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

four 10

  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. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  3. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  4. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
  5. p. 195, line 7From Thibet, from the four winding and far-flowing rivers of China,
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  1. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
  2. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
  3. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
  4. p. 317, line 15Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,
  5. p. 434, line 13[…] this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would […]

four-footed 1

  1. p. 93, line 13We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,

four-sided 1

  1. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,

fourth 1

  1. p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)

Fourth-month 3

  1. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  2. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  3. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,

fourth-remov'd 1

  1. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,

four-year-olds 1

  1. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,

fowling-pieces 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,

Fox 1

  1. 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?

fraction 1

  1. p. 65, line 2I resume the overstaid fraction,

fractur'd 1 today: fractured

  1. p. 243, line 21The fractur'd thigh, the knee, the wound in the abdomen,

fractured see fractur'd

fragments 4

  1. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  2. p. 204, line 2Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
  3. p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,
  4. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,

fragrance 3

  1. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  2. p. 158, line 22I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance,
  3. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,

fragrant 3

  1. p. 238, line 10Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
  2. p. 260, line 9From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,
  3. p. 262, line 20There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.

frailest 1

  1. p. 108, line 15HERE the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,

frame 5

  1. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
  2. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  3. p. 359, line 7Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,
  4. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  5. p. 401, line 10I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded—the stout-strong frame,

framer 1

  1. p. 67, line 15Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,

frameworks 1

  1. p. 156, line 4Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,

framing 1

  1. p. 67, line 15Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,

framing-men 1

  1. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,

France 11

  1. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  2. p. 118, line 23You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
  3. p. 189, line 5For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
  4. p. 306, line 1O STAR of France,
  5. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
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  1. p. 306, line 25O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long!
  2. p. 306, line 32So thee O ship of France!
  3. p. 307, line 5Again thy star O France, fair lustrous star,
  4. p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
  5. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
  6. p. 413, line 1ADD to your show, before you close it, France,

Francisco 1

  1. p. 141, line 4The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,

Frankfort 1

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

frantic 1

  1. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,

fraternity's 1

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

fratricidal 1

  1. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;

frauds 1

  1. p. 181, line 26Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states,

freckles 1

  1. p. 87, line 27The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,

free 54

  1. p. 13, line 19The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
  2. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  3. p. 42, line 15Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,)
  4. p. 59, line 10I am a free companion, I bivouac by invading watchfires,
  5. p. 61, line 20Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
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  1. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  2. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  3. p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
  4. p. 104, line 22From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
  5. p. 120, line 24Healthy, free, the world before me,
  6. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  7. p. 124, line 20What gives me to be free to a woman's and man's good-will? what gives them to be free to mine?
  8. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  9. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  10. p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
  11. p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)
  12. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
  13. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  14. p. 189, line 7O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
  15. p. 189, line 19But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
  16. p. 190, line 13I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
  17. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)
  18. p. 223, line 9O A new song, a free song,
  19. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  20. p. 259, line 9O liquid and free and tender!
  21. p. 267, line 23The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,
  22. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  23. p. 276, line 5And I saw the free souls of poets,
  24. p. 278, line 21The scenery of the snows, the winds' free orchestra,
  25. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  26. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
  27. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  28. p. 310, line 14Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies,
  29. p. 310, line 20You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient,
  30. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,
  31. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  32. 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,
  33. p. 347, line 10As a strong bird on pinions free,
  34. p. 356, line 18Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,
  35. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  36. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  37. p. 369, line 22THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
  38. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,
  39. p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
  40. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,
  41. p. 396, line 17(Race of the woods, the landscapes free, and the falls!
  42. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  43. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  44. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
  45. p. 415, line 20Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,
  46. p. 438, line 29In the free evening of my day I give to you, reader, the […]

freebooter 1

  1. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)

