,

feuillage 4

  1. p. 138, line 7ALWAYS our old feuillage!
  2. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  3. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  4. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,

fever 4

  1. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
  2. p. 279, line 25O you regiments so piteous, with your mortal diarrhoea, with your fever,
  3. p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
  4. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!

feverish 4

  1. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  2. p. 318, line 16With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
  3. p. 318, line 18Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
  4. p. 403, line 21Unrest and pain, and feverish heat,

fevers 2

  1. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
  2. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,

few 39

  1. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  2. p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
  3. p. 46, line 2Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
  4. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  5. p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
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  1. p. 68, line 23A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  2. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  3. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  4. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
  5. p. 108, line 23But a few carols vibrating through the air I leave,
  6. p. 138, line 19All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,
  7. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  8. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
  9. p. 162, line 14The unhealthy pleasures, extravagant dissipations of the few,
  10. p. 202, line 23A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
  11. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  12. p. 231, line 16The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (make room gentlemen,)
  13. p. 232, line 29A few days more and they landed, and then the battle.
  14. p. 233, line 26Few return'd, nearly all remain in Brooklyn.
  15. p. 242, line 12(Both I remember well—many the hardships, few the joys, yet I was content.)
  16. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  17. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
  18. p. 298, line 9We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
  19. p. 310, line 2It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  20. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  21. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  22. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  23. p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
  24. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  25. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
  26. p. 426, line 11[…] and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the […]
  27. p. 427, line 38[…] of the current English magazines, the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to […]
  28. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder […]
  29. p. 428, line 22[…] in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it to the future […]
  30. p. 436, line 17[…] atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those […]
  31. p. 438, line 37[…] not the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to […]

fiat 1

  1. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)

fiats 1

  1. p. 181, line 12Successive absolute fiats issuing.

fiber see fibre

fibre 5 today: fiber

  1. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
  2. p. 79, line 3And filter and fibre your blood.
  3. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  4. p. 321, line 21Nameless, the fibre and the breath,
  5. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,

fibres 1

  1. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.

Fichte 1

  1. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,

fickle 1

  1. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,

fictions 1

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

fiddle 1

  1. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;

fiddler 1

  1. p. 312, line 18The fiddler in the tavern, the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,

field 17

  1. p. 10, line 1(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,
  2. p. 56, line 2Over the growing sugar, over the yellow-flower'd cotton plant, over the rice in its low moist field,
  3. p. 75, line 22The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  4. p. 161, line 4The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
  5. p. 166, line 32And leave the field for them.
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  1. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
  2. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  3. p. 238, line 1VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night;
  4. p. 244, line 11Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
  5. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  6. p. 268, line 6Libertad, from the conqueress' field return'd,
  7. p. 276, line 13(For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,)
  8. p. 280, line 20Inured on many a hard-fought bloody field.
  9. p. 402, line 2And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row;
  10. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,
  11. p. 426, line 20[…] sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a […]
  12. p. 432, line 23[…] and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation […]

fields 61

  1. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
  2. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  3. p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  4. p. 32, line 28And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  5. p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
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  1. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  2. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  3. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  4. p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
  5. p. 107, line 5And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,
  6. p. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.
  7. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
  8. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
  9. p. 143, line 1O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides!
  10. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
  11. p. 163, line 26Behold! thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains,
  12. p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,
  13. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,
  14. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
  15. p. 200, line 10In the air, in the woods, over fields,
  16. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  17. p. 226, line 11And the fields they moisten, and the crops and the fruits are ours,
  18. p. 227, line 8And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
  19. p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
  20. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  21. p. 237, line 3Down in the fields all prospers well,
  22. p. 237, line 4But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter's call,
  23. p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,
  24. p. 245, line 9Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;
  25. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  26. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  27. p. 256, line 15Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen,
  28. p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
  29. p. 259, line 19And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,
  30. p. 260, line 33And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
  31. p. 261, line 6Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
  32. p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
  33. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  34. p. 280, line 26Not there your victory on those red shuddering fields,
  35. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  36. p. 281, line 4All till'd and untill'd fields expand before me,
  37. p. 281, line 15Open unseeded fallows, rich fields of clover and timothy,
  38. p. 281, line 21Not alone on those warlike fields the Mother of All,
  39. p. 281, line 26Over the fields of the West those crawling monsters,
  40. p. 296, line 2Thy name an earth, with mountains, fields and tides.
  41. p. 301, line 11Or animals feeding in the fields,
  42. p. 322, line 28Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!
  43. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  44. p. 346, line 12Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,
  45. p. 360, line 7O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!
  46. p. 367, line 19Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
  47. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  48. p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
  49. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;
  50. p. 396, line 5Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
  51. p. 408, line 22[…] contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere […]
  52. p. 411, line 44[…] more than once the same experience on the fields cover'd with fallen or dead […]
  53. p. 434, line 6I went down to the war fields in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great […]

field-sprouts 1

  1. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,

fierce 23

  1. p. 83, line 20It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
  2. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  3. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  4. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  5. p. 113, line 7I hear fierce French liberty songs,
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  1. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  2. p. 200, line 17With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning,
  3. p. 202, line 5Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
  4. p. 203, line 21Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,
  5. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  6. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  7. p. 216, line 12The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
  8. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
  9. p. 230, line 26(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!
  10. p. 246, line 18(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
  11. p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
  12. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  13. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  14. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  15. p. 367, line 3From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof,
  16. p. 373, line 4The vehement struggle so fierce for unity in one's-self;
  17. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
  18. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?

fiercely 1

  1. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,

fierceness 1

  1. p. 267, line 19The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when wrong'd,

fiercer 2

  1. p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
  2. p. 254, line 6To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.

fierce-throated 1

  1. p. 359, line 15Fierce-throated beauty!

fiery 2

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

fife 1

  1. p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,

fifes 1

  1. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

fifteen 1

  1. p. 361, line 9Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,

Fifth-month 4

  1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  2. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  3. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  4. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,

fifty 7

  1. p. 61, line 11The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
  2. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  3. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
  4. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  5. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
  6. p. 427, line 40[…] force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer […]
  7. p. 432, line 32[…] of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]

fig 1

  1. p. 148, line 27Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig,

fight 7

  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. 233, line 21We fought the fight in detachments,
  3. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,
  4. p. 254, line 5Here marching, ever marching on, a war fight out—aye here,
  5. p. 270, line 17I sing you over all, flying beckoning through the fight—O the hard-contested fight!
  6. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;

fighter 2

  1. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  2. p. 400, line 5A queer old savage man, a fighter under Washington himself,

fighting 7

  1. p. 62, line 17Fighting at sun-down, fighting at dark,
  2. p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
  3. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  4. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  5. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,
  6. p. 400, line 25Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.

fights 1

  1. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,

fig-tree 1

  1. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,

figure 3

  1. p. 236, line 12Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
  2. p. 237, line 14Ah now the single figure to me,
  3. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,

figures 2

  1. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
  2. p. 214, line 14When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

filament 3

  1. p. 343, line 17It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

filaments 2

  1. p. 84, line 1Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,
  2. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.

