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.

G

g 2

  1. p. 406, line 35[…] The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds […]
  2. p. 433, line 18[…] bells, ringing from lower b flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of […]

gab 1

  1. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

gable 1

  1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

gables 1

  1. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,

gag 1

  1. p. 92, line 1To have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!

gaily 2

  1. p. 390, line 24Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound,

gain 7

  1. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  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. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
  4. p. 226, line 25It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing,
  5. p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
  6. p. 374, line 12Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
  7. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)

gain'd 4 today: gained

  1. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  2. p. 318, line 2Again the knowledge gain'd, the mariner's compass,
  3. p. 425, line 28[…] assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back […]
  4. p. 426, line 22[…] I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up for any […]

gained see gain'd

gains 1

  1. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.

gainsay'd 1 today: gainsayed

  1. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,

gainsayed see gainsay'd

gain'st 1

  1. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,

gait 8

  1. p. 47, line 1My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
  2. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  3. p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,
  4. p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  7. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,

Galahad 1

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

gale 4

  1. p. 205, line 7Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,)
  2. p. 208, line 23Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
  3. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,
  4. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;

gall 1

  1. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,

galleries 1

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

galleys 1

  1. p. 154, line 12Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,

gallivant 1

  1. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.

gallop 1

  1. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.

galloping 3

  1. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,
  2. p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
  3. p. 400, line 14To the galloping aids, carrying orders,

galls 1

  1. p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

Gama 1

  1. p. 318, line 1Again Vasco de Gama sails forth,

gambled 1

  1. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,

gambling-board 1

  1. p. 156, line 24The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings,

gambol 1

  1. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)

gambols 1

  1. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,

game 6

  1. p. 32, line 11Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
  2. p. 36, line 4Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,
  3. p. 56, line 27Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  4. p. 253, line 23Red battles with their slaughter, the stimulus, the strong terrific game,
  5. p. 388, line 1The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game;
  6. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;

games 2

  1. p. 147, line 7Joy of the glad light-beaming day, joy of the wide-breath'd games?
  2. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,

gamut 1

  1. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,

gander 1

  1. p. 38, line 21The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,

gang 4

  1. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  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. 85, line 4No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers' gang?
  4. p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!

Ganges 2

  1. p. 115, line 22I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
  2. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,

gangrene 1

  1. p. 243, line 18Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening, so offensive,

gangs 1

  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,

gap 1

  1. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,

gape 1

  1. p. 210, line 15Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows,

gaping 2

  1. p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
  2. p. 126, line 20Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,

gaps 3

  1. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  2. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,
  3. p. 425, line 13[…] varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once […]

garbage 1

  1. p. 353, line 20This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage,

garden 15

  1. p. 26, line 7Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
  2. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  3. p. 79, line 7TO the garden the world anew ascending,
  4. p. 82, line 11The female soothing a child, the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
  5. p. 92, line 29Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,
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  1. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  2. p. 149, line 13The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for a garden,
  3. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  4. p. 244, line 15Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
  5. p. 283, line 4Winter-grain sprouts and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,
  6. p. 286, line 8The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
  7. p. 310, line 7A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
  8. p. 312, line 29I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,
  9. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  10. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,

gardens 3

  1. p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
  2. p. 161, line 18Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon,
  3. p. 318, line 13Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,

garland 1

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

garments 3

  1. p. 60, line 9Agonies are one of my changes of garments,
  2. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  3. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)

garner'd 3 today: garnered

  1. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  2. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  3. p. 415, line 27The whispering air—even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,

garnered see garner'd

garnish'd 1 today: garnished

  1. p. 285, line 14Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house—but dead, dead, dead.

garnished see garnish'd

garret 1

  1. p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,

garroté 1

  1. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,

garrulity 1

  1. p. 432, line 19[…] more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts […]

garrulous 3

  1. p. 404, line 20Garrulous to the very last.
  2. p. 415, line 29An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
  3. p. 438, line 30[…] day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]

gas 1

  1. p. 163, line 8Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum,

gaseous 1

  1. p. 207, line 17All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,

gash'd 1 today: gashed

  1. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,

gashed see gash'd

gashes 1

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

gaslight 1

  1. p. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,

gasometers 1

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

gasp 2

  1. p. 64, line 13Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,

gasps 3

  1. p. 61, line 7He gasps through the clot Mind not me—mind—the entrenchments.
  2. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
  3. p. 413, line 35[…] life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One consideration rising out of the […]

gate 4

  1. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  2. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  3. p. 284, line 25BY the city dead-house by the gate,
  4. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,

gate-keeper 1

  1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,

gates 9

  1. p. 57, line 15Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,
  2. p. 84, line 11You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
  3. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  4. p. 124, line 11The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions,
  5. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  6. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  7. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,

gather 18

  1. p. 127, line 13To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts,
  2. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  3. p. 202, line 23A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
  4. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  5. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
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  1. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  2. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  3. p. 233, line 17I saw the moisture gather in drops on the face of the General.
  4. p. 282, line 3All gather and all harvest,
  5. p. 282, line 9Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns,
  6. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
  7. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)
  8. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  9. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
  10. p. 371, line 25And silently gather round me.
  11. p. 372, line 11Faces so pale with wondrous eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
  12. p. 407, line 29[…] probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly […]

gather'd 12 today: gathered

  1. p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
  2. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  3. 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!)
  4. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  5. p. 292, line 11Gather'd to Sunday church in prison walls, the keepers round,
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  1. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
  2. p. 336, line 4The threads that were spun are gather'd, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
  3. p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
  4. p. 416, line 5Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,
  5. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
  6. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.

gathered see gather'd

gathering 9

  1. p. 55, line 2Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  2. p. 138, line 20Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering,
  3. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
  4. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  5. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,
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  1. p. 281, line 11And counts the varied gathering of the products.
  2. p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,
  3. p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
  4. p. 415, line 9The great shadowy groups gathering around,

gatherings 2

  1. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
  2. p. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,

gathers 2

  1. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
  2. p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.

gaunt 4

  1. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  2. p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
  3. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  4. p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,

gauze 1

  1. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.

gave 17

  1. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  2. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  3. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  4. p. 72, line 8Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
  5. p. 219, line 9How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
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  1. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,
  2. p. 229, line 7'Twas well, O soul—'twas a good preparation you gave me,
  3. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  4. p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
  5. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  6. p. 283, line 12They gave this child more of themselves than that,
  7. p. 283, line 13They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
  8. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  9. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  10. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,
  11. p. 434, line 13[…] three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]

gawk 1

  1. p. 98, line 6And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)

gay 6

  1. p. 122, line 11The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
  2. p. 176, line 8(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,
  3. p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.
  4. p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
  5. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  6. p. 394, line 9These with gay heart I also sing.

gayest 1

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

gayety 2

  1. p. 125, line 18Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
  2. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.

gayly 5

  1. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
  2. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,
  3. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  4. p. 235, line 16The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
  5. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.