freedom 26

  1. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  2. p. 48, line 2And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
  3. p. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  4. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
  5. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
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  1. p. 126, line 28Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  2. p. 141, line 11The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,
  3. p. 160, line 27Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
  4. p. 165, line 21Our freedom all in thee! our very lives in thee!
  5. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  6. p. 247, line 2Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
  7. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  8. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
  9. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
  10. p. 350, line 16To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
  11. p. 358, line 25Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
  12. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
  13. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  14. 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,
  15. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,
  16. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  17. p. 386, line 3Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
  18. p. 387, line 19Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
  19. p. 393, line 24Wherever Freedom, pois'd by Toleration, sway'd by Law,
  20. p. 419, line 15The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,

freedom-lover 1

  1. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,

freedom's 4

  1. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,
  2. p. 365, line 21Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;
  3. p. 395, line 23Freedom's and Love's and Faith's unloos'd cantabile,
  4. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,

freely 9

  1. p. 39, line 15Scattering it freely forever.
  2. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  3. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
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  1. p. 248, line 2I saw them depart with cheerfulness, freely risking their lives.
  2. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  3. p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
  4. p. 438, line 12[…] latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any […]

free-mouth'd 1

  1. p. 334, line 19He was a good fellow, free-mouth'd, quick-temper'd, not bad-looking,

freer 3

  1. p. 265, line 15O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
  2. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  3. p. 349, line 9Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be constructed here,

frees 1

  1. p. 91, line 13(What is this that frees me so in storms?

freest 3

  1. p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
  2. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,
  3. p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.

freeze 2

  1. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  2. p. 328, line 18I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

freezings 1

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

freight 4

  1. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
  2. p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
  3. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
  4. p. 348, line 15Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,

freighted 3

  1. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  2. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  3. p. 390, line 24Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound,

freight-train 1

  1. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,

French 3

  1. p. 113, line 7I hear fierce French liberty songs,
  2. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
  3. p. 427, line 39[…] the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to science […]

Frenchman 2

  1. p. 118, line 23You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
  2. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,

Frenchwoman 1

  1. p. 118, line 23You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!

frequent 6

  1. p. 80, line 32From privacy, from frequent repinings alone,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  4. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,
  5. p. 334, line 8A frequent sample of the life and death of workmen,
  6. p. 437, line 39[…] on its own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]

fresco'd 1 today: frescoed

  1. p. 309, line 14Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,

frescoed see fresco'd

fresh 29

  1. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  2. p. 51, line 20A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  3. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  4. p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 107, line 12Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
  2. p. 122, line 11The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
  3. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  4. p. 143, line 2The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds, the moist fresh stillness of the woods,
  5. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  6. p. 183, line 23Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
  7. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  8. p. 224, line 11Fresh and rosy red the sun is mounting high,
  9. p. 231, line 30Green the midsummer verdure and fresh blows the dallying breeze,
  10. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  11. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
  12. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  13. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  14. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  15. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  16. p. 365, line 21Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;
  17. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,
  18. p. 376, line 17(I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still,
  19. p. 387, line 12Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
  20. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)
  21. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  22. p. 407, line 16[…] it is worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d […]
  23. p. 418, line 28In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air,

fresh-cheek'd 1

  1. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

freshens 1

  1. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,

fresher 2

  1. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  2. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.

freshets 1

  1. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,

freshier 1

  1. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,

fresh-kill'd 1

  1. p. 36, line 4Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,

freshly 3

  1. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
  2. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  3. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,

freshness 9

  1. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  2. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  3. p. 261, line 13Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume,
  4. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
  5. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
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  1. p. 329, line 16She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and full and pliant limbs,
  2. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,
  3. p. 368, line 21These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,
  4. p. 388, line 15The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning;

fretted 1

  1. p. 319, line 1All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd,

fretting 2

  1. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
  2. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,