file 4

  1. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  2. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  3. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  4. p. 413, line 40[…] on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead of all other known in points of quality and […]

fill 30

  1. p. 19, line 18As in a dream they change, they swiftly fill,
  2. p. 40, line 11The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  3. p. 66, line 24Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
  4. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  5. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
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  1. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
  4. p. 121, line 12I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
  5. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  6. p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
  7. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  8. p. 167, line 2For a superber race, they too to grandly fill their time,
  9. p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,
  10. p. 171, line 23The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever,
  11. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?
  12. p. 226, line 22Child of mine you fill me with anguish,
  13. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  14. p. 253, line 16Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive,
  15. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  16. p. 309, line 7Destin'd to fill the world.
  17. p. 311, line 12Now airs antique and mediæval fill me,
  18. p. 314, line 24Fill me with all the voices of the universe,
  19. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  20. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  21. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  22. p. 355, line 16Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,
  23. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  24. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  25. p. 434, line 41[…] great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him […]

fill'd 29 today: filled

  1. p. 13, line 16Fill'd with eidólons only.
  2. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  3. 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?
  4. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  5. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
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  1. p. 112, line 19What myriads of dwellings are they fill'd with dwellers?
  2. p. 121, line 12I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
  3. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,
  4. p. 166, line 29We who have grandly fill'd our time;
  5. p. 184, line 22With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
  6. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  7. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
  8. p. 215, line 2Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
  9. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  10. p. 234, line 15Every one else seem'd fill'd with gloom,
  11. p. 239, line 16The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
  12. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
  13. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  14. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  15. 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,
  16. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
  17. p. 318, line 4For purpose vast, man's long probation fill'd,
  18. p. 320, line 2Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,
  19. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  20. p. 324, line 3All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee,
  21. p. 356, line 13Was fill'd with aspirations high, unform'd ideals,
  22. p. 358, line 22Riotous laughing bacchanals fill'd with joy!
  23. p. 358, line 24The ocean fill'd with joy—the atmosphere all joy!

filled see fill'd

fillest 1

  1. p. 322, line 3And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.

filling 13

  1. p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  2. p. 58, line 18Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
  3. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  4. p. 261, line 11With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
  5. p. 262, line 5Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
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  1. p. 289, line 6Some prowling through woods, some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,
  2. p. 310, line 24Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless,
  3. p. 348, line 26Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western sky,
  4. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,
  5. p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
  6. p. 386, line 25Filling the air, the lonesome room, the long forenoon,
  7. p. 434, line 10[…] death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years […]

fills 3

  1. p. 51, line 20A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  2. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  3. p. 320, line 26And fills the earth with use and beauty.)

film 4

  1. p. 134, line 2You necessary film, continue to envelop the soul,
  2. p. 296, line 15This film of Satan's seething pit,
  3. p. 362, line 28As some dissolving delicate film of dreams,
  4. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,

filter 4

  1. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  2. p. 79, line 3And filter and fibre your blood.
  3. p. 386, line 21May filter in my daily songs.
  4. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)

filter'd 1 today: filtered

  1. p. 422, line 12Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended into one;

filtered see filter'd

filth 3

  1. p. 44, line 14That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.
  2. p. 213, line 2Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth,
  3. p. 419, line 23Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;

filthy 1

  1. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)

fin 1

  1. p. 56, line 20Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,

final 17

  1. p. 50, line 24My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am,
  2. p. 68, line 4My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  3. p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
  4. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  5. p. 182, line 10From some far shore the final chorus sounding.
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  1. p. 201, line 12The word final, superior to all,
  2. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  3. p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
  4. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)
  5. p. 382, line 4Is there a single final farewell?
  6. p. 384, line 39[…] Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities […]
  7. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
  8. p. 394, line 21To get the final lilt of songs,
  9. p. 404, line 10As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
  10. p. 428, line 2[…] endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real […]
  11. p. 434, line 4[…] provocation of that war's sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]
  12. p. 437, line 24[…] need of it—is the beginning, middle and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out […]

finalè 5

  1. p. 21, line 2The ever-tending, the finalè of visible forms,
  2. p. 101, line 19As base and finalè too for all metaphysics.
  3. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  4. p. 380, line 1NOW finalè to the shore,
  5. p. 380, line 2Now land and life finalè and farewell,

finalés 1

  1. p. 376, line 6I sing the endless finalés of things,

finally 18

  1. p. 21, line 23I will show what alone must finally compact these,
  2. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  3. p. 123, line 20Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
  4. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  5. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
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  1. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  2. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?
  3. p. 291, line 12Itself only finally satisfies the soul,
  4. p. 299, line 19And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
  5. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  6. p. 342, line 17Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains?
  7. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  8. p. 408, line 31[…] O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you […]
  9. p. 419, line 1"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest,
  10. p. 422, line 17May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning—so now finally,
  11. p. 426, line 39[…] steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition to […]
  12. p. 428, line 6[…] seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]

find 32

  1. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  2. p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
  3. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  4. p. 47, line 5I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  5. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
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  1. p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  2. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  3. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  4. p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
  5. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  6. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  7. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  8. p. 91, line 24To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
  9. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  10. p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
  11. p. 125, line 5Traveling with me you find what never tires.
  12. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  13. p. 148, line 2To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
  14. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,
  15. p. 169, line 14And find the eternal meanings.
  16. p. 179, line 21When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot,
  17. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  18. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,
  19. p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
  20. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  21. p. 289, line 18I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.
  22. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  23. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  24. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  25. p. 425, line 34[…] anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to you everywhere,"—letter from […]
  26. p. 438, line 13[…] fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me […]

finders 1

  1. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,

finding 4

  1. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
  2. p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
  3. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  4. p. 277, line 11Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,

finds 2

  1. p. 292, line 20Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.
  2. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,

fine 10

  1. p. 37, line 4She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
  2. p. 42, line 6Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine,
  3. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  4. p. 130, line 20Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
  5. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
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  1. p. 182, line 12That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
  2. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,
  3. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
  4. p. 428, line 39[…] religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it […]
  5. p. 430, line 13[…] plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which has been […]

fine-headed 1

  1. 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!

finely 1

  1. p. 55, line 9Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.

finer 1

  1. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,

finger 6

  1. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  2. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
  3. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  4. p. 224, line 3Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
  5. p. 310, line 6With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
  6. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,

finger'd 1 today: fingered

  1. p. 120, line 13You waters I have finger'd every shore with you,

fingered see finger'd

finger-joints 1

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,

finger-nails 1

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,

fingers 15

  1. p. 46, line 15I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  2. p. 48, line 27I do not press my fingers across my mouth,
  3. p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  4. p. 65, line 20They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  5. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  3. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
  4. p. 108, line 4Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
  5. p. 148, line 24Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.
  6. p. 240, line 8Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
  7. p. 241, line 19But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself,
  8. p. 328, line 17I cannot aid with my wringing fingers,
  9. p. 382, line 12O how your fingers drowse me,
  10. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,

finish 6

  1. p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
  2. p. 190, line 2Let others finish specimens, I never finish specimens,
  3. p. 268, line 17Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,
  4. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  5. p. 434, line 20[…] last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme […]

finish'd 6 today: finished

  1. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  2. p. 246, line 2Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath,
  3. p. 307, line 1Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd,
  4. p. 369, line 2(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,
  5. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  6. p. 425, line 25[…] memory,) I look upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my […]

finished see finish'd

finishing 1

  1. p. 340, line 19Here the square finishing, the solid, I the most solid,

Finn 1

  1. p. 117, line 6I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,

fire 31

  1. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
  2. p. 20, line 8Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all.
  3. p. 36, line 4Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,
  4. p. 37, line 22Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire.
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  2. p. 62, line 22Our frigate takes fire,
  3. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  4. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
  5. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  6. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  7. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  8. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  9. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
  10. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
  11. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  12. p. 174, line 4The calking-iron, the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire under the kettle,
  13. p. 176, line 10Air, soil, water, fire—those are words,
  14. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  15. p. 201, line 7The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,
  16. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  17. p. 236, line 11The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence,
  18. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
  19. p. 269, line 6(Soul of love and tongue of fire!
  20. p. 295, line 7The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove.
  21. p. 306, line 28Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos,
  22. p. 344, line 23The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,
  23. p. 362, line 2Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood?
  24. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  25. p. 404, line 1The touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,
  26. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)

fire-balls 1

  1. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,

fire-caps 1

  1. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,

fired 2

  1. p. 17, line 15And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
  2. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,

fire-engines 1

  1. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,

fire-flashing 1

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

fire-lock 1

  1. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.