gaze 7

  1. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  2. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  3. p. 147, line 2To look with calm gaze or with a flashing eye,
  4. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  5. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  6. p. 210, line 15Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  7. p. 262, line 10From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,

gazed 1

  1. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,

gazes 2

  1. p. 281, line 10With full-spanning eye gazes forth, dwells long,
  2. p. 339, line 16From this side, lo! the Lord Christ gazes—lo! Hermes I—lo! mine is Hercules' face,

gazing 9

  1. p. 31, line 18That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  2. p. 59, line 27The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on,
  3. p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
  4. p. 325, line 16Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
  5. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
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  1. p. 377, line 6PENSIVE on her dead gazing I heard the Mother of All,
  2. p. 377, line 7Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing,
  3. p. 389, line 3Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)*
  4. p. 414, line 18Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All,

geese 2

  1. p. 57, line 8Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
  2. 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,

gelder 1

  1. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

geldings 1

  1. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,

gems 2

  1. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  2. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,

genealogies 1

  1. p. 192, line 25I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,

general 22

  1. p. 16, line 2I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,
  2. p. 61, line 6Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general, he furiously waves with his hand,
  3. p. 80, line 29The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking,
  4. p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
  5. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
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  1. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
  2. p. 233, line 12The General watch'd them from this hill,
  3. p. 233, line 17I saw the moisture gather in drops on the face of the General.
  4. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  5. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  6. p. 234, line 17But when my General pass'd me,
  7. p. 247, line 23I SAW old General at bay,
  8. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
  9. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  10. p. 349, line 1Emblem of general maternity lifted above all,
  11. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
  12. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
  13. p. 384, line 33[…] November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That […]
  14. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  15. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  16. 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;
  17. p. 432, line 23[…] of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything […]

generalizing 1

  1. p. 435, line 12[…] a great lesson in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy […]

generally 1

  1. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.

generals 7

  1. p. 43, line 16And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
  2. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  3. p. 234, line 1That and here my General's first battle,
  4. p. 234, line 25As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
  5. p. 378, line 14Of the corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all,

generated 1

  1. p. 92, line 30Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,

generating 1

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

generation 4

  1. p. 19, line 25One generation playing its part and passing on,
  2. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  3. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  4. p. 400, line 4I heard it in my boyhood;)—More than a generation since,

generations 9

  1. p. 48, line 17Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
  2. p. 72, line 4Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
  3. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  4. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  5. p. 285, line 26Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
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  1. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 420, line 21Evolution—the cumulative—growths and generations.
  4. p. 425, line 27[…] as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations of the New World,* if I may assume to say […]

generous 5

  1. p. 49, line 17Sun so generous it shall be you!
  2. p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
  3. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  4. p. 176, line 21The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
  5. p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,

genesis 1

  1. p. 430, line 9[…] the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble […]

genesis-motive 1

  1. p. 437, line 20One main genesis-motive of the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day […]

genitals 2

  1. p. 49, line 20Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!
  2. p. 331, line 9Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

genius 9

  1. p. 9, line 13The genius of poets of old lands,
  2. p. 169, line 9I see the genius of the modern, child of the real and ideal,
  3. p. 363, line 4How much of genius boldly staked and lost for it!
  4. p. 413, line 43[…] two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able […]
  5. p. 427, line 42[…] nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years […]
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  1. p. 429, line 20[…] or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto […]
  2. p. 430, line 21[…] appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception […]
  3. p. 437, line 31[…] are in my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems […]
  4. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder […]

Gennaro's 1

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

Genoese 1

  1. p. 317, line 18(Ah Genoese thy dream! thy dream!

gentle 10

  1. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
  2. p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
  3. p. 199, line 32This gentle call is for you my love, for you.
  4. p. 258, line 25The gentle soft-born measureless light,
  5. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
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  1. p. 315, line 24The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires;
  2. p. 339, line 14With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
  3. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
  4. p. 398, line 14For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign lands,
  5. p. 411, line 32[…] surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]

gentleman 2

  1. p. 42, line 20A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
  2. p. 136, line 19The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,

gentleman's 1

  1. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?

gentlemen 7

  1. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
  2. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  3. p. 85, line 17Gentlemen look on this wonder,
  4. p. 101, line 17AND now gentlemen,
  5. p. 210, line 22But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  6. p. 231, line 16The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (make room gentlemen,)
  7. p. 435, line 8[…] humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the centuries of European […]

gentler 1

  1. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,

gently 7

  1. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  2. p. 92, line 12OUT of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
  3. p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  4. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  5. p. 322, line 1And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,
  6. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,
  7. p. 414, line 3Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing

genuine 1

  1. p. 436, line 36[…] of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect […]

geographies 2

  1. p. 163, line 19With all thy wide geographies, manifold, different, distant,
  2. p. 319, line 16The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,

geography 4

  1. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  2. p. 194, line 25Geography, the world, is in it,
  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. 371, line 4With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands;

geography's 1

  1. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;

Geologies 1

  1. p. 397, line 4"Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all,

geologist 2

  1. p. 47, line 24This is the geologist, this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  2. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,

geometer 1

  1. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.

George 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?

George's 1

  1. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,

Georgia 6

  1. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  2. p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
  3. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
  4. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
  5. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,
  6. p. 360, line 4Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas,

Georgian 2

  1. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  2. p. 42, line 10A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian,

germ 1

  1. p. 11, line 21Thou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!

German 5

  1. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
  2. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
  3. p. 312, line 21The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
  4. p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,
  5. p. 433, line 5[…] could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other […]

Germanic 2

  1. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  2. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,

Germany 1

  1. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,

germinal 1

  1. p. 421, line 21Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,

germinate 1

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

germs 4

  1. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  2. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  3. p. 167, line 26You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures,
  4. p. 214, line 7That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.

gestation 2

  1. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,
  2. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,

gestations 1

  1. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,

gesture 1

  1. p. 176, line 13A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,

get 12

  1. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  2. p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  3. p. 54, line 30I wonder where they get those tokens,
  4. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  5. p. 183, line 6Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
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  1. p. 209, line 18TO get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early,
  2. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
  3. p. 384, line 39[…] Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead […]
  4. p. 394, line 21To get the final lilt of songs,
  5. p. 411, line 37[…] the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or […]
  6. p. 433, line 4[…] Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions I could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient […]
  7. p. 438, line 16[…] to dwell, or advance claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a […]

getting 3

  1. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  2. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  3. p. 407, line 34[…] am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim […]

geyser-loops 1

  1. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,

ghastly 4

  1. p. 77, line 19I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,
  2. p. 246, line 7Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
  3. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  4. p. 279, line 18Ask room alas the ghastly ranks, the armies dread that follow'd.

Ghauts 1

  1. p. 114, line 6I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,

ghost 3

  1. p. 204, line 18O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?
  2. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  3. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,

ghostly 3

  1. p. 184, line 19Ages back in ghostly millions frowning there behind us urging,
  2. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  3. p. 260, line 9From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,

ghosts 5

  1. p. 154, line 22I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
  2. p. 154, line 23Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown'd ladies, impeach'd ministers, rejected kings,
  3. p. 326, line 20I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  4. p. 393, line 11Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.
  5. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,

giant 8

  1. p. 13, line 6Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
  2. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  3. p. 114, line 7I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,
  4. p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  5. p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
  6. p. 328, line 6Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
  7. p. 349, line 3Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing,
  8. p. 418, line 20Thou! thou! the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm,

giantess 1

  1. p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,

giants 1

  1. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,

gibberish 1

  1. p. 77, line 17Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.

gibbet 1

  1. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,

gibbets 1

  1. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,

gibes 1

  1. p. 57, line 1At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,

Gibraltar 1

  1. p. 115, line 2Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles,

gift 8

  1. p. 16, line 1HERE, take this gift,
  2. p. 24, line 8A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.
  3. p. 33, line 7A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
  4. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  5. p. 250, line 12Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
  6. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
  7. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?

gifts 9

  1. p. 170, line 2If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  2. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  3. p. 216, line 8For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
  4. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  5. p. 296, line 1Tallying the gifts of earth, large as the earth,
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  1. p. 309, line 25WITH all thy gifts America,
  2. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  3. p. 398, line 14For gentle words, caresses, gifts from foreign lands,
  4. p. 412, line 15Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.

gigantic 10

  1. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  2. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  3. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  4. p. 264, line 3A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern visage accosted me,
  5. p. 316, line 34The gigantic dredging machines.
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  1. p. 320, line 10Gigantic, visionary, thyself a visionary,
  2. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  3. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  4. p. 371, line 15The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
  5. p. 381, line 10I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,