friable 1

  1. p. 203, line 7You friable shore with trails of debris,

friend 40

  1. p. 26, line 22Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
  2. p. 69, line 11The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  3. p. 73, line 18No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
  4. p. 77, line 27To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
  5. p. 89, line 22The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,
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  1. p. 89, line 23The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
  2. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  3. p. 102, line 6The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
  4. p. 102, line 12The friend the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest,
  5. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
  6. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  7. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  8. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  9. p. 106, line 7Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
  10. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
  11. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  12. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  13. p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
  14. p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  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. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  17. p. 251, line 10O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,
  18. p. 251, line 14Nor the bayonet stab O friend.
  19. p. 292, line 23Nor hand of friend, nor loving face,
  20. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  21. p. 304, line 15I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  22. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
  23. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,
  24. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,
  25. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,
  26. p. 381, line 5I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
  27. p. 382, line 18Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
  28. 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.
  29. p. 404, line 10As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
  30. p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;

friendliest 2

  1. p. 302, line 20Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man,

friendlily 1

  1. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,

friendliness 2

  1. p. 266, line 13Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves,
  2. p. 330, line 2I am jealous and overwhelm'd with friendliness,

friendly 20

  1. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  2. p. 37, line 2Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
  3. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  4. p. 57, line 4At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;
  5. p. 65, line 11The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
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  1. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  2. p. 109, line 9You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!
  3. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  4. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  5. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
  6. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  7. p. 157, line 12She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor,
  8. p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
  9. p. 176, line 13A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,
  10. p. 221, line 10Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city,
  11. p. 268, line 22Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
  12. p. 283, line 8And the friendly boys that pass'd, and the quarrelsome boys,
  13. p. 295, line 20Were groups of friendly journeymen, mechanics young and old,
  14. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  15. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,

friends 30

  1. 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,
  2. p. 58, line 3My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
  3. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  4. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  5. p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
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  1. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  2. p. 109, line 20I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
  3. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
  4. p. 153, line 8Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,
  5. p. 157, line 22Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
  6. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  7. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  8. p. 176, line 5Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?
  9. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  10. p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.
  11. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  12. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,
  13. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  14. p. 290, line 19All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
  15. p. 344, line 19You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,
  16. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  17. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
  18. p. 380, line 8Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
  19. p. 386, line 9The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends.
  20. p. 398, line 12For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my mother dear—you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,)
  21. p. 404, line 10As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
  22. p. 426, line 8[…] business (after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless all […]
  23. p. 429, line 40And whether my friends claim it for me or not, I know well enough […]
  24. p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity […]

friendship 13

  1. p. 49, line 26Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  2. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
  3. p. 103, line 16Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
  4. p. 104, line 18Wafted in all directions O love, for friendship, for you.
  5. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
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  1. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  2. p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
  3. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  4. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  5. p. 312, line 21The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
  6. p. 322, line 14As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,
  7. p. 353, line 2Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

friendships 3

  1. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 364, line 5You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest of all!)

frigate 1

  1. p. 62, line 22Our frigate takes fire,

frighten'd 1 today: frightened

  1. p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,

frightened see frighten'd

fringe-dots 1

  1. p. 407, line 4[…] and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and […]

fringes 1

  1. p. 278, line 22The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes,

frivolity 1

  1. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,

frivolous 4

  1. p. 70, line 7Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,
  2. p. 132, line 10The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,
  3. p. 306, line 14Strange, passionate, mocking, frivolous land.
  4. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,

fro 9

  1. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  3. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  4. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  5. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
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  1. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  2. p. 253, line 12Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left,
  3. p. 292, line 21Ceaseless she paces to and fro,
  4. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,

frolic 1

  1. p. 133, line 8Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg'd waves!

frolicsome 3

  1. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,
  2. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
  3. p. 408, line 10[…] I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten […]