firelocks 1

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

fireman 2

  1. p. 60, line 12I am the mash'd fireman with breast-bone broken,
  2. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,

fireman's 1

  1. p. 143, line 6O the fireman's joys!

firemen 3

  1. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
  2. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  3. p. 268, line 2Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation life,

fireplace 1

  1. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,

fires 7

  1. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  2. p. 21, line 26I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires,
  3. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  4. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  5. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
  6. p. 386, line 8The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
  7. p. 396, line 6The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,

fire-trumpets 1

  1. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,

fireworks 1

  1. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;

firing 1

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

firm 14

  1. p. 10, line 14Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said,
  2. p. 19, line 23With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
  3. p. 27, line 9With me with firm holding, yet haste, haste on.
  4. p. 29, line 5O to haste firm holding—to haste, haste on with me.
  5. p. 49, line 9Firm masculine colter it shall be you!
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  1. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  2. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
  3. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  4. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  5. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,
  6. p. 242, line 29I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,
  7. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,
  8. p. 395, line 18(So firm—so liquid-soft—again that tremulous, manly timbre!
  9. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,

firmament 1

  1. p. 413, line 34[…] that history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on […]

firmer 1

  1. p. 427, line 41[…] But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already […]

firm-fibred 1

  1. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.

firmly 3

  1. p. 38, line 1The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  2. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;
  3. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,

firs 1

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

first 66

  1. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
  2. p. 14, line 25BEGINNING my studies the first step pleas'd me so much,
  3. p. 14, line 28The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
  4. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  5. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,
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  1. p. 40, line 21The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,
  2. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  3. p. 47, line 19Materialism first and last imbuing.
  4. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  5. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
  6. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  7. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  8. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  9. p. 79, line 4Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
  10. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
  11. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  12. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  13. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
  14. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  15. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  16. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  17. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
  18. p. 219, line 7FIRST O songs for a prelude,
  19. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
  20. p. 234, line 1That and here my General's first battle,
  21. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  22. p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
  23. p. 240, line 8Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
  24. p. 257, line 9But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,
  25. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  26. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
  27. p. 277, line 6Life's ever-modern rapids first, (soon, soon to blend,
  28. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?
  29. p. 281, line 5I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last,
  30. p. 282, line 18And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
  31. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  32. p. 292, line 15She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,
  33. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  34. p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
  35. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  36. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
  37. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  38. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
  39. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,
  40. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
  41. p. 362, line 31Two words, yet all from first to last comprised in it.
  42. p. 367, line 16Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,)
  43. p. 384, line 13[…] to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of […]
  44. p. 387, line 15The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
  45. p. 392, line 20The first and last confession of the globe,
  46. p. 398, line 1Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
  47. p. 407, line 7[…] been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes […]
  48. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  49. p. 425, line 21[…] lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards […]
  50. p. 426, line 24[…] lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from the first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems […]
  51. p. 429, line 2[…] emotion. But, strange as it may sound at first, I will say there is something striking far deeper and […]
  52. p. 429, line 12[…] were useless to attempt reading the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and quality in the mind […]
  53. p. 429, line 30[…] to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at […]
  54. p. 433, line 8[…] wood. The Iliad (Buckley's prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long […]
  55. p. 434, line 18[…] bases and object-urgings toward those "Leaves" from the first. The word I myself put primarily for the description of […]
  56. p. 435, line 21[…] retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and […]
  57. p. 435, line 42[…] working-woman were to be in my pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which […]
  58. p. 438, line 10[…] emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself […]
  59. p. 438, line 34[…] genius of the West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great […]

first-class 3

  1. p. 428, line 32Also it must be carefully remember'd that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own […]
  2. p. 429, line 27In estimating first-class song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand, what […]
  3. p. 438, line 27[…] distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]

First-day 3

  1. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  3. p. 355, line 20Lull'd and late is the smoke of the First-day morning,

first-rate 1

  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,

firth 1

  1. 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,

fir-trees 1

  1. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,

fish 4

  1. p. 55, line 28Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,
  2. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  3. p. 283, line 1And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,
  4. p. 294, line 3Shimmer of waters with fish in them, the cerulean above,

fish-boats 1

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

fish-curing 1

  1. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,

fish-eggs 1

  1. p. 42, line 25(The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,

fisher 1

  1. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,

fisheries 1

  1. p. 267, line 23The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,

fisherman 2

  1. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  2. p. 195, line 3Mandarin, farmer, merchant, mechanic, and fisherman,

fishermen 6

  1. p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  2. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  3. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  4. p. 143, line 23The work of fishermen, the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher;
  5. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
  6. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,

fishermen's 2

  1. p. 26, line 13Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen's land!
  2. p. 305, line 17ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching,

fishers 1

  1. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,

fishes 7

  1. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  2. p. 93, line 8We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
  3. p. 142, line 13O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
  4. p. 207, line 17All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
  5. 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.
  6. p. 301, line 22The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
  7. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

fish-hawk 1

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

fishing 2

  1. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  2. p. 144, line 12Another time fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake bay, I one of the brown-faced crew;

fish-shape 1

  1. p. 18, line 14STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born,

fish-shaped 3

  1. p. 202, line 15These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
  2. p. 203, line 8You fish-shaped island, I take what is underfoot,
  3. p. 203, line 13I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island.

fish-smack 1

  1. p. 41, line 8The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

fissure 1

  1. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.

fist 1

  1. p. 268, line 11With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,

fists 1

  1. p. 217, line 7With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.

fit 15

  1. p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  2. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  3. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  4. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  5. 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;
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  1. p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
  2. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
  3. p. 280, line 5They fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass,
  4. p. 309, line 5Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?
  5. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  6. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
  7. p. 309, line 31The mothers fit for thee?
  8. p. 326, line 18I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!
  9. 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.
  10. p. 385, line 1My city's fit and noble name resumed,

fitful 8

  1. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
  2. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
  3. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  4. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
  5. p. 208, line 4Fitful, like a surge.
  6. p. 236, line 8BY the bivouac's fitful flame,
  7. p. 236, line 17By the bivouac's fitful flame.
  8. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,

fitfully 3

  1. p. 208, line 24Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
  2. p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
  3. p. 326, line 11The restless sink in their beds, they fitfully sleep.

fitness 1

  1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.

fits 1

  1. p. 35, line 15What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,

fitted 4

  1. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
  2. p. 315, line 15But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
  3. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  4. p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,

fittest 3

  1. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  2. p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
  3. p. 266, line 6And that he shall be fittest for his days.

fitting 5

  1. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  2. p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
  3. p. 309, line 12(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
  4. p. 352, line 11I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
  5. p. 437, line 32[…] republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage […]

five 8

  1. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  2. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  3. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  4. p. 82, line 21I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
  5. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  6. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  7. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  8. p. 413, line 33[…] In the grand constellation of five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear […]

fix'd 5 today: fixed

  1. p. 13, line 29Unfix'd yet fix'd,
  2. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  3. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  4. p. 359, line 4Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,
  5. p. 417, line 9Fix'd his look on wife and little children—the last:

fixed see fix'd

flabby 2

  1. p. 55, line 28Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,
  2. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,

flaccid 1

  1. p. 327, line 15I descend my western course, my sinews are flaccid,

flag 23

  1. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 56, line 23Where the dense-starr'd flag is borne at the head of the regiments,
  3. p. 165, line 1In other scenes than these have I observ'd thee flag,
  4. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  5. p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,
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  1. p. 207, line 24Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal,
  2. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  3. p. 233, line 14Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle,
  4. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
  5. p. 252, line 1DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life!
  6. p. 252, line 3Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
  7. p. 252, line 5Flag cerulean—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
  8. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
  9. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,
  10. p. 270, line 14Warlike flag of the great Idea.
  11. p. 367, line 27THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! flag of stars!
  12. p. 367, line 28Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death,
  13. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  14. p. 368, line 6Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!
  15. p. 386, line 4Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
  16. p. 390, line 25Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.