Gila 1

  1. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,

gingham 1

  1. p. 34, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,

ginn'd 1 today: ginned

  1. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,

ginned see ginn'd

girders 1

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

girdled 1

  1. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,

girdling 1

  1. p. 55, line 25Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,

girl 12

  1. p. 17, line 8The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
  2. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  3. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
  4. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
  5. p. 40, line 17The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
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  1. p. 76, line 4The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  2. p. 106, line 13You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
  3. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
  4. p. 295, line 27The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught,
  5. p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
  6. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  7. p. 331, line 22The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover, they press close without lust, his lips press her neck,

girlhood 1

  1. p. 308, line 19To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.

girlish 1

  1. p. 224, line 17I am not the wind with girlish laughter,

girls 6

  1. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
  2. p. 82, line 9Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their performances,
  3. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  4. p. 112, line 15Who are the girls? who are the married women?
  5. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
  6. p. 308, line 10Only a lot of boys and girls?

gist 1

  1. p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,

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given 19

  1. p. 22, line 21Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
  2. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  3. p. 52, line 30I am given up by traitors,
  4. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  5. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
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  1. p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
  2. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  3. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  4. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
  5. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  6. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
  7. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  8. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  9. p. 411, line 40[…] easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
  10. p. 427, line 4[…] or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and what they […]
  11. p. 431, line 29[…] the loftiest of the singers life has yet given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions […]
  12. p. 433, line 42[…] new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is certain, I say, that, although I […]
  13. p. 434, line 29The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation […]
  14. p. 438, line 4[…] unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or […]

giver 4

  1. p. 19, line 1Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of mighty Niagara,
  2. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  3. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
  4. p. 374, line 5Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows,

gives 17

  1. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  2. 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?
  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. 155, line 8The solid forest gives fluid utterances,
  5. p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
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  1. p. 246, line 33The moon gives you light,
  2. p. 246, line 36My heart gives you love.
  3. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  4. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  5. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  6. p. 354, line 1This face is an epilepsy, its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  7. p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
  8. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;
  9. p. 427, line 7[…] self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it gives one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts […]
  10. p. 436, line 18[…] say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk […]

givest 3

  1. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  2. p. 279, line 7Dispensatress, that by a word givest a thousand miles, a million farms, and missest nothing,
  3. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,

giving 14

  1. p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
  2. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  3. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  4. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  5. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
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  1. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  2. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  3. p. 231, line 23Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
  4. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
  5. p. 278, line 6Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,
  6. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  7. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,
  8. p. 435, line 29[…] soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and […]
  9. p. 436, line 35[…] the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity […]

glaciers 1

  1. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.

glad 11

  1. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  2. p. 147, line 7Joy of the glad light-beaming day, joy of the wide-breath'd games?
  3. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  4. p. 178, line 17Swift, glad, content, unbereav'd, nothing losing,
  5. p. 260, line 30From me to thee glad serenades,
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  1. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.
  2. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  3. p. 356, line 19While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene,
  4. p. 358, line 16O glad, exulting, culminating song!
  5. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  6. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)

gladdening 1

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

glade 1

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

glades 1

  1. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,

gladly 1

  1. p. 389, line 13These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,

gladness 5

  1. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  2. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  3. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  4. p. 374, line 18Open mouth of my soul uttering gladness,
  5. p. 437, line 17[…] Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements […]

gladsome 1

  1. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;

glamour's 1

  1. p. 390, line 15I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;

glance 9

  1. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  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. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  4. p. 177, line 29Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
  5. p. 177, line 30Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,
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  1. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,
  2. p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  3. p. 268, line 11With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
  4. p. 293, line 6One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd faces,

glances 2

  1. p. 394, line 13What curious questioning glances—glints of love!
  2. p. 425, line 11[…] old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the […]

glancing 1

  1. p. 381, line 19At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,

glare 2

  1. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  2. p. 151, line 5The crowd with their lit faces watching, the glare and dense shadows;

glaringly 1

  1. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,

Glasgow 1

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

glass 4

  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. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  3. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,
  4. p. 329, line 2He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes, the color is blanch'd from his cheeks,

glass-blowing 1

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

glasses 1

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

glaze 2

  1. p. 258, line 15In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there,
  2. p. 296, line 14This glaze of God's serenest purest sky,

glazed 1

  1. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,

glazier's 1

  1. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,

gleam 3

  1. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  2. p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
  3. p. 312, line 27I see poor crazed Lucia's eyes' unnatural gleam,

gleams 3

  1. 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;
  2. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  3. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.

glean 2

  1. p. 12, line 4To glean eidólons.
  2. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,

glee 2

  1. p. 36, line 2Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  2. p. 312, line 18The fiddler in the tavern, the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,

gleeful 1

  1. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!

gleemen 1

  1. p. 311, line 15I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the middle ages.

gleesome 1

  1. p. 143, line 1O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides!

glib 1

  1. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)

glide 4

  1. p. 280, line 10Your memories rising glide silently by me.
  2. p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
  3. p. 346, line 5Let me glide noiselessly forth;
  4. p. 362, line 24It and its radiations constantly glide.

glides 1

  1. p. 51, line 16I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears,

gliding 7

  1. p. 112, line 8Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
  2. p. 194, line 24Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.
  3. p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
  4. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  5. p. 218, line 1GLIDING o'er all, through all,
  6. p. 260, line 22Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
  7. p. 382, line 17Enough O gliding present—enough O summ'd-up past.

glimmer 2

  1. p. 77, line 19I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,
  2. p. 239, line 4Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,

glimmering 2

  1. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  2. p. 341, line 24As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear'd,

glimpse 3

  1. p. 109, line 1A GLIMPSE through an interstice caught,
  2. p. 365, line 22(A glimpse as of thy Mother's face Columbia,
  3. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,

glimpses 1

  1. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,

glint 2

  1. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  2. p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,

glints 1

  1. p. 394, line 13What curious questioning glances—glints of love!

glisten 4

  1. p. 105, line 1Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
  2. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  3. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.

glisten'd 2 today: glistened

  1. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  2. p. 198, line 8Yes, when the stars glisten'd,

glistened see glisten'd

glistening 5

  1. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  2. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,
  3. p. 204, line 1See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
  4. p. 359, line 23O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening perfumed South! my South!
  5. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

glistens 1

  1. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,

glitter'd 1 today: glittered

  1. p. 232, line 25It glitter'd in the sun in full sight of the army.

glittered see glitter'd

glittering 5

  1. p. 21, line 15The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all,
  2. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  3. p. 194, line 15With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes,
  4. p. 231, line 3City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
  5. p. 236, line 4Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,

gloat 1

  1. p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.

globe 35

  1. p. 19, line 14See revolving the globe,
  2. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  3. p. 43, line 6This the common air that bathes the globe.
  4. p. 59, line 9The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  5. p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
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  1. p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
  2. p. 120, line 14I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 142, line 17It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
  5. p. 158, line 10Long has the globe been rolling round.
  6. p. 163, line 12Our own rondure, the current globe I bring.
  7. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  8. p. 202, line 9The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
  9. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  10. p. 229, line 5All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me,
  11. p. 279, line 3Thou envy of the globe! thou miracle!
  12. 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,
  13. p. 296, line 17Out from the convolutions of this globe,
  14. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  15. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  16. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
  17. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  18. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  19. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  20. p. 351, line 14Thou globe of globes! thou wonder nebulous!
  21. p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
  22. p. 371, line 6Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
  23. p. 392, line 20The first and last confession of the globe,
  24. p. 399, line 6I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
  25. p. 401, line 4While he the globe was circling round and round,—and now returns:
  26. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
  27. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  28. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!