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front 18

  1. p. 79, line 17Or in front, and I following her just the same.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  4. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  5. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
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  1. p. 229, line 17Manhattan rising, advancing with menacing front—Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain'd;
  2. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
  3. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
  4. p. 276, line 21LET that which stood in front go behind,
  5. p. 276, line 22Let that which was behind advance to the front,
  6. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.
  7. p. 359, line 4Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,
  8. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  9. p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
  10. p. 385, line 15To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
  11. p. 386, line 11But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
  12. p. 426, line 38[…] mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a […]
  13. p. 428, line 16[…] din of action—never completer change of army front along the whole line, the whole civilized world. For all […]

frontest 1

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

frontiers 2

  1. p. 338, line 26On the frontiers to eyes impenetrable,
  2. p. 370, line 19I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,

fronting 2

  1. p. 255, line 18In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,
  2. p. 262, line 10From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,

fronts 1

  1. p. 253, line 22The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manœuvre,

frost 1

  1. p. 50, line 19Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,

frost-mellow'd 1

  1. 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,

froth 2

  1. p. 203, line 27Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
  2. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.

frothing 1

  1. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,

frown'd 1 today: frowned

  1. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,

frowned see frown'd

frowning 1

  1. p. 184, line 19Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,

froze 1

  1. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,

frozen 4

  1. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  2. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,
  3. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,
  4. p. 396, line 9To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,

fructify 1

  1. p. 372, line 26O love, solve all, fructify all with the last chemistry.

fructifying 2

  1. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  2. p. 352, line 15Thou that with fructifying heat and light,

fruit 13

  1. p. 57, line 3At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
  2. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
  3. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  4. p. 149, line 8Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands,
  5. p. 177, line 7Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
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  1. p. 244, line 10Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
  2. p. 283, line 5And the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road,
  3. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
  4. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  5. p. 348, line 13The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.
  6. p. 355, line 3This face is flavor'd fruit ready for eating,
  7. p. 402, line 9To verdant leaves, or sheltering shade—to nourishing fruit,
  8. p. 428, line 10[…] now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of […]

fruition 3

  1. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  2. p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
  3. p. 412, line 26Then only may these songs reach fruition.

fruition's 2

  1. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  2. p. 435, line 29[…] his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon […]

fruits 13

  1. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
  2. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  3. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  4. p. 112, line 17What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 182, line 27The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain,
  2. p. 212, line 13And all these things bear fruits, and they are good.
  3. p. 226, line 11And the fields they moisten, and the crops and the fruits are ours,
  4. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,
  5. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  6. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,
  7. p. 396, line 10With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

fuel 1

  1. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,

fugitive 2

  1. p. 330, line 9The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months and years,
  2. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)

fugitives 1

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

ful 1

  1. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,

fulfil 2

  1. p. 10, line 21Then falter not O book, fulfil your destiny,
  2. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.

fulfill'd 5 today: fulfilled

  1. p. 169, line 4Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race.
  2. p. 253, line 27Your mission is fulfill'd—but I, more warlike,
  3. p. 259, line 1The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon,
  4. p. 426, line 7[…] the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of the whole business (after a small […]

fulfilled see fulfill'd

fulfilling 1

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

fulfilment 4

  1. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  2. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  3. p. 399, line 9(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
  4. p. 431, line 19[…] it forms, anyhow, on this era of literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise of science and resuscitation of history […]