flageolets 1

  1. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,

flagg'd 1 today: flagged

  1. p. 121, line 27You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges!

flagged see flagg'd

flaggers 1

  1. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,

flagging 2

  1. p. 173, line 19Ship-joining, dock-building, fish-curing, flagging of sidewalks by flaggers,
  2. p. 301, line 26By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,

flags 11

  1. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  2. p. 131, line 2The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset,
  3. p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
  4. p. 160, line 28The banners of the States and flags of every land,
  5. p. 208, line 13Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!
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  1. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
  2. p. 235, line 16The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
  3. p. 256, line 21With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black,
  4. p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
  5. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  6. p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,

flagstones 1

  1. p. 394, line 16(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, façades, tell their inimitable tales;

flag-tops 1

  1. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)

flail 2

  1. p. 155, line 11Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
  2. p. 415, line 28Children's and women's tones—rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,

flakes 2

  1. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  2. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,

flambeaus 1

  1. p. 256, line 23With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,

flame 15

  1. p. 9, line 14As to me directing like flame its eyes,
  2. p. 20, line 28Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,
  3. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  4. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  5. p. 236, line 8BY the bivouac's fitful flame,
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  1. p. 236, line 17By the bivouac's fitful flame.
  2. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  3. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
  4. p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
  5. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  6. p. 384, line 69[…] Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull […]
  7. p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
  8. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
  9. p. 404, line 1The touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,
  10. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,

flame-fires 1

  1. p. 164, line 12See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.

flames 16

  1. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
  2. p. 52, line 13Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  3. p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
  4. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  5. p. 104, line 9NOT heat flames up and consumes,
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  1. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  2. p. 139, line 18The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees, the flames with the black smoke from the pitch-pine curling and rising;
  3. p. 143, line 9The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure.
  4. p. 151, line 21Roar, flames, blood, drunkenness, madness,
  5. p. 268, line 9With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
  6. p. 311, line 10The hiss and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,
  7. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,
  8. p. 352, line 14I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)
  9. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  10. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
  11. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,

flank 1

  1. p. 210, line 7Phantoms! phantoms countless by flank and rear!

flank'd 1 today: flanked

  1. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,

flanked see flank'd

flanks 1

  1. p. 426, line 37[…] through my previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined […]

flap 2

  1. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 252, line 4How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)

flapping 13

  1. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  2. p. 223, line 10Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
  3. p. 223, line 16Where the banner at daybreak is flapping.
  4. p. 224, line 24Aloft there flapping and flapping.
  5. p. 225, line 9Only flapping in the wind?
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  1. p. 228, line 13Flapping up there in the wind.
  2. p. 270, line 16I stand again in leaden rain your flapping folds saluting,
  3. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
  4. 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;

flaps 1

  1. p. 66, line 7Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,

flare 1

  1. p. 434, line 3[…] others, in millions)—that only from the strong flare and provocation of that war's sights and scenes the final […]

flaring 3

  1. p. 191, line 11Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven,
  2. p. 208, line 30(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)
  3. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,

flash 10

  1. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  2. p. 152, line 10All does very well till one flash of defiance.
  3. p. 182, line 6One flash of heaven's glory.
  4. p. 220, line 11Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
  5. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
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  1. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
  2. p. 365, line 23A flash significant as of a sword,
  3. p. 367, line 6Breaks forth a lightning flash.
  4. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  5. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,

flashes 6

  1. p. 229, line 20How the true thunder bellows after the lightning—how bright the flashes of lightning!
  2. p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
  3. p. 237, line 11All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only,
  4. p. 283, line 21Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
  5. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  6. p. 433, line 45[…] War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd […]

flashing 11

  1. p. 147, line 2To look with calm gaze or with a flashing eye,
  2. p. 168, line 17The flashing and golden pageant of California,
  3. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
  4. p. 205, line 4The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun,
  5. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
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  1. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  2. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
  3. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  4. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  5. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
  6. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,

flat 9

  1. p. 48, line 22Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
  2. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  3. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  4. p. 139, line 13Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,
  5. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
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  1. p. 217, line 4ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner,
  2. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;
  3. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  4. p. 433, line 18[…] chimes of music bells, ringing from lower b flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never […]

flat-boat 1

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

flatboatmen 1

  1. p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,

flat-iron 1

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

flats 3

  1. p. 143, line 25Is the tide out? I join the group of clam-diggers on the flats,
  2. p. 149, line 4Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
  3. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,

flatted 1

  1. p. 334, line 16The mound above is flatted with the spades—silence,

flatting 1

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,

flaunt 8

  1. p. 65, line 22Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
  2. p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
  3. p. 160, line 27Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
  4. p. 208, line 13Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!
  5. p. 208, line 14Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship-signals!
  6. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
  7. p. 250, line 10Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
  8. p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?

flauntest 1

  1. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,

flaunting 3

  1. p. 298, line 21You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,
  2. p. 390, line 25Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.
  3. p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,

flavor'd 1 today: flavored

  1. p. 355, line 3This face is flavor'd fruit ready for eating,

flavored see flavor'd

flavorous 1

  1. p. 286, line 26That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,

flaw 2

  1. p. 47, line 16It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
  2. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;

flax 4

  1. p. 56, line 4Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the delicate blue-flower flax,
  2. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
  3. p. 282, line 13Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp or tobacco in the Borders,
  4. p. 356, line 2Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

fleas 1

  1. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)

fleck 1

  1. p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,

fled 1

  1. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,

fleeces 1

  1. p. 130, line 22Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,

fleet 4

  1. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  2. p. 306, line 3Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
  3. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
  4. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,

fleeting 2

  1. p. 271, line 8Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
  2. p. 352, line 21Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,

fleets 1

  1. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,

Flemish 1

  1. p. 437, line 43[…] Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one of his wanderings through the galleries of […]

flesh 24

  1. p. 49, line 1I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  2. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  4. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  5. p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
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  1. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  2. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  3. p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
  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. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  6. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,
  7. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
  8. p. 146, line 11The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh,
  9. p. 148, line 18Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one,
  10. p. 213, line 5A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, venerealee's flesh,
  11. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  12. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  13. p. 302, line 15O the magnet! the flesh over and over!
  14. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  15. p. 338, line 6Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.
  16. p. 346, line 9(Strong is your hold O mortal flesh,
  17. p. 375, line 11To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh!

fleshy 1

  1. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,

flew 1

  1. p. 130, line 22Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,

flex 3

  1. p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  2. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
  3. p. 87, line 26The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,

flexible 3

  1. p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
  2. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
  3. 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,

flexibly 1

  1. p. 55, line 9Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.

flicker 1

  1. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.

flickering 5

  1. p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
  2. p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
  3. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  4. p. 416, line 1AS I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
  5. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,

flies 6

  1. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  2. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,
  3. p. 51, line 23The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  4. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,
  5. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  6. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;

flight 7

  1. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
  2. p. 19, line 4Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk,
  3. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  4. p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
  5. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  6. p. 369, line 22THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
  7. p. 434, line 25[…] theme or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in […]

flights 3

  1. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,
  2. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
  3. p. 322, line 17Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?