globes 5

  1. p. 142, line 18I will have thousands of globes and all time.
  2. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  3. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  4. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  5. p. 351, line 14Thou globe of globes! thou wonder nebulous!

gloom 5

  1. p. 50, line 19Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,
  2. p. 234, line 15Every one else seem'd fill'd with gloom,
  3. p. 241, line 11A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
  4. 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;)
  5. p. 434, line 8[…] and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the […]

gloomiest 1

  1. p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)

glooming 1

  1. p. 370, line 1AS the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,

glooms 1

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

gloomy 3

  1. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
  2. p. 308, line 21Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,
  3. p. 429, line 33[…] moods of humanity at the time, and its gloomy or hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and […]

Gloria 1

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

glories 7

  1. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,
  2. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  3. p. 254, line 10From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
  6. p. 428, line 2[…] common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and […]
  7. p. 437, line 34[…] of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of men. But my volume […]

glorified 1

  1. p. 180, line 23You shall be fully glorified in them.

glorify 1

  1. p. 260, line 24Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,

glorious 3

  1. p. 367, line 11Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,
  2. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)

gloriously 2

  1. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  2. p. 369, line 3Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,

glory 14

  1. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  2. p. 28, line 3A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching,
  3. p. 61, line 17They were the glory of the race of rangers,
  4. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
  5. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
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  1. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  2. p. 161, line 22With precious benefits to both, glory to all,
  3. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  4. p. 182, line 6One flash of heaven's glory.
  5. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  6. p. 294, line 26Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.
  7. p. 376, line 7I say Nature continues, glory continues,
  8. p. 402, line 17Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,

glossy 1

  1. p. 55, line 8Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,

gloves 2

  1. p. 128, line 15Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
  2. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,

glow 3

  1. p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,
  2. p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
  3. p. 357, line 15The glow, the blush, the beating hearts of lovers,

glowing 2

  1. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  2. p. 363, line 11Or midnight's silent glowing northern lights unreachable.

glows 2

  1. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
  2. p. 428, line 1[…] and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real […]

glue 1

  1. p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,

glued 1

  1. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,

glue-pot 1

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

glum 2

  1. p. 408, line 14[…] behind all, the deep-down consolation (it is a glum one, but I dare not be sorry for the fact […]
  2. p. 420, line 10Glum funerals, the crape-veil'd mother and the daughters,

glut 1

  1. p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,

gluten 1

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

glutted 2

  1. p. 230, line 8But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,
  2. p. 245, line 3Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;

glutton 1

  1. p. 331, line 15The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,

gluttonous 1

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

gluttons 2

  1. p. 285, line 26Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
  2. p. 290, line 7Putridity of gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,

gluttony 1

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

gnarl 1

  1. p. 64, line 14My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.

gnarl'd 1 today: gnarled

  1. p. 309, line 20While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,

gnarled see gnarl'd

gnat 1

  1. p. 75, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key,

gnaw 2

  1. p. 80, line 2From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
  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,

gnawing 3

  1. p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  2. p. 132, line 16Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping,
  3. p. 243, line 18Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening, so offensive,

gneiss 1

  1. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,

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goal 2

  1. p. 128, line 19The goal that was named cannot be countermanded.
  2. p. 392, line 5Thy troops of white-maned racers racing to the goal,

goats 1

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

god 64

  1. p. 13, line 36God and eidólons.
  2. p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
  3. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  4. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  5. p. 54, line 24They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
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  1. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
  2. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  3. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  4. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  5. p. 76, line 16For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  6. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  7. p. 76, line 18I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
  8. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  9. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  10. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  11. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  12. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  13. p. 113, line 18I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God the Christ,
  14. p. 148, line 5To be indeed a God!
  15. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  16. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  17. p. 182, line 29Give me O God to sing that thought,
  18. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  19. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  20. p. 192, line 24I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,
  21. p. 213, line 15Be thou my God.
  22. p. 213, line 19Be thou my God.
  23. p. 213, line 22Be thou my God.
  24. p. 213, line 25Be thou my God.
  25. p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
  26. p. 269, line 23In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
  27. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  28. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)
  29. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  30. p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
  31. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  32. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  33. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  34. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,
  35. p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
  36. p. 321, line 12But with the mystery of God we dare not dally.
  37. p. 321, line 18Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,
  38. p. 321, line 32Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,
  39. p. 322, line 13Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd,
  40. p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
  41. p. 323, line 21I cannot rest O God, I cannot eat or drink or sleep,
  42. p. 324, line 22That Thou O God my life hast lighted,
  43. p. 324, line 26For that O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees,
  44. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  45. p. 339, line 14With gentle hand extended, the mightier God am I,
  46. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  47. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,
  48. p. 340, line 16Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were all? what were God?)
  49. p. 347, line 27Thought of man justified, blended with God,
  50. p. 350, line 13Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
  51. p. 350, line 14Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself.
  52. p. 358, line 19Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy!
  53. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  54. p. 375, line 13To be this incredible God I am!
  55. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,
  56. p. 386, line 3Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
  57. p. 427, line 31[…] establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession […]
  58. p. 437, line 5[…] faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is […]

God-enfranchis'd 1

  1. p. 293, line 4Depart—a God-enfranchis'd soul!

godhood 1

  1. p. 314, line 22The Creation in billows of godhood laves me.

godlike 2

  1. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  2. p. 435, line 44[…] with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better based and […]

Godly 1

  1. p. 414, line 13(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)

gods 21

  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,
  2. p. 69, line 22Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,
  3. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  4. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
  5. p. 115, line 26I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.
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  1. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  2. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  3. 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.
  4. p. 213, line 28Be ye my Gods.
  5. p. 213, line 33Be ye my Gods.
  6. p. 265, line 3No condition is prohibited, not God's or any.
  7. p. 278, line 14Is acted God's calm annual drama,
  8. p. 296, line 14This glaze of God's serenest purest sky,
  9. p. 313, line 9Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.)
  10. p. 316, line 18Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first?
  11. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  12. p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
  13. p. 350, line 18Land of unprecedented faith, God's faith,
  14. p. 363, line 12Haply God's riddle it, so vague and yet so certain,
  15. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  16. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,

God-sent 1

  1. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,

goers 1

  1. p. 115, line 2Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles,

goes 31

  1. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  2. p. 34, line 8All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
  3. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  4. p. 44, line 8Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
  5. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
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  1. p. 49, line 10Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!
  2. p. 50, line 12My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
  3. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  4. p. 67, line 3It is middling well as far as it goes—but is that all?
  5. p. 80, line 7Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,
  6. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  7. p. 116, line 7I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
  8. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
  9. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  10. p. 153, line 15All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears;
  11. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  12. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  13. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
  14. p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
  15. 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.)
  16. 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.
  17. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  18. p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
  19. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
  20. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,
  21. p. 333, line 14The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,
  22. p. 336, line 3You are henceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
  23. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
  24. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)

goest 1

  1. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.