full 74

  1. p. 10, line 9Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
  2. p. 10, line 12In full rapport at last.
  3. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  4. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  5. p. 29, line 19Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
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  1. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  2. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  3. p. 46, line 7Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  4. p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  5. p. 55, line 9Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
  6. p. 58, line 16Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
  7. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  8. p. 72, line 13O manhood, balanced, florid and full.
  9. p. 81, line 19And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
  10. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  11. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
  12. p. 111, line 22FULL of life now, compact, visible,
  13. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  14. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  15. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  16. p. 142, line 11Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
  17. p. 142, line 12Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.
  18. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  19. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  20. p. 180, line 24YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
  21. p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
  22. p. 188, line 22Here too demanding full arrears of vengeance.
  23. p. 197, line 37And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather,
  24. p. 223, line 26I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
  25. p. 224, line 25O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
  26. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  27. p. 232, line 25It glitter'd in the sun in full sight of the army.
  28. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!
  29. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,
  30. p. 251, line 18I know my words are weapons full of danger, full of death,
  31. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  32. p. 262, line 15With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,
  33. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  34. p. 269, line 8Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
  35. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  36. p. 284, line 13Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love.
  37. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  38. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  39. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.
  40. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
  41. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  42. p. 322, line 3And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.
  43. p. 323, line 19I am too full of woe!
  44. p. 329, line 16She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and full and pliant limbs,
  45. p. 340, line 6Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles,
  46. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  47. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,
  48. p. 355, line 23I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
  49. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  50. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  51. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  52. p. 378, line 22(Full well they know that message in the darkness,
  53. p. 378, line 23Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad reverberations,)
  54. p. 380, line 23While my pleasure is yet at the full I whisper So long!
  55. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  56. p. 407, line 10[…] plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud […]
  57. p. 409, line 31[…] of the best, which involve vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control and scope. But they are […]
  58. p. 433, line 13[…] because I read them, as described, in the full presence of Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape […]
  59. p. 433, line 37[…] it or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present both the Past and the Future […]
  60. p. 437, line 33[…] great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of men. But […]

full-blown 1

  1. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,

full-dazzling 2

  1. p. 244, line 9GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
  2. p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!

fuller 3

  1. p. 341, line 1And fuller, O vastly fuller of the dead than of the living;
  2. p. 435, line 45[…] characters—indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages […]

fullest 3

  1. p. 260, line 23Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
  2. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,
  3. p. 431, line 39[…] I willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even […]

full-grown 5

  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. 355, line 12This is a full-grown lily's face,
  3. p. 406, line 26[…] of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death, 417. A Persian Lesson […]
  4. p. 416, line 16WHEN the full-grown poet came,
  5. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;

full-key'd 1

  1. p. 246, line 10And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,

full-limb'd 1

  1. 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,

full-lung'd 2

  1. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
  2. p. 350, line 10In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,

fullness see fulness

full-noon 1

  1. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.

full-orb'd 1

  1. p. 14, line 12A round full-orb'd eidólon.

full-sized 1

  1. p. 53, line 9Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.

full-spanning 1

  1. p. 281, line 10With full-spanning eye gazes forth, dwells long,

full-spread 1

  1. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,

fully 23

  1. p. 15, line 9Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
  2. p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
  3. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  4. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  5. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
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  1. p. 180, line 23You shall be fully glorified in them.
  2. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  3. p. 230, line 8But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,
  4. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  5. p. 261, line 27They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not,
  6. p. 316, line 15You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!
  7. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  8. p. 355, line 19Whist! I am fully content.
  9. p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
  10. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  11. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  12. p. 426, line 22[…] less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd […]
  13. p. 432, line 1[…] not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and […]
  14. p. 432, line 6[…] perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome […]
  15. p. 432, line 22[…] them. Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with […]
  16. p. 435, line 25[…] perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's […]
  17. p. 437, line 13[…] not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and […]
  18. p. 438, line 12[…] half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar […]

full-yielding 1

  1. p. 281, line 2The season of thanks and the voice of full-yielding,

fulness 4 today: fullness

  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. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  3. 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,
  4. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,

fumes 1

  1. p. 147, line 20No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints or scornful criticisms,

fun 2

  1. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
  2. p. 408, line 7[…] old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are too many of the […]

fund 2

  1. p. 431, line 1[…] poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to […]
  2. p. 435, line 2[…] it all. Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible to […]

funds 1

  1. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,

funeral 7

  1. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  2. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
  3. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
  4. p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.
  5. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  6. p. 411, line 1SOMEHOW I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
  7. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.

funerals 1

  1. p. 420, line 10Glum funerals, the crape-veil'd mother and the daughters,

furies 1

  1. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,

furious 5

  1. p. 80, line 22The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
  2. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  3. p. 241, line 21Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
  4. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,
  5. p. 390, line 12On for your time, ye furious debouché!