flinching 1

  1. p. 77, line 2To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes,

fling 2

  1. p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
  2. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

flings 1

  1. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,

flippant 1

  1. 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,

flit 2

  1. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
  2. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,

flits 1

  1. p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,

flitted 1

  1. p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,

flitting 6

  1. p. 81, line 13From the night a moment I emerging flitting out,
  2. p. 198, line 2Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
  3. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,
  4. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  5. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;
  6. p. 426, line 37[…] be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly […]

float 20

  1. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  2. p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
  3. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  4. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  5. p. 111, line 5I ascend, I float in the regions of your love O man,
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  1. p. 123, line 25Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
  2. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
  3. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!
  4. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
  5. p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
  6. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,
  7. p. 261, line 5Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
  8. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
  9. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  10. p. 338, line 13Then we burst forth, we float,
  11. p. 341, line 12Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me,
  12. p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
  13. p. 418, line 26In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.
  14. p. 425, line 8[…] practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]

floated 1

  1. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,

floating 18

  1. p. 14, line 11But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating,
  2. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)
  3. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  4. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
  5. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
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  1. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  2. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
  3. p. 204, line 30Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
  4. p. 204, line 32(Myself a speck, a point on the world's floating vast.)
  5. p. 218, line 17What deepening twilight—scum floating atop of the waters,
  6. p. 224, line 15Floating so buoyant with milk-white foam on the waters.
  7. p. 260, line 28Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
  8. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  9. p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
  10. p. 356, line 25Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.
  11. p. 359, line 5Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,
  12. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,

floats 4

  1. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
  2. p. 224, line 12On floats the sea in distant blue careering through its channels,
  3. p. 224, line 13On floats the wind over the breast of the sea setting in toward land,
  4. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,

flock 5

  1. p. 38, line 21The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
  2. p. 139, line 4In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the water rocking silently,
  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. 197, line 6As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,

flocks 3

  1. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
  2. p. 278, line 24The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows,
  3. p. 415, line 5Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds,

floes 2

  1. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  2. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,

flood 5

  1. p. 260, line 29Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
  2. p. 384, line 27[…] Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By That Long Scan of Waves—Then Last […]
  3. p. 390, line 20Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing,
  4. p. 411, line 35[…] it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting […]
  5. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)

floodgates 1

  1. p. 53, line 3Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.

flooding 3

  1. p. 246, line 11All the channels of the city streets they're flooding,
  2. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  3. p. 352, line 2Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,

floods 5

  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. 189, line 5For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
  3. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  4. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  5. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,

flood-tide 6

  1. p. 129, line 10FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
  2. p. 130, line 1Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
  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. 132, line 27River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?
  5. p. 133, line 7Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
  6. 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,

floor 7

  1. p. 35, line 5The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
  2. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  3. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,
  4. p. 155, line 16Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,
  5. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  6. p. 417, line 2He slowly rais'd himself from the bed on the floor,
  7. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

floor-men 2

  1. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,
  2. p. 150, line 11The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,

floor-planks 2

  1. p. 156, line 15The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,

floors 2

  1. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
  2. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?

Florence 1

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

florid 2

  1. p. 72, line 13O manhood, balanced, florid and full.
  2. p. 194, line 13Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,

Florida 6

  1. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  2. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,
  3. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  4. p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
  5. p. 384, line 61[…] Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not Meagre, Latent […]
  6. p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.

Florida's 2

  1. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  2. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,

floridness 1

  1. p. 153, line 14How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!

floundering 1

  1. p. 328, line 15The tempest lulls, the moon comes floundering through the drifts.

flounders 2

  1. p. 69, line 4Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.

flour 1

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

flour-works 1

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

flow 17

  1. p. 10, line 16We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
  2. p. 44, line 23To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  3. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  4. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
  5. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
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  1. p. 133, line 7Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
  2. p. 135, line 19His welcome is universal, the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  3. p. 203, line 20Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,)
  4. p. 209, line 9Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,
  5. p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
  6. p. 331, line 19They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed,
  7. p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
  8. p. 354, line 11I see your rounded never-erased flow,
  9. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,

flower 4

  1. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  2. p. 256, line 3A sprig with its flower I break.
  3. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  4. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,

flower-beds 1

  1. p. 72, line 18Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush,

flowers 16

  1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
  2. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 128, line 15Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
  5. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
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  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. 143, line 2The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds, the moist fresh stillness of the woods,
  3. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  4. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  5. p. 244, line 15Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
  6. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  7. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  8. p. 360, line 8The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers,
  9. p. 388, line 17The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.
  10. p. 396, line 10With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
  11. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,

flowery 1

  1. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,

flowing 26

  1. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  2. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
  3. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
  4. p. 65, line 11The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
  5. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
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  1. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
  2. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  3. p. 161, line 1Here shall you trace in flowing operation,
  4. p. 181, line 18For it the partial to the permanent flowing,
  5. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  6. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  7. p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,
  8. p. 258, line 15In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there,
  9. p. 266, line 14Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
  10. p. 277, line 2Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing,
  11. p. 277, line 14In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing,
  12. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  13. p. 319, line 20The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again.
  14. p. 319, line 28The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
  15. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  16. p. 338, line 19Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing,
  17. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,
  18. p. 367, line 7Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,
  19. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  20. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,

flows 6

  1. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  2. p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  3. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
  4. p. 124, line 23Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
  5. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  6. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,

fluctuations 1

  1. p. 434, line 8[…] days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd […]

fluency 1

  1. p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,

fluent 1

  1. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,

fluent-tongued 1

  1. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,

fluid 12

  1. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,
  2. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
  3. p. 124, line 24Here rises the fluid and attaching character,
  4. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  5. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
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  1. p. 155, line 8The solid forest gives fluid utterances,
  2. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
  3. p. 267, line 22The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,
  4. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  5. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  6. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  7. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,

fluids 2

  1. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  2. p. 337, line 18The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids perfect;

flukes 3

  1. p. 70, line 9How the flukes splash!
  2. p. 70, line 11Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  3. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,

flung 2

  1. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
  2. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,

flush 6

  1. p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  2. p. 84, line 21The flush of the known universe is in him,
  3. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
  4. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  5. p. 375, line 3In the strength and flush of manhood,
  6. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)

flush'd 4 today: flushed

  1. p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
  2. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  3. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?
  4. p. 280, line 22A million flush'd embattled conquerors wait,

flushed see flush'd

flushes 4

  1. p. 90, line 22The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes,

flutes 5

  1. p. 309, line 10In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
  2. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  3. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
  4. p. 315, line 14Nor flutes, nor harps, nor the bugle-calls of camps,
  5. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,

flutter 1

  1. p. 235, line 16The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.

fluttering 5

  1. p. 195, line 20My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind,
  2. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  3. p. 200, line 1That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray,
  4. p. 236, line 22Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind,

fly 9

  1. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,
  2. p. 65, line 21They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
  3. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  4. p. 133, line 20Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
  5. p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
  6. p. 222, line 25FROM Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
  7. p. 224, line 2To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.
  8. p. 294, line 13O if one could but fly like a bird!

flying 11

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  3. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
  4. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  5. p. 225, line 14I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,
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  1. p. 233, line 14Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle,
  2. p. 270, line 17I sing you over all, flying beckoning through the fight—O the hard-contested fight!
  3. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  4. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
  5. p. 312, line 16The wild-fowl's notes at night as flying low migrating north or south,
  6. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,

foal 1

  1. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,

foam 9

  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. 16, line 22They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.
  3. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
  4. p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,
  5. p. 224, line 15Floating so buoyant with milk-white foam on the waters.
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  1. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
  2. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  3. p. 352, line 3The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
  4. p. 385, line 11The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,

foam-dash'd 1

  1. p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,

foaming 2

  1. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  2. p. 390, line 20Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing,

foams 1

  1. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:

foe 4

  1. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  2. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  3. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  4. p. 358, line 8Utter defeat upon me weighs—all lost—the foe victorious,

foes 2

  1. p. 364, line 2Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
  2. p. 364, line 3(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the old, the incessant war?)

fœtor 1

  1. p. 372, line 20Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the fœtor arising.