Goethe 1

  1. p. 438, line 35[…] rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or […]

Goethe's 1

  1. p. 429, line 29[…] the negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not […]

going 29

  1. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  2. p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
  3. p. 39, line 12Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
  4. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  5. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
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  1. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
  2. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  3. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,
  4. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
  5. p. 128, line 24He going with me must go well arm'd,
  6. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  7. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,
  8. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  9. p. 168, line 25Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world,
  10. 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.
  11. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  12. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  13. p. 287, line 18And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
  14. 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,
  15. p. 371, line 6Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
  16. p. 384, line 45[…] Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The […]
  17. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  18. p. 395, line 8Watching the coming, going of the vessels, he mutters to himself—And now the close of all:
  19. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,
  20. p. 397, line 8"All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere."
  21. p. 422, line 3I'm going away, I know not where,
  22. p. 425, line 15[…] hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in a sufficient way through all […]
  23. p. 436, line 24[…] and a theme in literature. I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand […]

gold 19

  1. p. 26, line 4Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice!
  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. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.
  4. p. 148, line 28Welcome are lands of gold,
  5. p. 149, line 8Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands,
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  1. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,
  2. p. 168, line 28And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
  3. p. 169, line 7In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air.
  4. p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
  5. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
  6. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
  7. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  8. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  9. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  10. p. 302, line 9Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
  11. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
  12. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  13. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
  14. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

goldbug 1

  1. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,

gold-color'd 2

  1. p. 187, line 2From the head of the centre-figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  2. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,

gold-digging 2

  1. p. 55, line 25Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  2. p. 267, line 23The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,

golden 15

  1. p. 53, line 9Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.
  2. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  3. p. 160, line 27Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
  4. p. 168, line 17The flashing and golden pageant of California,
  5. p. 194, line 27The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores,
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  1. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  2. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
  3. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
  4. p. 302, line 1Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
  5. p. 320, line 12Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
  6. p. 348, line 26Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western sky,
  7. p. 359, line 1Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
  8. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  9. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
  10. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:

gone 40

  1. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  2. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  3. p. 58, line 11Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  4. p. 61, line 15Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
  5. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
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  1. p. 159, line 11Amadis, Tancred, utterly gone, Charlemagne, Roland, Oliver gone,
  2. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;
  3. p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
  4. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  5. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  6. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,
  7. p. 257, line 23Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.
  8. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  9. p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
  10. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  11. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  12. p. 289, line 8Are those billions of men really gone?
  13. p. 289, line 9Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
  14. p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
  15. 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,
  16. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  17. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  18. p. 358, line 23War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing but joy left!
  19. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
  20. p. 372, line 18Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
  21. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  22. p. 376, line 16To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
  23. p. 388, line 7After the dazzle of day is gone,
  24. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  25. p. 396, line 22Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
  26. p. 401, line 5How changed the place—all the old land-marks gone—the parents dead;
  27. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)
  28. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,
  29. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  30. p. 425, line 8[…] away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]
  31. p. 427, line 43[…] Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern […]
  32. p. 433, line 39These, however, and much more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come […]

gone-by 1

  1. p. 430, line 23[…] hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life and art is for us the only means of […]

gong 1

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

good 124

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good-by 2

  1. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  2. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.

Good-bye 9

  1. p. 404, line 11Good-bye and Good-bye with emotional lips repeating,
  2. p. 406, line 6[…] Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht, 409. Lingering Last Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My […]
  3. p. 406, line 39[…] The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my Fancy […]
  4. p. 409, line 15GOOD-BYE* my fancy—(I had a word to say,
  5. p. 422, line 1GOOD-BYE my Fancy!
  6. p. 422, line 5So Good-bye my Fancy.
  7. p. 422, line 10Delightful!—now separation—Good-bye my Fancy.
  8. p. 422, line 18Good-bye—and hail! my Fancy.

Good-day 1

  1. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,

good-doers 3

  1. p. 336, line 13The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  2. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  3. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,

good-fortune 2

  1. p. 121, line 1Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

good-natured 1

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,

goodness 5

  1. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  2. p. 123, line 4I did not know I held so much goodness.
  3. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  4. p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
  5. p. 335, line 17The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,

goods 11

  1. p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
  2. p. 149, line 18The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,
  3. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  4. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  5. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,
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  1. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  2. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  3. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,
  4. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  5. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,
  6. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,

good-sized 1

  1. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,

good-will 3

  1. 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?
  2. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  3. p. 413, line 6America's applause, love, memories and good-will.

gore 2

  1. p. 60, line 5I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the ooze of my skin,
  2. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,

gorge 1

  1. p. 412, line 13Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking thee;

gorgeous 9

  1. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  2. p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,
  3. p. 168, line 18The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,
  4. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,
  5. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
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  1. p. 278, line 15Gorgeous processions, songs of birds,
  2. p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
  3. p. 320, line 13Enhuing it with gorgeous hues.
  4. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,

gorges 1

  1. p. 368, line 21These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,

gospels 3

  1. p. 69, line 28Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
  2. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  3. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,

gossamer 1

  1. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

gossip 2

  1. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
  2. p. 338, line 17Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals,

gossiping 1

  1. p. 425, line 10So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my […]

got 3

  1. p. 156, line 13The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride's bed,
  2. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  3. p. 408, line 4[…] the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant […]

Gothard 1

  1. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,

Goths 1

  1. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,

Gott 1

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

gouge 1

  1. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.

gounod's 1

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

governing 1

  1. p. 389, line 7Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.

government 8

  1. p. 209, line 21Way for the President's marshal—way for the government cannon!
  2. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  3. p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
  4. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  5. p. 273, line 28The only government is that which makes minute of individuals,
  6. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  7. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
  8. p. 437, line 27[…] the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common sense—is the justification and main […]

governments 6

  1. p. 20, line 19Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
  2. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 273, line 23It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories,
  5. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  6. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,

Governor 2

  1. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  2. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,

governors 1

  1. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?

Gowanus 1

  1. p. 233, line 8Jauntily forward they went with quick step toward Gowanus' waters,

gown 4

  1. p. 158, line 21She comes! I hear the rustling of her gown,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 293, line 9While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
  4. p. 356, line 1Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen,

Graal 2

  1. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  2. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;

grace 10

  1. p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
  2. p. 180, line 24YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
  3. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  4. p. 265, line 17Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse,
  5. p. 292, line 24Nor favor comes, nor word of grace.
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  1. p. 292, line 30For soon or late the certain grace;
  2. p. 294, line 20To grace the bush I love—to sing with the birds,
  3. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  4. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?
  5. p. 437, line 29Isolated advantages in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads of all the […]

graceful 3

  1. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  2. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
  3. 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;

gracefully 1

  1. p. 104, line 12Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may;

grading 1

  1. p. 135, line 5The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there,

gradual 2

  1. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  2. p. 349, line 24The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;

graft 3

  1. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  2. p. 89, line 14On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
  3. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.

grafts 1

  1. p. 89, line 14On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,

grain 11

  1. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  2. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  3. p. 142, line 12Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.
  4. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  5. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
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  1. p. 256, line 15Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen,
  2. p. 281, line 13Prairie, orchard, and yellow grain of the North,
  3. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
  4. p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
  5. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)

grains 4

  1. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
  2. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  3. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
  4. p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)

grammar 1

  1. p. 47, line 22This is the lexicographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of the old cartouches,

grand 21

  1. p. 51, line 18I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera,
  2. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  3. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  4. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  5. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
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  1. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  2. p. 172, line 12We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
  3. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  4. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  5. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  6. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  7. p. 387, line 20A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
  8. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,
  9. p. 406, line 37[…] Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen, 421. Unseen Buds, 421. Good-Bye my Fancy […]
  10. p. 413, line 33[…] In the grand constellation of five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that […]
  11. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
  12. p. 421, line 12Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
  13. p. 421, line 13And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;

grandchild 1

  1. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;

grand-children 1

  1. p. 145, line 26My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard,

grand-daughters 1

  1. p. 356, line 2Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.

