Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  2. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  3. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  4. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  5. p. 20, line 14I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
  6. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
  7. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  8. p. 23, line 6But there is something else very great, it makes the whole coincide,
  9. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!
  10. p. 37, line 22Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire.
  11. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
  12. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  13. p. 54, line 14In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  14. p. 56, line 10Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great goldbug drops through the dark,
  15. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  16. p. 63, line 14Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  17. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
  18. p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  19. p. 91, line 6The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,
  20. p. 92, line 20Behold the great rondure, the cohesion of all, how perfect!
  21. p. 92, line 29Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,
  22. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  23. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  24. p. 107, line 19Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house,
  25. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  26. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
  27. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
  28. p. 113, line 22I see a great round wonder rolling through space,
  29. p. 115, line 10I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,
  30. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
  31. p. 123, line 1I inhale great draughts of space,
  32. p. 123, line 16Here a great personal deed has room,
  33. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  34. p. 127, line 23But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
  35. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  36. p. 132, line 18The same old role, the role that is what we make it, as great as we like,
  37. p. 132, line 19Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
  38. p. 133, line 17Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!
  39. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  40. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
  41. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
  42. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
  43. p. 140, line 6Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp,
  44. p. 142, line 5Nativities, climates, the grass of the great pastoral Plains,
  45. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.
  46. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  47. p. 148, line 1O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!
  48. p. 148, line 24Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.
  49. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
  50. p. 152, line 4Do you think a great city endures?
  51. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  52. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
  53. p. 153, line 12There the great city stands.
  54. p. 154, line 13Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
  55. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  56. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
  57. p. 163, line 8Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum,
  58. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  59. 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?
  60. p. 173, line 20The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brick-kiln,
  61. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
  62. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  63. p. 177, line 19To her children the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
  64. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  65. p. 188, line 7A GREAT year and place,
  66. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,
  67. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  68. p. 194, line 26The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,
  69. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
  70. p. 197, line 23Pour down your warmth, great sun!
  71. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  72. p. 209, line 13Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,
  73. p. 210, line 15Here gape your great grandsons, their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  74. p. 213, line 26All great ideas, the races' aspirations,
  75. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  76. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  77. p. 219, line 3Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
  78. p. 221, line 19Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,
  79. p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
  80. p. 224, line 14The great steady wind from west or west-by-south,
  81. p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
  82. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  83. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
  84. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  85. p. 246, line 13I hear the great drums pounding,
  86. p. 246, line 15And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
  87. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  88. p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
  89. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
  90. p. 255, line 15O great star disappear'd—O the black murk that hides the star!
  91. p. 256, line 20Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,
  92. p. 265, line 5Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
  93. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  94. p. 270, line 9For the great Idea,
  95. p. 270, line 14Warlike flag of the great Idea.
  96. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  97. p. 273, line 21It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great,
  98. p. 273, line 22It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one,
  99. p. 276, line 16Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!)
  100. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  101. p. 278, line 29Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions,
  102. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  103. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
  104. p. 288, line 11In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment—for they too are great.
  105. p. 288, line 12Did we think victory great?
  106. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  107. p. 288, line 14And that death and dismay are great.
  108. p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,
  109. p. 301, line 27A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,
  110. 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;
  111. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  112. p. 304, line 14The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  113. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  114. p. 311, line 16Now the great organ sounds,
  115. p. 315, line 19Singing the great achievements of the present,
  116. 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,
  117. p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,
  118. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  119. p. 319, line 27To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
  120. p. 320, line 15Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,
  121. p. 320, line 19His voyage behold, his return, his great fame,
  122. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  123. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  124. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  125. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  126. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  127. p. 338, line 21I see, just see skyward, great cloud-masses,
  128. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  129. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  130. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  131. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
  132. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  133. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  134. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  135. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  136. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  137. p. 350, line 5But far more in these leaves and chants, thy chants, great Mother!)
  138. p. 359, line 4Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,
  139. p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
  140. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  141. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
  142. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
  143. p. 373, line 8How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
  144. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.
  145. p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
  146. p. 386, line 26Is it not just as great, O soul?
  147. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  148. p. 392, line 25From that great play on history's stage eterne,
  149. p. 395, line 6In his great arm chair by the window seated,
  150. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)
  151. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  152. p. 401, line 9I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,
  153. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,
  154. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors. I had more than […]
  155. p. 415, line 9The great shadowy groups gathering around,
  156. p. 426, line 32[…] political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some […]
  157. p. 428, line 30[…] or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it […]
  158. p. 429, line 20[…] of past or present Europe, no matter how great their genius. Think of the absence and ignorance, in all […]
  159. p. 431, line 13[…] some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day […]
  160. p. 432, line 12[…] splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the poems of realities and […]
  161. p. 434, line 7[…] Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all […]
  162. p. 434, line 40[…] something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with […]
  163. p. 435, line 12[…] assist it—not only because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid all her generalizing laws, but as […]
  164. p. 435, line 15[…] literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be […]
  165. p. 435, line 23[…] song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of […]
  166. p. 437, line 33[…] verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories […]
  167. p. 438, line 35[…] Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the […]