fog 4

  1. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  2. p. 48, line 23Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
  3. p. 205, line 17Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,
  4. p. 210, line 3A fog follows, antiques of the same come limping,

foibles 1

  1. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,

foil 4

  1. p. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
  2. p. 384, line 54[…] Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran […]
  3. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  4. p. 399, line 11Soon shall the winter's foil be here;

foil'd 3 today: foiled

  1. p. 234, line 5Wearied that night we lay foil'd and sullen,
  2. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  3. p. 288, line 10But I will search carefully for it even in being foil'd,

foiled see foil'd

fold 6

  1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  2. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
  3. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  4. p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
  5. p. 395, line 22I fold thenceforth, or seek to fold, within my chants transmuting,

folded 10

  1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  2. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  3. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  4. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  5. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.
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  1. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,
  2. p. 238, line 25I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
  3. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  4. p. 348, line 8Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,
  5. p. 421, line 22Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;

folding 2

  1. p. 240, line 6Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
  2. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,

folds 9

  1. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  2. p. 87, line 19The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
  3. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,
  4. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  5. p. 270, line 16I stand again in leaden rain your flapping folds saluting,
  6. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  7. p. 303, line 4Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient,
  8. p. 348, line 8Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,

foliage 2

  1. p. 93, line 4We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
  2. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,

folks 5

  1. 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,
  2. p. 33, line 12Growing among black folks as among white,
  3. p. 68, line 11Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  4. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  5. p. 409, line 29Why do folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of […]

follies 2

  1. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  2. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?

follow 25

  1. p. 37, line 23From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements,
  2. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  3. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  4. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  5. p. 75, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
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  1. p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
  2. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  3. p. 158, line 5To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
  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. 183, line 6Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
  6. p. 190, line 18I must follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
  7. p. 202, line 10Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
  8. p. 237, line 29To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
  9. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
  10. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  11. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  12. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  13. p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
  14. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  15. p. 327, line 14I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away.
  16. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  17. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  18. p. 356, line 18Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,
  19. p. 372, line 15Follow me ever—desert me not while I live.
  20. p. 407, line 5[…] little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have […]

follow'd 8 today: followed

  1. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  2. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  3. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
  4. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  5. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  6. p. 136, line 12No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it or has follow'd it,
  7. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  8. p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.

followed see follow'd

follower 1

  1. p. 97, line 24Who is he that would become my follower?

followers 2

  1. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
  2. p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,

following 20

  1. p. 18, line 13Therefore for thee the following chants.
  2. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  3. p. 23, line 9The following chants each for its kind I sing.
  4. p. 51, line 5I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
  5. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
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  1. p. 79, line 16By my side or back of me Eve following,
  2. p. 79, line 17Or in front, and I following her just the same.
  3. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  4. p. 198, line 23Following you my brother.
  5. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  6. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
  7. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  8. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;
  9. p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
  10. p. 306, line 31Onward beneath the sun following its course,
  11. p. 359, line 8Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,
  12. p. 408, line 7[…] one reason there are too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours […]
  13. p. 434, line 10[…] too—along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth […]
  14. p. 437, line 42[…] allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by […]

follows 8

  1. p. 138, line 2Forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
  2. p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  3. p. 210, line 3A fog follows, antiques of the same come limping,
  4. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
  5. p. 265, line 5Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
  6. p. 279, line 27Lo, your pallid army follows.)
  7. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  8. p. 428, line 35[…] actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the best […]

fond 5

  1. p. 75, line 2Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,
  2. p. 127, line 21Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
  3. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,
  4. p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;
  5. p. 425, line 29[…] my own time, but have fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though […]

fondest 1

  1. p. 102, line 12The friend the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest,

fondly 1

  1. p. 409, line 29Why do folks dwell so fondly on the last words, advice, appearance, of the departing? Those […]

fondness 2

  1. p. 322, line 15The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.
  2. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.

Font 1

  1. p. 384, line 8[…] A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest Soldiers, 386 A Font of Type, 386 As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird […]

food 10

  1. p. 57, line 8Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
  2. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  3. p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
  4. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  5. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!
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  1. p. 163, line 3Food and its preservation, chemistry applied to it,
  2. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  3. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  4. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  5. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,

food-yielding 1

  1. p. 26, line 3Interlink'd, food-yielding lands!

fool 2

  1. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?

fool'd 1 today: fooled

  1. p. 93, line 1WE two, how long we were fool'd,

fooled see fool'd

foolish 7

  1. p. 42, line 3I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  2. p. 48, line 22Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
  3. p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
  4. p. 215, line 2Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
  5. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  6. p. 225, line 1Cease, cease, my foolish babe,

fools 1

  1. p. 276, line 23Let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,

foot 21

  1. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
  2. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  3. p. 66, line 18Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed,
  4. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  5. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
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  1. p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  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,
  3. p. 144, line 14My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope,
  4. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  5. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
  6. p. 240, line 18I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
  7. p. 243, line 17I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,
  8. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  9. p. 268, line 12And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you,
  10. p. 301, line 20Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
  11. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  12. p. 320, line 3The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
  13. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
  14. p. 382, line 14I feel immerged from head to foot,
  15. p. 399, line 18The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming plum and cherry;
  16. p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)

foot-ball 1

  1. p. 87, line 16Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;

foothold 1

  1. p. 45, line 12My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,

footholds 1

  1. p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,

footing 2

  1. p. 196, line 10Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
  2. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)

footlights 1

  1. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,

foot-passengers 1

  1. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,

foots 1

  1. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,

footsore 1

  1. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,

foot-standers 1

  1. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,

footsteps 2

  1. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  2. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,

foot-thick 1

  1. p. 166, line 17Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,

foot-worn 1

  1. p. 119, line 8You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!

fop 1

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

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forage 1

  1. p. 432, line 30[…] entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been […]

foray 1

  1. p. 108, line 9Fulfilling our foray.

forbearance 1

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

forbidden 1

  1. p. 48, line 24Through me forbidden voices,

forbidding 2

  1. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
  2. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,

force 14

  1. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  2. p. 66, line 24Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
  3. p. 180, line 24YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
  4. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  5. p. 222, line 5Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
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  1. p. 232, line 31A veteran force furnish'd with good artillery.
  2. p. 247, line 25His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works,
  3. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  4. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  5. p. 389, line 18You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,
  6. p. 396, line 3Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
  7. p. 418, line 20Thou! thou! the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm,
  8. p. 427, line 40[…] special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But […]
  9. p. 435, line 36[…] grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same. The times and depictions […]

forced 1

  1. p. 407, line 17[…] the hours of my 72d year—hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape this small […]

forceps 1

  1. p. 53, line 12They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,

forces 4

  1. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  2. p. 141, line 10Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties,
  3. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  4. p. 428, line 14[…] Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of […]

forcing 2

  1. p. 150, line 11The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,
  2. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,

ford 1

  1. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,

forebodings 1

  1. p. 191, line 16Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good—year of forebodings!