Grande 2

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,
  2. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,

grander 6

  1. p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
  2. p. 169, line 11To build a grander future.
  3. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  4. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  5. p. 421, line 14But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,
  6. p. 435, line 35[…] the whole, are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind […]

grandest 2

  1. p. 317, line 5I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the world,
  2. p. 436, line 2[…] we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of […]

grandeur 6

  1. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
  2. p. 22, line 17Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
  3. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
  4. p. 348, line 2To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern,
  5. p. 375, line 4In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age,
  6. p. 432, line 2[…] with uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have […]

grandeurs 4

  1. p. 160, line 10Looking back on thee, seeing thee to thy duties, grandeurs, through past ages bending, building,
  2. p. 182, line 20The measur'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past,
  3. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
  4. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!

grandly 3

  1. p. 166, line 29We who have grandly fill'd our time;
  2. p. 167, line 2For a superber race, they too to grandly fill their time,
  3. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.

grandmother 1

  1. p. 295, line 16Grandmother, loving daughter, loving daughter's daughter, sat,

grandmother's 1

  1. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.

grand-opera 1

  1. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,

grandsires 1

  1. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)

grandson 1

  1. p. 67, line 7Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,

grandsons 6

  1. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  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. 210, line 15Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  4. p. 327, line 18I sit low in a straw-bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
  5. p. 356, line 2Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
  6. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)

granite 7

  1. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
  2. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  3. p. 45, line 12My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,
  4. p. 116, line 13I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,
  5. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  6. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  7. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,

granite-blocks 1

  1. p. 118, line 2I look on chisell'd histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,

grant 2

  1. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,
  2. p. 384, line 33[…] With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe […]

granted 2

  1. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  2. p. 379, line 22THE untold want by life and land ne'er granted,

grape 6

  1. p. 26, line 5Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple and the grape!
  2. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
  3. p. 149, line 1Welcome are lands of wheat and maize, welcome those of the grape,
  4. p. 168, line 28And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
  5. p. 244, line 12Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,
  6. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)

grapes 7

  1. p. 164, line 18The grapes that ripen on thy vines, the apples in thy orchards,
  2. p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
  3. p. 236, line 24(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
  4. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
  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. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  7. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,

grape-shot 1

  1. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,

grapple 1

  1. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.

grappled 2

  1. p. 396, line 25Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
  2. p. 398, line 25Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.

grappler 1

  1. p. 174, line 6The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,

grappling 2

  1. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
  2. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,

grasping 1

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

grass 64

  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. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
  3. p. 32, line 16Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat,
  4. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  5. p. 33, line 9Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
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  1. p. 33, line 15Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  2. p. 33, line 20This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  3. p. 35, line 21The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
  4. p. 43, line 5This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  5. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
  6. p. 55, line 16What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
  7. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
  8. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  9. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  10. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,
  11. p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  12. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
  13. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,
  14. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  15. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  16. p. 142, line 5Nativities, climates, the grass of the great pastoral Plains,
  17. p. 148, line 20Resting the grass amid and upon,
  18. p. 158, line 8Long and long has the grass been growing,
  19. p. 164, line 16Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops,
  20. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  21. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,
  22. p. 242, line 21Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground,
  23. p. 244, line 11Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
  24. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  25. p. 258, line 22And ever the far-spreading prairies cover'd with grass and corn.
  26. p. 278, line 19The liliput countless armies of the grass,
  27. p. 280, line 5They fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass,
  28. p. 281, line 19And the good green grass, that delicate miracle the ever-recurring grass.
  29. p. 282, line 22And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
  30. p. 286, line 7The grass of spring covers the prairies,
  31. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
  32. p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
  33. p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,
  34. p. 308, line 4O fair auroral skies—O morning dew upon the grass!
  35. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  36. p. 318, line 10Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
  37. p. 356, line 23I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses;
  38. p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
  39. p. 366, line 17O deathless grass, of you!
  40. p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,
  41. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  42. p. 396, line 10With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
  43. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,
  44. p. 425, line 25[…] largely on memory,) I look upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers […]
  45. p. 425, line 32[…] worldly and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on […]
  46. p. 426, line 15[…] that can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I […]
  47. p. 427, line 5[…] as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless […]
  48. p. 427, line 20For grounds for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do […]
  49. p. 429, line 9[…] had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before a line was written, presupposed something different from any […]
  50. p. 432, line 3[…] spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are […]
  51. p. 432, line 20[…] me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has […]
  52. p. 434, line 13[…] years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]
  53. p. 436, line 13From another point of view "Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even […]
  54. p. 436, line 28[…] which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as […]
  55. p. 436, line 38[…] And in respect to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time to come (if there should be such) I […]
  56. p. 438, line 8[…] Leaves of Grass" indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the […]
  57. p. 438, line 14[…] me. But it is not on "Leaves of Grass " distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel […]

grass-fields 1

  1. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!

grassy 1

  1. p. 352, line 17O'er Mississippi's endless course, o'er Texas' grassy plains, Kanada's woods,

grateful 1

  1. p. 430, line 8[…] through the utterance of one, not only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but the born child […]

gratefully 1

  1. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.

grave 26

  1. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
  2. p. 101, line 4That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
  3. p. 101, line 14I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave,
  4. p. 212, line 20Not a grave of the murder'd for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
  5. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
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  1. p. 240, line 18I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
  2. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
  3. p. 241, line 2Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave, comes the inscription rude in Virginia's woods,
  4. p. 246, line 4Down a new-made double grave.
  5. p. 246, line 20And the double grave awaits them.)
  6. p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
  7. p. 256, line 17Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
  8. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  9. p. 258, line 7I'll perfume the grave of him I love.
  10. p. 284, line 8Crouching over a grave an ancient sorrowful mother,
  11. p. 284, line 17For know you the one you mourn is not in that grave,
  12. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  13. p. 284, line 21What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grave,
  14. p. 317, line 19Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,
  15. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  16. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,
  17. p. 376, line 21I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,
  18. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  19. p. 395, line 26A wafted autumn leaf, dropt in the closing grave, the shovel'd earth,
  20. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)

graveclothes 1

  1. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,

graves 21

  1. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  2. p. 46, line 22Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
  3. p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  4. p. 65, line 3The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
  5. p. 66, line 25Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.
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  1. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  2. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,
  3. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  4. p. 126, line 20Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,
  5. 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;
  6. p. 210, line 20To your graves—back—back to the hills old limpers!
  7. p. 212, line 11Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves, bloody corpses of young men,
  8. p. 232, line 16My blind eyes even as I speak behold it re-peopled from graves,
  9. p. 286, line 11The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
  10. p. 318, line 23Cold earth, the place of graves.)
  11. p. 371, line 21From their graves in the trenches ascending,
  12. p. 371, line 23From every point of the compass out of the countless graves,
  13. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
  14. p. 392, line 28All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,
  15. p. 399, line 14From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
  16. p. 399, line 24Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South,

graveyards 2

  1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  2. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!

gravitate 1

  1. p. 93, line 25Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?

gravitation 5

  1. p. 158, line 20Join'd with an irresistible, natural gravitation,
  2. p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
  3. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  4. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  5. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,

gravity 1

  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?