furiously 3

  1. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 61, line 6Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general, he furiously waves with his hand,
  3. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,

furlong 1

  1. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,

furl'st 1

  1. p. 205, line 9Thou ship of air that never furl'st thy sails,

furnace 2

  1. p. 145, line 3The furnace, the hot liquid pour'd out and running.
  2. p. 164, line 6There by the furnace, and there by the anvil,

furnace-blaze 1

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

furnish 4

  1. p. 134, line 12You furnish your parts toward eternity,
  2. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  3. p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
  4. p. 427, line 5[…] Century, with the United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is […]

furnish'd 3 today: furnished

  1. p. 232, line 31A veteran force furnish'd with good artillery.
  2. p. 430, line 36[…] the concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything […]
  3. p. 431, line 21[…] nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or […]

furnished see furnish'd

furniture 3

  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. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
  3. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,

furrow 1

  1. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,

furs 1

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

further 9

  1. p. 97, line 22I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
  2. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  3. p. 101, line 13Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further,
  4. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  5. p. 147, line 27My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
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  1. p. 249, line 14No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
  2. p. 432, line 20[…] garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I […]
  3. p. 437, line 41[…] statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals […]
  4. p. 438, line 23[…] and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb and be […]

fury 4

  1. p. 35, line 10The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous'd mobs,
  2. p. 306, line 29Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,
  3. p. 314, line 30And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
  4. p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,

fuse 7

  1. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
  2. p. 158, line 4Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate,
  3. p. 201, line 26But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
  4. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,
  5. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  6. p. 368, line 26To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
  7. p. 420, line 18But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.

fused 5

  1. p. 51, line 5I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
  2. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  3. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  4. p. 311, line 34And man and art with Nature fused again.
  5. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,

fuses 1

  1. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?

fusillades 1

  1. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.

fusing 3

  1. p. 163, line 16Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all,
  2. p. 227, line 11Fusing and holding, claiming, devouring the whole,
  3. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,

fusion 1

  1. p. 277, line 18Fusion of ocean and land, tender and pensive waves,

futile 1

  1. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,

future 57

  1. p. 11, line 10I project the history of the future.
  2. p. 13, line 31Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
  3. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  4. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
  5. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
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  1. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  2. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  3. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  4. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  5. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
  6. p. 129, line 17The similitudes of the past and those of the future,
  7. p. 151, line 30And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
  8. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  9. p. 169, line 11To build a grander future.
  10. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  11. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  12. p. 207, line 20All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
  13. p. 223, line 24(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
  14. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
  15. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  16. p. 254, line 17To where the future, greater than all the past,
  17. p. 266, line 8One land must be the promise and reliance of the future.
  18. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,
  19. p. 268, line 22Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
  20. p. 274, line 22Past, present, future, are you and me.
  21. 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,
  22. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,
  23. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  24. p. 308, line 18The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
  25. p. 309, line 6From these your future song may rise with joyous trills,
  26. p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
  27. p. 333, line 7If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  28. p. 336, line 10The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  29. p. 346, line 23For thee, the future.
  30. p. 349, line 12How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future?
  31. p. 349, line 19Thee in thy future,
  32. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  33. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  34. p. 358, line 14Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future,
  35. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
  36. p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,
  37. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  38. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  39. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  40. p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)
  41. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  42. p. 408, line 28[…] corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the future—will this vast rich Union ever realize what itself cost […]
  43. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,
  44. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  45. p. 425, line 29[…] have fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from […]
  46. p. 428, line 14[…] rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer […]
  47. p. 428, line 23[…] a few live breaths of it to the future […]
  48. p. 429, line 16[…] of equals, with their lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which […]
  49. p. 430, line 35[…] prelude and necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and […]
  50. p. 433, line 37[…] of the Present both the Past and the Future are main considerations […]
  51. p. 437, line 35[…] But my volume is a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no […]
  52. p. 438, line 23[…] such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb […]

futurity 1

  1. p. 141, line 11The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,