fore-feet 1

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

forefinger 1

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,

foregoing 1

  1. p. 438, line 29[…] my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]

forehead 7

  1. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  2. p. 55, line 7Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
  3. p. 87, line 7Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
  4. p. 104, line 23From my face, from my forehead and lips,
  5. p. 284, line 15You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead between your knees,
  6. p. 333, line 19The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
  7. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;

foreheads 2

  1. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  2. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,

foreign 9

  1. p. 57, line 23Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with the new and old,
  2. p. 154, line 27(Mind you O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
  3. p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,
  4. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
  5. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
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  1. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.
  2. p. 347, line 16Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor library;
  3. p. 368, line 13But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings,
  4. p. 398, line 14For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign lands,

foremen 1

  1. p. 369, line 11The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,

foremost 6

  1. p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
  2. p. 20, line 2Foremost! century marches! Libertad! masses!
  3. p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
  4. p. 210, line 1How bright shine the cutlasses of the foremost troops!
  5. p. 246, line 18(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
  6. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)

forenoon 16

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  2. p. 90, line 7Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
  3. p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
  4. p. 197, line 33One forenoon the she-bird crouch'd not on the nest,
  5. p. 216, line 9SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
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  1. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  2. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  3. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
  4. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  5. p. 360, line 12The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon, singing through the moon-lit night,
  6. p. 366, line 10Again the forenoon purple of the hills,
  7. p. 366, line 16O forenoon purple of the hills, before I close, of you!
  8. p. 386, line 25Filling the air, the lonesome room, the long forenoon,
  9. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  10. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  11. p. 436, line 5[…] been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my life.) I will want them […]

forenoons 1

  1. p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,

foreplane 1

  1. p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,

fores 1

  1. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

foresee 1

  1. p. 381, line 14I foresee too much, it means more than I thought,

forest 9

  1. p. 77, line 14Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  2. p. 99, line 19Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go,
  3. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
  4. p. 155, line 8The solid forest gives fluid utterances,
  5. p. 165, line 26Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense.
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  1. p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
  2. p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
  3. p. 310, line 15Strong hum of forest tree-tops—wind of the mountains,
  4. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;

forests 21

  1. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  2. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
  3. p. 112, line 17What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
  4. p. 112, line 26Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups,
  5. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
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  1. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  2. p. 149, line 4Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
  3. p. 168, line 12All their recesses of forests and mountains leaving,
  4. p. 183, line 29We primeval forests felling,
  5. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,
  6. p. 206, line 30Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
  7. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  8. p. 253, line 2Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
  9. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  10. p. 259, line 15In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,
  11. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  12. p. 317, line 12I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,
  13. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  14. p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
  15. p. 379, line 13And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine,
  16. p. 432, line 31[…] and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for […]

foretold 1

  1. p. 339, line 15Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems,

foretruck 1

  1. p. 58, line 29I ascend to the foretruck,

forever 47

  1. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  2. p. 29, line 23It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,
  3. p. 39, line 15Scattering it freely forever.
  4. p. 50, line 15It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically,
  5. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
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  1. p. 72, line 28Outward and outward and forever outward.
  2. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
  3. p. 120, line 21To remain after me in sight forever,
  4. p. 127, line 19Forever alive, forever forward,
  5. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
  6. p. 138, line 2Forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
  7. p. 151, line 27Muscle and pluck forever!
  8. p. 159, line 7Calliope's call forever closed, Clio, Melpomene, Thalia dead,
  9. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  10. p. 171, line 23The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever,
  11. p. 178, line 13Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
  12. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  13. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
  14. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  15. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  16. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  17. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
  18. p. 230, line 23When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
  19. p. 235, line 9Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade.
  20. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  21. p. 245, line 26Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  22. p. 286, line 24That all is clean forever and forever,
  23. p. 287, line 12What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,
  24. p. 290, line 11In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever.
  25. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
  26. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  27. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  28. p. 312, line 34The trombone duo, Libertad forever!
  29. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
  30. p. 338, line 19Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing,
  31. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  32. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  33. p. 365, line 16We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave.
  34. p. 367, line 5Electric life forever at the centre,)
  35. p. 374, line 21Corroborating forever the triumph of things.
  36. p. 385, line 13Seeking the shores forever.
  37. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  38. p. 421, line 26And waiting ever more, forever more behind.
  39. p. 435, line 2[…] fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to and relied on […]

forge 3

  1. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  2. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,
  3. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

forge-fires 1

  1. p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,

forge-furnace 2

  1. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  2. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,

forger 2

  1. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  2. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

forgery 1

  1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;

forget 21

  1. p. 64, line 21That I could forget the mockers and insults!
  2. p. 64, line 22That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 76, line 4The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  4. p. 159, line 26But hold—don't I forget my manners?
  5. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
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  1. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  2. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  3. p. 201, line 25Which I do not forget,
  4. p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
  5. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  6. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  7. p. 280, line 7Nor do I forget you Departed,
  8. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
  9. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  10. p. 344, line 18You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
  11. p. 366, line 1Nor think we forget thee maternal;
  12. p. 382, line 19I give it especially to you, do not forget me,
  13. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  14. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)
  15. p. 418, line 22How ill to e'er forget thee!

forgets 1

  1. p. 330, line 11They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,

forgetting 4

  1. p. 293, line 12(Convict forgetting prison, keeper his loaded pistol,)
  2. p. 384, line 56[…] Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years […]
  3. p. 399, line 21While not the past forgetting,
  4. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)

forging 1

  1. p. 145, line 1O to work in mines, or forging iron,

forgive 2

  1. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
  2. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,

forgiveness 1

  1. p. 291, line 20Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,

forgot 1

  1. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?

forgotten 6

  1. p. 29, line 16Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
  2. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  3. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  4. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
  5. p. 368, line 25Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
  6. p. 418, line 23For I too have forgotten,

fork'd 1 today: forked

  1. p. 276, line 18Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!

forked see fork'd

form 34

  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
  3. p. 52, line 4To be in any form, what is that?
  4. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  5. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
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  1. p. 83, line 18This is the female form,
  2. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  3. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
  4. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  5. p. 155, line 9They tumble forth, they rise and form,
  6. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  7. p. 204, line 18O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?
  8. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  9. p. 217, line 15Concealing her face, concealing her form,
  10. p. 237, line 25She with thin form presently drest in black,
  11. p. 238, line 19My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,
  12. p. 273, line 15To life recalling many a prostrate form;)
  13. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  14. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  15. p. 281, line 22With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you.
  16. p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
  17. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  18. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
  19. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  20. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  21. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  22. p. 376, line 18I sit by the form in the coffin,
  23. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  24. p. 396, line 2No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
  25. 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.
  26. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  27. p. 404, line 18Farewells, messages lessening—dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form,
  28. p. 426, line 41[…] articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic […]
  29. p. 432, line 2[…] aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass […]

formation 1

  1. p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,

formative 1

  1. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,

form'd 16 today: formed

form'd 15 · formed 1

  1. p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
  2. p. 21, line 14And a song make I of the One form'd out of all,
  3. p. 29, line 11My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
  4. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  5. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
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  1. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  2. p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
  3. p. 316, line 1(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
  4. p. 316, line 2So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)
  5. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  6. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  7. p. 368, line 18SPIRIT that form'd this scene,
  8. p. 368, line 28But thou that revelest here—spirit that form'd this scene,
  9. p. 399, line 5Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
  10. p. 411, line 34[…] and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the […]
  11. p. 427, line 41[…] new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have […]

former 2

  1. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  2. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)

formidable 1

  1. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)

forming 9

  1. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  2. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
  3. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
  4. p. 400, line 11To the sights and scenes—to forming the line of battle,
  5. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;
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  1. p. 421, line 25Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,
  2. p. 429, line 34[…] prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very well that my "Leaves" could […]
  3. p. 435, line 23[…] thought of my song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through […]
  4. p. 435, line 24[…] aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as […]

formless 6

  1. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  2. p. 128, line 11Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
  3. p. 310, line 20You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient,
  4. p. 318, line 16With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
  5. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  6. p. 368, line 22These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,

forms 33

  1. p. 14, line 26The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
  2. p. 21, line 2The ever-tending, the finalè of visible forms,
  3. p. 65, line 20They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  4. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  5. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
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  1. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  2. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
  3. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  4. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
  5. p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.
  6. p. 185, line 2All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
  7. p. 207, line 15All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
  8. p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
  9. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
  10. p. 214, line 1FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
  11. p. 218, line 13Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?
  12. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  13. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  14. p. 239, line 16The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
  15. p. 239, line 20These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,
  16. p. 240, line 4Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
  17. p. 264, line 11I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
  18. p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
  19. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,
  20. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  21. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)
  22. p. 367, line 25Onward I sped at the time—but now of their forms at night,
  23. p. 377, line 7Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing,
  24. p. 398, line 18For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for colors, forms,
  25. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  26. p. 428, line 18[…] evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
  27. p. 431, line 18[…] and insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this era of literary fulfilment, with the splendid […]
  28. p. 435, line 33[…] appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new […]

formula 1

  1. p. 347, line 9Out of that formula for thee I sing.