gray 24

  1. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  2. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  3. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  4. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  5. p. 105, line 14BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes,
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  1. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
  2. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  3. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
  4. p. 200, line 18On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
  5. p. 201, line 27That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,
  6. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  7. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
  8. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,
  9. p. 240, line 1A SIGHT in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
  10. p. 240, line 6Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
  11. p. 247, line 24(Old as he was, his gray eyes yet shone out in battle like stars,)
  12. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
  13. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  14. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  15. p. 322, line 29Of you O prairies! of you gray rocks!
  16. p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
  17. p. 352, line 2Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,
  18. p. 403, line 3An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
  19. p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,

gray-blue 1

  1. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,

gray-blurr'd 1

  1. p. 408, line 6[…] buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here […]

gray-brown 4

  1. p. 259, line 4Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,
  2. p. 260, line 6The gray-brown bird I know receiv'd us comrades three,
  3. p. 261, line 10Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,
  4. p. 262, line 13The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird,

gray-neck'd 1

  1. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,

graze 1

  1. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,

grazing 2

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  2. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,

grazing-lands 1

  1. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;

greasy 1

  1. p. 170, line 12(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,

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greater 28

  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  3. p. 20, line 24Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves,
  4. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  5. p. 45, line 20And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
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  1. p. 71, line 11I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  2. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  3. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  4. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
  5. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
  6. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  7. p. 109, line 21Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
  8. p. 125, line 14Allons! the inducements shall be greater,
  9. 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.
  10. p. 170, line 10Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
  11. p. 173, line 13Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
  12. p. 175, line 8But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
  13. p. 195, line 17I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy,
  14. p. 254, line 17To where the future, greater than all the past,
  15. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  16. p. 322, line 4Greater than stars or suns,
  17. p. 347, line 8But greater still from what is yet to come,
  18. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  19. p. 387, line 7Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses,
  20. p. 401, line 13A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
  21. p. 430, line 34[…] greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate, and are to be […]
  22. p. 432, line 14[…] democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of all, and object of all, stands […]

greatest 18

  1. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  2. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  3. p. 69, line 19My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  4. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  5. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
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  1. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  2. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
  3. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  4. p. 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,
  5. p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
  6. p. 389, line 8Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
  7. p. 390, line 7Poets unnamed—artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs,
  8. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
  9. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  10. p. 430, line 33[…] of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what […]

great-grandsons 2

  1. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  2. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)

greatly 1

  1. p. 433, line 28[…] point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively […]

greatness 9

  1. p. 23, line 12The greatness of Love and Democracy, and the greatness of Religion.
  2. p. 137, line 15The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
  3. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  4. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  5. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  6. p. 315, line 29The past—the infinite greatness of the past!
  7. p. 349, line 13I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,

greatnesses 1

  1. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,

Grecian 1

  1. p. 414, line 26The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian,

Grecia's 1

  1. p. 160, line 13Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,

Greece 3

  1. p. 158, line 11Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,
  2. p. 191, line 23With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,
  3. p. 388, line 2The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;

greed 4

  1. p. 68, line 20To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
  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. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  4. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.

greedy 2

  1. p. 132, line 8Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant,
  2. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;

Greek 8

  1. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  2. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
  3. p. 115, line 20I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
  4. p. 118, line 29You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek!
  5. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
  6. p. 434, line 35[…] last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo […]
  7. p. 435, line 43[…] The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters […]

Greeks 4

  1. p. 113, line 17I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans,
  2. p. 313, line 22Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
  3. p. 384, line 69[…] Latent Boughs Alone, 402 The Dead Emperor, 402 As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An […]
  4. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,

green 31

  1. p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
  2. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  3. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  4. p. 38, line 17And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,
  5. p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
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  1. p. 58, line 21And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
  2. p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
  3. p. 105, line 23Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
  4. p. 116, line 13I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,
  5. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  6. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
  7. p. 163, line 30See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,
  8. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
  9. p. 231, line 30Green the midsummer verdure and fresh blows the dallying breeze,
  10. p. 235, line 10A LINE in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
  11. p. 236, line 21Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
  12. p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
  13. p. 255, line 19Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  14. p. 256, line 2With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  15. p. 257, line 5Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,
  16. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  17. p. 281, line 19And the good green grass, that delicate miracle the ever-recurring grass.
  18. p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
  19. p. 294, line 17The lilac-scent, the bushes with dark green heart-shaped leaves,
  20. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  21. 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;
  22. p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
  23. p. 378, line 6Lo, the camps of the tents of green,
  24. p. 378, line 10Now in those camps of green, in their tents dotting the world,
  25. p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
  26. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;

green-back'd 1

  1. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.

green-hand 1

  1. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)

greenish 1

  1. p. 140, line 7There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;

Greenland 1

  1. p. 114, line 18The White sea, and the sea around Greenland.

Greenlander 1

  1. p. 119, line 26You dwarf'd Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!

green-shine 1

  1. 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,

green-wash 1

  1. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,

greet 2

  1. p. 249, line 7Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
  2. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,

Greeting 1

  1. p. 406, line 23[…] To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown […]

greets 1

  1. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,

grenades 1

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

grew 6

  1. p. 105, line 23Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
  2. p. 106, line 13You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
  3. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  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. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
  6. p. 360, line 16O to be a Virginian where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!

greybeard 1

  1. p. 418, line 27FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi,

grief 1

  1. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,

grieve 1

  1. p. 237, line 18Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,

grim 10

  1. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  2. p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
  3. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  4. p. 309, line 21Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,
  5. p. 368, line 19These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,
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  1. p. 400, line 13To the cannons, the grim artillery,
  2. p. 407, line 35[…] and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast […]
  3. p. 408, line 3[…] discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of […]
  4. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  5. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches

grime 1

  1. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,

grimed 2

  1. p. 37, line 21Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  2. p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,

grime-faced 1

  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;

grinding 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,

gripe 1

  1. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,

gripes 1

  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;

grit 2

  1. p. 66, line 6Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,
  2. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,

groan 4

  1. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  2. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,
  3. p. 168, line 9The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan,
  4. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.

groaning 1

  1. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,

groans 2

  1. p. 35, line 15What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,
  2. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.

groan'st 1

  1. p. 278, line 28Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment,

gross 7

  1. p. 44, line 8Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
  2. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  3. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  4. p. 165, line 19Think not our chant, our show, merely for products gross or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual!
  5. p. 173, line 16Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
  6. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,

grossest 1

  1. p. 80, line 6Renascent with grossest Nature or among animals,

grossness 2

  1. p. 181, line 5Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
  2. p. 374, line 12Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,

grotesque 2

  1. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  2. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,

ground 51

  1. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;
  2. p. 44, line 14That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.
  3. p. 55, line 8Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  4. p. 57, line 14Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out,
  5. p. 68, line 12Ever the hard unsunk ground,
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  1. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
  2. p. 93, line 5We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks,
  3. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  4. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  5. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  6. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  7. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  8. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
  9. p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
  10. p. 223, line 13Low on the ground and high in the air,
  11. p. 223, line 14On the ground where father and child stand,
  12. p. 230, line 2One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me,
  13. p. 232, line 14Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.
  14. p. 232, line 15Aye, this is the ground,
  15. p. 234, line 4But in darkness in mist on the ground under a chill rain,
  16. p. 234, line 23And is this the ground Washington trod?
  17. p. 236, line 5In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
  18. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  19. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  20. p. 238, line 25I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
  21. p. 239, line 17Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the death-spasm sweating,
  22. p. 242, line 20Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in,
  23. p. 242, line 21Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground,
  24. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
  25. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  26. p. 270, line 21Now the corpses tumble curl'd upon the ground,
  27. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,
  28. p. 284, line 15You need crouch there no longer on the cold ground with forehead between your knees,
  29. p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
  30. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
  31. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
  32. p. 297, line 10After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
  33. p. 320, line 24Lies the seed unreck'd for centuries in the ground? lo, to God's due occasion,
  34. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  35. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
  36. p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
  37. p. 337, line 21The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
  38. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  39. p. 344, line 23The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,
  40. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  41. 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?
  42. p. 373, line 16Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
  43. p. 419, line 19The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
  44. p. 432, line 24[…] general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its […]
  45. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings […]

grounds 2

  1. p. 376, line 14Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,
  2. p. 427, line 20For grounds for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the […]

ground-swells 1

  1. p. 46, line 20Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,

group 9

  1. p. 73, line 2He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
  2. p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 143, line 25Is the tide out? I join the group of clam-diggers on the flats,
  5. p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
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  1. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  2. p. 301, line 25Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
  3. p. 302, line 6The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,)
  4. p. 305, line 17ON my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen's group stands watching,

group'd 1 today: grouped

  1. p. 19, line 15The ancestor-continents away group'd together,

grouped see group'd

groupings 1

  1. p. 310, line 4Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;

groups 14

  1. p. 40, line 7The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  2. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  3. p. 112, line 26Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups,
  4. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  5. p. 195, line 18I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea-islands,
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  1. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  2. p. 295, line 20Were groups of friendly journeymen, mechanics young and old,
  3. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
  4. p. 386, line 9The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends.
  5. p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!
  6. p. 398, line 18For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books—for colors, forms,
  7. p. 404, line 4Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
  8. p. 415, line 9The great shadowy groups gathering around,
  9. p. 431, line 7[…] best parts of current character in nations, social groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or New […]

grovel'd 1 today: groveled

  1. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?