formulas 1

  1. p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,

formulate 2

  1. p. 348, line 2To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern,
  2. p. 437, line 8[…] I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or […]

formulating 1

  1. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,

formules 2

  1. p. 125, line 19Allons! from all formules!
  2. p. 125, line 20From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests.

forsakes 1

  1. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,

fort 1

  1. p. 309, line 9Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,

forth 89

  1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
  2. p. 17, line 21Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
  3. p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
  4. p. 60, line 16They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
  5. p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
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  1. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  2. p. 70, line 3Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
  3. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  4. p. 95, line 13Walking forth from the bower refresh'd with sleep,
  5. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
  6. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
  7. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  8. p. 104, line 24From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd, press forth red drops, confession drops,
  9. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  10. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  11. p. 128, line 1Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!
  12. 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.
  13. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  14. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  15. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
  16. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  17. p. 155, line 9They tumble forth, they rise and form,
  18. p. 181, line 22Forth from their masks, no matter what,
  19. p. 182, line 5Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
  20. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  21. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  22. p. 198, line 13He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.
  23. p. 211, line 13Like lightning it le'pt forth half startled at itself,
  24. p. 222, line 1Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
  25. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
  26. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  27. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  28. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  29. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
  30. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  31. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
  32. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  33. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
  34. p. 254, line 20(Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)
  35. p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
  36. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,
  37. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  38. p. 281, line 10With full-spanning eye gazes forth, dwells long,
  39. p. 282, line 17THERE was a child went forth every day,
  40. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  41. p. 292, line 16In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn.
  42. p. 294, line 9The melted snow of March, the willow sending forth its yellow-green sprouts,
  43. p. 294, line 14O to escape, to sail forth as in a ship!
  44. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  45. p. 302, line 1Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
  46. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  47. p. 306, line 29Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,
  48. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
  49. p. 315, line 5Let us go forth refresh'd amid the day,
  50. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  51. p. 318, line 1Again Vasco de Gama sails forth,
  52. p. 321, line 22Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,
  53. p. 322, line 5Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;
  54. p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
  55. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  56. p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
  57. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  58. p. 338, line 13Then we burst forth, we float,
  59. p. 341, line 13The call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarm'd, uncertain,
  60. p. 343, line 17It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
  61. p. 346, line 5Let me glide noiselessly forth;
  62. p. 355, line 8In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
  63. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;
  64. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  65. p. 364, line 10It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me,
  66. p. 365, line 21Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;
  67. p. 367, line 6Breaks forth a lightning flash.
  68. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  69. p. 370, line 3I shall go forth,
  70. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
  71. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  72. p. 375, line 32As I went forth in the morning, as I beheld the light breaking in the east,
  73. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  74. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
  75. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  76. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  77. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  78. p. 409, line 2Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth,
  79. p. 413, line 12The rifle crack—the cannon thud—the rushing forth of men from their tents;
  80. p. 415, line 30Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.
  81. p. 434, line 5[…] of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]

forthgoer's 1

  1. p. 404, line 18Farewells, messages lessening—dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form,

forth-steppers 1

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

forth-stepping 1

  1. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?

forthwith 2

  1. p. 31, line 19And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
  2. p. 94, line 11I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,

fortify 1

  1. p. 270, line 27He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,

fortnight 1

  1. p. 407, line 34[…] I am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated […]

fortress'd 1 today: fortressed

  1. p. 346, line 2From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house,

fortressed see fortress'd

forts 4

  1. p. 60, line 23I am an old artillerist, I tell of my fort's bombardment,
  2. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  3. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  4. p. 232, line 18Rude forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted,

fortunately 1

  1. p. 435, line 1[…] to our time the inheritance of it all. Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident […]

fortune 5

  1. p. 9, line 18And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
  2. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
  3. p. 422, line 4Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
  4. p. 430, line 13[…] in the approved style, some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or incidents, or […]
  5. p. 437, line 29Isolated advantages in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads of all the poetry of […]

fortunes 2

  1. p. 309, line 4Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
  2. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,

forty 7

  1. p. 111, line 23I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
  2. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
  3. p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
  4. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
  5. p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
  6. p. 226, line 14The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
  7. p. 429, line 14[…] States to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals […]

forty-first 1

  1. p. 96, line 6Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,

forty-one 1

  1. p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.

forward 29

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  3. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  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. 38, line 8In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing,
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  1. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  2. p. 65, line 9Eleves, I salute you! come forward!
  3. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
  4. p. 82, line 8The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,
  5. p. 120, line 7(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
  6. p. 127, line 19Forever alive, forever forward,
  7. p. 131, line 11Others the same—others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,
  8. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  9. p. 217, line 6He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
  10. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  11. p. 233, line 2But one brigade early in the forenoon order'd forward to engage the red-coats,
  12. p. 233, line 8Jauntily forward they went with quick step toward Gowanus' waters,
  13. p. 295, line 27The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught,
  14. p. 310, line 26Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
  15. p. 319, line 21Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward,
  16. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  17. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  18. p. 377, line 24When as order'd forward, after a long march,
  19. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
  20. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
  21. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;
  22. p. 415, line 10Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee,
  23. p. 421, line 25Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,
  24. p. 430, line 41[…] is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the best song indispensable […]

forwarded 1

  1. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,

forwards 1

  1. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,

fought 11

  1. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
  2. p. 165, line 5Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,
  3. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  4. p. 233, line 21We fought the fight in detachments,
  5. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
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  1. p. 378, line 15And of each of us O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fought,
  2. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;
  3. p. 400, line 7Had fought in the ranks—fought well—had been all through the Revolutionary war,)
  4. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,

foul 2

  1. p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
  2. p. 286, line 4I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.

foulest 1

  1. p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,

found 20

  1. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  2. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
  3. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  4. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
  5. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
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  1. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  2. p. 157, line 27After all not to create only, or found only,
  3. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  4. p. 238, line 7Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
  5. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
  6. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
  7. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  8. p. 315, line 4Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
  9. p. 318, line 3Lands found and nations born, thou born America,
  10. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  11. p. 340, line 24And I found that every place was a burial-place;
  12. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.
  13. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  14. p. 426, line 34[…] After years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three […]

foundation 4

  1. p. 159, line 3Hidden and cover'd by to-day's, foundation of to-day's,
  2. p. 435, line 32[…] and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering […]
  3. p. 437, line 6[…] Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I felt it all as positively then […]
  4. p. 437, line 31[…] distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the […]

foundations 1

  1. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)

founded 5

  1. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
  2. p. 190, line 12I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
  3. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  4. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  5. p. 436, line 4[…] the poems of the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday […]

founder'd 1 today: foundered

  1. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,

foundered see founder'd

foundering 1

  1. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.

foundest 1

  1. p. 317, line 20The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.)

founding 1

  1. p. 149, line 19The disembarkation, the founding of a new city,

foundries 2

  1. p. 156, line 2Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,
  2. p. 164, line 11Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising,

foundry 4

  1. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  2. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  3. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,

fountain 3

  1. p. 159, line 4Ended, deceas'd through time, her voice by Castaly's fountain,
  2. p. 321, line 24Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection's source—thou reservoir,
  3. p. 372, line 27Give me exhaustless, make me a fountain,