groveled see grovel'd

groveling 1

  1. p. 119, line 27You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food!

groves 1

  1. p. 115, line 25I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain,

grow 17

  1. p. 56, line 22Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
  2. p. 78, line 24I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
  3. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  4. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  5. p. 93, line 6We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
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  1. p. 96, line 26Grow up taller sweet leaves that I may see! grow up out of my breast!
  2. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  3. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  4. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  5. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  6. p. 178, line 28Not one can grow for another—not one.
  7. p. 324, line 32My hands, my limbs grow nerveless,
  8. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  9. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
  10. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
  11. p. 428, line 34[…] of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is […]

grower 1

  1. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,

growing 19

  1. p. 33, line 12Growing among black folks as among white,
  2. p. 39, line 7I am enamour'd of growing out-doors,
  3. p. 45, line 26I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
  4. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
  5. p. 56, line 2Over the growing sugar, over the yellow-flower'd cotton plant, over the rice in its low moist field,
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  1. p. 77, line 7I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,
  2. p. 96, line 12Tomb-leaves, body-leaves growing up above me above death,
  3. p. 105, line 21I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
  4. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 158, line 8Long and long has the grass been growing,
  7. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  8. p. 246, line 28In heaven brighter growing.)
  9. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  10. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
  11. p. 312, line 13The rain, the growing corn, the breeze among the long-leav'd corn,
  12. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
  13. p. 360, line 7O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!
  14. p. 434, line 43[…] habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time […]

grown 17

  1. p. 47, line 2I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
  2. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
  3. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  4. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
  5. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
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  1. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,
  2. p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
  3. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  4. p. 207, line 13All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
  5. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  6. 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,
  7. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  8. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
  9. p. 387, line 17All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,
  10. p. 396, line 7The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
  11. p. 431, line 26[…] and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only […]
  12. p. 437, line 18[…] buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements, and has been the comfort of […]

grows 8

  1. p. 43, line 5This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  2. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  3. p. 96, line 22For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
  4. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  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. 244, line 11Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
  7. p. 287, line 2It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
  8. 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,

growth 23

  1. p. 12, line 10Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle,
  2. p. 13, line 5Densities, growth, façades,
  3. p. 65, line 8The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
  4. p. 95, line 18In the growth by margins of pond-waters,
  5. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
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  1. p. 143, line 14O the joy of increase, growth, recuperation,
  2. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  3. p. 180, line 8Undeniable growth has establish'd it.
  4. 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,
  5. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
  6. p. 273, line 16I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
  7. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
  8. p. 315, line 30For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
  9. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  10. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  11. p. 369, line 9The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
  12. p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
  13. p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,
  14. p. 381, line 24To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
  15. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  16. p. 408, line 18[…] condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily […]
  17. p. 437, line 21[…] as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic […]
  18. p. 437, line 23[…] and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it, or the need […]

growths 12

  1. p. 138, line 19All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,
  2. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
  3. p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.
  4. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
  5. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
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  1. p. 278, line 10O harvest of my lands—O boundless summer growths,
  2. p. 278, line 25The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products.
  3. p. 285, line 21How can you be alive you growths of spring?
  4. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  5. p. 375, line 27I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth,
  6. p. 420, line 21Evolution—the cumulative—growths and generations.

grub 1

  1. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?

grubs 1

  1. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,

grudg'd 1 today: grudged

  1. p. 132, line 6Blabb'd, blush'd, resented, lied, stole, grudg'd,

grudged see grudg'd

grunting 1

  1. p. 39, line 2The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,

Guadalquiver 1

  1. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,

guard 5

  1. p. 51, line 14(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
  2. p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
  3. p. 64, line 3You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
  4. p. 66, line 26Sleep—I and they keep guard all night,
  5. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.

Guardafui 1

  1. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,

guarded 4

  1. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
  2. p. 157, line 9She less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever,
  3. p. 360, line 8The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers,

guards 2

  1. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
  2. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,

guess 11

  1. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 33, line 6Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
  3. p. 33, line 9Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
  4. p. 33, line 10Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
  5. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
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  1. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  2. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
  3. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  4. p. 189, line 4And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
  5. p. 189, line 5For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
  6. p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?

guess'd 4 today: guessed

  1. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  2. p. 55, line 16What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
  3. p. 55, line 17What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
  4. p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?

guessed see guess'd

guesses 1

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

guest 3

  1. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  2. p. 198, line 4The solitary guest from Alabama.
  3. p. 336, line 7The guest that was coming, he waited long, he is now housed,

guests 2

  1. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  2. p. 197, line 16Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,

guide 1

  1. p. 338, line 4No map there, nor guide,

guided 1

  1. p. 72, line 4Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,

guiding 1

  1. p. 182, line 12That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,

guidon 1

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

guidons 1

  1. p. 249, line 16And courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by.

guile 3

  1. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  2. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,
  3. p. 340, line 6Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles,

guilty 2

  1. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  2. p. 189, line 24(Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?

Guinea 1

  1. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,

guitar 1

  1. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,

guitars 1

  1. p. 313, line 16The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets.

gulch 1

  1. p. 55, line 23Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,

gulf 3

  1. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,
  2. p. 114, line 25Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay,
  3. p. 315, line 28The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!

gulls 1

  1. p. 141, line 14Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida,

gully 1

  1. p. 184, line 3From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,

gum 1

  1. p. 74, line 15Now I wash the gum from your eyes,

gums 1

  1. p. 210, line 10What troubles you Yankee phantoms? what is all this chattering of bare gums?

gun 8

  1. p. 17, line 15And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
  2. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
  3. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  4. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
  5. 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;)
  6. p. 367, line 12After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color,
  7. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)
  8. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,

gunner 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,

guns 15

  1. p. 63, line 1Only three guns are in use,
  2. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
  3. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  4. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
  5. p. 188, line 13Was not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns.
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  1. p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,
  2. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  3. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  4. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  5. p. 221, line 6The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
  6. p. 232, line 18Rude forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted,
  7. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,
  8. p. 310, line 22You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry,
  9. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;

gunshot 1

  1. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,

gunwale 2

  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;
  2. p. 144, line 14My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope,

gurgles 2

  1. p. 57, line 5Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles, screams, weeps,
  2. p. 61, line 6Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general, he furiously waves with his hand,

gurgling 2

  1. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
  2. p. 209, line 10Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

gushes 1

  1. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,

gushing 2

  1. 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,

gusts 2

  1. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,
  2. p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,

gutta-percha 1

  1. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,

gutter 1

  1. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;

gutters 2

  1. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  2. p. 188, line 12Was not so sick from the blood in the gutters running, nor from the single corpses, nor those in heaps, nor those borne away in the tumbrils,

gutting 1

  1. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

guttural 1

  1. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,

gymnasium 2

  1. p. 57, line 22Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the office or public hall;
  2. p. 295, line 26Labor and toil, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college,

gymnastic 2

  1. p. 189, line 11MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever,
  2. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,

gymnosophist 1

  1. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,

gyrating 3

  1. p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
  2. p. 216, line 12The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
  3. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,